The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-03 00:00:00

TAT TERSALL'S.---Last Evening.

MANCHESTER NEW YEAR'S MEETING.—This meeting,
comprising steeplechasing, hurdle, and flat racing, and
which was to have taken place yesterday (Monday), is
postponed to Saturday next, January 7, in consequence of
the severe frost.

Now ready, G. SHELTON'S Derby Guide, is/ G. R.
Glenie, Sporting Library, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park ;
Sunday Times Office, Fleet-street ; and all agents.
PRICE ONE SHlLLlNG.—Nimrod's (Editor of the " Turf")
" Analysis of the Derby, Two Thousand, and Oaks ;"
together with a copious index of dates of the most re-
markable occurrences.—" Turf" Office, 3, Shoe-lane,
Fleet-street; and Glenie's Sporting Library, Connaught-
terrace, Hyde-park, IV.

Frightful Accident at Dundee.

EDINBURGH, Monday Night.

A frightful accident is reported from Dundee to-
night. An exhibition of gymnastic performances
was to have taken place in a large hall there under
a Dissenting place of worship, to which the entrance
is by a descending staircase of 13 steps. A large
crowd had assembled outside to obtain admittance,
and pressed against the door. One half of it was
opened; the other half was forced in by the crowd,
and those who stood in front were thrown headlong
to the bottom of the stairs, where they fell over
each other. Those further back continued to pour
in, only to increase the mass of prostrate bodies
within the building. Above half an hour elapsed
before the space could be cleared, and then ten men
and nine women were taken out dead. A great
many others were seriously injured.

THE BOTTLE CONJUROR.—The following copy of 1
the original advertisement of this celebrated hoax
taken from the Daily Advertiser of Wednesday, January 11,
1749, may not be without interest at the present moment,
when the performances of the Davenport Brothers are ex-
citing so much interest and controversy :—" At the New
Theatre in the Hay-Market, on Monday next, the 16th
inst., is to be seen a person who performs the several most
surprising Things following, viz., First, he takes a com-
mon Walking Cane from any of the Spectators, and thereon
plays the Musick of every instrument now in use, and
likewise sings to surprising Perfection. Secondly, he
presents you with a common Wine Bottle, which any of
the Spectators may first examine ; the bottle is placed on
a Table in the Middle of the Stage, and he, without any
Equivocation, goes into it in the sight of all the Spectators
and Sings in it. During his Stay in the Bottle any Person
may handle it, and see plainly that it does not exceed a
common Tavern Bottle. Those on the Stage or in the Boxes
may come in masked Habits, if agreeable to them, and the
Performer, if desired, will inform them who they are.
Stage, 7s. 6d. ; boxes, ss. ; pit, 3s. ; gallery, 2s. Tickets
to be had at the Theatre. To begin a half an Hour after
Hours
Six o'Clock. The performance continues about two
and a half. Note. If any Gentlemen or Ladies (after
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Thoughts in your past Life, and give you a full View of
Persons who have injured you, whether dead or alive.
For those Gentlemen and Ladies who are desirous of see-
ing this last Part, there is a private Room provided. These
Performances have been seen by most of the crown'd Heads
of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and never appeared publick
any where at once, but will wait on any at their Houses,
and perform as above for five Pounds each time.—Notes
and Queries.

LINCOLN CATHEDRAL—A prebendal stall and a
minor canonry in the cathedral church of Lincoln have be-
come vacant by the death of the Rev. George Davenport
Whitehead, M.A., formerly of Queen's College, Oxford.
By Mr. Whitehead's death the rectory of Hainton, near
Wragby, has become vacant. It is worth £260 a year, and
is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln.