The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-29 00:00:00

TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN CHILI.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
2,000 LADIES BURNED TO DEATH.

SOUfHAMPTON, JAN. 29.

The mail steamship Atrato, which arrived here
this morning, bringb intelligence of a most terrible
calamity at Santiago, the capital of Chili.
Oa the evening of the Bth December, over three
thousand ladies and several hundred men had
crowded into the Cathedral of La Campania. The
ladies were mostly young and belonged to the
higher classes of the capital. 20,000 lights in long
festoons filled the church, which was also hung
with drapery of every description, the entice
building, more especially about the altar, being a
perfect sea of muslin dresses and illumination. The
service had hardly commenced when the crescent of
lights at the toot of the image of the Virgin over the
altar communicated fire to the drapery. .The fire
spread rapidly to all parts of the building, and a
terrible scene of horror ensued.

The congregatio❑ endeavoured to escape by the
door, which was blocked up by the multitude out-
side. Most of the men escaped, but the ladies fell
in all directions, their arms were wrenched from
their bodies, and the passage became a crushed heap
of mangled bodies. From the roof a rain of liquid
fire poured on the people below, and in 15 minutes
upwards of 2,000 ladies were blackened corpses,
mostly of the richest families in Santiago.

Upwards of two hundred cartloads of burned
corpses were removed from the ruins.

Shakspere
Tercentenary, Stratford.

on-Avon.

On Wednesday, at the meeting of the committee, in the
absence of Mr. Flower, the mayor, the Rev. Granville
Granville, the vicar, took the chair.
It was resolved that arrangements should immediately
be made for advertisieg in London on a large scale, for col-
lecting subscriptions, and for opening in a central part of
London an office for the sale of tickets.
Report was made of the progress of the pavilion. It is
a large and substantial building of wood and iron, covering
an acre of ground, and raised on a foundation of solid
masonry. Its diameter is 170 feet. Fourteen thousand
cubic feet of timber, braced with upwards of 10 tons of iron,
have been used in its construction. It is capable of seating
5,000 people.
It was further reported that Mr. Alfred Tennyson,
Poet 'Laureate, has consented to join the Committee of
Taste.

The following gentlemen have been added to the list of
vice-presidents :—.Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Shirley Brooks.
the Duke of Manchester, the Earl of Lichfield, Professor
Nicol, Glasgow; the Right Hon. Thomas O'Hagan, QC.,
M.P. ; Mr. J. 0. Jaffray, Rev. H. W. Croskey, Glasgow ;
Mr. J. Herbert Stack, and Mr. Joseph Ellis, Brighton.

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loudly expressed the delighr, hey experienced.
THE NEGRO'S ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF
THE 'WHITE MAN, according to Mr. Wingrove
Reade's " Savage Africa" :—"' My breddreu,' said a
native preacher, you see white man bad too much, ugly
too much, no good. You want sabby how man like dat
come to lib in the world. Well, I tell you. Adam and
Ese, dey coloured people, very hansum, lib in one beautiful
garden. Dere dey hab all tings dat be good. Plantains,
yams, sweet potatoes, foo-foopahn wine—heigh, too much
Den dey hab two childrum, Cain and Abel. Cain no like
Abel's palaver ; one day he kill'm. Den God angry, and
ha say, Cain 1' Cain go hide himself ; he tink him berry
ciaber. Heigh—heigh I God say again, " Cain, you tink
I no see you, you bush-nigger—eh?' Den Cain come out,
and he say, Yes, massa, I lib here—what de matter
massa ?' Den God say in one big voice, like de tunder in
de sky, Where'm broder Abel ?' Den Gain turn white all
ober with, ear—dat de first white man, breddren ?"