The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

SALE OP BLOOD STOCK.

The following horses in training, the property of II
gentleman, were sold yesterday at Tattersall's :

Gs.
Port Philip, 2-yrs-old, by Melbourne 2O
Helmet, 2-yrs-old, by Cowl—Minerva 230
Br. yearling colt (Brother to Royal Hart) by Veni-
son—Red Rose
Br. yearling colt, by Collingwood—Tarella--no en-
gagement lOO
Br. yearling filly, by Pompey, out of Melrose's dam
engagement..................
Ilea) 3-yrs-old, by Charles Xll.—Jennala--no
Raengagement
taPlan, 3-yrs-old by ill e Baron—Pocahontas—
no engagement

SUICIDE AT THE PIAZZA, COPErn.GAIIDEN.—Tester.
day a surgeon named Tome who was staying at the
Piazza Hotel, committed suicide in his bed-room. The
cause of this unhappy occurrence is at present unknown.
THE GAS EXPLOSION AT CILATHAII.---Yesterday the
coroner's inquest was held on the bodies of the two
unfortunate men who were killed by the explosion of
the gasometer at the new works on Friday night last.
The jury returned a simple verdict of " Accidental
death."

DEATH FROM FRlGHT.—During a recent riot in Kirk.
cudbright, a young woman of the name of Mary Barclay
was so much alarmed by the noise in the street, that
with a shriek she leaped on the floor, and her reason for
ever fled. She died the following morning.—Nora
tisk Mail.

DEPARTURE OF THE GOLDEN AGE. —LIVERPOOL,
Monday.—The steam-ship Golden Age took her de-
parture for Australia at 2 o'clock this afternoon, after
having undergone a complete repair by tie well-known
iron shipbuilder, Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead. She
took out 160 passengers, some of whom have joined her
since the accident, which took place this day week, and
a large number of letters and newspapers, which Capt.
Porter ,is conveying gratuitously. So great was her
speed on leaving the Mersey, that the steam-tug which
was attending her was left astern in a few moments.
On examining her while in the Huskisson Lock the
beauty of her model and the strength of her fastenings
were apparent. Although she had entered the lock
with all her coals, stores, &c., on board, not a wrinkle
was perceptible on her copper. The facility with which
her repairs were completed by Mr. Laird is another in.
stance of the resources which Liverpool possesses for
repairing and docking steam-ships of the largest class.
GOVERNMENT INQUIRY INTO THE SANITARY STATE
OF NEWCASTLE.—The following letter has been received
from the Home-office, in reply to the memorial lately
from this town, in favour of an inquiry into the causes
of the recent mortality :—" Whitehall, Nov. 30th,
1853. Sir,—l am directed by Lord Palmerston tei
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th inst.,
in 'reference to a memorial from inhabitants of New-
castle-upon-Tyne, praying for inquiry into the causes of
the late mortality in that town, and to inform you that
a commission will be appointed to make the inquiry
prayed for in the memorial. I am, sir, your obedient
servant, H. Fitzroy.—George Robinson, Esq. 111,D."
Newcastle Guardian. .
FOUR LIVEEI LOST.--A dreadful accident occurred on.
Tuesday morning at Cowdenbeath Colliery, near Dun-
fermline, five men having been precipitatedlo the bot-
tom of the shaft, a depth of 36 fathoms. Three of the
number were killed on the spot, a fourth died on Wed
nesday morning, and the recovery of the fifth is per-
fectly hopeless. The accident occurred in consequeelee
of the breaking of the rope.—Ftlesliire Journal.
A LARGE STEAMER.—The Persia, to be built by Mr.,
Robert Napier, of Glasgow, for the Cunard Company, to
ply between Liverpool and New York, will be about 45
feet broad in the beam, and extend in length to 360 feet,
and the tonnage will be 3,060. The engines will be
hundred-inch cylinders, with a ten feet stroke. Although
no part of this immense vessel has yet been set up, the
framework is in rapid progress ; and it is believed that
she will be ready in twelve months hence.
EGGS AND POTATOES.—Immense quantities 40 eggs
are now imported into this country from Spain, and
potatoes from Portugal. Englishmen live in Portugal
now specially to cultivate and export potatoes from that
country. It only requires security for life and property
and railroads in those two countries for English capital
and enterprise to be set to work to develope the inex-
haustible riches of those fertile countries.

in completely
THE GREAT FIRE IN THAMES-STREET.—The exertions
eoxftitnhgeudisiffhienrgentthebrfiigreadweshiodbidbnrookt
broke out
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adbaomutagmeiidsneigvhent
on Saturday until noon yesterday. Tuth
more extensive than was feared, butisi veery little of the
not propertyinsured
at destroyedall,
was
snd M insured.
ssr s Gosnellessra. Saunders are
but to a very inadequate
wabteinbe
occupiedxtent. The property of
ijured
at
deepe r ia lilny
ofwater. and Co. are
by the lower storeys,
Messrs. Otley and Co.,
sweasvernalotfeeint fire, but the basement is
to the overheating The accident is attributed
THE FARRINGx one of the stoves.
number of workmen .BTRBET
EXTENSION.--Yesterday a
ing round a
block
of were
h engaged in erecting a board-
preparatory to their houses in West-street, Saffron-hill,
of carrying out
street. The h the proposed extension of Farringdon-
character houses in question bear a most notorious
thieves and
, as being the r esort of some of the most noted
abandoned in London. There women
about 12 houses in the block, and they are situate at
the extreme north end of Victoria-street, on the west
side, and are in close approximation to those rendez-
vous of all descriptions of bad character, Field-lane and
Saffron-hill. In a few days they will be razed to the
ground, and the materials sold• off by auction, when it is
hoped they will be replaced by a description of habits',
tations certainly more creditable, if not more ornamental.
DARING AND EXTENSIVE BURGLARY IN SHOREDITCH.
—During the put week a daring and extensßother-
glary was ive bur.
committed on the premises of Messrs.
ham and Son, drapers, of Shorediteh, when an enor-
mous quantity of goods, to the value of 400/., was
carried off. The goods consisted of a quantity of black
and coloured silks, satinettes, bandana handkerchiefs,
ladies' fancy ties, upwards of 2,000 pieces of plain
French ribbon, together with a large quantity of wide
bonnet ribbons. The robbery must have been effected
between the hours of twelve o'clock on Tuesday night
and six o'clock on Wednesday morning last, and was
not discovered till the latter hour, when a person in
the employ of Messrs. Rotherham entered the shop, in
order to commence the day's business, and found the shop
and back premises in the greatest disorder—the floors of
the different apartments being literally strewed with
silks and other articles, which remained
_after the most
valuable portions of the stock had been carefully selected
and carried off. Information was immediately forwarded
to Mr. Inspector White, at Leman-street station, and
several constables were despatched to the premises'
which were examined, but no trace of the depredator'
has since been discovered. From the bulk of the ,
stolen
goods removal could not have been effected
without
the aid of a cart and horse, being the mode adopted on
the occasion of the late extensive burglary
lase, when upwards of 800/, worth of in
Mincing.
property was
stracted. The report of tk3 robbery ab-
stracted.
route to the various police stations, wd. as forwarded en
through the exertions of the police, an
it is hoped that
numerous similar depredationsh the
recently gang by whom
misted will be broken have been gym..
up
TWENTY 0 -HILDREN SUFFOCATED.—It
fact that, during the last week,
i\ is a singular
coroner for East Middlesex, b--1-r. William Baker, the
tenty inquests on the hod) as
held no fewer than
being overlaid by their bodies of children suffocated by
cation always increase arents., The deaths from suffo.
the mortality for the about this season of the year, but
vious returns. Th last seven days supersedes all pre-
and the deaths e coroner has had six cases in one day,
Bethnal-green,
ee Sho •
have chiefly taken place in St. Mathew,
ney, St. George's-in-the-East,
reditch, Mile-end, New-town, Had-
house, All Retch ff, St. Ann,,Lime-
Saints, Poplar, St. Leonard, Bromley, St.
_nt Dunstan, Stepney, St. Luke's,' Old-street, Stoke New-
' i g on, and Wapping.
THE DEGENERACY OF MANKIND---It has been
said that future history will be made from the columns of
our press, and that the daily literature has robbed many a
modern Pepys of his occupation. It was a nationally gra-
tifying, although a temporarily mortifying, fact to discc.
ver, at the Tournament of EgliDtoll, that many suits of
the old armour were too small for the knights. It must be
equally congratulatory to discover that the appetites of
the present generation cannot suffer in comparison with
our ancestors, or that London—poor vilified London !
does not rob a man—as an oyster-shell does a razor—of its
edge. " A correspondent" to a morning contemporary
writes to complain that. after lunching with a friend at
a crack 'West-end dining house (the " Wellington," in pie.
cadilly), off soup, veal cutlets, broiled ham and mush.
rooms, cheese, celery, bread and butter, and an imperial
an ordinary bottle) o
pint (that is f sherry, he was eha
at a rate equal to apc it diner. Although an after .. rged
genera-
tion may be curious to know what a correspondent's- 'enera.
would be composed of after this trifling luncheon,
dinner
more disposed to think that the pastry has h we are
left out of his bill, for a better puff for an establishment
could scarcely emanate ova from deoign.,o6 ..
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