The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-12 00:00:00

DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF HAMBURGH. FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE AN PROPERTY. HAMZURGII, MAT 6, EIGHT A.M....A great part of this rich and flourishing town has fallen a prey to a fearful and widely-spreading fire, 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 inereasedviolence, 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 midst 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 beers, from point to point. All yesterday carts and carriages loaded with persons and things have been proceeding to the e eoun ry, the more distant 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 its having commenced in the Deichootrasse, one of 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, the former of which is as dry arid inflammable as touchweod, 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 prejudicial, 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 tire 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 tlezen 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 an 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 builtlings yet unscathed. The Senate had been called together by tha , terrific accounts brought to its members from every quarter, to take such mea surto-as- were , requited for the public safety. It is said that it ores proposed - to them by many individuals to pull down the ne.ghbouring 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 the engine department 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 attempts 1 which were ordered to extin,guish and arrest the fire. Instead of a wide sweep of houses pulled down in the direction of the fire, but one or two buildings immediately adjoining those ac tually in flames were ordered for destruction. Ere these were well Unroofed the fire gained with em and beyond, while again the same system continued, 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 struetion of nearly a hundred houses, pretty nearly in one con secutive line. The rapid progress of the flames aas 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 timet 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 beautiful spire, that all their efforts proved vain—smoke again became flame. It is impossible too highly 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 burning rafters from withlit 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, the singular, and striking effect of the burning of the tower and 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 steeple, which had appeared made of wooden materials, was soon seen to be sheathed in copper, which be startle nearly red-hot for a height of about sixty feet, beneath it's columned portion, which proved of stone. Presently the red-hot copper peeled off as the volume of flame, which was gutting its wooden interior, gained strength. A large red-hot ball of copper fell from above one of the columns, the fire en eirelieg and playing around and up the whole extent, drawn clearly against the sky for a considerable height; then the sipper portion, over the encolnmned space, began 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 tree from danger, which now became menaced, and soon actually commenced burning with a dreadful and astonishing rapidity. The buildings were, if Iv°ssible' of more inflammable materials than the o thers, and • there was a freer current of air. The loss of property along this line, which blazed consecutively for nearly a quarter of a mile, is incalculable. The whole 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 /Mod that the warehousing or bond-system does not exist in this free city; that on the arrival of an expected cargo, the ship, or a barge laden with its contents, immediately:proceeds op posite the merchant's warehouse, where the goods 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 120,0001., which I learn were insured in London insurance offices. I may as well mention here that it is supposed the loss of pttmerty up to this time is so great that the Harnburgh insur ance houses cannot meet their liabilities. The Phmnix, Sun, and Gisibe seem to be the chief English houses concerned. A great e xtent of property is, however, uninsured. But to ceentinue. It now became known that Messrs. Thompson a nd l e indley, the latter gentleman here from Lon don, for the opening of a railway to run eight miles from this, had been by the Senilte entrusted as engineers, with the direc tion of the concentrated means of the towns of Hambnrgh 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 pu:l down several hundreds of houses in the direction of the wind, so as to leave a clear space 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 them, 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 senhalle, a magnificent exchange, containing also a library of WOOO volumes, many of which are rare and valuable works. 'Att Englishman this morning, at about five o'clock, went up to the Senate and informed them that unless they at once made up their minds t o sacrifice several hundred houses, by pulling them eiown, so as to arrest the flames at a given point, the whole Of the town within the wind's direction, then towards the Jungferstieg, would be consumed, as well as the valuable li brary. lie 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 there had reached within 20 houses of the Borsenhalle, which wilt Thus, I fear, most certainly perish. The Jungferstieg and the theeetcadjoining it are the handsomest and newest portions eetheitoswin 'The loss by their destruction, should it be the result dt the futuity and imbecility which guides present opera s iens, will tell most largely in the immense items of loss. FRIDAY NIGHT. Eleven o'clock. The 'pubh'e btifOings'destroyed last night were the Town- Ileuse (Rats ihaus) ana the Old Borsenhalle •' the Bank has f or tunately bo's'n sived,l must say more by the change of wind thin the skill epeisitiont. The Town-House' was blown up to aye the [ladle, which adjoins. to it. I have but a for minutes ere I must close this letter. At ten eciOck this mornika; the streets towards the Jungferstieg com menced burning ; th'e Post-office, the Stadt House, and other in this portion of the town are burnt to the ftiblic' bit:Ming 9 and at two o'clock only, did the en . 'e ' i l n ac ! o 'nsequence of a meeting . o ' f the Senate ' g gr iri o p e o u r d s . cit At is t s oz ai o d o at eleven, to consult on the con ti nuance of so frightful a cala mity) commeno e.the destruction of buildings some distance off the fire, so as to meet it in its advance with a clear space. They had to commence by Strm it's Hotel, i n the Jungferatieg, an d M. Heine's house, the grea -t banker's, adjoining to it. These were 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 agaits east. A new portio n of the town is in `flames, and is burning ieapidly. I fear this will n ot cease till scarce i vestige of what eves once the great, loorishing city of Hamburgb remains. the free, and I cannot Conclude without: one word of the people ; their conduct is 'Most admirable, reiost praiseworthy ; quiet, docile, andeirderly, but with deep despeir and agony on many a coun tenance, • as their whole existence - vanishes before them in flame. The lastthodays have witnesse d continual departures to the eountry of carts, carriages, harrows - 0 people loaded with furiii lure, and • all they could save of their property. The whole town is now emptying its "population. The fields around liam burgh are eoVered with furniture and household ware. Whole families; old and delicate women, little children, and the sick, have no cover but the canopy of heaven. They are sleeping thus in the fields—rain is at l engt h ,some — but now only to add to their afflictions. There is n o j ot ki ng now to be had any where for love or money. • ( A NOTIIRR ACCOUNT. ) On. the sth inst., at one a. ni., aft re broke out in the Deichstrasse, which continues up to the p-esent moment (the evening of the 6th) with unabated fury, h aving. now completed the destructiew of at-least one quarter, of the' whole town; end the loos of property. it is thought, may b e e s ti ma t e d, a t the least, at ream 2,000,0001. to 2,600,0001, of s British money. . One ()Mee principal= churches hart fallen, and other s are each moneentexpeeted. All the gunpowder in the-place has been \F.WS > > / eije,:peoded in Mowing up the different hou sec and to arrestdPertsofst h re t et e s engineer's think may in any wa y • mArO progress. o! the- fire. Everythin is at a stela- s till ; everytgaly's attentiotr is engrossed by this - fearful disaster. It vriPi many a day eret Hamburgh, the ear 'tal of the Hanseatic Pfdgrnices, rears herself from the ashes an d ruin which cur. / - It` roittiber.' Gluckstadt and avihpovider is anziolisly looked for film Subjoined we hand you a list of the principal streets in rain up to the present moment, three p. m.—viz. Deich-strasse, Hopfen. markt, Becker-strasse, Neneburg, Johanni-strasse, Monckedam, Gortwicth, Dreckwall, Trasse, Bahrstah, Rheine, Nenerwall, Jungferstieg, Grasse Bleichen, Hollings-market, &c. 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 small 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 HA.IIBI.TRGH. 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 troops of Napoleon, driving 40,000 inhabitants from the city, set fire to the dwellings of about 8,000 persons, 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 sides, containing twenty-five extensive houses. In 1676 an incendiary fire broke out in the street Cremon, and destroyed thirty warehouQes, with all their merchandise, amounting 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 Germany, of narrow, irregular, and dark streets ; the houses old fashioned, awkward anecum hrous. The only exceptions were the modern handsome houses erected in some of the streets. THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL. The Church of St. Michael, which has been destroyed, was a noble and stately building. It was begun to be built in 1751, and after five years' labour, was completed 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-HAUS, OR HOUSE OF CORRECTION. This edifice was founded by a Senator of the name of Peter Rentzel, and was intended for criminals of the worst de scription. THE ADMIRALTY. The public Admiralty was built in 1623, and its code of ex cellent maritime 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 occasioned 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 Schaar thorn to the Gause-market. Up to this period they had only small chapels among themselves ; hut 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, 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 in 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 fint who im proved this part of the Government administration, and were the first who caused the establishment of the Imperial Post at Ilamburgb. THE BOURSE, OR EXCHANGE. The present Bourse, as we find in the " Histoire 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 Hatnturgh 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 safest in Europe, is fortunately not among the buildings destroyed. The merchants of the city have long derived great benefit from this specie -bank, which was founded in 1619. Whether any bullion has been destroyed we cannot as yet tell; but as this city has no paper-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 Borsenhalle or Auction -room, was over the Exchange, and goods of every kind were daily brought there to be sold from every quarter of the world. The hotels were richly furnished, and fitted up for every fashionable and luxurious purpose. The old tewn 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 Alster, and almost all the warehouses are close to them. The Alster forms 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 tire appears to have made very severe ravages, was the spacious • walk planted with trees, and called the Jungfernstieg, or Young Ladies' Walk. Since the peace, this favourite promenade had been continued along the west side of the basin, so as to join the ramparts, the whole of which were laid out as a public garden and promenade, the carriage-way being broad enough for three carriages all round the city. The housein which the fire is supposed to have originated was, as our readers are aware, that of a Jew eigar-manufacturer's, a branch of business which in Hamburgh has of late years in creased to an astonishing extent. A recent traveller observes, that this habit of tobacco-smoking was universal. The whole of the male population, boys of eight and ten years, as well as 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 produced, even within the memory of man, changes in the constitution of the inhabitants; and these, the descendants of the strong ancient Germans, have greatly degenerated by the use of this enervating weed. The number of Jews, of which fraternity the supposed in cendiary Cohen is one, who were resident in this part of the town and Hamburgh in general. are estimated at 14,000, but this is supposed to be double the real number. In 1824 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 RAILROAD ACCIDENT NEAR PARIS. IMMENSE LOSS OF LIFE. PARIS, MAY 9.—1 have this day to announce to )ou one of the most frightful events that has occurred in modern times. Yesterday was fixed for the celebration of the King's fete at Versailles by the display (or play) of the great waterworks, fireworks, &e. On such occasions Versailles is, I need hardly say, crowded beyond conception by the Parisians, 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 left bank was unusually long ; it consisted of seventeen carriages, impelled by three engines, and conveyed from 1,500 to 1,800 passengers. On arriving between 11Ieudon and Bellevue the axle-tree of the first engine broke. Tee body of it, the fire, &c., fell to the ground. The second engine, so great was the impetus, smashed it in pieces and passed over it, and the boiler burst, throwing the unfortunate stoker fifty feet into the air. The carriages arrived of course, and passed over the wreck, when six of them were instantly set in flames by the fire ; being newly painted, they instantly ignited. Three were totally consumed, and three others partially, without the possibility of escape to their unhappy inmates, who were looked up according to the dreadful practice of such establishments. 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' ♦iew on proceeding this day to the scene of the accident. On reaching the Barriere du Maine, where the principal station lies, 1 found the place surrounded by horse and foot Municipal Guards, and an immense crowd 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 be given to them there, the esta blishment being closed, and all the employes having been sum moned to the Prefecture of Police to attend the inquiry insti tuted by order of the Prefect, M. Gabriel Delessert. The half consumed remains of the clothing 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 relatives of those to whom they had belonged to identify them. Those persons were accordingly recommended to make inquiries at the different places where the wounded had been deposited, at Meudon, Bellevue, Sevres, the hospital Necker, and in the steam-boats moored along the quay d'Orsay, which had been employed in conveying numbers to Paris during the night. Thirty-eight of the wounded were brought to the hospital Necker, seven of whom expired in the course of Monday. At six o'clock this morning the mutilated remains of 32 persons, men, women, and children, were removed from the station to the adjoining cernetry of Mont Parnasse, where I saw them, and where they continued exposed , under a shed, and covered with a coarse cloth, during the entire day. .But they were so mangled and disfigured that it was imposs:ble to discover the vestige of human features, except in a young girl of about eighteen years of age, the lower part of whose body was entirely consumed. The number of the sufferers could only be ascertained by that of the limbs or portions of limbs found. Five others, who still retained some human shape, and whose faces could lead to their recognition, were trans ported to the Morgue, where thousands of persons were drawn up in a queue, at three o'clock, waiting to be admitted to view the bodies. There was among them a lady, whose body was partly burned, but whose face was intact. She was richly at• tired, and still wore her bracelets. The number of killed is variously estimated. Early this morning the Prefect of Police sent a return to the Minister of r e t s stated who anriedtptsaotiorbepedp the Interior, in which it was set down at forty-two. Another e s dt e o v th e t n ehr tz e - ds s p e uo v rit e n n, and the parish priest of occurrence,sSr rgimthmeewdihaotelelynaigfthetr. adminis tering ifoatisa! tering the consolation of religion to the dying and wounded, computed the dead at no fewer than eighty. Among these are said to be several persons of distinction, including two depu ties, but this I only mention on hearsay, for many who could not procure vehicles to return to Paris, and were afraid to ven t are home by the right-bank railroad, slept at Versailles, and had not returned to-day when their friends went to inquire for them. It is unnecessary to say that this event has produced a great sensation in Pails. It will, however, subside sooner here than it would elsewhere, as death by violent means has been less rare in Paris than in other capitals ; but it must necessarily draw the attention of the legislatures of all Europe to a subject which has imperative claima on attention. Several foreigners are said to have perished. Such may be the melancholy fact, but the statement would have been more probable had the accident occurred on the other line (by the right bank of the Seine), as foreigners generally lodge or re side in the northern quarters of Paris. It was reported on the Bourse this afternoon that two Eng. lishmen, and the son of a wealthy American resident of the capital, and a Deputy, named Quinette, were among the dead. One of my neighbours, an apothecary in the Rue Favart, is among the victims. (Front Galignani's Messenger.) The Rive Gauche Versailles Railway was yesterday evening the scene of a deplorably fatal accident, by which many lives have been lost, and a great number of persons dreadfully maimed. This sad catastrophe took place near Meudon, the train which experienced the accident being that which started at half-past five o'clock from Versailles, and which, being crowded to excess with persons returning to town from the fete, 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 happily in one of the carriages which escaped the collision. He de. scribes the velocity with which the train was proceeding some minutes previous to the accident as extreme, so great as to have suggested in his mind the idea that the slightest obstacle on the road encountered by the wheels of the engine at such a mo ment as dangerous to excess. The thought had scarcely oc curred to him, when a frightful shock to the entire train, a fearful crash, mingled with horrible shrieks from all the car riages in advance of that in which he sat, showed that some dreadful accident had occurred, but the doors of the carriages being locked at the exterior, it was not till our informant and the other passengers in the carriage, and in those which were placed behind it, were able to make their egress by the win, placed behind it, were able to make their egress by the win dows, that the frightful extent of the accident they had so pro videntially escaped became known to them. The scene which presented itself was truly appalling. It appeared that the engine had by some fatality got off the line and ran up against the embankment, when, from the alarming 'rapidity with which the heavily-laden train was then running, six or seven of the cat riages were literally dashed to pieces, and were lying in a mass of fragments piled upon the engine. Numbers of the outside passengers had been thrown off by the shock, but of the unhappy sufferers who had taken their places in the interior, and who still survived, the fate was even more dreadful than those who had been killed, for to make the calamity still more horrible, the tire of the engine almost instantly extended to the broken mass which was above it, and several of the sufferers were actually burnt to death on the spot. Our informant describes the shrieks of the victims ( whom it was impossible to aid, and more particularly of two unfortunate ladies, who -were vainly call ing to the last for water) as inexpressibly dreadful. The agita tion inseperable from such a moment, and the confusion which necessarily existed, rendered it impossible to obtain any account of the loss of life, or other particulars relative to the sufferers, but these will doubtless reach us in the course of the day. We entertain a hope—a faint one—that they may show this accident to be less dreadful in its results than we have described it, almost from the lips of the gentleman'to whom we owe the information. But we have rather under than over-stated his description, and his coolness and presence of mind lead us to fear that his narrative will be more than borne out when the full details are made public. ( From the Siecle ) The train was returning from Versailles at half-past 5 o'clock, impelled by three locomotives, and consisted of from 15 to 18 waggons. Between Bellevue and Meudon the first locomotive, the Mathew Murray, a machine with four wheels, stopped suddenly, one of its axles having broken. The second loco motive drove against the Mathew Murray, crushed the stoker, and actually drove over the first engine and crushed it to pieces. The fire of the Mathew Murray fell in a mass between the rails. In the mean time the train, conducted by the two remain ing locomotives, proceeded on its course. The wind blowing the fire against the under part of the waggoni, which had been freshly painted, they ignited. The scene then became horrible; the unfortunate travelers confined to the waggons, the doors of which were locked, fell victims to the raging flames. Their bodies were conveyed to Paris in the - course of the evening and deposited in the waiting-room of the station-house, but they presented a mere mass of calcined flesh and bones, de formed and disfigured so as to be perfectly undistinguishable. Even their number could not be ascertained ; some were of opinion that there were twelve, some said seven or eight. As to the number of wounded, we were only able to learn that a multitude remained at Meudon, many were conveyed to the hospital Necker, and ethers were conveyed to their own re sidences. One of the employes of the Company had an arm and a leg broken. When the horrible event became known to the autho rities, a battalion of the line and a company of the Municipal Guard were drawn up before the entrance of the railroad, and the gates closed. The Prefect of Police proceeded at midnight to Meudon to collect information relative to the cause of the sad calamity. It is said that the boiler of one of the locomo tives exploded, and that the stoker, whose body has not since been discovered, was blown sixty feet into the air. Seven waggons were eithtr completely burned or crushed to pieces. The number of wounded is said to be not less than 160; the killed thirty or forty. (From the Commerce.) It was at the passage over the paved road, called Chemin des Gardes, that the dreadful accident occurred. The train was drawn by three locomotives, and the rapidity with which they moved was such, that a few seconds before the catastrophe, the persons who saw the train pass expressed their fears that an accident would happen. It is believed that the first engine in crossing the paved road was driven off the rails, and the shock was so violent, that the three first waggons were broken to pieces and con sumed by the fire of the locomotive. The column of fire was more than 20 yards high, and consumed all the unfortunate travellers who came within its focus. The excess of precaution taken by the Directors to con. fine the travellers to their carriages was fatal on this occasion. Many of the victims would have been saved if they could only have opened the doors of the carriages. The inhabitants of Belleville and Meudon rendered every assistance in their power to the unfortunate sufferers, but a sufficient supply of water could not,he procured to extinguish the tire, which spread with appalling rapidity, and consumed the passengers before relief could be afforded. All the authorities of Meudon and of Lower Sevres, to gether with the surgeons and physicians of the neighbouring villages, tendered their aid. The Governor of the Castle of 3leudon, M. Antanton, a veteran, who was mutilated at Leipsic, was unceasing in his efforts to remove the wounded, and give them an asylum at the chateau. The avenue of Meudon was transformed into a perfect hospital, and the view of so many human beings disfigured, burned, or bleeding, was truly ter rifle. (From the National.) On going to examine hits the cause of the accident the two engines were found, one resting upon the other ; the tender of one of them had been completely turned round, and in the di rectly opposite position ; a little on one side was a waggon over turned, and half burnt ; at a short distance some of the rails were cut asunder, and others driven deep into the earth. The noise which precededthe accident was not that of the explosion of a btirsting boiler, nor were there any traces of violent rup tare in the bodies of the engines; but it was astonishing to find that the sentry-box of °Die of the watchmen near at hand showed all the appearance Bf having been blown up. 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, before Lord Denman, who will come 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 nn 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 one will he 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 as 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. IMF SUN., LON:I4(M --T-g-ESDAY MORNING, MAY 12. ls4?.' THOS. 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H IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain. lug LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, ire now Selling SHARES for the said DIS 1 1 R1BU TIONS Persons desirous to purchase may re7eive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PARTICU LARS, upon addressing - , 'WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains 7,000 MONEY DIVIDENDS, as follows: lof £2),000 lof 1:600 sof EI2O 10 of 180 1 ... 5,000 2 ... 400 5 ... 110 :2 0.. . 70 1 1 ; 590 2 ... 200 5 100 43 ... 60 1 1,000 3 ... 150 6 ... 90 593 ... 50 1 ... 800 STERLING, amounting together to £72,170. BRITISH STERLING MONEY. THEATRE-ROYAL , ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, MAY 12, • The Performances will commence with THE BEU LA II SPA. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, olberry, James Vining, Brougham. andaGranby, Mrs. Brougham, Mrs. Taylcure, Miss Pia cott, Miss Marshall, and Mrs. H. P. Grattan. After which, a Divertissement, entitled L'A MOURN A INQUEU R. To be followed by the New Burletta, entitled ENTHUSIASM. To conrlude with the New serious Melodrane, entitled THE TROOPER'S HORN; or, The Goblin of the Gust. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Barker, Hemming, and Oxberry and Miss Jane Mordaunt. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE . Positively the Last Week of Maxeppa, which must be withdrawn f,r the Geand Whitsun Novelties. THIS EVENING, AIAY Will be presented Lord Byron's NIAZEPPA ; OR, THE WILD HORSE OF THE DESERT, with increased splendour, extensive auxiliary aid, and unapproachable effects. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever befme witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. BATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. The renowned French Female Rider,' Madame Seraphine Bassin ; and the miraculous feats of flexibility by the Sprite of the Silver Shower. To conclude with the Drama of THE DUMB MAN OF MAN CHESTER. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, arc respectfully informed that the Summer Season will commence at these Gardens On W HIT-MONDAY, the 16th of MAY, 1512, With a GR AND WHITSUN FESTIVAL, in which will be embo died all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation it, peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which it is confidently anticipa , ed will render them even more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. The Colossal VIEW OF BOME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled. Th:e. BAND will include soma of the most eminent Performers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. The Programme of the PROMENADES MUSICALES will be selected from the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATION of ST PETER'S, the GItIANDOLA, the FLA NI-NG ESSEIsI. GER, the METEOR of S'l'. PETER'S, and a Grand HYDRO PYRRHIC TABLEAU ! The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Mus.cales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, May 16 17, and 19. Admission One Shilling. The Private Box in the Tcatro Tordinona may be engaged pre. viously. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Fi lend of the Queen."—The object is to encourage trade and many are thankful for even the little temporary relief ii affords. "J. 5.," of Manchester, will receive an answer to-morrow. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. Miming 47 minutes after 2 I Evening s;minutes after a All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Zmmoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." ""l• -• 4 F4sp,.' • , * . or ( i• • . 7. • • 670 . ' ;O r Ir a j l i: 4 7,....)p ri rt ae lti ``‘:' ' 1.1 t 4 4• • IY. . ;. ,..7,11 • titt _Snit LONDON! THURSDAY MORNING MAY 12, 1842. UNITED STATES. By the Great Western, which arrived at Liver pool yesterday, in 12 1 days, from New York , bring ing twenty-eight passengers, we have new York papers to the 28th ult., in c l us i ve . We are glad to say that they news they bring is of a cheering cha racter. The negotiations, it is said, with England , were m akin all and everything indi cated dispute would be satis factorily arranged. The weather was fine , and the that g a the rapids subjects in bj progress,es season spoken of as remarkably promising. Trade had begun to revive, prices were looking up, and it was the general opinion that the worst was passed. The disputes in the State of Rhode Island, relative to the formation of a new constitution, continued, and the volunteer corps had been formed to protect person and property against the revolutionary party. The little State was quite in a turmoil, and excited consi derable interest in the other parts of the Union. The Britannia had arrived out in fourteen and a half days. A Bill had been reported in the Senate to provide for such cases 8.5 that of ALEXANDER APLEOD. It gives to the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States power to grant a writ of Habeas in such cases, and to hear the cause, discharg ing the prisoner if he he entitled to his discharge. The following are extracts from the New York journals : TEXAS.. Emigrants are pouring into Texas, from all . quarters, with plenty of gens , powder , ball, and mone y ; and it is more than probable that Mexico will be invaded this summer by the i chasersT wa s he s° last ldt oapnubdhr 'realms. The army of the latter is now 3,000 strong, and is concentrating on the Guadeloupe river. Other accounts say that the people are thinking of a return to their plough-shares and pruning-hooks for a season, or until a sufficient demonstration on the part of the Mexicans shall have been made to warrant an onataught. General Houston has sat himself down at Houston, determined to wait until he gets something tangible to shoot at. An interesting incident is chronicled by the Fort Pickering Eagle. While donations were being made in relief of the Texian volunteers, a young lady, prornptedyrobably by a feel xraser , o feel ing of patriotism, natural on such occasions, took from her neck a string of coral beads, which she presented to the auc tioneer, then at his vocation, in order that it might be sold—it ec rheatsusehrrne resold,ie, e had tau t wd o r enpterhdees understand,ei tn a t u teo c ii i auctioneer e t o e t a r t trill beeda least 0 company, oLhomaer donor, n a bo r za i ye o t, nu she hrti eid p m u de r isd. being the only article of value at her disposal at that time. It saying t atit might be returned. 's Keep it, then," re as a memorial of what it has done, and re jectedupwiloseitiea pdrdeoit tsh i t Ri ier , neTp tmemoryuAr FORMA TO ENGLAND. FROM MEXICO —:SALE OF CALL fyour departed friends!" By late arrivals . at New Orleans, we learn that it is currently reported in Vera Cruz that Santa Anna had negotiated a loan with England for several million of dollars ' and had agreed to deliver the Califo rn i as into their hands, until the money should be returned. The yellow fever carried off four or five persons daily. Trade is represented as dull in Vera Cruz. A conducta, with money from the interior, was looked for by the 15th inst. The captures lately made by the Texian vessels of war, had tended to cast a gloom over the commerce of Vera Cruz. A Mexican armed steamer and an armed schooner were lying at Vera Cruz. A letter from General Bravo, dated at Chilpancingo, March 23, gives an account of the defeat of a band of native Mexicans or red men, who had taken up arms against the Government. • • It appears that the city of San Miguel has received with open arms General Morazan, whose defeat by Carrera, two years ago, is so vividly described by our traveller, Stevens. Dr. Itatmel Gutierrez Martinez, and some other Mexicans of note, were on the 20th of March assassinated in their houses, by a band of fifty aboriginals, near Quechutenango. MATAMORAS. Aran 21.—1 herewith transmit a printed paper, containing an official account of the capture of San Aner - tonio de Bexar. on the sth ult., by 800 Mexican troops, und command of General Vasquez. The memorial of the American merchants taken with the expedition to Santa Anna has been published. The Mexican Government purposes to build a railroad across time Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the south of Mexico; but as the distance is two hundred miles, the project wi ll scarcel y be carried into execution. Mr. Dickens arrived in town yesterday, from St. Louis, and took lodgings, at the Broadway Hotel. He leaves to-day for New York via Cohnnbus.— Cowin. Gazette, 20th. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 28. . 2 1 , , ,0000 000 00 D DD O OO I .. s . Ohiol N nd e i w a ns lai7xoer Fivessk, F l 8 i v 6 e o s .. and-a- H a 1 f , 1860, 7 .... . Bsi , 7l s 3 days 20i 76 Shares Delaware andlludson 20 Do. Phenix 'Bank 95 Do. North River Bank . 7O 110 Do. Bank' of Commerce • ' full 86 • i 70 Do. Firemen's Insurance Co ... 80 200 Do. Long Nand Railroad . . soi 25 Do. Mohawk Railroad cash 51 25 , Do. Do. 25. Do. Do. ... ...s 10 days 51 25 Do. lio. cash 51* 5 Do. Utica and Schenectady 6 Do. Boston and Providence 5, Do. United States Bank .... _3i • g quite a moderate extent, and with but slight vanities% i T. es Ohio Sixes improved 1 / 2 ; Bank of Commerce 1 ; Indian ives fell off and Delaware and Hudson The intelligence which goes out to Europe to-day by the Great Western is of a more favourable character than any which has been transmitted for a long time. The shocks which have affected our monetary system, and caused great fluetuations in ovr currency, have •in a great degree subsided, and appearances generally indicate that we have at last passed the crisis, and that henceforward the tendency of business is toward improvement. A much better feeling exists through out the community, and considerable activity is manifested in all branches of business. We are not able to learn that much improvement in the prices of merchandise, is realized, if we make one or two exceptions, but the market presents much firmness, and purchases are freely made at the prices. The gloom and despondency which have so long over shadowed the community, are giving way rapidly to cheering anticipations of a prosperous and healthy state of business. Little exists, that is likely to defeat these calculations. The condition of the South and West, as regards their currency, is perhaps the most serious obstacle we have to contend with, and may retard us somewhat in our course of improvement. ' The general impression is, that the portion of the loan adver tised , for by the Secretary of the Treasury, 3,500,000 dollars, will be taken on favourable terms; and the impress on has done much to improve the market, especially in State and local stocks. 5 Do. Harlem Railro;d The business done at the Stock Board this tin EXCIIA NG a-FORM tr.—For transmission per the Great Western, there has been a fair business in sterling bills, closing at 7to 7A per cent. premium. On Paris the rates still remain at sf. 37k. to sf. 35c. Every person who heard Sir ROBERT PEEL on Tuesday, or who has read his speech, must have echoed his remark, that there was "no country in the world where greater skill might be exercised in the making of furniture (and of other things) than in England." Every person, too, must, like him, " not despair, by the reduction of duties, to enable us to export a considerable quantity of furniture, the pro duce of the skilful mechanics of this country." Nothing, in fact, but a great mass of onerous taxes,, only the least influential portion of which does Sir R. I PEEL propose to touch, leaving the heaviest duties virtually undiminished,—prevents our skilful artisans mechanics, and labourers, from rivalling and surpass ing, in the cheapness of theiritroducts, those of all other nations. Now that Sir ROBERT PEEL is sen sible of that, it becomes his duty as a humane man, as well as a Minister, to remove every restriction, every monopoly, every tax, not absolutely indispensa ble, from the shoulders of the people. In our opinion there are far higher motives for such a course of policy than merely to in- crease the wealth and comfort of the people, though such is sure to be the result. It will also increase their happiness and their morality. The immense number of frightful crimes lately committed, in al most every part of the empire, in conjunction with general distress, is enough to startle the most unre fleeting of our routine statesmen. The criminal law —the police—the Magistrates—have all been as powerful and as active in these latter times as ever they were ; but, in spite of their exertions, there can be no doubt that frightful crimes are rapidly on the increase. ' Precisely those crimes, too, are increasing for which the penalty of death is still inflicted. The instant it is remarked that these crimes are, as the rule, confined almost exclusively . to the lower classes —that we never hear of murder being committed by the easy and opulent classes—the suspicion that they are the result of poverty and wretchedness, and will increase in spite of penalties, seems deserving of the name of a proof, and the Prime Minister and the Parliament are required, by their wish to lessen hateful crimes, to remove every impediment which the law places in the way of the physical well-being of the people. _ _ _ At present there is great distress in the land, and we hear continually of frightful crimes. Betweenthe years 1833, however, soon after the Whigs began to remit taxation, and 1836, the country was very pros perous. Till the latter end of 1836 trade flourished. Now in those prosperous years, namely, from 1833 to 1836, there was not a single person executed in London and Middlesex. "No conviction for mur der," says the Parliamentary Returns (N 0.36), "took place during the three years ending December, 1836." In the three following years, when our prosperity was blighted, the convictions were 21, and what they will amount to in the three years ending with 1842, we must wait for the Returns to see. Something similar took place at an antecedent period. From 1818 to 1821, the country generally was prosperous, and the number of convictions for murder in Middlesex, in those three years, was 25. It was comparatively prosperous until 1824, and the number of convictions for murder was 36. In 1825 and 1826, the country was a prey to commercial difficulties, and in the three years ending 1827, the convictions increased to 64. A pretty strong proof we apprehend, that violent and frightful crimes mul tiply with distress, and diminish with prosperity. In the Report of the Assistant Poor-law Commis sioners, sent to inquire into the State of the popula tion of Stockport, we find such passages as these : " In the course of these inquiries, the general character and condition of the operatives employed in the cotton trade have been peculiarly objects of our observation. We . have seen, that in an ordinary state of the trade, those of the operatives who are employed (as the mass of them are) in connexion 'With steam power and ma chinery, appear. to 'command, by the value of their labour, the means of enjoyment of the comforts of life to an extent and degree unknown to a large portion of the population of thiS country."—" We find, in connexion with the large earnings of this class, industrious habits of no common stamp, regulated and secured in a great measure by the peculiar nature of their employment, and a degree of in telligence already much in advance of other classes of the working people, and still growing with the general growth of popular education. It appears, also, that when in the enjoyment of prosperity, they avail themselves, to a great extent, of the provi dent institutions; and partly • 'through them, and partly through other circumstances equally credit able to their character as a working class, they avoid almost altogether dependence upon poor-rates. On the recurrence of distress we find them neither a pauperised mass, nor readily admitting pauperism amongst them, but struggling against adversity,beating far and wide for employment, and iu many cases leaving their country for foreign climates rather than depend upon any other resources for subsistence than their own industry and skill." Can any person read, that passage and not at once . see the intimate connection between prosperity and intelligence, between high wages and comfort, and between comparative wealth and all the decencies, moralities, and virtues of life ? When these people were prosperous they provided against an evil day, hut the unexampled length of the present depression of trade hiis reduced these provident and 'intelligent cotton manufacturers to very severe distress.' We hope that our readers will remember that this 'is a description from authority of a class of men whom certain Tory writers have vowed to destruction, and on whose present, distress, Caused by mischievous legislation, certain Tory legislators have 'looked with placidity and pleasure. What we, however, insist on is this, what we call on the Members of both Houses of Parliament to attend to, what we say every opulent gentleman and every clergyman will suffer if he neglect, is this, that the morality and the prosperity of the people go hand in hand. We say, therefore, that infinitely higher motives than a mere desire to add to the national Nyealth make it the especial duty of the Parlia ment, and the especial duty of the clergy, and the especial duty of Sir R. PEEL, who has recognised the skill and industry of the people, to remove every monopoly, every unjust tax, and every impe diment now placed by the laws in the way of the free exercise of their skill and industry. We can supply the landlords and statesmen with even a pecuniary motive for being honest and just.. By a return just presented to Par liament, on Real property, we perceive that the annual value of an acre of land in Middlesex, where the people are most crowded, is 11. 14s. ; Leicester follows, 11.75. ; then Somerset, 11.65. ; Wor cester, 11. Gs. ; Lancaster, 1/.5s ; Warwick, 11.55.-- while the value of an acre of land in Sussex is 135.; in Devon, 15s. ; and in Suffolk, 19s. If the land lords wish to have the value of their acres increased, let their, by doing justice, encourage that prosperity, wanting which is the cause, its we think we have shown, of many frightful crimes. 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 the prospects held out to them by the promised improve ments in our commercial tariff ; now they are mourning over their richly stored warehouses in ashes, their houses devoured by the flames, and their prospects of increasing prosperity scattered to the four . winds of heaven. We shall not here repeat the details of this dreadful cala mity. They are given at length in another part of Tice Sun. We have only to express our profound affiiction at the mass of misery 'which the de3truction of Ham burgh must occasion to a` multitude of most deserving people. We have ever held the citizens of Hamburgh and the other Hanseatic Towns in the highest estima tion. We have admired their attachment to Liberal principles ; their spirit of social order ; their commer -Icial enterprise ; and in proportio:i as we admired and -respected them, do we sympathise with them under the infliction of so heavy a calamity. The fire, - which there is every reason to believe was the work of an incendiary, extended to fifty-two streets,, most of which were reduced to ashes. On a rough cal culation, the loss of property was from three to four mil - lions sterling, but it is believed that the total loss will be double that amount. IsTo .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 be found. The fire raged the whole of Friday night, and on Saturday morning, at nine o'clock, the Danish, Hanoverian, and Prussian troops entered the town, and, being well supplied with gun powder, commenced blowing up the house 3, to arrest the progress of 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 food or shelter. The fire was raging when the latest advices from framhurgh 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 Ilaniburo 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 up, stating that the vaults under the Batik, containing the gold and'silver bars, were fire-proof, and that the Bank books and papers were all removed and in perfect safety. The details, so far as they are yet known, will be read with painful interest. ly,Q,._shall not now dwell longer upon II subject so distressing. Besides the destruction of the city of Hamburgh by fire, our columns of this day contain an account of a deplorable catastrophe which took place on Sunday evening en Versailles and Meudon Railway, by which from fifty to sixty persons were killed—one report says eighty—and one hundred and fifty maimed and wounded. In honour of die lima's fete the water works in the gardens, of Versailles were playing' on Sunday, which attracted immense crowds from Paris. The train, to which the dretidful accident occurred, left Versailles for Paris at half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, 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 Meudon the axle-tree of the first machine broke, and stopping, the second ran over it, killing the stoker, and, breaking the first machine in pieces, spilt its fire on the ground. Instantly six or seven waggons were broken in pieces, and the rest. running over the live fire of the broken engines, burst into ftmes. It is the custom on the Left Bank Railroad for the. doors of the waggons to be closed, without any possibility of opening them, ex cept bykeys in the hands of the conductors: •No con ductors were forthcoming, and thus the inmates of three of the waggons were burned." From this account it is clear, that, but for the custom of locking the passengers in the carriages - , so awful a lois of life would not have taken place. We trust it will serve as a warning to - :those English Railway Companies' who perievere in locking' in passengers in the trains, without leaving them 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 pasSengera . 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. Of course, the leaving the doors of trains in a condition to be opened by passengers from within, does not infer 'that, no re strictions 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 iN ; oimAed 'OW on Monday morning. It is a remarkable fact, 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. GITIZOT, the French Minister for :Foreign Affairs. At the instant the destroyed 'train started from. Versaillesq, train bearing M. ,Guizor left I'aris for Versailles, and passed the other nearthe scene of the dreadful accident. had this great ; .sta.te!sraan been among the killed on-,t)ii*eeeasion w l e,4oye 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' aecOunt . Or ;the *lnfidel's and their Mends ; we regret it also on account of the prijudice which it Will excite in the public mind of France against railv.ayS, - Only 'yet on the eve or.' construction throughout that country. We fear that several English families will have to mourn the loss of some friend or relative by this frightful catastrophe. Madrid papers of the 2d. hale reached us, but they are destitute of news. " RICHARD'S HIMSELF AGAIN !"—Our Contemporary the Morning Post, is once main in its proper element. Nothing Can exceed the pleasing flutter and agitation of spirits into which it acknowledges itself to have ben thrown by its West-entl communications on the subject of the Queen's Masked Ball, 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 reigns without a rival. The Royal Ball has draWn forth all its powers of fancy—exhausted all the re. sources of its capacious genius. Observe- the mo dest air with which it congratulates itself on its fashionable correspondence ! "We believe," says our Contemporary, "there is no album in existence which contains the contributions of ii greater number of noble and distinguished ladies than these daily lucubratiotis of ours." Enviable pre-eminence ! No wonder the Post is quite beside itself with ex . tacy ! Such a collection of fashionable autographs might turn a wiser head than sits on our Contemporary's shoulders. The Post goes to observe :—" Such - a scene as this Ball may never , occur till doomsday ! It will be . the most exhilarating sight, and would overcome thegravity of even the seven sages of Greece." Not a doubt of it. A Grecian sage. if he Was once to get a glimpse of Lord Snooks, Black-bottle Cardigan, figuring at Buckingham-palace, in the costume of the Chevalier Bayard, would, we verily believe, go off in, strong convulsions; and if he did not do so, we should think but meanly of his taste for the ridiculous. But all is not sunshine, even as regards this wonderful Ball, for " the nearer the hour approaches," continues our Con temporary, " the snore impossible it is found to ac• compliSh all the dresses in time. Sime of the fair, members of the • aristocracy know not as yet their fate : others do, ..and . are in a state of distrac tion r Unhappy creatures t lye grieve—deeply grieve for their distress, and trust that their deprivation of reason may not induce the necessity of a strait-waist coat. But who can wonder at their ".distraction ?" As it is her Majesty's command, go they.. must, dressed or undressed ; and if their- dresses be not finished in time, but one painful alternative is left them 7 -namely, to appear at the Palace in the primitive costume of the .fig leaf. . ARCIII3IB}IOP OF CAIN . I . TERUVRY!S DINNER-PARTIES.— The following advertisement appears in a Morning Paper of yesterday There will - be no more public dinners at Lambeth Palace this y,mr." This pithy and sententious announcement is; • we suppose, caused by a prompt recellection 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 episcopal Income ! • TAR LORD MAYOR'S JOlClt.—Lord Mayors are not, generally speaking, remarkable for the dazzling quality of their wit ; nor do we remgmber to have ever heard of one who combined the graceful humour of Addison with the sparkling fancy of Sheridan. But the present Lord Mayor appears to be an exception. He is really a wag the first water ; and it is gratifying to he able to add that no illustrious Civic Magnate laughs - -- louds,4* or longer- at his own jokes, At the Mansion Housi.‘ on Tuesday 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 !" The drollery of this repartee was irresistible.i Clerks,constables, policemen, were instantly in extacies ; Mr. Hobler 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! THE- • BRIGHTON ELECTION.—The result of the Brighton election having long been foreseen by the more dis criminating of the Liberal party in the Borough, it has not been productive of disappointment to them, though it neces sarily gives rise to much vexation and chagrin. The occasion which has just passed away, might under more favourable au spices, have been made to confirm what has already been so repeatedly and so conspicuously established,—that the political feeling of the Borough is most decidedly Anti-Tory and Liberal; but the great reform party of the country failed to provide a candidate equal to the occasion,—and instead of being, as it might have been, a contest of pringiple, it dwindled away at the eleventh hour into a hopeless, and most indiscreet att( nipt on the part of a gentleman, known only to the electors by an un enviable political notoriety, and guided by a most presumptuous, ignorant, and in.ignificant clique, to supplant the son of a re spected and charitable nob'eman who has for many years re sided in the Borough. 'the bringing forwatd such a candidate as Mr. Belford, after Lord Alfred and his friends had fully and deliberately canvassed the Borough, was repudiated by the more influential Reformers of the Borough as highly injurous to the Liberal interest ; and convinced:thet, under such adverse cir cumstances, suecess was hopless, they very properly, in our opinion, abstained from mixing up with a candidate, who, by abandoninghis seat in Parliament; had virtually pleaded guilty to the charge of having obtained a temporary triumph in a neighbourin g Borough by very corrupt m eans. This was a feeling in w hich we participated, and will explain the silence we have studiously observed throughout the vain struggle.— , Brighton Guardian. S MARY OF NEWS AND ti ' tsbitr Optitton. " Who runs may read." rionzum. The frightful accident on the Versailles and Paris Railway , and the burning-of Hamburgb, are the only topics of interest n the Foreign Journals received this morning. LLOYD'S SHIPPING LONDON, MAY 11.—Wind this day at noon, westerly. DEAL, May 10.—Wind S.W., light.—Arrd. Jamaica, westward. Arrd. from the River, Royal Admiral, Van Die man's Land; Oxford, Calcutta; Penelope, Quebec. STAWOATE CREEK, MAY 9. Arrd. her Majesty's ship Daphne, Smyrna. POOLE, MAY 10.—Sid. Brother, Flora, and William the Fourth, Newfoundland. TORBAY. MAY 9.—Std. Mary Ridley, 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 ult. ; 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. LivEarooL, MAY 10.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Se lina, Africa, and Barbadoes, 12th ult. Sid. John Dugdale, Singapore; Penang and Viscount Sandon, Calcutta; Santos, Valparaiso; Lehigh, Philadelphia; Bengal and Antoleon, Boston ; North America, Northumberland, and Importer, New York; Devereux, Mary, and St. Andrew, Quebec; A uro ra, 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-YESTERDAY. CORN EXCHANGE. There was a good fresh supply of Irish Oats, but not much En4lish Corn. The trade was dull for every article at Mon day s prices. There has been little done in Flour this week. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. 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 es. per 120. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done, but prices were sustained for most articles ; the imports still heavy. TALLOW MARKET. Higher rates were asked, but the business done was limited at 475. on the spot, and 48s. 9d. for delivery in the last three months of the year. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market.day, 116. r. d. 's. d. Adat es Carr's Hartley ~,, ~.. . .. ........ 18 ti Walls End Hetton , 2O 6 Nelson's West Hartley....„ 17 2 Walls End Lambton ... ...... 2 , 1 6 New Tanfield Moor l3 6 Walls End Mot-assns. l6 0 Old Tanfield l3 6 Walls End Russell's Hetton 2b 6 Youtop Windsor .... ........ West Wylam l5 9, Walls End Whitwell l9 6 Wylam Walls Et.d liewicse and Co. 19 0 Walls End Hartlepool Walls End Clark and l6 61Walls End Adelaide ..... Walls End Heaton Co.' _... 19 3' Walls Ei.d Bowburn ... Walls End Hilda lB 0, Walls End Brown's Danery 19 u Walls End Hotspur Walla End Killingworth ... 18 6' Anthracite 23 0 Walls End Newmarch l7 3 Blythe l4 6 Walls End N••r•hu L berland 17 3, Cowpen Walls End Wharnclide...... 19 3' Hartley ls 6 W. E. Braddyll'sHattou ... '2O 61 Howard't Nesherton Main 17 6 STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANeTIESTER.—The market yesterday was charac terized by the same gloomy feeling which was mani fested on the two preceding Tuesdays. The amount of business done was small, both in goods and yarn; ,in some descriptions of the latter, especially in good qualities of 40's to ist, which was recently in fair de mand, a decline of / id. per pound was submitted to. We are glad to learn that the affairs of the print house, which suspended payment at the close of last week, have been arranged on satisfactory terms. We understand that the assets available in working the business amount to 85,0001., whilst the liabilities are about 50,000!. ; and an arrangement has been entered into by which the firm will pay 20s. in the pound by instalments, within two years leaving the question of interest to the future means and the honour of the parties. Itocnn.ALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MAY 9. — The market has been very thinly attended to-day, and the few sales which have been made in flannels are at ruinously low prices. - The wool urarkiA has been as flat as the piece market, and but little business done at any price. HUDDERSFIELD - MARKET, MAY 10.—Last week's re port would serve for thiS day. HoWever, amidst a state ofcomtnercial difficulties Unparalleled, it is satisfactory to state 'that" this market was no worse. Considerable sales were effected in light fancy goods, at prices so wretched As to indicate an appalling state of things. The uncertainty as regards the tariff paralyses trade. Warehouse business is dull, In short, the prospect is PAYLLIAMENTA.RY. The House of Lords did not meet yesterday. Mr. Roebuck presented a petition from certain inhabitants of Brighten to disfranchise that town, because of the drunken ness and the immorality produced by the late election. • The Newcastle.under-Lyne Elec ion Committee reported that Mr. Harris and his • agents had been guilty of bribery, and was not duly elected ; corrupt practices, according to the COO" mittee, prevail in that borough. Mr. T. Duncombe wished to obtain an explanation frim Mr. Roebuck as to the " reptile" who drew up the National ite • tition. but the Speaker would not allow the Hon. Member .to ask the question. It was stated that Mr. Roebuck would nominate his Coin mittee on Friday, and Mr. T. Duncombe gave notice of m ot if to call on each Member of that Committee to subscribe &Ale" claration that he was himself innocent of all bribery. - •, ' Sir James Graham moved for leave to bring in a Bill to CO tinue the Poor-law Commission for five years. The Right Hon. Gentleman announced that he meant to repeal Gilbert's AO , but (lid not mean to interfere with the law as to Local Acts. The Bill was brought in and read a first time. The - House transacted no other business of importance, and adjourned: et Eight o'Cloek. Nit ONEY—TUADE—COMMERCE. Several of the leading commercial houses in the city, feeh.4 that Indian commerce is unfairly treated in the new tariff, hove presented a recuisiton to the Directors of the East India Caro'`-.`• 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, fi t "; a Jury at Preston, against Peter Whittle, the cotton-spinner at Liverpool, who cut his wife's throat with a razor. -' - LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The four packets, relative to freemasonry, found itr chests of Gustavus 111., have been sent to the lodge of .00 ci order in the city of Stockholm. • TIZDA.TRXCAL. The whole strength of the Company will appear t o-nigh at her Majesty's Theatre in Lucretia Borgia, and t_he lasti,t of Torquato Torso. • -',,Ar' er ' M. Dormny, the Director of the Italian Opera at Parts.le, now in London, effecting engagements for the ensuing seasollt4 Mr. Healey, the popular composer andleader, was digee'„ , }l O vered dead !n his bed on Tuesday morning, at his residencei . Shepherd's Cottage, Vine-terrace, Waterloo-road. He hiel been sitting up all Monday night co m posing and arranginettg movie of the new pieces to be produced on Whit-Monday,':',2 the Strand Theatre. Tuesday evening Signor Poggi made his first appearance et. the Italian Opera, in Dontzetti s Luerezia Borgia. His re's ception was highly flattering. and bnth be and Frezzolini sai ceived thrOughout the piece the most enthusiastic applause. COTTPT--,2 1 -9.S9XONADLE. The Marquis of Bute has arrived in town from Durnfri Castle, Ayrshire. The Marquis of Salisbury gave an entertainment on Mondelp in Arlington-street, to her lineal Highness the Dischess 0 1 2 . Gloucester, Duke of Wellington,. Lord Aberdeen, &c. His Excellency Earl de Grey returns to Dublin Castle, to the course of the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess - of Beauchamp quit Brighon, 01 :1 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, 11` Eglinton Park. ' ' The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon have arrived in tolr tf ::' from Worthing: The Earl of Brnwnlow left Belgrave-square on Monday f° * rejoin the Count ss at Leamington. The Earl and Countess of Waldegrave have gone oria COwl' nental tour for several months. The Earl of Povris, accompanied by Viscount Clive, retertl 4 - to town yesterday from Shrewsbury. ' The marriage of the Hereditary Prince - of so.. Coburg,' M s j Gotha, and Princess Alexandrine of Baden, took place , Carlsruhe or, the 3d instant. • MIScEVL.ANEOWS. The Irish Attorney-General has commenced prosecutioe - for . libel against two northern Journals, the Belfast Hi:dial' and the Newry E vaminer, for their comments on the trial es_„ execution of Francis Hughes, found guilty at the last Aryl47-' Assizes, of the murder of Mr._Powell. Assizes, for the office of TOwn'Clerk will he the gneet r 7; ever known irk the records 9f the Corporation of London. - • - • - COURT CIRCULAR. _ His- Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Crt il ,l 4 Wylde and Sir Edward Bowater, inspected the troops in lington Barracks, yesterday morning. is t Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yeit o " afternoon, in an open carriage and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Pri o `'"" 0 Royal, were taken an airing yesterday, in a carriage and f ouc '; His Royal Highness Prince Albert—attended by the Niarq s „, of Exeter, Groom of the Stole ; Mr. G eorge Ed w ard Ao ° 7 . Treasurer ; Lord Colville, Lord in Waiting ; Captain Frarl Seymour (Scots Fusilier Guards), Groom in Waiting; the Col. Wylde, Equerry in Waiting—presided last evening at dinner ofthe Literary Fund Society, at the Freemasons Tsive:: The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace-last ing, included Lord Portman, Right Hon. Dawson Da" Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Sir Arthur and Lady Brook. t h The Band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance at Palace during dinner. The Marquis of Ormonde and the lion. Captain Dui''o have succeeded Lord Byron and the 'Hon. Captain flo d Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. - it ' e "herltte'••• Her Royal Highness the Duche ss o f K ent w le jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborouls" The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty last ere n , lnr iairt The Duke Bernard of Saxe 'Weimar, attended br - "j out a, Koche, visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester I .l„ a ser and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Cambridge ' yesterday.' ese of — The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Dukund Dneb Cambridge yesterday. ce-i ° Earl Cawclor gave a dinner last evening at bis resident South Audley-stroct, to her Royal Highness the Duchess:;,.. Cambridge, and the Directors of the Concert of Ancientlq.e_M: A Deputation on the subject of the damask and d'Av6i, trade, consisting ot the Earl of Hillsborough. the Lord meny, Captain Meynell, Messrs. Tennent, bertson Ans'sews, Lewis, Peckett, and Foxworth, harks o ,,A o terview with the Earl of - Riporr yesterday, at the office ° I l!oard of Trade. f t ll° The Chairman of the Customs, an.l the Chairman e r t bs Stamps and Taxes, had iniervi - ws with the Chancell or e e s. Exchequer) esterday, at his official residence in Downing 4t ' .. t he Despatches from the Governor of Ceylon. and also fre ol ic 'el Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, were rece yesterday at the Colonial-office. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET—TUESDAY NICHT. DERBY BETTING. 3 to I agst ( Coldreruck) Frederica c.—taken. - 7 to 2 agst Col. Anson's Attila—take 4 to 1. ,I.°' 8 to I aast Duke of Grafton's Canadian • 13 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland—taken - 16 to I agst Mr. Clark's Lord of Holderness 18 to 1 apt Lord Chesterfield's Jack—taken ea gerly 01 '22 to I azst Lord G. Bentinck's Chatham—take 0 1 , 4 k 28 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Meteor—take 30 to 1 ,$ 33 to 1 apt Mr. Rogers's Tiptoe—take 40 toi 35 to 1 agst Lasso—taken 40 to I agst Agreeable c.—take 50 to 1 . , 1000 to 15 against Seahorse—taktn 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele—taken 2000 to 20 agst Ghuznee—taken 5000 to 25 agst the Oneida Chief and Robert de Gore OAKS. 7 to 1 agst '25 to 1 agst Meal—taken • 25 to I agst Belle Dame—Liken ENTRIES FOR To-MORROW. 4 1 04 Jockey Club Plate.—Flambeau, Barbara, 80., by Moloch, darn by Action. Handicap Plate, A.F.—Jeffy 5 yrs, 91t, The Mountain 5 yrs, Bst 91b, Joachim, 4 yrs, Bst 91b, f by Bizarre out of . PlO beau's dim, 3 yrs, 6st 51h, f b Bizarre, out of Anna, 3 5 1 71,, 41b, cby Retainer dam by St. Patrick, 3 3rs, sst '5 111,4 0 1 0 Ma Mee, '3 yrs, 6st 101 b. 4110 The T. M. M. Plate run for this afternoon was Ani s ,/ triumph, for Sir Hans; Ohio made the first running, bu t ,_ l e e shortly after starting, leaving Sir Hans to go on with 1 -p e o o P and win easy by a length ; Prosody and Robin Were - bas te The winner was claimed. -In the hasty account of the R. M. Plate sent from the 4 00 , we were wrong in stating that Ballinkeele and Sea-horie s pled themselves out" in the bottom ; the% went to the froo,o that point, and waited to the last; Sea .horse, who. had v ;13 1 , running wide of his horses with the whip-band , winning or , post by a head ; Rover was a good third, Rosalind fourth , j ot Robett de Gorham fifth—the others beaten off. The 14° 6 bad to the bu-lies. There were two false starts. BETTING AFTER THE RACES. . JO° The Rowley Mile Plate was destruction to the.hope s "' Irish tlet party, for whatever foundation there may be 00 opinion that he lost the race by waiting too long, the fa mi cor t Rover was third proves that all were bad, and that yr . keele's chance for the Derby is out. The odds laid etr' him this evening were, 1000 10, and 1000 to 15 o ffer P . rently ; 30 to t was taken in the town this morniot/ other respects the betting was flat, at the following price . ' DERBY. 3 to I agst Mr. Trelawny's Coldrenick(Frederics 7 to 2 agst Col. Anion's Attila—take 4 to 1 Bto 1 agat Mr. Greville's Canadian ' • • 13 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Attekland—take 16 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord of Holderness 18 to 1-agst Lord Chesterfield's Jack—taken ea.gfaiiii; 22 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Chatham—take 14j 04' 28 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Meteor—take 30 to 1 33 to I agst Mr. Rogers's Tiptoe—take 40 to 1 , &, to I agst Mr. Greenwood's Lasso—taken 4. 0 1 " 40 to I agst Mr. Moiklasn's Agreeable colt.—takei'' .4 1000 to 15 agst Col. Peel's Seahorse—taken . , 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele—taken. r pr ' 2000 to 20 agat Lord Lynedoch's Ghuznee—taken 5000 to 25 agst The Oneida Chief and Robert de Gm . , 407 OAKS. 7 to I agst Lord Chesterfield's Da-bin—taken i , "O , 25 to I agst Mr. Shackell's Meal—taken l' : “" 25 to 1 agst Mr. Allen's Belle'Dame—taken to tal,' Arrivals—Duke of Rutland. 'Marquis of Exeter. , p" . Jersey, illhemirle, Orford, Godolphin. G. DentincK, o ' stone, J. Fitzroy, Kelburne.. Honourables — Gen. Gr?s. •, G. Anson, G. S. Byng, G. Fitzroy, Capt. Runs, L°'' ' ' ~,, Messrs.—C. Greville, Irby, Gregory, G o ardnor, ~*,;:fir, Thornhill. Newton, P or tman, Thornhill, ju u . vit, Ne'NF A , 'Fubsar Craven, Payne, &c. &c , 0 1 ; ;;,,i Departures—Marquis of Exeter , Lord Kelburne, A I lend Peel. WEDNESDAY. The Jockey Club Stakes of 501 . for 4 yrs old, 7 s t 21 b 'ease. Bst 31b ; 6 yrs, and aged , B st 91 b, the property o f '` lit 00 , ( Robin', ,;i54 Du o k f e tl o ie f l J t o u t t . i k a e , y d, C s ;lu F b le . m ß b . ea C u . 0 , 6 yrs Mr. Batson's Barbara, 4 yrs .., .......... 'Wit Lord Kelburne's c by Matey Moloch, d b; .. .. xon. ... k4eYoiTo Betting-11 to 10 agst Barbara, 6to 5 agst Flal.,!%ots 10 to 1 agst the colt. Won v er y easy b y half 3 l en A g t f‘ 1 ,41 / Handicap Plate of 501. f or 3 yis o ld, &e. ; Oki, Mr. Newton's Six Mie, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ............ .... .c l av Lord. Kelburne's c by Retainer, 3 yrs, sst bib.. ........... Mr. Osbaldeston's The Mcuntain Sylph, 5 yrs, 851. ‘ ~,i'i ' . . b Lord Jersey's Joachim, - 4 yrs, Est 91b .................. ;:os , . Duke of Rutland's f, by Bizarrre, out of Flambeau.: a t). i v, 3 yrs, 6st 51b ............. .. ... . .................. . a ..iii e trs‘ ' Betting-5 to 4 agst Bizatte filh; ;3to 1 agst INI ' 0 011::(7 . 2 agst Joachim ;sto 1 agst Lord Kelburne's cult i ~ ;41 , 10 4? agst Mountain Sylph. W o n a y two l e ngths, .1 0 ' The Suffolk Stakes of 15. Wye. each, 5 ft, if 'ete'r e i r • 100 soca added ; the second to-receive SO 0,11. vir s ever G.* 64 i 61 .:T days, Ba it , 4 ti. 14 1 Y: i-: 1 i , 4tl t' RPj tql THE INDIA SUN, CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AF FGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND CHINA, .1.5 NOW READY.