The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-28 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market----This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
Stronger. Saks, 8,000 bales or more. Import,
3,874; previously, 7,100.

MR. GEORGE BUCKLAND, the well-known buffo
singer, takes his benefit at the Royal Colosseum to-morrow,
full particulars of which will be found in another column.
The extra attractions ought of themselves to produce an
overflowing house; but when we find that Mr. George
Buck land intends to revive the descriptive melodrama of
"Adeline Mowbray" for this night only, we are confident
that the Colosseum will be full to overflowing.
IRE REMAINS OF KING JOHN'S PALACE at Old
Ford, Bow, converted into a lucifer-match manufactory re-
cently, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning.
ST. CECILIA AMATEUR CIIOBAL SOCIETY,The
second concert of the St. Cecilia Amateur Choral
Society was held on Tuesday evening last in St. Joseph's
Hall, Kingsland. There were present upwards of 70 vocal
and instrumental performers, principally amateurs. The
overtire, "Les Diamants de la Couronne," followed by the
spirited chorus, "March of the men of Harlech," were
effectively rendered ; but the greatest success of the evening
was "The Prayer of the Pilgrims" (from
"I Lombardi").
This chorus was enthusiastically encored ;and, as a compo-
sition do
ihois
awere charmed. we congratulate Mons.
Lemanseelnim heard
tsintr in this
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with the singing of Miss Ellen Lyon, and testified their
due appreciation of her talent s py a hearty encore. Messrs.
Smith, Dyer, Cording, and Hubert had to repeat the quar-
tette, which they sang to perfection. The duetto "Jo vivo
e t'amo," by two amateur Young ladies, was exquisitely
sung and repeated; whilst the pianoforte playing would.
have done honour to any first-class concert. Great praise
is also due to the conductor, Mons. Leman, who, although
an amateur, ranks in our estimation as an artist; this was
clearly manifest when any difficulty arose during the instru-
mental performance. Under such a leader the Society of
St. Cecilia promises great things; and' We trust that the
second concert will, as Mr. Masses, the hon. secretary, ob.
served, when he gracefully thanked the amateurs and pro.
fessionals, induce Mons. Leman to persevere in his efforts
to form a first-rate amateur choral society.
HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES DURING THE EARTH-
QUAKE AT MANILLA.—"I heard of the most extraor-
dinary instances of escape. The tower of one of the churches
fell iu a mass across the open space in front of the church.
A Spaniard, his wife, and two children were passing at the
moment; the man, who had just turned to take his chil-
dren in his arms, was crushed, together with his little chil-
dren, while his wife, who was not a yard distant from
him, escaped unhurt, as did also, with the exception of a
few bruises, five persons 'who were standing within the
basement of the tower when it fell. A woman had been
ordered to fetch some water from a spring, but had ne-
glected to do it, which made her master so angry, that on
her refusing to go, he took her by the arm and put her out
of the house. She had only got as far as the open space
which surrounded the nearest church, when the earthquake
took place, which shook down the house from which she
had just been expelled, and killed all who were in it. One
Pietro Mesta], the driver of a public vehicle, had just left a
wine shop at the corner of a little street facing the church of
Vera Cruz, with a friend of his, a muleteer, when the latter
saw something glittering at his feet. He picked it up, and
it was a small silver coin. Both turned back to spend the
money in wine. At the door the muleteer turned round and
jestingly told Pietro that he should not share it, and with
the rough playfulness of that class he gave Pietro a push
which sent him staggering some distance. Before he had
time to recover himself and follow his friend, the earthquake
came, the wineshop crumbled to pieces, and buried all within
its walls, leaving him standing at the threshold uninjured-
-411 the Year hound.