The Sun. — London, England, 1828-03-03 00:00:00

hopes,", &e. is not merely trite, but downright un periineWt'. Besides, it has a took of greenness (thoUkh not of freshness) aboUt it, that even the most shallow redder cannot fail , to observe. The portrait, however, of, we belieie, the Duchess of St. Alban's in . her youthful days (a period long since lost in the remoteness of antiquity), is, in itself well worth the price of the•.whole number, and on this must it exclusively depend for support. We have , space foe - extracts. ' FALL' OF THE BRUNSWICK TII,EATB.E. puRTHE.fi r FARTIft44 I S,. SATURDAY, MARCH 1. . The gas -fitter. states!that he was in the pit, and dis- . covered no person in the•orchestra. •. It is not a fact that the • reheirsarhatt- been commenced when the. roof fell, but was to have begun, immediately sub sequent 'to tbeac.cident. A - labouring man named Ryan (whoseconduct Was rtiost . heroic and ought to be mentioned) saved three females from death; he was by - the pit door when - the crash took place, and a female was inside, - o Whorti he ran and brought her out; . two other feinales 'Clung to'lan't, whd'had come from 'other parts Of 'the house, ' and he succeeded in . rescuing them from-death. , • ~• . . According to the plan lattl,down for clearing away the ruins ,Of the theatre, the, workmen ceased from labour at a little after 1?-o'clock on 'Saturday night. Mr. Mallard, 'the magistrate, whose-exertions have been unremitting, expressed his regret that a news paper of very great circulation Thad imputed to the MagiStrates of. the district a•'degree of ‘‘ apathy" upon: this melancholy occasion. It had been, he added; mentioned, thathuf little had been as yet . done amongst the rui ns. •The incorrectness of this accusation might be proved by the fact that every brick in the rubbish -across the street, had been turned, to say nothing abdut the enormous quantity of rubbish removed from the body of the theatre. Mr:: Hardwick, the magistrate, also expressed some . surprise at. the charge of apathy which he heard from one of the city magistrates had been publicly made. He declared that more could not have been accomplished .within -the 'time which had elapsed, than the labourerS had effected. T'ere were,: he observed, very great difficulties to ene tinter in pro smiting the' labours, 'mt .- account of the iron roof, which' /ay over an immense'' qnarti. of rubbish.-- He .expressed his belief that' tere were no more bodies in "the ruins;—ft T helfef4erhaps, foimded ra ther . 1(Pon - the circumstance that no late inquiries have been made after any persOns,who maybe mis sing, than tip.On the view lie,has heen able to obt a i n ' .0f the condition of the ruins.. - We have learned that many or the performers were strangers to' each other,..and that most of them, had come from the country, where they- had .been playing under en gagements which they gave up bq the expectation of metropolitan succesß.. This fact may account Tor the ,omplete cessation of inquiry, and as the . greatest destruction was committed near the spot on 'which a large quantity of - OP iron had reSod hitherto im !movable,- some Other thelanebbly discovery may bestill• made. At 11 o'clock on Saturday morning a wennanof respectable apitearanCi, hiparent/y labouring under the heaviest affliction s requested that Mr. Edwards, the high4;onstalile f : -would conduct to the ruins, from which she said ale had. Most miraenlOusly escaped, and where her sister, lay a corp Se. Upon going on the ruins,sypointed out a place close to the orchestra, alt,pre,..she_ said, with tears in her her sister - must have breathed her' last, and she seemed, to the high constable, '.to be On the point of fainting. The workinen dug for some time, but withmit succeLlitig,in their object, while the Lady, who, as-soon as she recovered,,expressed a wish to whether, her own, and her. sister's_ boxes *elle safe, 'was condncted to a public-house in which the property of ,the performers , which. had been - taken out of thegreenroom, was deposited for safety.' It was soon discovered that this woman was a most daring impostor. The moment . she entered the. public-house, she said that two boxes, which were. amongst several, were• what she had a claim to on her own and her ;:.•ter's . accotint, and she requested. .to be allowed to take thettraway. Several of the performers, known to be 'engaged, .were imine diately sent for, but-thertleclared one and all that they had never seen -her before. 'Mr. Edwards at once took her - before .the magistrates at-Lambeth street, where, 'after having madergoieian examina tion, she -Was remanded. ' • SoMe friends of Mr. Whitwell, the architect, were on 6aturday upon. the ruins, and they .declitred that they had known that gentleman frequently to assure the proprietors of the danger of suspending from the roof a weight, which it was never intended that .it should bear; and that, besides the heavy scenery among the flies, there were a carpenter's shop, ex tending frojn the back of.the stage 'to - the gallery, with all its weighty apparatus; a - painting room filled with scenery, and a reservoir of water on the roof, in Which were 80 'hogsheads 'of water. It is extra ordinary that the architect, who apprehended danger . from the suspension 'of a great weight to the roof, did not, when his remonstrances had no effect ,with 'the proprietors, apprise the public and the per formers of their danger ! The circumstances attending the escape of several o f the performers were Singular enough. Mr. Gilbert, who was killed, was but the moment before in conversation 'with Mr. Dillon,' who so narrowly' eFnaped• weie talking about the cast of the characters in Guy _Mothering. Mr. Dil lon had just entered with his wife,Whose escape was atsia Miraculous. He had been asked to play the character of Gilbert Olossin, but he expressed his fear of failing, in the drunken scene upon which the unfortunate deceased,rallied him. Mr. Dillon gives the following detail-Of' his escape and what came under his observation :—" Scarcely had poor Gil,. bert left me when I heard a crash, and somebody cr y o ut •" Thin, or you're a dead man." I turned about and called but Eliza, to my wife; but she was running down stairs, after four or five workmen. I. ran' I knew - not which way, the confusion was so tremendous, and the knowledge that the roof was coming - down had filled me and every body else with such frighten. apprehensions.'l Saw Ferris before me, and in leaping from one Of the windows I saw him break hieleo. I leaped too,htit theivall inist have fallen with me, for befora knew where I Was, I found myself up to the waist in bricks and Mortar : to stir, was impossible. I implored a erowdof people tohelp ine,for . God's sake: No,' said they, in dreadful 4 We can't come near you, or we'll lose our own lives: make the best use of your time, for you'll be dead in a minute:l certainly expected that the wall, which was most .awfnily.impendingovould tniuble-downsupou me at ercjy moment, and I did make the best use o f my time, by 'Praying Most fervently. On fooling round me, 1 beLeld the efforts of others to escape, but I did lici t * ray wife, and Iconcluded that she was no more At this Moment, I, heard the voice Of some Irish, labourers, who Swore..that' I should:not be left to perish, and they came over, to the imminent dan ger-Of their own lives, and dog round me. After so zr, e. e hard pullin, - they succeeded: in extricating me from my dreadful- sheation, I sustained no injury l i nt the loss of my boots, from My circum ctances was a very serious one linked, and I was ob liged to,-wear my stage shoes, for which, I fear, I shall now have no further occasion," • Mrs. riuoil,- a 3 her hi band stated, followed the' l labotirers and s fleaner of the theatre down stairs .Which was quit e dark. 44 Every into 'a water-closet , one of us," Said :qrs.. Dillon, Coexpected instant , death: ' We heard the g roang of the dying around and as the eraShine' did nbt inamediately subside, we thought' that h p tvoil(!• s oon extend itself t o us . Providence, however, served ILL:. One of the work -.1 perCeiving,On the narrow st aircase whi ch we. , had just passed a small window, took up, a plank which lay in. the , passage, and . p l aci ng it near th e window, climbed up, and pulled me after him. Aft o'cin recovered from the state • of insenability into which I was thrown by the - dreadful occur rence, the first object I beheld was-'my husba'.nd, who W 33 raving about under the Certainty that I was killed :. and as I had the - same fears with respect to him it is easier to conceive than to express our feelings upon finding that we were both spared to our children." Several of the performers met . at one of the pub lic-houses in the neighbourhood, for the purpose of deliberating upon the best- 'mode of proceeding in their destitute condition. They, however, came to no resolution, some d the .Magistrates having sent word ter them that those who wished immediately for money should have it. We understand, that the principal performers requested that whatever money the Magistrates - had it in their power to = advance, should be divided amongst those employed about the theatre in the most humble capacity. Tire workirien continued their labours yesterday, and pulled down a greater part Of the wall. No thing particular occurred during theday. THE DISTRESSED ACTORS AND TI MM FAMILIES. . . , On Sattirday evening, Mr. Caries; a man of re spectable appearance, who had been connected for above 25 yeara with the late itoyaltrrfheatre, and bad been engaged at the Brunswick • Theatre, came before Mr.. Hardwick and the other Magistrates on the.bench, and stated. to them that, he had been corn.; : pletely ruined. by the late accident, and he bad a large family reduced to a state of starvation. Tile Magistrates ;presented him with 15s. as a temporary relief. Another actor, named Edwards, received 10s. ' and about 20 of the work-people connected with the theatre received ss. each. Mr. Price, or Drury-lane, has evinced a warm sympathy for the survivors, and is ,busy in the pro • motion of a plan for their relief. M. Laporte, the Manager of the King's Theatre, has most generously offered the use of the house for a benefit in their behalf on any disengaged night. The . Duke . of •Glocester visited the scene of de vnttlitiols on Saturday. The Duchess of At. Alban's has subscribed .100 guineas for the relief of the poor performers ,note suffering by the late accident at the Brunswick Theatre, and the Duke has given 50 guineas as his subscription for the same laudable purpose. • The meeting of the actors connected with the Theatre took place at the Black Horse, in Well- Street, about one o'clock on Saturday,. but 'no business was gone into, nor 'any observations pub licly made as to the accident. It was understood that another meeting would take place on MOnday, for the purpose of endeaVoUring to obtain some place where their performances might be continued. There was Some converSation'as to the propriety of obtain ing the Pavillon, in the Whiteehapel-road, for that purpose... A report: has been circulated hi the vicinity of the late calamitous event, that accidents were refused adMisSion at the:London Hospital. Jane Wall, aged IG, who was standing at the door of her sister's house; in Well -street, and was very severely injured by the wall of the theatre fall ing, and. conveyed to the London. Hospital, died tlere on Saturday morning. Moses Miles, aged 00, a carpenter, died at the same place yesterday mo r nini, from internal injuries. Blamire, the pro perty man, who lies in ,Mellish's ward with a frac tured spine, is alive. It is expected that Mr. -Un win, coroner. for that district, will hold an inquest on the above this day ; also On a man from St. Ca tharine's dock, who died from injuries of the head. SUNDAY NIGHT. The workmen have been employed throughout the day and until dark this evening in the removal of the rubbish, but no other body has yet been found. In my report, dated Saturday evening, I stated that it had been pretty well ascertained that no other person had suffered by this calamity, in addition to those whoge- names I had giver). To-day the rub bish in the Pit of the Theatre has been all cleared out. 1/4. The persons who came from different parts of the metropolis to visit the scene of the tate sad disaster comprised many thousands, and of every class in society, from the highest to the lowest. The Lord Mayor was yesterday on the ruins, attended by a number of gentlemen . , who viewed every part of the interior of the late Theatre. ...His. Lordship was joined by the Duke of St. Al ban's, who, in the mostbenevolent mapper, express ed his desire to afford immediate relief to the suf fererS, aml other distressed persons connected . with the Theatre, out, of his private purse. The Lord Mayor, after a warm panegyric on the kind and be nevolent feelings of his Grace, stated to . the Noble DUke that on Thursday next a public meeting would be held on their behalf, and their distresses would then be relieved. 'His Grace replied, .that in all probability some ;,of . the performers might be re duced to utter Starvation before Thursday, and he wishdd to obtain a list ()Nile names and addresses of the performers; and, at the same ,time, ,the Duke took out of his pocket a bag, containing five -bun dred;stivereigns, which he wished might be applied to the use of those wilio Were suffering from the me lancholy. occurrence. The .Lord 'Mayor informed the' Duke that those` persons 'who were in a very necessitous stalk had • received temporary relief, and that whatever sum his Grace might think pro . per to subscribe for the benefit of the sufferers, would be properly applied by :.the Cominittee which would be appointed at the public meet ing, at the Mansion House, on Thursday next, Several noblemen and gentlemen visited' the ruins' 'this afternoon, and amongst thein I ebserved the Right Hon.'Robert Feel. The Hon. Gentleman came on horseback, and alighted in \Vellclose-sqnare, and was conducted through Grace's-alley into Well street, by Mr. Hardwicke, and, froin thence to the site .of the late Theatre. The Right Honourable Gentleman took a view of the remains of the in terior, which is now merely bare walls, except two boxes only, which are suspended by strong pieces of iron. The rest of the boxes,' right and left, were 'all crushed into the pitby the falling of the roof. Mr. Peel made inquiry whether other' bodies were in the ruins, and appeared highly, gratified when informed that 'it was the opinion of all persons connected with the 'theatre, that at most only one body more could be in' the ruins, and that is the body of a man named. Brown,' lately residing in Chan cery-lane, who had been repeatedly inquired after' since Thursday last, aid has not been found. Mr. Richardson, the gas-fitter of the theatre, Says that he waS'''On the stage when he heard the clatter ing of the slates on the roof, and he ran to the wall on the prompter's side of the house, against which he stood as close as possible till'after the roofhad fallen in. He saw the Misses Freeman and Fearon when the ruins buried them ; he had previously seen Mr. Maurice go to the box in which Mr. Percy barren was sitting, and he obserVed that the, latter gentleman ' appeared quite panic struck; after the roof had fal len in, Mr. Richardson passed over the ruins'into the box in which Mr. Farren- was sitting, and he saw a man named Finlay, in the spiral-staircase op posite; he rushed from thence through the ruins into the street, and a female came out with him hi a bleeding state, and her bonnet cut to pieces. He was told" that , he was the second person who had escaped from the scene of destoiction. In about an hour afterwards his (Mr. RWiaidson's) journey man, named Clarke, who stood, by his side for some time on the st;ge while the roof fell, was taken alive . out of the ruins by the assistance of the Rev. Mr. Smith, and a number of labourers. A boy in the employment of Mr. Wilkinson had a very narrow escape, He_was to have joined his master by eleven o'cloCk, lint as he was leaving the house to go to the theatre, Miss Wilkinson sent him on an errand, and he arrived in Well 7 street only one minute after the theatre was destroyed.. Mr. Richardson says that he did not perceive the chandelier shake till it came down along with the .roof. Mr. Percy Farren's statement, which is not deficient in dramatic interest, is somewhat inconsistent with the statement of other persons who witnessed the alarming scene. Some allowance must be made for the terror which must have affected every one in a greater or lesser degree who witnessed it. The death of one. of the most ,prOmising of the performers, Mary Anne Fearon, must have been in stantaneous. One of the labourers, on going to the Irelief of the sufferers, saw a bonnet lying on the ground, and on taking it up, what was his horror at finding, a part of a girl's head in it!. and it was soon ascertained that it had been just separated from the, body of Mary Ann Pearon-,-she was a most animated little girl; she was.to haie performed on Thursday night in the " Fatal Prophecy." She was also one of the principals of the Corps de Ballet.. It is rather extraordinary, that ,about ,a fortnight. since, this Theatre had a very narrow escape from, being burned. It haiing become necessary to have Ji fire upon a scaffolding in the immediate vicinity.of the roof, by some:awkward mistake the coals.were turned over into the orchestra, in , which there was a quantity of shavings, which "immedintely ' caught fire, but for tunately were extinguished. STATE OF THE BUILDING YESTERDAY. The labourers resumed their work yesterdaY morn ing, at eight o'clock, 'and continued, with increasing exertion, to remove fragments of timber and iron from the portion of .the ruins which had originally formed the entrances to the boxes and pit, and it may now be satisfactory to state, that the result of the examination is,- that no other human being re mains entombed. u Those parts of the Theatre which' the e each s d e as dressing-rooms were yesterday exposed, and 1 was discoverable, by the names.of the particular per former to Whose use it was appropriated being 1 written on a portion of its tottering dilapidated wain -1 scot. The situation of the roof of the house, which had, in its descent, lodged .upon the ruins of the 1 galleries, caused great. anxiety, from its peculiarly dangerous position - ; and though it formed a work of immense hazard, it was determined, as a matter of necessity, to pull it down. Fortunately, after much judicious exertions, this was accomplished withoOt any accident,. and! the gallery now is visible, and forms a most interesting ;feature in the scene f de• vastation. The rows of scats are piiti a clear of rubbish, and the flooring supporting them merely rests upon two ruinous boxes in the centre. . The horses of Mr. Elliot, •the- brewer, were pro ceeding, at the time the . building fell, at the usual pace along the street. The leaders of the first team appeared restive and uneasy a•few minutes before the 'crash, 'and suddenly stopped, then as suddenly plunged forward, gallopped past the building, and escapee!, but the two horses in the next dray were overwhelmed and killed. A cat, the property of Mr. Chapman, of the Star public house, was seen a second or two before the: building fell, ,to snatch up its kitten 'and instantly dart off. It was thought to have perished ; but poor•puss. and her offspring were yesterday recovered, having taken up her 'abode iq Wellelose-square. In Mr. Chapman's house are lodging several of the gallant crew of the Albion, which ship bore so. distinguished a part in the memorable battle of Navarin. These tars were at home Whew the'Theatre fell, and though the crash of its .fall might not, perhaps, have been so loud as the blowing up of the Turko-Egyptian fire-ships, yet, 'regardless of the danger of the' frightfully tot tering walls, they were seen busily occupied upon the rubbish, dragging out fainting and terrified per sons. The Standard public-house, opposite the Theatre, was most eagerly sought after, and at ten o'clock, an hour and a half before the accident, 2,6001. was refused for its possession, by the preSent holder. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Saturday, Match 1. Sir—lt was, perhaps, too much to hope that the public prints would have abstained, on a question of so much inte rest as the late accident at the Brunswick Theatre, from dis cussing, to some little extent, the conduct of the architect. At this moment, when every attention ought to be given to the relief of the unhappy sufferers, nothing shall induce me to intrude upon the public mind any lengthened defence of my own conduct. Yet, although I shall await with pa tience the due time for vindicating my character for a com petent knowledge of my profession, I cannot endure the imputation of having been careless of the public safety. • I pledge myself, therefore, to the fullest proof of the follow ing facts, on the earliest opportunity afforded me:-- 1. That the walls of the building were of proper strength and thickness, and in every respect fitted for their legiti mate purposes. 2. That tile roof, which -was of wrought iron, .was lighter than one of wood, and in every respect sufficient for all purposes for which it was constructed. S. lilat a large floor, extending over a great part of the theatre, together with the floors over the stage, and all the machinery of the theatre, weighing many tons, were sup ported chiefly by being suspended from the roof, contrary to the object of the roof, and without any reference to the plans upon which the theatre was erected. 4. That over these erections I had no control whatever, they being expressly excepted in my written agreement. 5. That, nevertheless, I frequently and urgently re monstrated against thialicproper use of the roof. ,6. That after communicating with me on the subject, the constructor of the roof protested, in writing, against the additional loading of the roof. 7. ,That, from the nature of the construction and material of the roof, I knew that no accident could take place without a notice from its appearances, which would afford ample time to prevent all personal danger. S. That such notice of the failure of the roof under its load, was, in fact, given, and observed by the responsible persons, more than 24 hours before the catastrophe; but that I was kept in utter ignorance of this most important circumstance. 9. That the difficulty with which some of the box-doors are said to have shut on Monday evening (supposing the fact to have been as described), and also of one of the flits sinking, had no connexion with the accident, and were not at all calculated to awaken suspicion. 10. That, although I never, either directly or indirectly, sanctioned the suspension which caused the accident, but, on the contfiry, repeated my warnings from time to' time, yet I examined the roof on Monday evening, the last occa sion of my being at the theatre (my occupation there having been quite finished), and could perceive no symptoms of failure. I have . enly to add to these facts, that I yesterday made a formal application to the Right Hon. Robert Peel, praying him to direct,' as-Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, a rigid inquiry into the causes of the accident. I remain, Sir, your obedient and faithful servant, STEDMAN WHITWELL. P.S. I subjoin a copy of a letter, which I addressed yes terday morning to each of the three acting Magistrates of the district in which the accident took place:— Friday morning Feb. 29, 1828. Sir,—As the Architect to the Brunswick Theatre, I am holding myself in readiness to furnish any assistance in the investigation which will, no doubt, take place, into the causes of the melancholy accident of yesterday. From the advice of some friends, who have witnessed the expression of popular indignation against all concerned in the erection, and more especially the architect, I have refrained from at tempting to reach the spot; if, however, you should be pleased to suggest any mode in which myservices can be of use, either there or elsewhere, I shall feel it my duty in-. stantly to attend to any communication. At the present moment, it would argue a great want of feeling on my part, to occupy my own time, or that of others, in personal ex planations ; yet I must be allowed to say thus much, that I have the fullest means of showing, at a future moment, that not the slightest responsibility rests upon myself.--I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, STEDAIAN NORTHAMPTON, MATICIT 2. The Assizes for this county. commenced Yesterday. Abotit five o'clock the Hon. Sir G. S. 'Holroy d, arrived in town, attended by the High Sheriff (Henry Hungerford Holdich Hungerford, Esq.), and a respectable retinue of that gentleman's tenants, &c., in a ,very splendid' uniform. His Lordship immediately proceeded to the County 11, 11 , and having opened his commission adjourned the Court till Monday. This morning his_Lordshipattended divine ser vice at the church of All Saints, and a very excellent dis course was delivered by the Chaplain to the High Sheriff, who selected for his text the sth and 6th verses of tlie 187th Psalm,.- . " If I forget thee, 0, Jerusalem," &e. The calendar is very heavy, containing no less than 5. 5 prisoners. Of this mwiber, 34 do not. exceed the age of. 25, among whom are three charged with robbing the mail cart going from this place for Oxford, four, for highway robbery, one for horse-stealing, four for sheep-stealing, ten for burglary, &c. . There are also several causes entered in the Nisi Prius Court ; 'among which the long-pending suit' originally instituted by Lord Sondes, against the It ev. Mr.. Fletcher, respecting the living of Kettering, in this county, is expected to form a very prominent feature. Sir GREGORY PAGE TURNER, who has been for some time past under the care of a Committee appointed under a Commission of Lunacy sued out against him, con trived to make his escape on Saturday morning last flow his attendants, and no trace has since been had of him. rio L.; LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1828. The Gazette de France of Saturday has arrived with the other French Papers, but it contains no news of importance from the East. An article from Constantinople, in the German Papers, says, that on one o the Dragomans having remonstrated with the REIS EFFENDI on the character of the late proceed ings of the PORTE, that Minister threw off the mask, and replied— " What then would subterfuge avail us? Why should we temporize when our enemies have definitely resolved ? They threaten us with fire and sword, they wish to destroy the Ottoman Empire ; they are merely delaying the execution of their projects, and do they expect to find us unprepared ? The proclamation which has disturbed Europe is nothing more than an instruction addressed to the Agents of ,the Sultan, and zio others should take cognizance of it. If it were not their fixed intention forcibly to interfere in our internal concerns, why should they seize upon the present act to distort it into a crime?" This may be all very fine declamation for the REIs EFFENDI—but it will avail him nothing. We haie been all along of opinion that the Manifesto was intended only for internal effect—not for any external purpose further than making a show of preparation and activity. The following are extracts from German and Italian Papers, received this morning : CORFU, JAN. 12. PROCLAMATION. His Excellency the Lord . High Commissioner of his Majesty, the -Sovereign Protector, has received from his Majesty's,principal Secretary of State of the Colonial De partment, the copy of an order issued by his Majesty in Council on the 16th Nov.. 1927, by which the officer commanding his Majesty's naval force in the Mediterranean is authorised to stop and detain all armed vessels under the Greek flag met with at sea, with the exception indicated in the said order. His Excellency has therefore commantled that the said order of his Majesty in Council he published for general information in the Greek and Italian languages.—Corfu, Jan. 7, 1828. • BERLIW, FEB. 19. The conversion of the Duke of Brunswick to the Catho lic Church at Vienna, which is announced on authority that seems deserving of credit, is a subject of conversation here, and gives rise to the mostserious reflections. People are very curious to see how Prussia will express its Senti ments on this occasion. Reports of war appear to gain ground on Change. The Funds have fallen three quarters per cent. ODESSA, JAN. 31. FROM A COMMERCIAL LETTER.) However well founded the complaints may be which are made in various places, by merchants, of the injuries which accrue to them from the present distracted state of the East, there is certainly no commercial town more prejudiced by it than ours, and no class suffers more severely than the landholders in Southern Russia, and the adjacent Polish Provinces. The rich productions of their fruitful corn fields and luxuriant meadows, namely, corn, wool, ox hides, tallow, &c. have hitherto been conveyed almost ex clusively through the medium of our market, by the Bos phorus and 'the Dardanelles, to the great European mar kets, where they found purchasers and consumers. This channel is now closed against the English, French, and Russian flags, and the immediate consequence of this must be the entire depreciation of all those articles., VIENNA, FEB. 20.—Metalliques, 90k; Bank Shares, /044. ODIISSA, FEB. 5. The uncertain slate of political affairs still continues, but on the whole, there is .more appearance of war than peace. Among the many recent circumstances which seem to indi cate war is, in particular, a notice published last week by the Magistrates of this city,,that 32,000 chetwertwof wheat which are not yet ground, must be made into biscuit for the army in two months, and the inhabitants are;therefore invited to declare how much each is willing to undertake to bake. The flour will be furnished by the Crown. It is thought that this is for the Black Sea fleet. Military preparations are carried on with activity. TURIN, FEB. ?I. The Theatre of La Sutera, in this city, was burnt down last night.. Two lives were lost. The Manifesto of the Porte is well calculated to excite astonishment, considering that so bold a tone is held, while there are such inadequate means for giving it effect. There is indeed in the policy of this barbarous power such a miserable disproportion be : tweet' its means and its ends, that we can with dif ficulty be persuaded that war will yet take place. The objects which the SULTAN purposes by war could only be accomplished by the most comprehen sive schemes of offensive hostility, while he is really not in a condition to defend himself. The imme diate cause of the war in Greece—the propositions of the Allies for terminating the slaughter and de solation of which that country has long been the scene --have been rejected with disdain. The SUL TAN will not listen with patience to such a ; suggestion, . and he goes to war to prevent it. In this case, then, his first operation must be to transpart a large force into that country, to perfect the work of conquest so prosperously begun. But how is this to be accomplished in the face of the triumphant naval power of the Allies' One cer tain consequence of war will be, that every thing which bears the Turkish flag will be chased from the sea; the foreign commerce of Turkey will be ruined; her war ships will be locked up in her ports; and the Allies will proceed quietly and without tht least molestation in completing the independence of Greece, the object of the war, and to prevent which the PORTE had recourse to arms. But the dama . ge of war will be by no means confined to the loss of this object. The SULTAN will draw on his defenceless kingdam the whole accumulated weight of the Allied hostility. The frets of France and Great Britain may harass his coasts ; duo) , may dis embark troop-, on whatever points they may think expedient for such hostility, and keeping the shores of his empire in a continual state of alarm, may thus distract his military resources from other quarters ; while,Russia,in all the pride of her great military array, with numerous and well appointed armies, trained to the discipline and to all the complicated tactics of modern war, will pour her legions into his territories, and will advance on his capital. Such, if the Allies put forth their strength,must be the inevi able consequences of war. And what can the SULTAN, it may be asked, oppose to the overflowing tide of Russian invasion ? His armies cannot be so nu.l merous as those they would have to oppose; and in discipline and appointments, and still more in military science, how vastly inferior must—they be. We •are warranted to infer, therefore, that, they, 'never would be able to maintain an equal 'conflict svith their enemies, and what can be the induceinents in such circumstances to declare war it is not easy to explain. -We can easily understand t how Russia, "grasping in her inordinate ambition'at the conquest of Turkey, and confident in her strength,' should seek war as the road to dominion and glory. But it is to tally inexplicable, even making due allowance for the ignorance and improvidence of a barbarian power, how- Turkey, with the experience of the last contest before her, should declare war . against RusSia, or should 'even meditate so fatal a scheme, 'seeing that her most sanguine partizans can never expect more, from war, than the successful defence •of her own frontier. So long as she remains at peace, her frontier is in no danger. It is secure at present; and the hazards of war are voluntarily incurred without the smallest prospect of any corresponding advantage. But the probability is, that the Turks will not be able to defend ; their, own frontier; for certain it is, that they have never yet been able to resist the progress of the Russian armies. War is, therefore, to the Turks, a • most disadvantageous lottery, in which all are blanks and no prizes. They may be humbled and even ruined. But they can gain nothing. To illustrate more forcibly the vast inequality between the Turks and the Russians, we may refer to the events of the last war, which, as our readers will recollect, was begun in 1787. It is remarkable that it was preceded, as at present, by a manifesto, which took an extremely high tone, and in which the Sut.,:` TAN appealed in an ardent and patriotic strain to the religious feelings of the Mabometan people. It was in short a manifesto precisely in the same style as the one lately issued—haughty and presumptuous in its language, and complaining, no doubt justly, of the grasping policy of Russia. A war was in cou sequence commenced, and what was the result ? The Turkish armies were defeated by the Russians in almost every engagement ; they displayed no doubt desperate bravery, • but they were fearfully overmatched by European science; and accordingly, after a succession of the most cruel disasters, ter minating in the storm of Ismail, that daring but sanguinary exploit, which casts such a stain on the . Russian annals, they were rescued from the iron grasp of their enemy only by the interventicrn of other Powers, at whose instance a peace was con cluded, not so disgraceful as would have been war ranted by the events of the war. With the recent ex perience of such misfortunes full in their view; namely, the loss of all their strongest fortresses, Choezim,Ben der, Ismail, and, on the side of Austria, of Belgrade,• Orsova, &c., and the enemy preparing to advance through the breach thus made in their iron-bound frontier, we can scarce believe that the Turks are in earnest in their warlike declarations; or .at any rate, it seems certain that at present, under such a pressure of accumulated hostility, they will be even sooner reduced to reason than in the war which commenced in 1787, and which continued for about three years, entailing, in its- prdgress a train of unparalleled disasters on the Turkisb arms. By the Columbia packet ship, Captain DELANO, arrived off the Isle of Wight, from New York, papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house to the 10th February, but their contents possess no political interest. The Americans appear to have a society for the promotion of temperance, whose funds are said to amount to nearly fourteen thousand dollars. We should have thought that the less funds people had, the greater chance was there of their being temperate and sober. The following is given in the National Intelligencer on the dimensions of the United States ship of the line, Delaware, Captain Dowmis, which are said to be those of the North Carolina :--- From the end of the jib and jib boom to the end of the ring tail boom, 379 feet. Height from keel to the top of poop deck, 53 feet ; from keel to moon sail mast head, 253 feet; breadth of beam from outside to outside, 55f feet; number of guns, 9 6 , of heavy calibre. The force of this class of ship is but little more than half that of the Petasylvania, now building at Philadelphia. The House of Representatives are contemplating, and have brought in a Bill which has been read twice, imposing fresh duties on imports, in order, as they state, to protect their home manufactures; it was high before, but the Americans seem to be going on a contrary principle to that of the British govern- Ment. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TIVRiVB . • _ o'Cioc r. There is no particular feature in the English Funds this morning. Consols opened at 931 -I, were done at 83i, and since have dropped , to 83k sellers, but are now buyers at that price. The premium on India Bonds and Exche quer Bills is somewhat higher, in consequence of several parties who have sold Consols, investing the produee in these securities. The former are 'now 86 88, the la tter 57 58 premium. In the Foreign Market little is doing. Some enquiry has been making in Colombian and Peruvian Bonds, under an impression that an arrangement will be made to conso lidate the dividend—the former arc 20126, the latter 25 26. Three per Cent. Consols, 531 j; Ditto, for the Account, 8311. ; India Bonds, $6 88 ; Exchequer Bills, 57 58 pm. FoßElGN.—Brazilian, 62i 3 ; Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. 35 7 ; Chilian, 25 7 ; Colombian, 2426 .; Danish, 61 4 ; Greek, 154 164 ; Mexican 5 per Cent.; . 254 64 ; . Mexican 6 per C en t., 341 f ; Peruvian, 24. . 26'; Portu guese, 74 5 ; Russian, 90 5, cx. div. ; Spanish, 104. Mmes.—Anglo Mexican, 624 60 die. ; Brazilian, 42 44 pm ; Bolivar, 3 2 dis. ; Colombian, 5 4 die. ; United Mexican, 214 204 dis. ; General Mining Association, 104 114 pm. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols remain very steady, with the trifling alteration of being 841 for money, and 831, buyers, for the amount ; Russian Bonds are per cent. lower, being 881 90, ex. div. THREW O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 88f, buyers ; sellers for Money. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICEA. Consols 834 I Danish 611, Do. for Ac. 831 I Greek, 1825 16 Brazilian Bonds 63 Mexican, 1825 34 • Buenos Ayres Peruvian 241 Chilian Do. 26 Russian 89} Columbian, 1824 2.51- Spanish, 1821 10i ,1 AMPHIBIOUS CA.PTurRE.7-- On zunupy last, a'remarkably line otter, measuring four feet from the tip of the snout to the extremity of the tail, was taken in the rivir near the village ollgcor-Noriktoionplrork I DESTRUCTION OF THE BRUNSWP THEATRE. At six o'clock this morning, the operations were c menced• During the early part of the day the majoril workmen, were engaged in erecting scaffolding for the pose of bringing down the standing walls ; others continuing the turning over of the ruins, in se of some more bodies, but none had _been 11 --- - since Friday, until we went to press to-day ; it is with unfeigned satisfaction we haVe to state tI P the expectation in' the quarters molt capable of forsai an estimate now is, that hitt .very 'few, if any, d i bodies will be found. The calamity therefore it believed will not be so extensive as was at first ape hended, but it is utterly impossible to say with par! certainty to what extent it has reached in the destruce of life. The Star public-house, which is immediately opposi' the doors of the Theatre, and a great part of the f r ont which was knocked in by part of the Theatre falling agd it, is found this morning to have sunk six inches. Mrs. Batt, the baker's wife r occupying the house ut to the Star, the whole of the front of which was drip in, is not dead, as was reported, nor was she: injure' but her san was moat miraculously saved * have been jammed between two sacks of flour. Jane Wall, a girl, who was passing - the Star pub') house at the time of the accident, and who got both of) thighs fractured, died on Saturday i n th e London'llospi , of the injury she then sustained. The Coroner's ine on her body was to take place to-day, at three o'clock/ The statement that Mr.. Percy Farren hung by, 'Post, with Miss Yatee suspended from his legs, for V space of 20 or 2 minutes, is totally unfounded. l tunately, 'that young lady was assisted out by Mr. Farfi and Mr. Wyman, but. Mr. Farren passed along the stre, leading to the Theatre, withi n fi ve m i nutes a ft er t h e cr A took place. • We are happy to say that no musicians were in t Theatre at the time of its falling but Mr. Fearon, and Al escaped with some bruises. Since the accident he been confined to his bed, but was able to up this morning. Miss Fearon and Miss Mary At his sisters, .were at a little distance from him. The latter not . yet buried. Mira F.;'e comb was driven into her h She received several lacerations of the head and face, 9. ifts, until to-day, considered in a dangerous conditio l her medical attendant however, we are happy to find, 0 tertained this morning a` more favourable opinion of safety. '• Miss Holland lodging in the same house with Mr Fearon and her family, was alio violently injured, but too, is happily doing well. Poor Mr. Maurice Mutt have nearly effected his esca his bedy having been picked up off the street. Mr. Nichols, conductor Of the chorusses, *to whose cif lity we are greatly indebted for information, had a ino, narrow escape. It was his: duty to have been with Mr. F.' the erne the-accident happened, but fortunately he WM4 (I', tamed on hls way to the theatre a few minutes beyond b appointment. When he reached Ahe building, it was a la of ruins. Miss Harris, A singer, was entering the thed with her friend, Mr. Evans, and her father, just at td moment the accident occurred. SLe escaped unhurt, BC, Evans was killed, and hex. father had a simple fracture' his leg '•he is now doing well, He remained an hot and a h alf . beneath the • ruins. • " •Vhis morning the surveyor of the district "was, sent fol to examine the,,pretnises r —bnc the answer •wa.s that he bi not returned to town. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. A wooden palisading has been erected round the buil ing to keep off the erocid. A lessee number of offici is therefore now requisite, and the military force is di pensed with altogether. The - thoroughfare through t opposite court into' the square is now open, but it requi the exertions of several constables, to keep it so, every Pl senger being - desirous of inspecting the rents of this once beautiful, but frail structure. Sol of the workmen are" employed in 'taking down 1 walls, a task apparently very dangerous. lode the • spectator would be somewhat puzzled to whether he more admired the courage, or depreca the rashness, of those who risked their lives in such mop] till Ss Pa CI N. nlent, standing as they sometimes do upon the height a tottering wall, and breaking it away piecemeal bole their feet. Various reports are in circulation, as to persoil being, still beneath the ruins, who haVe been spoken Sri' but cannot be extricated ; but for these rumours there not the slightest' foundation, althoUgh they app ea r to credited eagerly by the multitudes who throng all sr . adjacent streets. The Star public-house, which 0 tamed serious injury when the Theatre fell, 10 heard to crack this morning .at an early hour the inmates, who were awakened - by the noise fror their sleep, and iinmeliatelY abandoned the house, whit has since been -shored Up 'to prevent further accidents. - Without•unianing to give any opinion upon the cat), Which led to this unfortunate occurrence, and with meaning to attach blame to any individuld, we canv help stating that which forcibly struck us up' examining the ruins. The walls appear to be thickness by no means proportionate to their height ; beP only two bricks thick besides the facing brick. Not heir' architects, however, we may be mistaken in - this puticept but there is one thing in which we think we cannot '- Mistaken. The mortar appears to be little else than WO, sand, and many of the bricks on the surface of the svt though apparently fast, may be withdrawn wit ' the most perfect ease, by the hand, and as city` as when they were new, not a particle- of mortar se bering to • them. Indeed the mortar altogether if, pears to be rather a bed upon which the bricks migr rest easily, than a cement to keep them in the position which they were placed. In fact it does not appear to I , ; possessed of any adhesive qualities at all, for when preset • to hand it crumbles away like so much sand-dust. Thi however, is a subject fo r th e Inq ues t, and our only obje in mentioning it, is to call their attention. to the matte We are, however, informed' that they have' already takg steps to 'get every information, as to real gate of the buie • ing, as well as to the qualities of the materials employed is its structure.. Last evening the Rev. John Clayton preached in 1 0 chapel in the Poultry to a most crowded congregation, f ° admirable, powerful, and applicable sermon on the occasii ) of the destruction of theßrunswicktbeatre, and the devastati‘ 4l l of huma n life th ere , f rom th ese -w or d s (E ze ki e l; c h a p. verse 14), " So will I break down the wallthat ye ha daubed with untempered mortar, and bring down to t i ll ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be disooverd i and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in ,the theieof: and ye shall know that I am the' Lord:" fro I `u he At hL ull cle he of wl Or rb Ar 4 1 1 ' IV] Si Ai • an or th T~ MARRIAGE IN HIGH We hear fr 0 1) good authority, that the Duke of BuccLancat is shortly $ lead to the Altar, the beautiful and accomplished 141 i) SHERIDAN. His Grace has atpresent 140,0001. per e. num, and will get 60,600/. a year more at the death o f grandmother. Miss SHERIDAN is daughter of To), SHERIDAN, and granddaughter of Itictrain SHERIDAN. Her mother WAS Miss CALENDat, daught) / of Lady ELIZABETH CALENDER, who was sister to Ut late Marquis of Arrant. Miss Snaminsn'saister is mat ried to Paws Btacawoon, Esq., eldest son of the Her , HANS BLACZWOOD, who is heir presumptive to the L ol l Dre:PdaYzip7in. His Grace has several princely mansions, ,;p a ily at Dalkeith. The noble edifice, tb Castle of Drualanrig, in Dumfriesshire, built by Into , Jonas, it is said, is to be thrown down, and • Still mor Apleadid.residence erected on its site; certainly, it is oil of the meet romantic scenes in Scotland.'—Droghedi Journal. ' SAVAGE MURDER.--JAMES BOURKE, tenant of Lord Caanr, was barbarously murdered on 85 . turday night, in the neighbourhood of Boher, while on hi' .-.11%. return from this city. Captain WICKIIAII f with the po lice, went in pursuit of the murderers, and overtook tw( of them, (JOHN RYAN and JouN WILKINSON,) who at in custody. —Liznerich Chronicle. MAR VELLOUS Esc APE.—Thursday se'nnigi) , a sweep fell from a chimney top, 80 feet high, into Gibb? , Close, Canongate, and, strange to say, was not only ne• killed on the spot, but walked home on his own feet, aboi ten minutes after the accident. Our informant, who sa: the fall, says that the sweep shafted from house-top house-top, and from wall to wall of the close, with tl elasticity of a hand-ball thrown up by a boy. His fin fall was about three stories, when he struck the roof of house ; from thence h e instantly rebounded, an d s tru c k I i wall opposite, and agaia that on the other aids of the clor By this time he was within ten feet of the ground, where ultimately settled in a sitting posture, and, as &treat stated, after resting about ten minutes in an apothecsi shop adjoining, walked home almost wheliy 1413C , 1 4 ;11, Caledonian Mercury. ~ ~, PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red.... 84% 3r. 4% 3 per Cent. Cons 83%%% 3% per Cent. Ditto Red. .92 1 6 per Cent. New 100 1 ' 100 % Ditto, 1826 IO2N 2 Bank L. Ann. India Stock Ditto Bonds 87888 pm. YRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Au.trian Bonds, 5 per cent. —1 Brazilian Bond, Buenos Ayres Bonds Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct 25Y Colombian Bonds Ditto :181.4. Dan.db, 3 per cent. 6l Greek Bonds .., Ditto, 18251. 16% 17 Guatemala Mexican Do. 1525 .34 PRICKS ‘l2 SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. , Per Sham Brarilian Mining Co. (isa. at 5/. pm.) £2O 67 68 Columbian Mining Co. (W. at 51. pm.) 22% 18 Mexican Mining Co General Steam Navigation Co Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 25% PRICES OF IRISH STOC Bank Stock 244% Consols, 3 percent. Gov: Stock, 3% per cent 91 Ditto, New 91 4 per Cent. 100 q Gov. Deb. 3% per cent. 92 Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent Baßast Office Deb. 4 D. ct — MA. Arrived. ' Due. 0 America 0 0 Brazil 1 0 Buenos Ayres 2 Dublin 0 1 Flanders 0 1 France 0 Gottenburgh 1 1 Guernsey& Jersey 0 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Siuth Sea Stock Old An nuitios New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO gd.s:: 58 pm. Ditto . 500 2d. 57 5 8 pro. Ditto Small 2d. 57 Le pm. Ditto Commercial Pm Bank fer Account ... ...... - India for Account Cons. for Ac. 14:4V04 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds 25%14 Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. — Ditto, New — Russian, New: 90 89% Spanish, 1821.' 1014 54 180 French Rentes, 5 p. c. 194 f. —c. Exchange ' 25t. The. , I .—,...1.;-- 9 per cent. —f. --c. u---- Exchange...—. —f --C. FEB. St. Patrick Incur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto ifibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish' Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland 3% Commercial Buildings Arrived.' Due. • Hamburgh ..... 1 O Holland 1 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 1 O Malta O Mexico 0 2 Waterford 0