The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-11 00:00:00

ru HE ANNUAL MEETING of the CATHO LIC INSTITUTE of GREAT BRITAIN has been POSTPONED till TUESLIAY, the 7th of June next. By Greer of the Committee, JAMES SMITH, Secretary. TO CORRESPONDENTS. "A. Friend of the Queen."—The object is to encourage trade, and many are thankful for even the little temporary relief it affords. "J. 5.," of Manchester, will receive an answer to-morrow. 1-110 H WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning minutes a ft er 2 I Evening '6 minutes after 2. ~~~ gt-3e •t .•.-- AM, *trontiZibittion SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock. We have nothing but horrors to record this morning. one short week ago the city of Hamburgh, the great commercial emporium of Germany, was one of the most flourishing on the Continent of Europe—now she is a heap of ruins. Her merchants were then rejoicing at f ire prospects held out to them by the promised improve , cl,nts in our commercial tariff ; now they are mourning ur their richly stored warehouses in ashes, their houses , i,:voured by the flames, and their prospects of increasing prosperity scattered to the four winds of heaven. We gall not here repeat - the details of this dreadful cala _mity. They are given at length in another part of The We have only to express our profound affliction the mass of misery which the destruction of Ham liorgh must occasion to a multitude of most deserving p,,ople. 'We have ever held the citizens of Hamburgh . - :nd the other Hanseatic Towns in the highest estima tion. We have admired their attachment to Liberal i;rinciides ; their spirit of social order ; their commer cial enterprise ; and in proportion as we admired and respected them, do we sympathise with them under the infliction of so heavy a calamity. The tire, which there is every reason to believe was clic work of an incendiary, extended to fifty-two streets, most of which were reduced to ashes. On a rough cal ,lation, the loss of property was from three to four mil lions sterling, but it is believed that the total loss will be {Loubl , _ , that amount. No person could tell how many lives were lost, but a great number of persons must have perished. The canals; through the city were dry, so that no water could' e found. The fire raged the whole )f Friday night, and on Saturday morning, at nine rr'clook, the Danish, Hanoverian, and Prussian troops entered. the town, and, being well supplied 'with gun powder, commenced blowing up the houses, to arrest the progress &f the flames. The Senate ordered every per son to leave the town, and nothing could exceed the heart-rending spectacle. of thousands of poor people, frantic with their losses, and without means of procur- Ing loud or shelter. The fire was raging when the West adviccs from Hamburgh were written. The destruction of Hamburgh is one of those ca lamities which will be felt in every part of the com mercial world. Great as may be the credit of the Senate and people of Hamburgh with foreign States, a century will elapse before the city can replace all the pro perty deStroyed by this conflagration. In the midst of the confusion an incident occurred characteristic of the Go vernment and the people. A public notice was every where put np, stating that the vaults under the Bank, containing the gold and silver bars, were fire-proof, and that the Bank books and papers were all removed and in perfect safety. 'rhe details, so far as they are yet known, will be read with painful interest. We shall not now dwell longer , Ipon a subject so distressing. Besides the destruction of the city of Hamburgh by our columns of this day contain an account of a ,l(plorable catastrophe which took place on Sunday , -verring on the Versailles and Meudon Railway, by which fifty to sixty persons were killed—one report says ~.ighty—and one hundred and fifty maimed and Nv,nuided: In honour of the KENG's fete the water -works in the gardens of Versailles were playing on .-;nntlay, which attracted immense crowds from Paris. train, to which the dreadful accident occurred, left Versailles for Paris at half-past five o'clock in the ;...ternoon, and was crowded with passengers. There were," says one account, " seventeen or eigh teen waggons, with two engines before and one behind. The velocity was excessive ; when between Bellevue and Ketalon the axle-tree- of the first machine broke, and s , E l pping, the second ran over it, killing the stoker, and, breaking the. first machine in pieces, spilt its fire on tile ground. Instantly six or seven waggons were broken in ,pie.ces, and the rest-running over the live tire of the brok.'n engines, burst into flames. It is the custom on the `..ft Bank Railroad for the. doors of the waggons to .4 -closed, without any possibility of opening them, ex ' oip(by keys in the hands of the conductors. No con ' ~ t ietors were forthcoming, and thus the inmates of three the waggons were burned." From this account it is that, but for the custom of locking the passengers t4e carriages, so awful a loss of life would not have •.lion place. We trust it will serve as a warning to those . .':ek;lish Railway Companies who persevere in locking passengers in the trains, without leaving lustn a chance for their lives in case of any accident of a similar kind. We have again and again denounced the practice of locking up passengers in railway trains and in ;this sad and deplorable catas trophe, on the Versailles line, we have mournful testi mony of the correctness of our views. (if course, the leaving the doors of trains in a condition to be opened by passengers from within, does not infer that no re sAietions ought to be placed upon wanton egress on the . part of very young or very silly travellers. Forty-seven dead bodies were found, and three of the wounded died on Monday morning. It is a remarkable iitet, or rather, perhapS, we should call it a merciful dis pensation of Providence, that, among the travellers on the road at the time was M. GUIZOT, the French Minister for Consign Affitirs. At the instant the destroyed train Started from Versailles, a train bearing M. GUIZOT left Paris for Versailles, and passed the other near the scene of the dreadful accident. Had this great .statesman been among the killed on this occasion we have reason to fear that ' the political aspect of Europe would have undergone a great change. We deeply regret this . terrible accident. We regret it on account oF the sufferers and their friends ; we regret r it also on account of the prejudice which it will excite in 'the public mind of France against railways, only yet on the eve of construction throughout that country. We fear that several English families will have to mourn the loss of some friend or relative by this .frightful atastrophe. Madrid papers of the 2d. have reached us, but they are ,- 7 .e,titute of news. " RICHARD'S HIMSELF AGAIN!"---Our Contemporary rho Morning Post, is once again in its proper element. Nothing can exceed the pleasing flutter and agitation of spirits into which. it acknowledges itself to have been • thrown by its Nest-end communications on the subject of the Queen's Masked Bali; 'except the eloquence with which it discourses on a theme so every way congenial to its intellect. The Post is here in its glory. Here it reins without it rival. The Royal Ball has drawn - ForTh all its Powers of 'fancy—exhausted all the re- . ~ t irces of its Capacious genius. Observe the mo air with which it congratulate's itself on its correspondence ! "We believe," says our .C.,ntemporary, "there is no album in existence which contains the contributions of a - greater number of noble and distinguished ladies than these daily lucubrations of curs ." Fnviable preeminence ! Ni) wonder the Post is quite beside itself with extacy Such a collection of I;P: s hionable autographs • might turn a vk iser' head. than sits on our Contemporary s shoulders. The Post goes 'n to observe :—" Such a scene as this Ball may never i,,Ttlr till doomsday ! It will be the most exhilarating s4:ht,andivould overcome the gravity of even the seven I.t„,;es of Greece." Not a doubt of it. A Grecian sage, if he : Nits once to get a glioipse •of Lord Snooks, Bl ac k-b ottle cordio PY un, figuring at. Buckingha m- p al ace , in the costume of the Chevalier Bayard, .would, we verily beli eve , go off in strong 'convulsions; if he'did not do so, we should think but meanly of his. taste for the ridiculous. But all is not sunshine, wren, as regards this wonderful Ball, fur "'the nearer the tour approaches," continues . oar Con t. inary " the mom' mipes,ible it is found to ac .l. • all' the dresses' in time. Same of the fair members of the aristocracy know not .as yet flick fate : others do, and are in a state at' dt'strati.- :" Unhappy creatures ! We grieve—deeply grieve for. their distress, mid trust that their deprivation of rea.son may nut induce the iiezessity of a strait-waist coat. But Who can warder at their "distraction ?" As it, is her Majesty coniinand; go they must, dressed or cnclressed ; and' if tht'ir dresses be not finished in time, I, nt one painful alternative is left. them—namely, to appear at the Palace in the primitive costume of the fig- • ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S DINNER-PARTIES.— The fu.lo.ving advertisement appears in a Morning Paper of to-da) There will be no more public dinners at, Lambeth PalaCe this year." This pithy and 3t;ntetitiops announcement is, we suppose, caused by a krompt recollection, on his Grace's part, of the seven pence which Sir Robert Peel sacrilegiously proposes to lay on every twenty shillings of the Reformed Archi iscopal Income ! THE LORD MAYOR'S JOICE.—LOrd Mayors are not, generally speaking, retnarkable fur the dazzlinr, quality if their wit ; nor do we , remernber to h ave ever heard of who, combined the graceful humour of Addison with the sparkling fancy of Sheridan. But the present Lord Mayor appears to Pe an exception., He is really a wan. of the first water ; and it is gratifying to be able to add that no illustrious Civic Magnate laughs louder or longer at his own jokes. At the Mansion House yesterday a man was brought • before him, charged by a Jew with having sold him a copper chain for a gold one ; and when the case was disposed of, his Lord ship; in reply to the Complainant's question of what he should do with the chain, observed, in his smartest manner, " Put it round your neck to be sure—the proper place for it I" The drollery of this repartee was irresistible.; Clerks, constables, policemen, were instantly in extacies ; Mr. Nobler was compelled to hold both his sides ; and even the illustrious wag himself was within an ace of suffocation. It is a pity that the office of Lord Mayor's Fool is abolished, for his Lordship could now be his own Fool! SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vutitt apintott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN.. The frightful accident on the Versailles and Paris Railway, and the burning of Hamburgh, are the only topics of interest in the Foreign Journals received this morning. PARLIAMENTARY. Several Bills were forwarded a stage in the House of Lords last night, and, amongst them, the Copyright Bill was read a second time. The discussion is to take place on the Bill being committed. Lord Brougham moved the second reading of his Indemnity Bill, and warmly defended the conduct of the Lords in muti lating the Bribery Bill sent up from the Commons last session. He did not press his motion, on its being pointed out to him that he ought to have given not ice of his intention to move the se cond reading of the Bill. Lord Clifford of Chudleigh drew their Lordships' attention to the condition of the Catholics in the Presidency of Madras, but declined to move for a Committee to inquire into the sub ject, becauie he believed the Government would pay proper at tention to it. ..,.. 1n_. ......._ .... the Commons, Mr. P. Howard moved that a new writ should be issued for Nottingham, Mr. Roebuck opposed the motion. Sir Robert Peel having also declared against it, the motion was withdrawn. Mr. Redington moved for leave to bring in a Bill to disfran chise Sudbury, and gave a description of the bribery and cor ruption.in that borough. There was no opposition to the , motion and the Bill was ordered to be brought in. . . In an elaborate speech, which lasted two hours and a half, Sir Robert Peel explained the principle, and justified many of the details, of the tariff. Mr. Labouchere followed, and stated, at some length, why he preferred the Whig commercial reform to that proposed by Sir Robert Peel. At the same time, he gave his approbation to many parts of the tariff. From the Opposition Sir Robert received a good deal of praise, from his own side very cold support. There was a little dispute, too, as to who were the best free-traders. Lord Howick withdrew for the present his motion about colonial duties, t 5 renew it on the next opportunity. Major Vivian moved for the suppressed passages of Mr. Meek's Report.• It was admitted that there were suppressed pas sages, but the Tories insisted that the fact could only have been known by a gross breach of confidence. A warm, though a short, debate ensued, Mr. Matthias Attwood and other Tories supporting the motion, which ended by a division, when the motion was lost by 67. The House went into Committee pro forma, and it was settled that the tariff should be proceeded with on Friday next. The third reading of the Income-tax Bill will not take place till after the Whitsun holidays. MONEY—TEADE—CODZIVIER.C.C. Several of the leading commercial houses in the city, feeling that Indian commerce is unfairly treated in the new tariff, have presented a reguisiton to the Directors of the East India Com pany, to convene a Special Court of the Proprietors to discuss the subject. LAW AND POLICE. _ A verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned on Monday, by a Jury at Preston, against Peter Whittle, the cotton-spinner at Liverpool, who cut his wife's throat with a razor. LITERARY AND SCIZNTXPIC. The four packets, relative to freemasonry, found in the chests of Gustavus 111., have been sent to the lodge of that order in the city of Stockholm. TkiEATRICAL. The whole strength of the Company will appear to-morrow at her Majesty's Theatre in Lucretia Borgia, and the last act of Torquato Tasso. Dormoy, the Director of the Italian Opera at Paris, is now in London, effecting engagements for the ensuing season. Mr. Healey, the popular composer and leader, was disco vered dead in his bed yesterday morning, at his residence, Shepherd's Cottage, Vine-terrace, Waterloo-road. He had been sitting up all Monday night composing and arranging the music of the new pieces to be produced on Whit-Monday, at the Strand Theatre. _ _ _ _ Y esterday evening Signor Poggi made his first appearance at the Italian Opera, in Domzetti's Lucrezia Borgia. His re ception was highly flattering, and both he and Frezzolini re ceived throughout the piece the most enthusiastic applause. COITXT—FASHIONABLE. The Marquis of Bute has arrived in town from Dumfries Castle, Ayr:hire. The Marquis of Salisbury save an entertainment on Monday, in Arlington-street, to her - Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, Duke of Wellington, Lord Aberdeen, &c. His Excellency Earl de Grey returns to Dublin Castle, in the course of the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp quit Brighton, for Paris, early in the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton entertained a distin guished party at the Castle, during the races last week, at Eglinton Park. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon have arrived in town from Worthing. The Earl of Brownlow left Belgrave-square on Alonday to rejoin the Countess at Leamington. The Earl and Countess of Waldegrave have gone on a conti nental.tonr for several mouths. The-Earl of Por►is, accompanied by Viscount Clive, returns to town to-day from Shrewsbury. The marriage of the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg- Gotha, and Princess Alexandrine of Baden, took place at Carlsruhe On the 3d instant. MISCELLANEOUS. The Irish Attorney-General has commenced prosecutions for libel against two northern Journals, the Belfast Vindicator and the Newry Etantiner, for their comments on the trial and execution of Francis Hughes, found guilty at the I .ast Armagh Assizes, of the murder of Mr. Powell. The contest for the office of Town Clerk will he the greatest ever known in the records of the Corporation of London. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. TUESDAY. It is so many years since this meeting "drew," that however good the list might have been, we should not have expected an average company ; it is clear, indeed, that to abandon it alto gether would be to save 2001. of the Club money, and 1001. of the Town fund, without in the slightest degree affecting the interests of the inhabitants, or exciting a single regret on the part of their patrons. The "state of affairs" at the closing of this parcel will prove that we have not " presumed beyond our last,' in suggesting the propriety of giving up a profitless meet ing. There are not one-third of the usual visitors, and the racing would be altogether unimportant but for the appearance of the celebrated Irish " star," Ballinkeele, in the R.M. Plate, for which, by the way, neither Meteor nor Tiptoe were entered as reported at " the Corner" on Monday. Of that and the other events we subjoin the results:— Match T. Y. C. 501.—Duke of Bedford's King of the Peak, Bst 31b, ( Robinson,) beat Lord Exeter's Abydos, 63t 121 b. Betting 5t04 on Abydos. Won easily by half a length. Match 1001., h ft, D. M.—Mr. Pettit's Langolee, Sit 71b, (Pettit,) beat Mr. Treen's Haitoe, 7st, by a length, easy. 11 to 8 on Langolee. Match T. Y. C. 501. Lord Exeter's Abydos, Bst 7lb (Darling) Loid Albemarle's Nuncio, Bst slb ..—.-. 3 to 1 on Nuncio.—A dead heat. M. for 3 yrs old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b, R. M. Gen. Yates's Sea-horse Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele .• 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Duke of Beaufort's ru c, by Camel, out of Miss Craven's dam; Pettit's f Wire, Duke of Bedford's c, by Mundig, out of Mis nomer; Lord Orford's ch c, by Emilius, out of Wild Duck; Mr. Goodman's Rover, Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham, and Mr. Combe's Rosalind. _ _ _ Betting.--=7' to `4 on Ballinkeele ;sto 1 agst Robert de Gorham, and sto 1 • igst Rosalind. The Duke of Beaufort's colt made the running, , follinved by Robert doGorham and Rosalind, the others lying up, and' the pace good. They ran in this order to the Ab. bottoms where Sealiono and keele singled themselves out, and tufa severer - race home, Sea- - horse winning by a head. Rosalind, Rover, and Robert de Gorham were well up. SW. for three yrs-old, Est 21b ; four yrs, tist ; five yrs, Sat 71b ; six yrs and aged, Bst 121 b. T.M.M. The winner to be sold for 2001., tisc. Duke of Rutland's Sir Hans, 4 yrs .........(Butler) I Lord Orford's Young Quo Minus, 4 yrs Mr. Pettit's Michaelmas-day, 8 ....... Mr. Rogers's Prosody, 3 yrs 4 Lord Albeniarle's Robin, 3 yrs • Duke of Grafton's f Obio, 3 yrs Betting-2 to 1 agst.Sir Hans, 3to 1 agst Young Quo Minus, and 7to 2 agst slichaelmas-day-,taken. Won easy. Produce Sweepstakes of 200 sous. each, h ft, for colts, Bst 71b, andfil lies, Bst 41b. T.Y;C. (3 Subs.) Colonel Peel's c by Slane, out of Jason's dam, and Mr. Greville's Portumnus, divided the forfeit. Lord Exeter's Scutari, 5 yrs, Sat lib , received ft, from Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 4 yrs, list 711). T.Y.C. 2001., h ft. Canadian left Newmarket this morning for Littleton ; be is now the property of Mr. Greville. Scott's horses started for Epsom on Sunday. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET—TUESDAY NIGHT. DERBY BETTING. 3 to I agst ( Coldrenick) Frederica c.—taken. 7 to 2 agst Col. Anson's Attila—take 4 to 1. 8 to I agst Duke of Grafton's Canadian 13 to I agst Lord Westminster's Auckland—taketi 16 to 1 agst Mr. Clark's Lord of Holderness 18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jack—taken eagerly 22 to 1 apt Lord G. Bentinck's Chathatn—take 25 to I 28 to I agst Mr. Bowes's Meteor—take 30 to 1 33 to I agst Mr. Rogers's Tiptoe—take 40 to 1 35 to 1 agst Lasso—taken 40 to I agst Agreeable c.—take 50 to I 1000 to lb against Seahorse—taken 1000 to 10 apt Mr. Dixoa's Ballinkeele—taken 2000 to 20 agst Ghuznee—taken 500 0 to 25 apt the Oneida Chief and Robert de Gorham—t. OAKS. 7 to 1 agst 25 to 1 apt Meal—taken 25 to 1 apt Belle Dame—taken k n on bea T u o : M ß O g E rb E 2 o: : Jockey Club P. -- ENTRIES F I &c., by Muley Moloch, ,dam by Actaeon. Handicap Plate, A.F.—Jetty kyrs, 9st, The Mountain Sylph 5 yrs, Bst 91b, Joachim, 4 yrs, eat 91b, f by Bizarre out of Flam beau's dam, 3 yrs, 6st 51b, f b Bizarre, out of Anna, 3 yrs, 7st 41b, cby Retainer darn by St. Patrick, 3 yrs, sst 51b, and Ma Sire, 3 yrs, 6st bib. His • Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Weimar and the Prince of Saxe Weimar, attended by the Rev. J. R. Wood, Chaplain to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yeit er d ay honoured the establishment of Messrs. Henry Graves and Co., of Pall. mall, to view Mr. Hayter's splendid picture of the Royal Marriage, with which the august visitors were pleased to express their unqualified approbation, LICENSED VICTUALLERS ASYLUM.—The annual dinner of the friends and supporters of this excellent Institution took place yesterday at the London Tavern, John Lettsom Elliott, Esq. in the Chair. The Secretary read the Report, from which it appears that the Society's funded property con sists of 6,0351. Three per Cent. Consols, and 5001. Three per Cent. Reduced, and that the Society has cleared nearly every claim against it to the present moment, The subscription for the day amount to 690 guineas. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNINVT, MAI( 11, 1542. MONEY and COMMERCIAL . NEWS - - CliY, QUARTER TO THREE. The principal feature in the English Market, has been the delivery of the 100,0001. stock sold on ,Fiiday last ; this has flattened the market, and rendered money dearer, which is now worth 3to 4 per cent. Consols are 92i 924 for Money, and 9-2 k 94 for the Account ; three per Cents. Reduced, 91i91i ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 99i 994; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 1004 ; India Stock, 249 2491; Bank Stock, 167/ ; India Bonds, 19; and Exchequer Bills, 39 41 prem. The intelligence from Hamburgh has effected the price of Dutch Stock, which is 52i for the Two-and-a-Hair, and 1008 for the Five per Cents. ; Brazilian is 68. Railroad Shares at e firm, but the extent of business is, how ever, small. York and North Midland, 93; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 54i; Bristol and Exeter, 44; Great Western, New, 644 ; South Western, 64 ; South Eastern and Dover, 30; the Scrip, 7 3 / 4 ; Eastern Counties, New, 51.45. 2d. ; Brighton, 364 • the Loan Notes, 8. The quotation of Mexican has been but slightly altered to day, being 35k. Spanish only appears in the list of the Bonds of insolvent 'States, the quotations being 224 for the Five, and 22 for the Three per Cents. The details of the melancholy fire at Hamburgh engross the larger proportion of public attention. Business in consequence is almost wholly suspended, and doubtless will remain so until more accurate information be received ; the intimate com mercial connexion between the two cities precluding opera tions until the amount of the loss be better ascertained. Large quantities of goods were warehoused there on British account, and especially from the merchants at Hull, and although in sured to a great extent of their value, few are sanguine enough to hope that the insurance will be wholly recovered. It is conjectured that the offices here will be severe sufferers, but, as fir as they can at present learn, it is supposed that the loss will not be so great as is imagined. One, for in stance, has a policy of nearly 200,0001. on goods at Hamburgh and another city, and the quantity fortunately, at the former place, is very trifling. Thus, although the risk may at first appear large, the claims under it will be scarcely anything. The rema;nder of the East India mail, via Falmouth, has been delivered to-day ; but the most important part of the intelligence has, of course, been anticipated by the way of France. 'I he cultivation of cotton from America seed Lad proved completely successful in the presidency of Fort William, al though the experiments made in those of Bombay and Fort St. George, had signally failed. It was conjectured that the result in these two provinces had arisen from gross mismanagement, and it was, the more regretted, inasmuch as it :was clearly proved, that the soil and climate of India were generally favour able to the growth of this description. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. = Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter........ 7O ..... 44 Eastern Counties , Ditto New ...........2!. 6s. Bd. Edinburgh and Glaggew Great Western Ditto New London and South Western 3B li 64 to South Eastern and Dover b - 3O ...... to Ditto Scrip 5 ...... 7i...... to York and North Midland PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 9. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 99. ; Grand Canal Stock Ditto Reduced ...... ... --- 1 Ditto llebs. 6 per cent — Ditto New 1830... 99* Ditto 4 per cent 3k per Cent. Debs. Intelligence brought by the Hull :steamer has just been received at the North and South American Coffee-house that the progress of the the had been partially arrested on Sunday evening. LIVERPOOL COTTON MA RIC ET MAY 10.—Continued steady, and 4,000 bales were sold on previous terms, of which expor ters took 300 American. The sales included- 50 Pernams, at 7d. ; 60 Maranham, 6d. ; 500 Surat, 3id. to 4d. ; 3,390 Ame rican, 4d. to 6 1 /id. LivEstroor. SHAKE MARKET, MAY 11. — With the excep tion of South Eastern and Dover New, which were in biisk request, there was little inquiry. The sales were confined to Eastern Counties, 9i ; New, 5 1-3 ; London and Birmingham paid up 32/. Shares, 60i ; Manchester and Leeds Quarters, 6k ; Paris and Rouen, 17k ; and South Eastern and Dover New, 3*. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 10.—The market continues steady, with more doing in Manchester and Birming ham Shares. Manchester and Birmingham, 29 29a • South Eastern, New, 2k prem. ; Brighton Loan Notes, 8 ; N o rthern and Central anks, 4/. Ils. 3d. ; Manchester Assurance, 9i. BOUKSE—PARis, MONDAY, MAY 9. 1. irst Highest Lowest last Price Price. PIM , Price. French 5 oer Centi ll9 8 , 1 ... 119 80 ... 119 70 ... 119 70 4 per Cents lO7 90 ... 107 90 ... 107 90 ... DP 90 &per Cents. ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 Sank of France Lattitte hank I.ooof. Shares 1140 ...1940 .111411 ...1940 5.09('( Shares 5057 50 —.5060 . 50.7 50 ...5060 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Lent , ., 1840 105% ... 103% ... 105% .. 103% ipanish Active :5% ... 25 1 4 ... 25% ... 2,5% ?wive 4% ... 4% ... 4% -.. 4% Dutch 25% per Cents. Neapolitan R i.itan 194 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHANE.S. Versaillcs.ll. P. • L. 8.165 «. 182 50 .« 175 ... Isii Britten 552 50 ... 552 50 ... 552 3' l ... 552 50 tqleans Strasburg to 8a1e.... LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 11.--Wind this day at noon, westerly. DEAL, MAY 10.—Wind S.W., light.—Arrd. Jamaica, westward. Arrd. from the River, Reyal Admiral, Van Die man's Land; Oxford, Calcutta; Pene.ope, Quebec. --Arr. STANGATE CREEK, MAY 9. Arrd. her Majesty's ship Daphne, Smyrna. t 'FF DOVER, MAY 9—Maria Elizabeth, Uriborg; Surinam, for Amsterdam ; Margeretta, Moss, Rio, for Antwerp ; Tam O'Shanter, Teneriffe, for St. Petersburgh. SOUTIIA3IPYON, MAY 10.—S1d. Matt h. Thompson, Quebec. POOLE, MAY 10.—S1d. Brother, Flora, and William the Fourth, Newfoundland. TO11:11AY. MAY 9.—Sld. Mary /kidley, Calcutta; Premier, Jamaica ; Haidie, Hobart Town ; Speck, Newfoundland. FALMOUTH, MAY 9.—Wind N.N.W. to N.W. W., fresh breezes.—Arrd. Invoice, Cadwallader, Port-au-Prince, sailed Bth tilt. ; Great Liverpool steamer, Alexandria, left 22d ult., Malta 27th, and Gibraltar 4th instant ; Fame, Dunningham, Ancona. Sld. Flizabeth, Jamaica ; Bon Pere, Archimedes, Messina; her Majesty's ship Firefly. PORTSMOUTII.—Arrd. off, Norval, Ancona, and sld. for the Clyde. Livzaroot., MAY 10.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Se lina, Africa, and Barbadoes, 12th ult. Sld. John Dugdale, Singapore; Penang and Viscount Sandon, Calcutta; Santo,, Valparaiso; Lehigh, Philadelphia; Bengal and Antoleon, Boston ; Nor►h America, Northumberland, and Importer, New York; Devereux, Mary, and St. Andrew, Quebec; Aurora, Havannah. Arrd. off, Cornelia, Laguna. A brig laden with mahogany and logwood, supposed to be the British Queen, of London, was seen the 17th of April, near Nassau, abandoned. The Frederick Young, Wattaee, from Shields to Montreal, was spoken, 29th ult., in lat. 44, lon. 34, leaky, with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c., and part of cargo thrown over board, by the Ritson, arrived here. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.' CORN EXCHANGE. There was a good fresh supply of Irish Oats, but not much English Corn. The trade was dull for every article at Mon. day's prices. There has been little done in flour this week. NEWGATE AND LEADENHAII. There was a good supply of Meat. The inferior kinds of Meat suffered a small decline, but the good and prime quality fully supported previous rates. Poultry in good supply, trade brisk, and prices were fully supported. Eggs dull of sale at 4s. 6d. to 6s. per 120. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done, but prices were sustained for must articles ; the imports still heavy. TALLOW MARKET. Higher rates were asked, but the business done was limited at 475. on the si,ot, and 48s. 9d. for delivery in the last three months of the year. THE ROEHAMPTON MURDER. The witnesses against Daniel Good, to the number of be tween fifty and sixty, went before the Grand Jury this morn ing, and a true bill for murder has been found against him. It is arranged that the trial shall come on on Friday morning, bcfure Lord Denman, who will tome down specially to try the_ case, and the prisoner;will not be called upon to plead to the indictment until the sitting of the Court on that day. Nume rous applications have been made to the Sheriffs for admission to Lear ' the 'trial, and they have resolved, as in the case of Courvoisier and Oxford, to issue tickets of admission, without which no'ono will be allowed to enter the Court. Although there is so great a number of witnesses, it is expected that the trial will be got over in one day, as a great number of those witnesses merely speak to simple facts, such u meeting the prisoner with the supposed deceased, and also his being in different public-houses with her, and the impression appears to be, that there will be no occasion to adjourn the inquiry over the first day. COMMON YJLEAS.—(r HIS DAY.) The Court wu engaged the whole morning in trying the part-heard case of Walton v. Bateman and others, which had occupied the Court the whole of yesterday. It had not con cluded when we went to press. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY,) OLD COURt JOU Groves, 15, labourer, was indicted for feloniously ut tering a forged order for the defivery of goods, with intent to defraud John Betijamin Nevill and others, well knowing the same to be forged. The prosecutors are drapers residing in Maiden-lane, and the forged order in question purported to come from one of their customers, and directed them to send by the bearer, the pri soner, a quantity of pocket handkerchiefs and stockings- The young man to whom the order was presented immediately saw that at was forged, and gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner said in his defence that the order bad been given to him by another boy, who was to pay him for his trouble. The Jury found the prisoner guilty.—Sentence deferred. The prisoner had been previously convicted. Marta II illiams, alias Maria Wood, a respectable looking woman, was charged with stealing plate to the value of 3001., the property of James Holden, Esq., her master. The robbery was committed in a very singular and daring manner. It appeared that the prisoner was cook to the pro.. secutor, and in the month of October in last year she bad warning to leave. On the 20th of that month the prosecutor and his wife were from home, and on their return they dis.. covered that the drawers in their bed-room had been forced open, and that a number of silver articles, consisting of coffee ewers, tea-pots, salvers, forks, spoons, gold rings, and other articles to the value alt.gether of more than three hundred pounds had been stolen, and that the prisoner had also absconded. It was then ascertained that in the course of the snipe day the prisoner left the house in a hackney-coach carrying with her a heavy box, and it appeared that she pro.. ceeded to Dublin where she went to the house of a jeweller named Bennett, and represented herself to him as a widow, and stated that her husband had left her some plate, and that being in difficulties she was anxious to diTose of it. She was dressed very elegantly in mourning, with a widow's capon, and Mr. Bennett having no suspicion purchased of her two hundred and twenty ounce:, of silver plate fur which he paid her four an eightpence an ounce. She afterwards said that she wanted to raise more money, and sold here a quantity of jewellery. The prisoner was subsequently apprehended at Cork. and on the prosecutor arriving. and being confronted with her, she denied all knowledge of him, and declared she had never seen hire before in her life. _ The prisoner was then brought to London, and on her way thither she made a statement tanta mount to a confession of the robbery, and asked the officer whether it would be better for her to plead Guilty. The Jiffy found the prisoner Guilty. The COURT ordered the plate in the possession of Bennett to he given up to the prosecutor. The hexagon wood paving in the Old Bailey, about whi c h so many complaints have been made, is to be forthwith removed, by order of the Committee of Sewers for the City of Loudon, and the metropolitan wood paving sub. MARLBOROUGH STREET. (THIS DAY.) Thomas Adams . and Charles Blaia, two fashionably-dressed young men, were placed at the bar, charged as follows : Police constable, No. 113 , of theC division, stated that about five o'clock he saw the prisoners, and ancther young man not in custody, in company together in Regent-street, and suspecting them, watched and saw Blain attempt to pick the pockets of three different persons, the two others coveting him from ob servation; but they did not succeed in getting anything. They then went into Oxford-street, and at the corner of Bird street, Grosvenor-square, witness, from the opposite side of the way, saw Adams lift up a gentleman's pockets, and Blain, as it appeared' to him, took something out, and they all three then ran away together down Bond-street, but presently returned into Oxford -street, when witness suc ceeded in securing the prisoners ; their companion, however, effected his escape. On searching Adams, a silk pocket hand kerchief was found on him. - - The prisoners were remanded until Monday neat. BURIAL OF THE DEAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—May I crave the indulgence of the insertion of this note in a corner of your valuable journal. I feel confident that, after having perused the statement therein contained, y6u will consider that the circum stances of the case (which have produced a powerful sensation among ,the inhabitants of Brompton and its vicinity) fully warrant their being made public. A few days back, a private of the 2d Life Guards, ing to have his deceased child interred in Brompton church-yard, and having paid.the accustomed fees fin. opening the ground, &c., at the time appointed, attended the remains of his child to the grave. The coffin having been lowered, the father expressed a desire to see the grave filled up, upon which a violent altercation ensued betwixt him and the churchwarden, who refused to comply with the father's request, en the plea that he must wait till some more interments had taken place in the same grave. Eventually, two policemen were called, and they were ordered by the churchwarden to take the' soldier into custody, which they refused to do, and, after some more disputing, the grave was filled up. Not long after, the funeral of a private soldier took place, when . the same scene was repeated with the same churchwarden ; but the cor poral, who was left behind by the officer in command, having firmly insisted nponseeing the grave filled up, it was at length done, N'ow, Sir, it has come to my knowledge since the time above referred to, that in many instances (although the regular fees have been paid for interment) the coffins have been low ered, a few planks placed over the top of the grave, and, deSpite the noxious exhalation that must arise from bodies so placed, the grave has been suffered to remain in that open state till the churchwarden thinks it is full enough,.and then it is filled up. These facts, disgraceful to the authors of them, and which, in my opinion, concern the public materially, hardly require comment, but- which your many readers can com ment upon as they think proper. Apologizing for thus troubling you, I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, Knightsbridge, May 5, 1842. P. DUBLIN, MAY 9.—The accounts from the country proves that it becomes more disturbed. Tipperary is the scene of frequent outrages, and Rockite notices have been posted in the neighbouring county of Carlow. The Repeal Association met to-day at the Corn Exchange-rooms, but no business was transacted. The meeting was adjourned till to-morrow, on the motion of Mr. O'Neile Dauut, who stated that a letter had just been received from the Lord Mayor, announcing that the vio lence of the winds had detained him in Liverpool, but that he would certainly be present to-morrow, where a numerous meet ing is expected. FUNERAL OF THE POLICEMAN DALEY.—Yesterday afternoon the remains of the unfortunate victim of Cooper were buried in the churchyard of St. John's, Holloway, in the pre sence of several thousand persons. The corpse was preceded by a plume of feathers and four police sergeants, with sashes and hatbands, acting as mutes. The pall was borne by tour of the decased's comrades, and his widow, supported by two po lice sergeants, followed, as chief mourner. On the arrival of the body at the Islington station-house, between 400 and 500 of the police of the N and G di"isions,headed by Mr. Superin tendentJHl,nson, and Inspedtors Thatchlr and Jervis, joined the procession, walking two and two, and the mournful cavalcade again proceeded along the Upper -road, past Islington Church and Highbury-terrace, to its place of destination. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—Mr. Joseph Sturge, at the request of a great.portion of the electors, has consented to come forward as a candidate to represent this borough on the following conditions : That no money be spent, or any impro per influence used, to bias a single voter in his favour ; and that in the event of his return to Parliament, if he should find from experience, that he could not conscientiously retain his seat, and be more serviceable to the country by . resigning it, he should be at liberty to do so. The great principle on which he comes forward is the extension of the suffrage to every man 21 years of ale, who has not.been deprived of his rights of citi zenship by a verdict of a jury. The Chartists have joined with the middle classes, and Committees consisting of six of the former and six of the latter have been formed to manage the proceedings. Several letters. were 'received at the General Post- - _ office by the last Overland Mail, via Marseilles, bearing the extraordinary postmark of Hong Kong, in China. THE UNEMPLOYED.—This forenoon a body of the unemployed workmen, amounting to nearly 100, walking three deep, paraded several of the principal streets. A few of their, number who had been selected, waited upon the shopkeepers on each side of the streets through which they passed, to solicit subscriptions in behalf of their destitute brethren, but we have not learned the amount collected. The slow pace at which they moved along, the haggard features, and the tattered clothes, all bespoke the most abject poverty, and could not fail to command the commisseration of their fellow townsmen. Not the slightest symptom of disorder was manifested, and all pa sed over in the most peaceable manner.— Glasgow Chronicle. THE CASE OF MR. BANKES.—Our readers will recollect that some months ago Mr. Bankes, once M.P., was brought to Bow-street Police-court, charged with indecently assaulting a soldier in the enclosed grounds of St. James's Park, when Mr. Jardine, the Magistrate, held him to bail in a very trifling sum, considering his rank and property ; that it was afterwards found out that one of the bail was not the person he represented himself to be, and the defendant was again apprehended and ordered to enter into fresh recog nisances, which he immediately did; Mr. Bodkin, who appeared as his counsel, declaring that his client was most anxious to meet the charge and clear his character from the aspersion that had been cast upon it. When, however, the Old Bailey sessions commenced, the anxiety of the defendant to clear his character had altoge ther ceased, and he was not forthcoming to meet the charge, and the case was removed by certiorari into the Court of Queen's Bench. The Judges who presided at the Old Bailey ordered that he should enter into re cognisances, himself in 5,0001., and two sureties in 2,500/. each, to take his trial in the Court of Queen's Bench. This it Was not convenient for the defendant to do and he accord ingly set out on his tra v els , and is now resident abroad. In the meantime his former recognisances were estreated, and the amount thereof. (4001.) has been d u ly p a id into her Majesty' s Exchequer. Government have resolved that offenders of this description shall not be allowed to set the law at defiance, as they have hitherto done, by paying the trifling amount in which Magistrates have thought it their duty to hold them to bail. Mr. Maule, the solicitor to the Treasury, has already taken the necessary steps to outlaw Mr. Bankes, and on Thursday a writ of distrtngas was levied at his residence in Palace-) ard. If the defendant does not return to this country, and take his trial, he will be declared an outlaw, and all the property he pos sesses here be forfeited to the Crown.— Sunday raper. MR. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.—Monday morning, at the Central Criminal Court. the Clerk of Arraigns called upon Mr. Allan Cunningham (who had been served-with a precept to appear as a Grand Juror.) " I am here," shouted Mr. Cunningham ; but you have summoned me in a wrong name." The Lord May or invited him to come forward, and explain. He did so, and said his Christian name was wrongly spelt, and hoped the misnomer would operste in his favour. The Lord Mayor said they y co o u u ld m r o e s c t tif g y o theinto was o or b;oxbu;t wehe will chngreele "our would ask how old he was? " Fifty-seven." the reply. Th i e Recorder--" name, Well, Sir, and alter the p ane l li s t." M r . Cu n a3.ro—sn' m ningham was then sworn, and the Court seemed pleased at having so intelligent r. juror. A TOWN TO LET.—The ancient town of Jedburgh, which has long enjoyed the eminent distinction of being one of the greatest strongholds of Toryism among the burghs of Scotland, seems sadly affected with decay. The population fell upwards of 900 'between the census of 1831 and that of 1841. Of late the decrease has been more rapid; and in per ambulating the streets, you behold almost every alternate house ticketed `. To Let." The town is well situated for manufac turing industry, and yet the few factories which have been - established are nearly all closed. Numbers of the working classes are departing for America, and the whole aspect of the place presents a very unfavourable appearance.— Gateshead Observer. SCENE IN ST. GlLES.—Captain Duff appeared at Marlborough-street Police Court on Monday, to enter into the usual recognizsuices, to answer a charge of an assault preferred against him at the Old Bailey, by . a person of the name of Cridland. The origin of this affair rs said to be of a rather lu• dicrous character, and to have occurred throtigh that love of ad venture, termed seeing " London life," which is found to prevail amongst certain class of choice spirits. In the aristocratic region of St. Giles there is a public-house, known as Joe Bankes's, at which a novel kind of tripe supper is given once a week. Any one who has had the privilege of a " bellyful" at one of these suppers is entitled to introduce one friend on the next meeting night. The friend having been intro duced, finds a number of persons assembled, whom, as a matter of cour se , he presu mes to be waiting, like himself , to feast on the anticipated dainties. The su pp er is at len g th ordered, but instead of brooking viands , each of the g uests, with the excepti on o f t h e nov i c e, produces a "flour bag," with which he belabours his new companion. This joke having been accomplished, the new comer is then privileged to " sell it " to any friend who may have, like himself, more curiosity than caution. In the instance of the Gallant Captain, who was not disposed to receive the entertainment with perfect good humour, when the flour bags were at work, he seized a tumbler and sent it at the head of the complainant, who, be considered , was on e of the assailing party. The glass having cut the complainant's face, a bill was preferred at the Old Bailey, and proceedings adopted towards Captain Duff, which led to his appearance yesterday. A FEMALE MISER. —Yesterday evening an in quest was held at the Raven and Sun, Russell-street, Ber mondsey, before Mr. Carter, on the bot!Y of Elizabeth Barron. 67 years of age. It appeared by the evidence that the de ceased wasan inmate of the Bermondsey poorhouse ; and that, on Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, she left her bed in Esther ward, where she slept, and precipitated herself from one of the windows into the garden beneath, a depth of 24 feet. On being picked up she was found to be quite dead. It was stated that about nine months ago some persons at Green wich made application on her behalf to the parish officers of that place for relief, representing that she was in a state of extreme destitution. On the relieving officer calling upon her, he accidentally discovered some money on the mantelp'ece, and after further search being made, there were discovered 'in an old box, wrapped up in pieces of old rags, 26 sovereigns in gold, 4 crown pieces, 101 half-crowns, 426 shillings, 125 sixpences, and twelve-pence in copper. The parish authorities took possession of the money and invested it in the savings' bank for her benefit, and' she was removed to that • establishment. The Jury having consulted fer a short titne, returued a verdict that the dedased died from concus sion of the brain, produced by•throwing herself out of a win dow, labouring tinder a delusion of mind at the time. THE STORM ON MoNDAY.—Considerable damage was done .by the lightning on Mond y to some houses in Soutbsuuptottaatreet; Clerjsepwell, but fortupately no person WU injured DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF HAM BU RG FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERT Y. The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night : By the arrival of the General Steam Navigation Com pany's boat Caledonia, off the Tower, last evening at five o'clock, Captain H. Cheaseinan, news has been brought of an immense conflagration which took place on 'I hurs day morning last, at one o'clock, in that city. The district in which the fire broke out consists entirely of wood tenements, chiefly of five and six stories high, and covering an area of ground of about thirry to forty acres. The whole of the buildings un this large space have been totally consumed, to the number of (to our in formant's best supposition) more than 1,000. The fire ori ginated in the street known by the name ofthe Stein Twite, in the warehouse of a Jew, named Cohen, a cigar manufac turer, and who, upon good grounds, has been taken up on suspicion as the incendiary. The wind at the time blew a stout north-west, which caused the flames rapidly to spread ; and proceeding in the direction of Rodings market, and from thence to Deich-street, entirely con sumed the whole of the following streets, among which is the Hopper-market and St. Nicholas Church, a fine stone fabric, and the handsomest in Hamburgh . Grutz Twite, Cressnon (back and end), Grosser Burstuh, Muhlen Brucke, Alte BOtse, Bohnen Strasse, Mankedam Twite, Altewall Strasse, Grosse and Kleine, Johannes Strasse, Neuewall, (partially), Alter and Neuer Jung • ferstieg Berg, Neue Berg Strasse, St. Petrie Kirke, Kunigs Strasse, Geerhoff a Grasskeller (partially), Rathhaus, Borsenhalle, Zuchthaus, Spinnhaus, and Dc tenwinshaus, Schmidt Wassenkunst, (Niue Bose), Zuch hauss Strasse, Kunst, Paulstrasse, Holzdam, Drill haus, Sperort, and Steinstrases. The flames were not subdued till ten o'clock in the morning of May 7. A body of one thousand Prussians were immediately marched into the town, and waggons and ammunition from the King of Hanover were brought down the Elbe to blow up the houses and to stop the conflagration. The principal houses and hotels, among which were the Exchange, Strait's Hotel, St. Peter's Church, the Post-office, the Bank, Spinnhauss's Hotel, and several others, with their costly property, have not a wreck left. The whole presents a mass of ruins, fallen into the dykes which intersected the streets. Upwards of 100 lives have fallen a prey. Owing to the inadequacy of the engines, little could be effected, and the strenuous efforts of the people themselves were of no avail. At the time of its occurrence no water was procurable, owing to the tide being low, so that the street-canals were dry. (ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.) HANIBURGH, MAT 6, EIGHT A.si.—A great part of this rich and flourishing town has fallen a prey to a fearful and widely-spreading lire, which hourly sweeps in volumes through street upon street, with merciless fury. It burst forth at about twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, and has so gained up to this time, aided by high winds, in the midst of misdi rected efforts to extinguish it or arrest its progress, that it rages now with increasedviolence, over a space so wide that I believe it will yet require the sacrifice of nearly one half the remainder of the town to place a sufficient gap to bar its continuance to the destruction of the whole of this ancient city. But I will proceed to as detailed an account as it is possible to give you at present, in the mid-t of the confusion, alarm, ex citement, and danger of this frightful conflagration—men, wo men, and children flying in all directions from the burning masses which have now driven them, with such of their fur. niture and property as they have saved from the flames, for 32 hours, from point to point. All yesterday carts and carriages loaded with persons and things have been proceeding to the coun , ry, the more distan' and larger streets being also encum bered by furniture and bales of goods; this, however, does not now suffice, as these streets are gradually embraced by the vo lumes of fire, and now the fields in the neighbourhood of the town begin to be selected as the only secure deposits. God only knows when and where this will end. It surpasses hu man calculation. In the midst of the ten thousand reports as to the origin of this conflagation, I will only mention to you the fact of i s having commenced in the Deichsstrasse, ohe 74 the narrowest streets of the oldest part of the city. The old houses of this town are nearly as much built of wood as brick, rhe former of which is as dry and inflammable as touchwood, from the effect of centuries' use. The easterly winds which have chiefly pre vailed for the last three weeks and more, with the total absence of rain, have also been prejurtcial, not alone in the general dry ness of all materials, but in the actual diminution of the water in the canals to an unusual degree. It is said that the fire commenced in a tobacconist's shop, by others in a public-house ; but be the origin what it may, it quickly spread to the next house, and from thence, by one o'clock, embraced nearly a dozen houses, having penetrated to a square court of large warehouses, forming a cul-de-sac utterly unapproachable from the street itself, partly in flames; thus, no efforts to extinguish these were possible. Mr. Ross's and Mr. Young's warehouses are named as those which first caught, and were chiefly the means of' spreading the fire beyond. Presently ass immense warehouse, full of spirits, was in flames, these rising far above and sweeping tar wider in their devastating effect than those of any establishment then reached. It became by this time (between three and four o'clock) quite evident that no effort could cir cumscribe the fire to its immediate locality, except by the de struction of the neighbouring buildings yet unscathed. The Senate had been called together by tha terrific accounts brought to its members from every quarter, to take such mea sures as were requited for the public safety. It is said that it was proposed to them by many individuals to pull down the neighbouring houses in the direction of the fire, but that this was declined as an unnecessary and useless sacrifice of pro- perty. 'the fact, however, is certain, that although the whole tire• engine del artment and the entire burgher guard (upwards of 20,000 men) were ordered for service, the value of such a force became utterly unavailable towards the necessities of the emergency, from the petty means, the really ridiculous attenir s which were ordered to extinguish and arrest the fire. Instead of a wide sweep of houses pulled down in the direction of the fire, but one or two buildings imniedialely adjoining those ac tually in flames were ordered for des:ruction. Ere these were well unroofed the fire gained on them and beyond, while again the same system continued, with as copious a use of water as the wretched engines would allow. This went on till about three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, giving as a result the de struction of nearly a hundred houses, pre‘ty nearly in one con secutive I;ne. _ The rapid progress of the flames vas for a time partly ar rested here by the interposition of a wider space—the Hoffen market, when on a sudden smoke was seen to proceed from the steeple of the Nicolai Church, upwards of 200 feet high. A spark had flown upwards, and must have been for some time smouldering in the capital above one of the columns, about half way up the steeple. Before many minutes a number of fire men were hard at work in attempts to cut out the burning part, and to cool the heated timber with water. They several times succeeded in extinguishing flame, but the heat from the burning houses below and around was reflected so intensely against the roof within the columned basis of the beautitul spire, that all their efforts proved vain—smoke again became flame. It is impossible too highiy to praise the gallantry of these men in their persevering and incessant efforts up to the very last second, in their dangerous position. Upwards of 150 feet from the ground, exposed to the fall of hurtling rafters from within the steeple, and to the still greater risk, perhaps, of the bottom of the tower, on which the whole superstructure rests, catching fire, and thus rendering their retreat hopeless, did these brave fellows continue to labour. At length the flame, circling upwards in beautiful and graceful bend, evidenced, from its momentarily increasing volume, that even could human frame (endured to such oppression) bear the heat, that all labour there was labour in vain. Not ten minutes after these men had descended, the lower part of the steeple, and the tower itself proved themselves on fire. To convey anything like an idea of the magnificent, th e singular, and striking effect of the burning of the toner anti steeple of the Nicolai Church, is beyond possibility. The effect was the more striking from its admirable build, of some centu ries' date, defying the whole power of the flames tearing it within to find any outlet, except through the columned inter stice above. The steep 4., which had appeared made of wooden materials, was soon set n to be sheated in copper, which be came nearly red•hot for a height. of about sixty feet, beneath its columned portion, which proved of stone. Presently the red-hot copper peeled off as the volume of flame, which was gutting its wooden :nterior, gainLd strength. A large red-hot ball of copper fell from above one of the columns, the fire en circling and playing around and up the whole extent, drawn clear y against the sky for a considerable height; then the upper portion, over the encolumned space, begin slightly to wave, majestically inclining from the perpendicular, till its descending weight hurled it down with impetuous violence towards the roof of the Church, through which it broke with a loud crash. Adjoining the Nicolai Church were several old buildings, and another part of the town, yet free from danger, which now became menaced, and soon actually commenced burning with a dreadful and astonishiog rapidity. The buildings were, if possible, of more inflammable materials than the others, and there was a freer current of air. 'The loss of propel ty along this line, which blazed consemitively nearly a quarter of a mile, is incalculable. The whose of the buildings, consisting of large warehouses, were all loaded with merchandise. These lay on each side of the Catherinen Canal. Let it be borne in mind that the warehi using or bontl-system does ❑ot exist is this free city ; that on the arrival (San expected cargo, the ship, or a barge laden with its contents, immediately proceeds op. posite the merchant's warehouse, where the gourls are dis charged. The warehouse of one merchant alone (whose name I cannot remember at this moment) had British manufac tures to the value of 120,000/., which I learn were insured in London insurance offices. . . _ I may as well mention here that it is supposed the loss of property up to this time is so great that the Hamburgh insur ance houses cannot meet their liabilities. The Phoenix, Sun, and Globe seem to be the chief English houses concerned. A great extent of property is, however, uninsured. But to continue. It now became known that Messrs. Thompson and Lindley, the latter gentleman here from Lon don, for the opening of a railway to run eight miles from this, had been by the Senate entrusted as engineers, with the direc tion of the concentrated means of the towns of Hambargh and Altona, the latter as well as the country having supplied their engines and every disposable means. It was resolved by these gentlemen to abandon the whole of that portion of the town in the direction of the wind to the flames, and to cut off their contact with the other parts of the town, by the destruction of a long line of buildings adjoining the part given up. This plan then was attempted about six in the afternoon, and an nounced to the inhabitants by explosion succeeding to 'explo sion, as well as here and there by the sight. of hundreds of workmen unroofing house upon house ; but the wind changed at about eleven or twelve at night, and from that hour the town became evidently doomed. The Senate and the engineers seem equally to have lost their heads; instead of at once proceeding to pul down several hundreds of houses in the direction of the wind, so as to leave a clear spate beyond the reach of the flames, within a given period, the whole night has been lost in useless waste of time and labour by confining these operations to a few houses, close to the burning buildings, which they ordered to be pulled down. Before this, however, could be effected, the flames reached th m, and stretching beyond were thus rather facilitated in their spread. Such has been the system pursued up to this moment. The fire is now approaching fast to the new Bor senha!le, a magnificent exchange, containing also a library of :10,000 volumes, many of which are rare and valuable works. An Engliinman this morning, at about five o'clock, went up to the Senate and informed them that unless they at once made up their minds to sacrifice several hundred houses, by pullin g them down, so as to arrest the flames at a giv en p o int, the whole of the town within the wind's direction, then towards the Jungferstieg, would be consumed, is well as the valuable li brary. Ile was, lam told, informed that Messrs. Lindley and Thomson were authorised so to do if they thought fit, but no thing of the sort had been attempted up to seven o'clock, when the fire had reached within 20 houses of the Bursenhalle. which will thus, I fear, most certainly perish. The Jungferstieg and the streets adjoining it are the hand,omest and newest portions of the town. The loss of their destruction, should it be the result of the fatuity and imbecility which guides present opera tions, will tell most largely in the immense items of loss, Fn MAT NIGHT, Eleven o'clock. The public bniNings destroyed last night wen- the Town- House ( Itaihhatts ) and the 0 d tiorsentialle ; the Bank has foilutiatelv been saved, I must say more by the chaoge ut waid than the ;kill of operations. The Town-House was blown up to save the Bank, which &joins to it. I have but a few minutes ere I must close this letter. At ten o'clock this morning the streets towards the Jungferstieg com menced burning; the Post-office, the Stadt House, and other public bu Wings in this portion of the town are burnt to the ground. At two o'clock, and at two o'clock only, did the en gineers (it is said in consequence of a mee ing of the Senate at eleven, to consult on the continuance of to frightful a cala mity) commence the destruction of buildings some distance off the lire, so as to meet it in its advance with a clear space. They had to commence by Sti eit's Hotel, in the Jungfer3tieg, and 11, Heine's hou e, toe great banker's, adjoining to it. These wei e blown up, the whole of the finer portion of the Jungferstieg being already, up to the London Hotel, in flames. At three the London Hotel was burntto the ground. The wind has again changed ; it has been south-west, east, north, and it is now again east. A new portion of the town is in flames, and is burning rapidly. I tear this will not cease till scarce a vestige of what was once the great, the free, and flourishing city of Hamburgh remains. I cannot conclude without one word of the people; their conduct is most admirable, most praiseworthy; quiet, docile, and or,erly, but with deep despair and agony on many a coun tenance, as their whole existence vanishes befot e them in flame. The last two days have witnessed continual departup es to the country of carts, carriages, barrows, people loaded with furni ture, and all they could save of their property. The whole town is now empty ing its population. The fields around Ham burgh are covered with furniture and household ware. Whole ol:1 and delicate women, little children, and the sick, have no cover but the canopy of heaven. [hey are sleeping thus in the fields—rain is at length come—but now only to add to their afflictions. There is no lodging now to be had any where for love or money. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) On the sth inst., at one a. m., a fire broke out in the Deichstrasse, which •continues up to the present moment (the evening of the 6th) with unabated fury, having now completed the destruction of at least one quarter of the whole town ; and the loss of property, it is thought, may be estimated, at the least, at from 2,000,0001. to 2,500,0001. of British money. One of the principal churches has fallen, and others are each moment expected. All the gunpowder in the place has br ea expended in blowing up the different houses and parts of stree a which engineers think may in any vv” , help to arrest. the alarming progress of the fire. Everything is-at a stand-still ; everyboey's attention is engrossed by this fearful 't:::•.•3-ster. It will be many a day ere Hamburgh, the capital of the Harises.tlc provinces, rears herself from the ashes and ruins which sur round her. Gunpowder is anxiously looked for from Gluckstadt and Stade. Subjoined we hand you a list of the principal streets in ruin up to the present moment, three p. m.—viz. Deieh-strasse, Hopfen• markt, Beeker-strassc, Neneburg, Johanni-strasse, Monekedam, Gortwicth, Dreckwall, Trasse, Bahrstah, Rheine, Nenerwall, Jungferstieg, Grasse Bleichen, Bodings-market,&e. How the loss will be sustained is yet a matter of the greatest uncertainty ; the principal part of the damage will fall upon the companies here, who, it is much feared, will be unable to meet but a very smal! part of the risks. The mail is in from England, but the Post-office authorities will not allow it to be delivered. HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS DESTROYED AT ITAMBURGII. A calamity similar to that which has just befallen the town of Hamburgh has not occurred in 'any portion of its history, with the exception of that which it suffered in 1813 when the troo?s of Napo.eon, driving 40,000 inhabitants from the city, set tire to the dwellings of about 6,000 person., in the nearest environs, which consumed them with such rapidity, they being, as in the present case, chiefly constructed of timber, that the poor people could only escape with their lives. Many other minor conflagrations have occurred, among which an his torian has deemed it worthy to record the following, all of which have been incendiary. In 1606 a number of houses adjoining the Cathedral were destroyed by fire : and in 1615 an incendiary set fire to the street, called Knochenhaur strasse, which consumed the whole of the two sdea, containing twenty-five extensive houses. lo 1676 an incendiary fire broke out in the street Cremon, and destroyed thirty warehouses, with all their merchandise, amoun'ing to upwards of 400,000 crowns. That part of the city destroyed resembles, in its general features, the state of London before the great fire; it consisted, like most of the old towns in Uermany, of narrow, irregular, and dark streets ; the houses old fashioned, awkward and cum brous. The only exceptions were the modern handsome houses erected in some if the streets. THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL. The Chinch of St. Michael, which has bee. destroyed, was a noble and stately , building. It was begun to be built in 1751, and after five years labour, wns comeleted in 1762, with the exception of the spire, which was not erected till 1778. It was built by the celebrated "architect Sonnin, and was regarded by all travellers as the pride of Hamburgh ; it was capable of ac commodating 2,000 persons ; the height of the steeple was said to be 456 feet, which was 50 feet higher than that of st. Paul's in London • it was for members of the Lutheran per suasion, and was often used, and moreover peculiarly adapted, for astronomical observations. THE SPINN- El A US, UR HOUSE OF CORRECTION. This edifice was founded by a Senator of the name of Peter Rentzel, and was intended for criminals of the win st de scription. THE ADMIRALTY. • The public Admiralty was built in 1623, and its code of ex cellent msri ime rules established in 1639. It was erected by the Bourgeoisie of the town to regulate the commerce, which was then beginning to grow extensive, and to prevent the da mages nemiened to merchants and seamen, who then infested the ports and seas thereabout. THE CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS. The inhabitants, in the course of the sixteenth century, aug mented greatly in the quarters between the gate of the Schaal-- thorn to the Gause-market. Up to this period theyhad only small chapels among themselves ; but in 1602, the church of St. Nicholas was built, and, subsequently, in 1605, the smaller chapel of St. Michel, on the site of the old Ziegel-feld 4 or Tile field. THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION, OR WERK-UND ZUCHT.HAUS. • This building was principally for the reception of minor criminals, bankrupts, and beggars. It was constructed is 1614, but was burnt down in 1666. In 1670 it was again rebuilt -1842. again finds it in ashes. THE POST-OFFICE. This building is also among those destroyed. The Portu guese Jews who came to the city in 1618 were the first who im proved this part of the Goveroment administration, and were the first who caused the establishment of the Imperial Post at Ilamburgh. THE BOURSE, OR EXCHANGE. The present Bourse, as we find in the " flistoire de Ham bourg,' was begun to be built in the same year that a comet appeared to the inhabitants of the town : according to an old' Hamburgh chronicler. It was constructed anew in a spot con tiguous to the Senate-house ; the merchants had theretofore met in the street, and in an uncovered place, but in 1577 the community of cloth-merchants thought fit to construct another, better fitted for their transactions. This, in 1669, was again enlarged, and existed as it was to be seen till within the last week. THE BANK, The Bank of Hamburgh, long regarded as one of the seett, in Europe, is alto among the buildings destroyed. The mer chants of the city have lung derived great benefit from this specie -bank, which was founded in 1619. Whether any bullion has been destroyed we cannot as yet tel ; but as this city has no pap:r-money, the silver needed for daily use was always de posited in the cellars of the Bank, secured with iron-bars. Nothing in its transactions was paid but in bullion or pure silver and gold, and it never discounted. Among other public buildings of note, which we have not space more particularly to notice, is St. Peter's Church, and the House for Orphans, and Armoury, in Admiralty-street The 13orsensa.:1 or Auction.roorri, was over the Exchange, and goods of every kind were daily brought there to be sold from evi ry quartar of the world. The hotels eve' e richly furnished, and fitted up for every fashionable and luxurious purpose. The old town which has thus been destroyed is so inter sected with canals as to resemble a Dutch city ; these canals were chiefly filled by the Elbe, but partly by the s Alster, and almost all .he warehouses are close to them. The lister farms on the north side of the town a fine basin, chiefly used for par ties of pleasure. On the south side of this basin, in which the fire appears to have made very severe ravages, was the spacious walk planted with trees, and called the Jungferhsiieg, or Young Ladies' Walk. tiiice the peace, this favourite promenade had been continued along the west s de of the basin, sa as to join he nanparis, the whole of whit` , were lad out as a public garden and promenad. , the carriage-way being broad enough icr three carriages all round the city. The house in which the tire is supposed tohave oriffinated was, as our readers are aware, that of a Jew cigar-manutaeturer's, a branch of business which in Hamburgh has of late years in creased to an astonishing extent. A recent trave:ler observes, that this habit of tobacco-smoking was universal. The whole t f the male population, boys of eight and ten years, as well ts men, are constantly armed with either a pipe or a cigar ; and even handsome, well dressed girls, are seen luxuriating with a genuine Havannah. This practice, it has been said by the doctors of the town, has pronuced, even w i.hin the memory of man, changt sin the constitution of the inhabitants ; and the se, the descendants of the strong ancient Germans, have grettly degenerated by the use of this enervating weed. 'lhe number of Jews, of as hick fraternity the supposed in cendiary Cohen is one:who were resident in this part o' the town and Hamburgh in general, are estimated at 14,000, but this is supposed to be double the real number. In 18: - .4 the bills of mortality estimated thOm at 4,000. As the steam-boats from the mouth of the Thames, make their passage to Hamburgh in between forty and fifty hours, and several of these have been delayed only by contrary winds, we may speedily expect arrivals and fuller accounts from Cuxhaven, and the city itself. DREADFUL RAILRO'►D ACCIDENT NEAR PARIS. IMMENSE LOSS OF LIFE. Pants, 9.—1 have this day to announce to lou one of the most friOuful events that has occurred in modc . n times. Yesterday was fixed for the celebration of the King's fete at Versailles by the display (or play) of the great .saterworks, fireworks, &c. On such ()cessions Versailles is, I need hardly say, crowded beyond conception by the Parisian', and by fo reigners resident for the time in Paris. The waterworks were over at half-past five. An immense number of persons im mediately repaired to the terminus of each line of railroad, and took their departure for town. The train of the lett bank was unusually long; it consisted of seventeen carriage , impelled by three engines, and conveyed from 1,500 to I,'c'.qo passengers. On arriving between Meudon and Bellevue the Laic-tree of the first engine broke. Tre body of it, the fire, &c., fell to the ground. The second engine, so great "a= the impetus, smashed it in pieces and passed over it, and OR boiler burst, throwing the unfortunate stoker fifty feet lute the air. The carriages arrived of course, and passed over the wreck, when six of them were instantly set in flames by the tire ; being newly painted, they instantly ignited. 'Thies were totally consumed, and three others partiatly, without the possibility of escape to their unhappy inmates, who were locked up according to the dreadful practice of such establishment , . I shall not here give any of the rumours or statements that abound on the subject, but proceed to describe that which came under my own view on proceeding this day to the scene of the accident. On teaching the Barriere du Maine, where the principal station lies, 1 found the place suit °untied by horse and toot Municipal Guaros, an an immonse crown of spectators and persons coming to inquire after some relative or friend, who had not reached their homes since this event occurred. No information, however, could he given to Clem there. the esta blishment being closed, and all the employes having been sum moned to the Prefecture of Police to attend the inquiry iLsti_ t uted by order of the Prefect, M. Gabriel Delessert. The hall consumed remains of the clothino , of some of the victims only were left at the station ; but they were reduced to rags, and could not serve to enable the friends or :datives of those to whom they had belonged to identify them. Those persons were accordingly recommend e d t o n4ake 112(1146es at the chgerent B places , u s e s' , he s r e e i vtelis,e the wrr u h r:: , de l, d i t a had been depos i Necker, andi t n t e N tl, t, asteamboats moored along the quay d' Orsay, which hid hetes employed in conveying numbers to Parrs . urine the nglit. nit' ty;-eight o f the wounded were brou g ht to the hospital Necker, seven of whom expired in the course no Monday. At. six o'clock this morning' the mutilated remains of 32 persons, men, women, and childr'en, were removed from the station to the adjoining eemetry of Mont Parnasse, where I saw them, and where they continued emiosed: under a shed. and covered with a coarse cloth, during the entire 'day. *B"t they were so mangled and disfigured that' it was ingress:hie' tt: discover the vestige of human features, exce,'t in a young :0 of about eighteen years of age, the lower part of whose body was entirely consumed. The number of the'.stelerers could only be ascertained by that of the limbs or portions of limbs found. Five others, who still retained some human idler' , and whose faces could lead to their recognition, were trans ported to the Morgue, where thousands of persons Were &Asti , up in a queue. at three o'clock, waiting to be admittc to view i the bodes. There was among them a lady, whose baely - naa partly burned, but whose face was intact.. She was richly at• tired, and still wore her bracelets. The number of killed is variously estimated. ' EarlyAis . morning the Prefect of Police sent a return to the Minister of the Interior, in which it was set down at forty-two. Anctther, report stated it to be seventy - eeven, and the parish priesa of Sevres, who repaired to the spot immediately after the fatal occurrence, and stopped there during the whole night, adminis tering the consolation of religion to the dying and ,avonndeat computed the dead at no fewer than eighty. Amorig. theses,. said to be several persons of distinction, including two derv: • ties, but this I only mention on hearsay, for many who ceela not procure vehicles to return to Paris, and were afraid to we; tare home by the right-bank railroad, slept at Nersailles,'an" had not returned to-day when their friends went to ikuire for them. • , It is unnecessary to say that this event has produced a grea t ' sensation in Paris. It will, however, subside sooner here than it would elsewhere, as death by violent means has been less rare in Pat is than in other capitals; but it must necessarily dal( the attention of the legislatures of all Europe to a subject which has imperative claims on attention. Several foreigners are said to have perished. Such may hi the melancholy fact, but the statement would haveteen Incre probable had the accident occurred on the other line (by the riht bank of the Seine), as foreigners generally lodge or:re sine in the northern quarters of Paris. It was reported on the Bourse this afternoon that two Ell" lishmen, and the son of a wealthy American resident. of, ll l° ' capital, and a Deputy, named Quint tte, were among the dews. One of my neighbours, an apothecary in the Rue Fermi, is among the victims. (From Galignani's Messenger.) The Rive Gauche Versailles Railway was yesterday -evening the scene of a deplorably fatal accident, by which many licer have been lost, and a great number of persons dreading • maimed. This sad catastrophe took place near Meudon, the train whic'r experienced the accident being that which , started at half-past five o'clock . from Versaillet, and which' being crowded to excess with persons returning to town from the tete, rendered the event more calamitous than it would have been at any ordinary period. Our informant is a gentle' man who was a passenger by the train, and who was happill . in one of the carriages which escaped the collision. He dr scribes the velocity with which the train was proceeding sorra minutes previous to the accident as extreme, so great as to ha" suggested in his mind the idea that the 'slightest obstacle On the road encountered,by the wheels of the engine at such a 01 0 ' ment as . dangerous to excess. The thought had scarcely ' ec: curred to Win, when a frightful shock to the entire traistV" fearful crash, mingled with horrible shrieks fret* all the ear,: riages in advance of that in which he sat, showed that se!: dreadful accident had occurred, but the doors of the carrier k being locked at the exterior, it was not till our informant ee" the other passengers in the carriage, and in thotte.which' Wer e placed behind it, were able to make their egress biy the Wio aonl. that the frightful extent of the..accident they had so nr°,.' videntially escaped became known to them. The scene wbi' presented itself was truly appalling. It appeared that th" t engine had by some fatality got off the line and ran Hp againt the embankment, when, from the alarming rapidity with which the heavily-laden train was then running, six or sec" of the carriages were literally dashed to pieces, and WO' lying in a mass of fragments piled upon the engil Numbers of the outside passengers had been thrown 0 by the shock, but of the unhappy sufferers who had take it „„ their places in the interior, and who still survived, theL, i ll' was even more dreadful than those who hist been kiiin°'„ • tor to make the calamity still more horrible, thelire of .P ° , ~_. 1 „ e li engine almost instantly extended to the broken meovie•-_ 4 : was above it, and several of the sufferers were actuallOn, to death on the spot. Our 'informant deserthes 'the 'brief; of the victims (whom it was impossible to aid, and.nol""„ r , particularly of two unfortunate ladies, who were vainly: ing to the last for water) as inexpressibly dreadful. The aitr , 5 , tion inseperable from such a moment, and the confusion . , I necessarily existed, rendered it impossible to obtain t eny.ico , ' of the loss of' life, or other particulars relative to the suffece o i but these will doubtless reach us in the course of the day. r.:1,,, entertain a hope—a faint one—that they may show this sec ,i , l 7, to be less dreadful in its results than we have deieribed , '"' almost from the lips of the gentleman to whom we owe ,t. l l information. But we have rather under than over-stated:4 l ; 6 desert's, in.', and his coolness and presence of roincUeset esi, fear that his Darr itive will be more than borne out when. L 1, ,- .. , full details are made public. • .. ( From the Siecle ) . The train was returning from Versailles at half-past be'eleflitiB'''. iripelled by three locomotives, and consisted of from 15 : 0 ' vraggons. Between Bellevue and Illeudon the first l o cornoti/ the Mathew Murray, a machine .with four. wheels, steff':: suddenly, one of its axles having broken. The second 1. ,:! motive drove against the Mathew Murray. crushed the ,ato and actually drove over the first engine and croabed it to pi . ~,'' The fire of the Mathew Murray fell' in a reass`betweenahe r! In In the mean time the train, conducted by the two reo"..t- ' ing iocomotives, proceeded on its course. The Wind blUst,P, the fire against the under part of the waggons, which-Width"' '-,,' freshly painted, they ignited. The scene then became lel t . t the unfortunate trave tens confined' to the waggons , t e of which were 'ocked, fell victims to the raging flames. -Tr. bodies were et nveyed to Paris in the course of the ev'ein - : and deposited in the waiting-room of the station-houses j ;, they presented a mere mass of calcined flesh and bones' 'formed and disfigured so as to be perfectly unclisti Even their number could not be ascertained ; awns , Ifs' w so e m re e e s e ar y. s a e b v ie en te or le ei ar tro .s t a t opinion tto the n thatum number e e r f e w w e e e r n e d t e w d el , e w e s , multitude remained at Aleutian, many wefe. ennveyeld t° r e. hospital Necker, and ethers were conveyed to.their 'o o°. . sidences. • Lr ale% One of the employes of the Company had an arm . r fi r e. broken. When the horrible event became known to thea", ; A l rities, a battalion of the line and a company of the Uunleil-4 Guard were drawn up before the entrance of the radioed, al' the gates closed. The Prefect of Police proceeded at mi di" to Ateudon tteccllect information relative to the cause el ~'• sad calamity. It is said that the boiler of one of the loc o' tivee exploded, and that the stoker, whose boetyheiknoa Si, , been discovered, was blown sixty feet into the ,' waggons were either completely burned or crushed to l'ir g a;a .' The number of wounded is said to be not less theft 16 0 V" killed thirty or forty. (From the Commerce.) , I ° It was at the passage over the paved road, called - . , Ch el • • des Gardes, that the dreadful accident occurred. The, was drawn by three locomotives, and the rapidity with WP i . ' they moved was such, that a few seconds before the ca '" ,' ;I .7 the persons who saw the train pass expressed their fesies,, . an accident would happen. '.' ..., ' , It is believed that the first engine in crossing".o7 f.... ',..1 road was driven off the rails, and the shock wee r an'Y i..t 7 '' f that the three first waggons were broken to pileaselif',' -: sumed by the fire of the locomotive. The column-df 017.- more than 20 yards high, and consumed all the Inifirt"' , ." . travellers who came within its focus. " The excess of precaution taken by the Directors to :cl,: fine the travellers to their carriages was fatal on this occa"- Many of the victims would have been saved if they c ould ~ i i , have opened the doors of the carriages. The inhabitol* / . Belleville and Meudon rendered every assistance in their' if, , to the unfortunate sufferers, but a sufficient supply of w- ! . could nut be procured to extinguish the tire, which spread fi" let appalling rapidity, and consumed the passengers before r s ,'ci could be afforded. . ' . , ~tr z i All the authorities of Meudun and of Lower Seerea"▪ al ; gather with the surgeons and physicians of the neighb° villages, tendered their aid. The Governor of the Csalie,' Meudon, 111. Amanton, a veteran, who was mutilated at Lc' ~,see was unceasing in his efforts to remove the wounded, and Irras . them en asylum at the chateau. The avenue of Mendel. A y transformed into a perfect hospital, and the view of so In te l. , human beings disfigured, burned, or bleeding, was truly , i . rific. (From the National.) " 0 40 On going to examine into the cause of the accident - tht, o f engines were fourd; one resting upon the other ; the tend", rbl; . one of them had been completely turned round, and in thYlet., rectly oppos to positi n ; a little on one side was a•waggo° ° - - ,0 turned, and halt burnt; at a short distance some of the:sl%, were cut asunder, and others driven deep into the earfla',',l .; noise which preceded the accident was not that of the eilnaß t ie., of a bursting boiler, nor were there any traces of violent 0V; tare in the bodies of the engines ; but it was astonishingttAri, that the sentry-box of one of the watchmen near at' Pa v • showed all the appearance of having been blown up.. ---' ...0-, • ...i, COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen rode out in an open carriage and four yestet ° 0 afternoon, Cot. Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, attendA horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by C el°l'el Wylde, rime out on horseback yesterday afternoon 10 . Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent *Lifted, her jesty yestera. - • ' 4 The,r Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Royal were taking an airing yesterday, in a carriage and te ye a. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, last e t he ing, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Ken t 'farl Duchess of Buecleuch, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the l i r a. of Liverpool, the Earl Delawarr, and Mr. and the Hon' Charles Bruce. ieg The band of the 2d Life Guards were in attend a nce dinner. • dipper The band of the 2d Life Guards attended daily after,- - during her Majesty's stay at Claremont. We ltar. His Serene Highness the Duke Bernard of Saxe b e attended by Captain Koch, arrived at Marlborough H° 3s- „loelt residence of the Queen Dowager, at hal!-past twelve o rent on Monday night, having landed from Rotterdam. Nis Highness took a carriage drive yesterday afternoon. se' Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, their Serene Iligi we- a the Duke Bernard and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weima r ' t he Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and suite, honoured Italian Opera with their presence }esterday evening. Ig or The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Step oa honoured Mrs. Dc Rothschild with his company at dinner al Monday evening, at her residence in Piccadilly. His: I I I pi§ Highness afterwards honoured Lady Shaw Stewa rt wit or company at the concert given by her Ladyship in Bel square. Lcrd Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., 8 ja , Deputation from Liverpool, on the subject of rice, had 50 , t he terview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the office of Board of Trade. s a had Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps a nd Taxes, had at interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterdai t his official residence in Do ning-,treet. gr Sir Matthew Wood, M.P., Mr. L}all, M.P., the Ci,_ t Y at' membramcer, and a Deputation tit the subject of coals , nfocle interview yestei : day w the Earl of Ripon , at the I3oard t he Despatches from the Governor of Jamaica, and also froniejoif Governors of the other W e st India Colonies, were rec yesterday at the Colonial-office. 1 / __— 818 TH S. uthr On the 9th inst., at Sandwe ll, the Countess of Dar of a son. . 1,10 On the 9th inst., in Devonshire - street, Portland -piglet' ',aeon, of a son and heir. soort On the 9th inst., at Stoke Newington, Mrs. W. F • of a daughter. DIED. 6 .• At Lower Heyford Rectory, Anne, wife of the Rev' • Faithful'. On the 3d ult., at Madeira, Si r Alexander Wellesley Leiti" Bart. --------------- London : Printed ..nd Published y Ml' RD( ) vno 15 :: in No. 112, Stran at• The Sul, Office, No. 112740, the County of Aliddlesex,.Wcti,uczda)rs May 41' 1 1 1. ; i i lee eta du, Pe4 Iver Ariz( eta tact 1611 I"; &tam forwi shilli 1O 4 pPe thisi Table Us s i z4 „7 1 tm„ Cf u t ., in I`: i ki (11. ; A nt , 4,10(