The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-01 00:00:00

THAMES- OFFICE.

Yesterday no business of any importance took place at
this office, the cases consisting entirely of informations
against keepers of beerhouses and licensed victuallers for
keeping their houses open during Divine service and at
improper hours.

" Order and discipline," salth Machiavelli, " are
more available in war than valour or force." At the siege of
Oczakow, a piequet, advancing to occupy a post, were informed
that it was seized by the Turks, and if they did not retreat,
they would encounter certain doath. " Prince Dolgorouski
must answer that," said one of the soldiers. Not a man re-
turned,— United Service Journal.

On Tuesday last an inquest was held before A. H.
English, Esq., on the body of Diana Allen, aged menty-one,
who died on Nlonday evening at her lodgings, at No. 6, New
Court, Avon-street. From the evidence before the Court, it
fully appeared that the deceased died through neglect and the
want of the common necessaries of life. The Jury returned a
verdict accordingly.-_Ball♦ Chronicle,

EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL AC-
CIDENT AT THE MANCHESTER THEATRE.

NCHESTER, THURSDAY.—During the performance at
the Queen's Theatre last night, a singular accident oc-
curred, which has, unhappily, been attended with loss of
life. The second piece represented was announced in, the
bills as the intensely-interesting drama of Lilian The 6how
Girl, in which Mr, Egerton, in the character of Everarflt
has to fire at some robbers in a scene in which they 19ei.
dentally appear on the stage. The performer in queptlou
presented the pistol accordingly, and puled the trigger, but
the weapon (unfortunately) as the result will show), missed
tire. It is customary, it seems, for the " property man" W
be stationed at one of the wings when fire•arms are did'
charged on the stage, in order that, in case of such a
failure as the one just described, Le may be ready to
fire a piece, and thereby keep up the illusion of the
hich would otherwise be destroyed, as it would,
of coarse, be ridi: ulous for an actor to assume the ap•
pearance of one No ho had rece:ved mortal injury
from a bullet, when no discharge has taken place. In
conformity with this practice, when Mr. Egerton's pistol
missed fire, a person named Finlayson, the property man of
the theatre, immediately discharged a pistol from the wing
nearest the right hand stage-door ; and, as a usual prece.u-
Con, he elevated the weapon, so as to run no risk of strik-
ing any one on the stage with the wadding. The care
taken by the poor fellow, however, with a view to prevent
accident, was productive of the most disastrous conse-
quences ; a performer named Campbell, who personated .
Mr. Felton in the piece, was at the moment preparing to
descend from a scaffolding to the stage, as from an upper
apartment ; but at a distance of ten or twelve yards from
the person who fired, when he received the contents of the
pistol, whatever they were, in his left side, and fell to rise
no more with life. He groaned feebly for a few minutes ;
but before a surgeon, who happened to be in the boxes of
the theatre, could arrive on the spot, he had ceased to exist.
On opening his vest, a frightful wound of considerable
depth, -,and in which three fingers could easily be intro-
duced, was discovered, just in the direction of the
heart. The body was carried into the green-room, and.
laid upon the floor, where it remained decently covered,
and the head pillowed, until the performances were over,
when it was removed to the Concert Tavern next door.
But little blocd, considering the apparent nature of the
wound, flowed from the body ; but the shirt and dress of
the deceased were sufficiently saturated with that stream
of life to denote all the horror which sudden and violent
death is calculated to produce. The fancy dress in which
he was attired—the rouge yet fresh upon his cheeks and
forehead—were in sad contrast with the tide which was
slowly swelling from the heart, and the livid hue—the
livery of death, which overspread his features, blanched his
hands, and invested the limbs with fearfully cold rigidity.
The wife of the unfortunate man is an actress, and was in
the theatre at the time, preparing for the part she had to
sustain in the next piece. She soon heard of the accident.
but a knowledge of its fatal effect was kept from her until
some time after she had been conveyed home in a coach.
Mr.- Campbell had very recently recovered from a long and
severe illness, and has left three young children, besides
his widow, to lament his loss. The unhappy man who
loaded and fired the fatal pistol was taken into custody, to
await the Coroner's inquest. His distress is also pitiable
in the extreme. Finlayson says, that in the hurry of
loadinj the pistol which he fired, he recollects picking up
a piece of wet paper, and using it for wadding.

WHEAT AND FLOUR IN PARIS, COMPARED
WITH LONDON.
WIIKAT.—The highest price of the best Wheat in Paris is
24f. per 1f hectolitre, which is equal to 365. 9d. per Eng-
lish quarter. The highest price of the best Essex and Kent
Wheat in London being 675. per quarter, the difference is
30s. 3d. per quarter dearer in London than in Paris, or 821 per
cent, and the same money which in London buys but eight
bushels of Wheat, is in Paris the value of upwards of fourteen
and a half bushels of the finest quality.
FLOUR.—The highest price of flour of the "first mark" in
Paris is 48 francs per 159 kilogrammes, corresponding with
30s. 3d. per English sack of 2801bs. The highest price of the
best " town made" flour in London is 555. per sack, showing
fine Flour to be 245. 9d. per sack dearer in London than in
Paris, or 814 per cent. ; and that the 555. which in London
can procure but 2801b5., will in Paris purchase 509 9-10ths lbs.
of the finest Flour.
In the a

_tie department of Loret, Indre, and Loire, and
the neighbouring departments, the snow covers the ground to
the depth of six inches ; and as there has since been a sharp
frost, the snow does not appear likely to thaw. It seems that
this temperature is general in the south of France. At Bor-
deaux, Perigueux, Toulouse, and Montpelier, the snow has
f illen, and there ha; been a sharp frost. Marseilles is simi-
-1 trly situated. Dur.tig the 21st instant that city and the
neighbouring country had been visited by a tempest. It is
feared that many accidents have happened at sea, and that ve-
getation, which was far advanced before this return of winter
weather, will suffer materially.—French Paper.
MURDER AND SUICIDE EXTRAORDINARY.--•
TAO village of Greoux, in the Lower Alps, has lately been the
scene of a dreadful murder and suicide. The grave-digger of
the place, by name Marquis, partially supported himself by
his occupation of turning up one mass of earth in order to
make a cavity for the reception of another; but in the dead
time (viz.--that in which his neighbours were all alive) he
eked out a subsistence by executing little commissions and er-
rands for them. His harmless and inoffensive disposition be-
came at last roused by the overbearing temper and conduct 01,
his wife. A misunderstandinr, arose concerning a two-franc
piece, which he had just earned, and which she discovered in
his hand by seeing it glitter; and she demanded the moneys
wishing in the fullest sense of the expression to " take the
shine out of him." For the first time he refused, persisting in
retaining it, to pay a debt. The quarrel was at length com-
promised by an agreement to divide the proceeds of digging a
grave for which he had received instructions. In order to ex-
pedite it the lady (little dreaming of filling the vacancy about
to be created) assisted her peace-loving lord and master, but
the job was scarcely completed before he terminated her
existence by repeated blows on the head with his pickaxe.
He left her on the spot, gave the two-franc piece in dispute to
the first person he met, with directions to pay it to his cre-
ditor, and coolly proceeded to the belfry of the church to ring
the knell of his murdered wife. The sounds attracted the in-
habitants of the village, to whose inquiries he replied from the
roof, " My wife is dead, and Marquis is going to die," but,
suddenly bethinking himself that the forms of etiquette would
be disregarded if he neglected to sound his own requiem, he
stepped back, deliberately tolled the hell, and, returning to
the outside of the steeple, leaped down, expiating at once bit
crime with his life.—French Paper.

SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICES.---
T. COX SAVORY, 47, Cornhill, London, offers for selection an
elegant and most extensive assortment of Silver Tea Services, vary'
ing in price from 151. to 301., the service of Teapot, Sugar Basin,
and Milk Ewer. The ground-floor, and first, second, and third floors.
are fitted up expressly for the display of Plate and Plated Goods,
and a Pamphlet is given gratis, with Drawings, and a list of prices.
T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Watchmaker, and Silversmiths
47, Cornhill, London.