The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-16 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 11430.

Pringle, K;n._;'s road, Beford-row; Uonkin and Stilile,
Newcastle'

Mibhael 'West, York-gate-yard livery staples, Regent's-
park, horse-dealer, Feb. 23, at twelve, March 2, at eleven,
and 30, at twelve, at the Com tof Commissioners. Todd,
Gray's-inn.

Boykett Breeds, Hastings, Sus ex, merchants, Feb. 26,
at eleven, March 2, at nine, and 30, at ten,.ar the Court
of Commissioners. Beathcote, Coleman-street.

Joseph Krkbeck Blundell, Israel Piper, and Joseph
Thomas Gritton, Bankside, Surrey, iron-merchants,
Fcb. 19, at twelve, '26, and Marsh 30, at eleven, at the
Court of Commissioners. Kearsey awl Hughes, London.
John Wilson Neil, Maiden-lane, varnish-manufacturer,
Feb. 23, March 2 and 30, at eleven, at the Conrf Com-
missioners. Fyson and Beck, Lothburv.
Edward Tutt, Marylebone-lane, oilman, Feb. 26, March
2, and 30, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Star-

ling, Leicester-square.
William M'Raith and Daniel 11I'Coigi Windmill-street,
Tottenham-court-road, tailors, Feb. 23, at one, March 2,
at eleven, and 30, at twelve, at the Court of Coinmis-
sinners. Bailey, Bernet-s-street, " Oxford-street.
Robert Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, hatter, March 8,
9, am] 30, at eleven, at the George Inn, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne. Flexney, New Boswell-court, Lincoln s Inn-fields;
Lambert, Newerstlo.

Samuel Wilkinson, jun., Salford, Lancashire, grce:r,,
Feb. 26, 27, and March 30, at one, at the Clarendon-
buildings, Liverpool. Chester, Staple-inn; Ilinde,
Liverpool.
Daniel Weaver, Winsley, Shropshire, timber-mer-
chant, March 1,2, and 30, at eleven, at the Fox Inn,
Shrewsbury. Philpot and Stone, Southampton-street,
Bloomsbury; Burley and Scarth, Shrewsbury.
James Trails, New Inn, Soyland, York, innkeeper,
Feb. 26, at five, 27, at eleven, and March 3d, at fur, at
the Offices of Messrs. Alexander, Halifax. Emmett,
New-ina, London ; Alexander, Halifax.
Joseph Boulderson, Penryn, Cornwall, m:l'er, Match
3,4, and 30, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Ile's!on, Corn-
wall. Follett, Paper-buildings, Temple; Roberts, Hol—
ston, Cornwall.

Arthur Clark, Blackburn, Lancashire, March 3, at
4, at ten, and 30, at twelve, at the Hotel, Black-
wrn. Haworth, Blackburn ; Norris, Allen, and An-
:lrony, John-street, Bedford-row, London.

Matthew Forster, Newcastle•upon-Tyne, lead-metchant,
Feb. IS, and March 10 and 30, at the Crown and Thistle
Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Richardson, Shield, and
Thompson, Poultry; Fenwick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Elias Croft, Louth, Lincolnshire, tanner, Feb. 25, at
seven, 26, and March 30, at eleven, at the New King's
Head Inn, Loutb. Shaw, Ely.place, Holborn; Wilson,
Louth.

Peter Hammond, SI effi Id Moor, Yorkshire, grocer,
Feb. 22, 23, and March SO, at &even, at the office of Mr.
Bernard John Wak.,, Sheffield. Walter, Sytinond'a
Inn ; Wake, Sheffield.

William Wheatland, Nottingham, chair-turner, March
1, at twelve, and one, and 30, at twelve, at the White Hart
Inn, East Retford. Dawson and Hawkins, New Bus-
well-court, Carey-street, London ; Meek and Bigsby, Etst
Retford.

George Earl Taylor, Clithero, Lancaster, cotton-spinner,
March 2 and 3, at eles ea, at the office of Mr. William
Charnley, Preston, Lancaster; and March 30, at twelve,
at the Hotel, Blackburn, Lancaster. Ilurd and Johnson,
King's Bench-walk, Temple ; of Mr. William Charnley,
Preston, Lancaster.
Thomas Ayles, Weymouth and Melcombe-Regis, Dor-
set, ship-builder, Feb. 25, 26, and March 30, at ten, at
the office of Mr. John Henning, Melcorne-Regis, Dorset.
Alexander and Son, Carey-street.
TI ones Goates, Cliddesden, Southampton, timber-mer-
chant, Feb. 26, at six, 27, at nine, and March 30, at three,
at the George Inn, Andover. Bousfield, Chatham-place,
Alackfriars, London ; Mann. Andover.
Evelyn Richard Sutton Falkner, South Hill, Notting-
ham, schoolmaster, March 4, at six, 5, and 30, at eleven,
at the Flying Horse Inn, Nottingham. Andrew, Notting-
ham ; Hull and Brownley, New Boswell-court, Carey-
street.

DI PERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The twelve Judges met this morning for the purpose of
giving judgment in the case of Rook snd Dean, which
came before their Lordships on a writ of error. The case
originally came on in the Common Pleas, and that Gaul
pronounced judgment upon it. It was taken to the King's
Bench, which reversed the decision of the Common Pleas.
Their Lordships affirmed the decision of the King's Bench.
The House adjourned during pleasure at a Quarter past
Four o'clock.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
at a Quarter past Five, but there being no business to pro-
ceed with, their Lordships adjourned a few minutes after
wards.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Fonr o'clock.
LONDON BRIDGE.

Mr. Alderman WOOD brought up the ReFort on the
London Bridge Bill.
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition frun the in..
habitants of the Ward of Cripplegate, complaining of go.
neral distress, and praying for a reduction of taxation...
The lion. Member gave notice that on the 23d inst. lie
should submit a motion to the House respecting the price
of coals. . _

Lord ALTHORP presented a petition from Notth-
ampton, and twn others from places in that county, com-
p!aining of the distre.sed state of the country, and praying
for a reduction of taxes.

After a few words from Mr. CARTWRIGHT, tl e
petitions were ordered to be printed.
Mr. }VANE presented a similar petition from a parish
in Oxfordshire.

Mr. HUME gave notice of the following motions :
On the Sth of March—For a Committee to enquire
into the expediency of abolishing the British Settlement
at Sierra Leone.

On the 10th March—To abolish the offices of Receiver
General of Land and Apsrssed Taxes, an I to transfer the
duties of such office to the Excise.
On the 23d March—To abolish the office of Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland.—(Great liughter.)
Mr. HUME then moved that the names of Mr. O'Con-
nell and Mr. Cust be added to the Committee on the Sc;
lect Vestry Bill.—Ordered.

The Hon. MEMBEL then moved fora return of the
number of bankrupts that have been committed to New.
gate, Whitecross-street prison, the King's Bench, and other
prisons of the metropolis, by the Commissioners of Rink-
rupts.

Lard J. STUART presented a petition from the county
of Glamorgan, praying for a reduction of trzation.

V..e petitions that would be poured in from al parts, what
a state of distress existe,. He had thought it proper to
make, these observations, to negative the assertion of his
Majesty's Ministi.rs denying that distress existed. •
Sir JOHN WROTIESLEY gave notice, that on
Thursday next, he should present a petition_ from Lich-
field, in We county of Stafford, against the practice of
payinglabourers wages- wish goods. •
THE LATE PROSECUTIONS.
Sir,,;.;OIIARLES. WETHERELL gave notice, that
on Wednesday, the, third of I!:irc7b, he should
move . for copies of the 'ex-officio information,
the remarks of the Judge, and the. words made use of by
the Jury in delivering their verdict, in the late prosecu-
tions against the Morn?n9 Journal..
Colonel SIBTIIORPE gave notice that upon the 3d
of March he should move a Resolution for the repeal of
the standing order of the House relative to the non admis-
sion of strangers, as far as it regarded Reporters, and also
to provide for their better accommodation.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. STANLEY presented a Petition from • King's
County, Ireland, praying the house to take into its con-
sideration the state of the Poor Law,.

Mr. MARSHALL presented a Petition from the Town
of Leeds, •mgainst the renewal of the East India Com-
pany's Charter.
Mr. \VHITMORE was induced to believe that all his
Majesty's Ministers agreed upon the subject. The Hon.
Member concluded by asking, wkether it was the intention
of his Majesty's Ministers to givo notice in April next of
the cessation of the Company's Charter in three years.
.The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not
know' what the Hon. Member meant by saying that his
Majesty's Ministers were not agreed upon the subject.
Ifs Maj-sty's Government went into the argument upon
the Committee, without any engagements, and free from
all pledges. With respect to the question put forth
by the Honourable Member, he (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer could not but tl ink the Honourable Mem-
bar must he under a mistake with respect to It. There
was no necesssity to give notice of it till April
Before that period arrived many circutrs'anees might
arise which would affect the course his Majesty's Govern-
ment m'alit take.
Mr. WIIITMORE expressed himself satisfied.

Sir G. PHILLIPS believed that the Committee had
caused great jealousy in the manufacturing districts,
particularly on account of an Hon. Friend of his (Mr,
Marshall) being rejected from that Committee.
(LEFT SITTING.)

THE ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE AND FIF-
TEEN HOUSES DESTROYED BY FIRE.

Between one and two o'clock this morning, one rf the
most alarming fires which we have witnessed for some years
in the metropolis, broke out in the English Opera-House,
in the Strand. The fire, we understand, is supposed to
have first commenced underneath a portion of the stage,
where some gas pipes had been laid down yesterday, and
from which the stench of an escape of gas had been sen-
sibly felt during the evening. From whatever cause, how-
ever, it proceeded, or the precise spot whence it first ap-
peared, is mere matter of conjecture ; for when discovered
the flames had assumed an appalling power, an-I were
bursting forth from the roof of the theatre. So rapid was
its progress, that in the space of about fifteen or twenty mi-
nutes from its first discovery, the whole body of the theatre
was on fire. The flames ascended in a vast volume; thirty
or forty feet above its roof, and spread with a violence
which threatened destruction to the whole of the mass of
buildings, which is confined by Exeter-street on the one
side, by Catherine-street on the other, and by the Strand in
front. Looking down Exeter-street at one time, the flames
were seen passing from house to house with almost as much
rapidity as a fire kindled among stubble. One after another
they seemed to be embraced by the flames, until the whole
side of Exeter-street, with the exception of that well-known
tavern, the Fountain, became a burning mass. In the rear
of Exeter-street, there is a small court between the Foun-
tain and the back of the Theatre
At about two o'clock the roof of the theatre fell inwards,
and in some degree smothered the flames, so as to prevent
their extending to the Courier Newspaper and other
houses in the Strand, which seemed every instant before
to be devoted to destruction. The wall, however, of the
theatre, which runs behind these houses, being of great
thickness, and not perforated with any of the usual open-
ings for doors or windows, formed a complete protection
to the houses which were immediately connected with it,
and enabled the fire-engines, which by this time had col-
lected in great force, to direct their attention to the pre-
servation of other portions of the houses in the vicinity
of the theatre, which were more immediately endan..
gered. No lives were lost, as far as we could as-
certain, up to a late how of this morning ; but the
loss of property must be very great, as, from the inflam-
mable nature of the materials in the theatre, and the wind
setting nearly north, about a dozen houses were tho-
roughly on fire, and burning furiously before any engine
could be brought to play upon them. We do not know at
what time the firemen were apprised of the necessity for
their presence, but nearly an hour elapsed from the first
discovery of the flames before any engine mnde its ap-
pearance ; and when they did arrive there was for some
time that unusual want of water which has been so often
complained of, and so often lamented, and which seems li
to be wholly without remedy. The policemen were on
the alert, and rendered most effective assistance in rousing
the sleeping inmates of the houses, in protecting their pro-
perty, and in keeping off those depredators who on such
occasions are ever on the alert to pilfer from the unhappy
sufferers the few valuables with which they may have been
enabled to effect their escape. Fifteen houses and the
theatre are destroyed, and there were fears that, notwith-
standing the powerful body of water thrown on the flames
from Braithwait's steam-engine, and all the engines of the
Fire Offices, that many more houses must become the prey of
its ravages before it could he checked. The houses consumed
are almost all of a reputation which will not excite much
regret for their destruction, if we can separate from it our
compassion for their proprietor, Mr. Arnold, who, we fear
must he, although partially insured, a loser to a very
melancholy extent. Not a single article of scenery,
dresses, decorations or properties, has been saved in the
theatre ; and little if anything of the property of indi-
viduals. A large mirror, shattered to pieces, is to be seen
lying in one part of the street ; pictures, china, and glass,
crumbled or broken into fragments, lie in 11( aps at
another. Beds, bedding, and pieces of furniture, were
trodden in the kennel ; but little or nothing of the fittings
up of the whole of the houses—and in some cases they
were expensively fitted up—can be said to he saved. In
all fires there are many melancholy and painful exhibitions
of teen, women, and children rushing out of their houses
almost in a state of nudity to save themselves from destruc-
tion, but in the present instance their numbers—the little
time given them for preparation, and the alarm and
distress pictured in their countenances—rendered the
scene truly appalling. In many cases so sound was the
sleep of the inmates, that their doors and windows were
almost battered out before they could be aroused to a sense
of their situation ; and when they did appear, the wildness
of their look nd the incoherency of their expressions
would, under an ther circumstances, have excited feel-
ings of merriment ; but, to the credit of all who were
present at the first alarm, every compassionate assistance
was rendered to the sufferers, and every door in the vici-
nity was willingly thrown open to receive them. We un-
derstand that there was fortunately no money left in the
treasury of the Theatre. Mr. Arnold estimates the build-
ing itself, with its fittings and properties, to be worth
80,0001. ; and from their quality, the central situation of
the theatre, and the revenue he derived from it, we appre-
hend to be not much above its value. The houses in
Exeter-street were let from 601 to 801. a year.