The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-06 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

It has bees slated that the building itself is uninsured.
This is tooting, and the loss will be terrible to those pro-
priety' wlos hold a :arp number of shares. Among them
may be method the Hirable family—the featly of the late
Mr. Herrie—Mr. Bannon, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Theses
Grieve, and ethers.

1 .
The ewly Matures know" to 'stet to ttonsszias with
the building us two—one of 8,0001. spos a portion of thew
properties, and smother of 2,0001. effectod by Mr. Auden=
what he entered on the occupation of the theatre, for three
"loathe, which laminae, would have 'spired on Saturday
see.

It 4 sot a little singular that Mr. Aadenon's theatrical
halos has been Duce previns,y brought to a redden Wren-
adios in a similar meow. In 1844 he erected the City of
Glasgow Thane, whisk was rinsed by himself, sad blunt
to the round within lon thus twelve ninths from the lint
acne being laid. Fortonately, then were heavy inserasers
en the bundle,.

Assam, the sufferers by go ealainity im Mr. Payne,. the
proprietor at the refrathatant deptmtatmat of the Maga
Italia Oleos. Be had eoatteeted to famish the tapper at
the bmf Nedisqui. Everything fa the steps of glair mad plate
which he bad is the theatre it destroyed. beside. • large
quatity of surplus wise. Mrs. Payne earrowiy escaped

with the money taken during the ream`—upwards of 2001.
There had bees a large am received at the doors, 2001.
for admiosion. and 901. for bsloony seats were takes. All
this sod other cub was got out of the theatre early and de•
posited in a place of safety.
The vicinity of Caveat-fortis was visited by essay thou-
sand meows daring yesterday attracted to see the ruins. la
isousegueueo of the dangerous state of the walls it was found
mammary to block op Bow•atmt sad Hart-street, sad a
string body of pollee were kept on duty all day to pretest
the approarh of any persese.;

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It was rumoured last males, that two persons were att-
ains sad that fears were 'eatertained for their ,safety- One
of them is a bog employed by the gas men. He has act been
seen sines early os Taseday evening, sad the supposition is
that he may have laid down is ;some owner, @Amsted, and
slept for soundly. There was very little tints for escape,
sad it is greatly feared this youth is lost. Anziou en-
quiries wore also made last evenieg for a young girl who
was known to have been employed in the theatre, and who
bat not bees heard of shoos the outbreak.

It is perfectly Immutable to think of the distress aad la-
eowatolesco whielt the destratt'oe of this theatre will occa-
sion. It is sot too roach to say, that at lust owe thouaad
families will be thrown iota Mena by it, to say :lathing of
the mutual 'stony/aim" which nut eche fro= the lees of

aa opera whish has of late Worm* one of the charms of As
London wane.

The tor. to Mr. dye and his se-partnere will mentely bear
eoetensplatton. A mare mehrebely remise to the bright
anticipations for the fatere wife% they had formed could
net lam befallen them. There is ao bane looming i• the
dhtaaoe. One Wog wily are they wand, and that is the
ameseity of keeping their *sponse,' with the arthtes they
lay. enlisted, a mobo ban always inserted ie ftweign
agreements, to the effect that to am .f death la the royal
family, the woodworm of plasma, or lose by fire, nob agree.
meats shall not be binding.
Yr. dye left Perk ea receipt of the disastrous intelli-
genet, and was eapeetrd tf melee in London last night.

OFFICIAL. REPORT.
The following is the Wield report made to Mr. Braid.
wood of the low sad dump melt*: flea the are :

Thestrs Beysl Covest-gardes. Borst down. Propettles
sad sestets§ ratially Issued is dm PUN': sad abet

Die. IL J. &Waves. sada-wow awenteenmer. dawellea
►J water and breakage ; eratsata aad banding bleared t•
the Pima&

No. 24. W. Rogers, ►atlder, treat teorsbed sad ego
rekra—oentents tamed is tile Westraisster, batitUag la

the See.
No. 26. W. Bell, printer, hoot somsbed--lassrenc•
booms.
No. 26. J Baines, minnow, frcnt ocarehed—insorusee ua-
knowo.
No. 27. W. Nobs", Revd Italian Open Betel. front
'leashed, glom broken, sad mutest' damaged by vats,—
roateate intend is the North of Ragland ; building as-
kew&
Noe. 28, 29, SO. W. Joan, wetter, hoots aewebed, roofs
damaged, and glass broken—coatis% of baldly. lammed
is the ass.
No. di. J. lillifi3oll, s'otbn salmis& dmaapd by water
and usoke—costeste Waxed i■ the Bea.
No. 32. B. W. Thomas, jammer, frost scorched—ma-
teats Mewed In tbe Ben—baldly unknown.
No. G. Gable, lodger, damage from Imams—ma-
tests Inintred in Um Boa.
HAIMITIIIIII.
No. 49. Mn. S. Brown, private knee, frost morehed—
sot insomd.
No. 60. W. Host, Bowed vietsallor, frost severely
wombed, glass broken, sad damaged by wear—mettriata is
eared is Boyd Baeltangs—boldly sokseent.
No. 61. 17aoccopled. Frost asombed, Maumee as
knows.
No. 62. B. Gusts, private boom, front merched, Inesraace
%taboos&

Bedford Rotel, A. Warm proprietor, slightly demigod
by water—eoateato bleared is the Glob., beildieg is th•
Sae.

Plata' Hotel, Hondo= and Co. proprietor, 'lightly da-
maged by Am sad water—o3oloass famed in Globs and
Wasudattar. sad build*/ fa the Soo.

Tsvistosk ilotsl, Restises ►ad Co. proprletoes, beck host
Notated sad wisdom broken—sestsats issued is Glob*

sad Westminster end building in the San.
No. 10, Pisa% S. Robins. asetioneer, skylight saarolaid
and `leg broken—costents insured In the Pi soli, end

bsildrss is the Sus sad Westnisster.

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The New Opt ra Rotel, which is slightly damaged from
the elfish of w►tt r, wan Wound in the North of Ragland
Pim 011 ice.

Coroat-Eardea Theatre was destroyed by Ire ea the
sonde' of s.pt. 20, 1808, 'rhea a great nosy 11.1111 were
icat, istledieg wren (rews, who were entshed by the
falling of a stook of &insole, rendered Weems by the
antis)" of the Buses. Beardel's ages sad the valuable
stock of wise halitosis, t the Beefsteak Club shared is
the general :Ws os that osession. The flat stone of the
sew theatre ;that whose deltractles we sow resord) was
kid by the Prince of Webs ors the illot of December Is the
taste year, sad the theatre was opened as the 18th of De.
somber, 1809. The whitest wag Kr Robert &arks, ILA.,
and thy) statues of Tragedy sad Cosedy, sad the two has
tel on the Bret-street frost, were ►y Flamm. The
stage was 6111. is length sad 88 ft. la width, sad the depth
boo the curaria to the beck of the pit was Wt., sad the
thistle had a snore, the dissessiess of which were Wit. by
19 feet. After belies leased by various rassegen for many
year, U. Jellies hued this theatre for his promised' 'es-
corts is 1843 6. It was esbetquently hired by the Asti-
Con-Law League as a leeture ball. Bet is 1846, the hand-
lag wag openly remodelled by Mr. Albano, and converted
int. as Opera= oast. It was opened as the 6th of April,
1847, but with gosh an ontravagant "speediest., that Is
1848, there wag a loss of 84,7561., sad la 1849, of 26,4661.
Is ass year the 'deal departaest colt 33,3491, the ballet
8,1061, sad the seehastra 10,0484
The theatre has sever lost any of its reinitiates, and from
these items, therefore, the pubile my be able to apprerriage
what is new lost to then, at any rate for a leagthased
period.

The refried theatre la Coveat garden, or, lIWM correctly,
Conveat-ger tea, the round havtag ',Moaned to the Abbot
and Moaning of Westminster, was balit by Mr. John Ebb
(ot harlequinade aotoriets), and opined on the 7.h of De-
cember. 1732, with Cu grore's Way of the World," In
which Main played Faisal!. Various 1111•IretiOni sad Ins.
pion. NMI'S win made in this edifies in 1781, sad la 1782
It was 'rebuilt from the dodges of Henry Holland, makitees,
at aa 'spear of 25,0001., of which 16,0001. was advanced se
a loss by the Make of Bedk rd, whammies's/dr, the regent
duke, is the Foaled hadlord. Os the Melt of the Roth
%pt., 1808, the theatre was Must to the mead by as stee-
ldolma fire, which is sapwood tokens arisen hen tho iptied
wedging of the midis's* assitele (whisk kid boss Ina

off ia the play of "Pizarro" the previous evening) lodg-
ing mese of the lafisameable decoration, of the
nanny. HaaMa. la his life of John Philip Kissable, has
recorded the hillsides es • real profesaional soliloquy of that
eminent aster Its the amiss alter the lbre," says the
writer, " I hastened to Great Esesell-street, and went into
Kr. Hemble's dremistross. He was standing before the
glass, totally absorbed, aad yet st interval. endeavour-
ing to shave himself. Hie brother Charles, wrapped
up just as ha mass from the fire, was sitting attentive
upon the end of the sofa. I took a chair and sat
observing the maser sad the look of Kimble. His
mind was rather raised than dejected, and his ilea
gination dieemaded with the pictured detaq of all the
inseams that had perished in the conflagration. At
lesgth be brae oat is exclamation which I have fin-
served as tbremeteristle of Lis tutu of mind—. Yee, it
has perished—that t theatre which for all
the purposes of sahibitloa sr comfort was the first iu
Europe. lifers'', with an ite treasures of every descrip-
tion, and soma of whistles. never be replaced,—that library
which astalassi all elm hamorist productions of cm loaa-
triara, prepared for the purpose, of representation,—that
vast itetim of m Is •by the tips t 'mimes
ilVta,be air mom of it
iiiDoom...that wardrobe, stored
with th• eczema ef all mations mid ages, mcumulated by
aswearied mouth sad sea iseredlite erpease,—sceseryl

the triumph of the art, unelvalled tor its security, and o
exquisitely finished that itseight be *a ornament of yor
drawing-rooms, were they only large enough to contain
it. Of all this vest tremor* nothing cow romans bee
the arms of England over the entrance of the theatre, end
the Boman Eagle standing solitary in the marketplace."'
The magnificent theatre the deetrectia of whielt we this
day record, was commenced in the same year (18011); and en
the 31st of December His Hopi 114bness the Prince of
Wales, who was liken Grand Master of the Freemasons, ac-
companied by the Duke of Bums and several distinguished
noblemen, with a nap body of the tempi, order, laid the
foundation stone, his roysl highness having previously de-
posited under the same a brass be: coutatainv two medals,
one of brows, on whisk was a pnistait of himself, sad oath*
rows* the following inscription :
°eagles
Princeps Wellierem
Thant
&Ws hataurandi /auspiciis
In Bottle &Rothman!,
Londini
Fundaments
Etna Meat Loosen

Oa the other medal, which woo of sapper, wat•b•
nucriptlon
trader the Anapiess of
Elia Most Sacred Majesty George 3.
Bing of the United Kingdom of Great Britsia and:ltMand:
The Foundation fitsme of the Tairatre

Covent Garden
Wu laid by bis Royal Highness
George Prince of Wales

Seth great celerity wra3xetcinS4 in cm eying on the
work that the theatre wee completely S abed in less
then a year frog the time of the an, and the perform
sates were reeemasseed on the 111th of September,
11309, with Neebeth end The Quaker. The espouse
of erecting it are mid to have amounted to
160,0001., of whisk 46,6601. wee received from the th-
wart. Atoms, end 60,0001. rimed by subecription
shares of 6001. each. At the opening of the theatre
that most memorable event in our histrionic minas tolled
Tire O.P. Bow," cr "Riot," was commenced, end item-
! tinned with almost unabated vehemence derieg fifty nights.
It resulted in a compromise, the detail. of which are known
to the public.
The Temple of Minerva, called also the Pe...themes, and,
hem its dimecelons, the Hecatompedon, in the Acropolis,
et Atleas, was the model adopted by the architect in des
signed the principal trait of the building now laid in ruins.
It was a noble specimen of the pure Greaten Doric, end was
one of the meat elessical elevations in the 'rattrap die,.
although of a character ler tco solemn for a shove.. The
front, which wee Is Bow street, presented a grand pet-
tiest, elevated upea a flight of skint, the pediment
of which woe npported by four large fluted edemas
without buss. On the upper part of the wells, at
the skies of the peelime, were ewe long putts eentain-
leg basecelieves represonations of the limiest end
modern drams, by Mesas and Rossi. In the centre of
that townie the Borth eat three Greek poets—namely,
.filerhylu, the father of tragedy (hie loco towards the Her-
street caner), end Aristophanee and Remands r, tGe fathers
of easiest sad seders comedy. Thal.a, with her crook and
mesh, stood before the ertnie poets es the object cf their
imitation. She was folLwed by Polyhymnia and Terpsi-
chore, the muse of action or pantomime. Three symplit,
mooned with the leaves of the fir-pine, accompanying
Pegasus, coseleded that portion if the eompartment.
.Ealkylne held a smell es his knee, and appeared
to be BMWs, to the iejseetions of !Loma, who
eat opposite to him. Between theca was Bacchus !neing
on his fawn—typical of tregedy originating in honour
of the trey god. Behind Minerva stood Mel-
pomeae, or Tragedy, holding a gird end mask.
The succeeding figures were too Furies wish snakes and
torches pureeing Orestes, represented stretching sot his
heads fa supplicat ea to Apollo, who, borne in the quedrige,
or four-horsed chariot of the Son, terminated the sculpture.
In the centre of the compertotext at the south of the portico
wee William Shakspeare, 'Mtn; et his feet the tragic
and tootle masks were pooped with the lyre. With his
right head upraised he wee summoning the bright ora-
tions of his imagination before him. the dainty Add
appeared, playing ea a lyre In midway sir--Celitae
laden with wood—Ferdinand theething his sword—end
Miranda mipplitating Prospero Macbeth turoieg is
horror free the capes of Duncan, Lady Mut etb with the
dessert, sad McCue Is her ear drawn by oxen, terminated
this divislea. Next to Shekspeere was Hilton, seated,
and contemplating Urania in the clouds; at his feet
lay Samson Apostates in chains. The remaining figures
represented the Brothers drivieg Coma. end his attoadant
Beeelessels before them, whilst Orr sister spreared trans-
fixed in the end anted char. Two of Comus's devotees,
treader:nod to tigers, immolated the subject.
The principal entreeee to the boxes was suds r the port cr,
and opened to the vertbale. To Me lett end centre of the
l vestibule was the grand stein tee, which wee flanked by two
rows of porphyry column., of the lonic order. This noble
flight led to the altr-room, where was a brim statue of
Shakopee,* in yellow marb'e by Rossi. The form of the
audit try we. that of a horseshoe, the width at the extremity
being 61 fo t 2 inches, and the depth from the foot-4W, to
the bone wee 62 feet 9 inches. The appearance of the in-
terior wee very impre.sirt.