The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-08 00:00:00

ladder communication had been cut off, and had to make ; SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 1
a spring for his life. He had no sooner left the building r ~- .1f % e . -4----
_, , ,
than it fell with a tremendous crash. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—Ft
The Infirmary ii rapidly filling with the wounded and Betting here to-day was anything but brisk, although
dying. Every attention is paid to the unfortunate crea- a goodly muster thronged the room.
tures by Mr. Gibbs, the house surgeon. Broken skulls, The 'Wrexham Handicap, run to-day, claimed the
legs, and thighs, were among the more serious of the ac- greatest share of attention.
cidents. As we left others were being brought, and al- The only changes we have to notice are in the Cesare-
ready some of the women's wards have been made nse witch, for which Muscovite has receded to 8 to 1, and
of. With pleasure we state our hopes that the progress La Belle has advanced from 25 to Itol6to 1, taken.
of the fire on the Quay is in a fair way of being arrested. There was very little done on the Cambridgeshire, and
An order has just been issued for 300 men to pull do nothing at all on the Derby.
several ruined buildings, and so if possible to cut off the CESABEWITCS STAKES.
communication. 8 to 1. agst Muscovite (taken)
The reverberation was felt so strongly in Shields 8 to 1 agst D. 0. (taken)
that many of the inhabitants rushed out of emir beds, 11 to 1 agst Rattle (taken)
under the belief that the shock had arisen 1.-om an 16 to 1 agst La Belle (taken)
earthquake. Several bricks were dislodged from Meows. 20 to 1 agst Indian 'Warrior (taken)
Swinburne's glass-house chimneys, and the workm,lll 25 to 1 agst Bracken (taken)
ran out in the greatest fright and excitement. The gas. 25 to 1 agst Koh-i-noor (taken)
lights in the Jarrow Paper Mill were blown out. About 30 to 1 agst Rodomeli (taken)
four o'clock a telegraphic message was sent down for the 40 to 1 agst Lincoln's-inn
IDGESUTIE. (taken)
engines, which were sent off after some delay. By five
eIIIBR
o'clock the powerful river engine was sent away in tow 14 to 1 agst Early Bird (taken)
of a steamer, and by seven o'clock the alarm having 20 to 1 agst Orinoco
spread through the town, crowds of people rushed to
the railway station to see after their friends. The trains
were crowded. The explosion was also felt at Sunder-
land, and the sulphur and other material cast up by the
explosion were scattered three or four miles down the
Gateshead line.
The workmen in Monkwearmouth Colliery, the
.-I(;epest in the kingdom, and at least eleven miles from
N cr.vcastle, heard the 'explosion, and turned out in
alai7n.

•
- RICHMOND RACES—Ocr. 18 AND 19.
ACCEPTANCES for the RICHMOND HANDICAP. Once round
And a distance.
Ago :.t lb 1 Age st lb,
Grapeshot .. ....... 48 7 IBillingham
The Skinner ......4 7 0 Maid of the Tees 3 5 9
Trio ' 4 612 Gmelad
Merry Bird i; 6 8 The Spina er
The Vet 4 ,f 51Bianca
Amalgamation ... 3 6 11The Yore (h b)
Tros
5
Seducer 2 4 2
3 13 i Ci.:(uurack
General Breezo... 3 5 10

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
NEWCASTLE, Two O'CLOCK P.M.—Already the Ina-
joiity of the inhabitants of Newcastle and Gaieshea,i
have made themselves acquainted with the general fea-
tures of the terrible disaster which has befallen these two
towns, by personal observations from some point of view
or other. On the memorable morning of the 6th of Oc-
tober, on the two si,des of Tyne Bridge three fires were
simultaneously raging, each of them of a magnitude far
transcending anything of the kind that has ever, per-
haps, occurred in this town before, and at least one of
them involving a destruction of property that probably
exceeds any that has for many years been caused in any
city or town of this country. As detailed above, the
first, and the producer of others, occurred on the
river edge at Gateshead, and extended 200 yards,
destroying in its course large and' well-stocked
warehouses. In Newcastle the greater of the two
fires has burned down a mass of closely packed build-
ings of at least a hundred yards square, lying between
the Quay and the Butcher Bank, and between Grindon
Chare and the Custom House. The other has rifled
another set of buildings of a similar character, but of less
extent, in a space enclosed by a triangle, the sides of
which are represented by Pilgrim-street, Butcher-bank,
and George's-stairs.
Taken together, the fires, falling as they have chiefly
upon the busiest part of the town, have inflicted an
amount of loss that it will require, at the most mode-
rate calculation, at least 1,000,0001. to repair. We are
afraid to approach the as yet undecided question of the
extent of the loss of life, but already we fear that the
deaths discovered amount to nearly a score, while the
amount of serious bodily injury that has been caused is
almost incalculable. • Under the still flaming ruins of
the Gateshead warehouses, it, is certain that there are
some, it is possible there are very many, poor follows
lying as blackened corpses. The followidg is a list, as
full as can be at present obtained, of the bodies which
have been found :
Mr. Davidson, jun., miller' Gateshead.
Mr. R. Pattinson, jun., Gallowgate, a member of the
Town Council of Newcastle.
Ensign Paynter, 26th Cameronians.
Corporal Armstrong, ditto.
Corporal Hamilton, hairdresser, Gateshead.
Corporal Scott, of the Gateshead Police Force.
Four other bodies, names unknown, apparently
workmen.

The highest weight accep
has been raised to that wei
tion.

Ming being under Bst 71b, it
light, and t 4 y rest in propor-

WREXHAM RACES.-FRIDAY.

GOLD CUP.

Whalebone
Maid of Team Valley 2
3
The Spinner ...
The following also ran :---Ilazeinnt, Lancashire Lass,
Professor Buck.
Betting-2 to 1 agst The Spinner, sto 2 agst Lanca-
shire Lass, and 3 to 1 agst Hazelnut. Won by half a
length, a length between second andthird.

PROGRAMME OF NEWMARICET SECOND
OCTOBER MEETING.
MONDAY, OCT. 9.
FIFTY Soya ; three year olds 7st 71b ; four, Bst 71b ;
five, six, and aged, Bst 12Ib ; A.F.
FIFTY SOITS, for two year olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies,
Bst 51b ; T.Y.C.
A HANDICAP of 20 sovs each, and only 5 ft, if declared
by ten o'clock the evening before running, to go to
the second, for three year olds and upwards ; T.Y.C.
A SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each ; two years olds, 6st
71b ; three, Bst 41b ; four, Bst 121 b ; give and upwards,
9st 21b ; the winner to be sold for /00 sovs, if de-
manded, &c ; T.Y.C.
The SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sovs each, 30 ft, for three year
old fillies ; Bst 71b each ; those by stallions or out of
mares that never produced a winner allowed alb ; if
both 51b ; D.M. ; 6 subs.
Moresca 1-Apropos (31b) Delia
Lovebird Miranda Durindana
PRODUCE MATCH, 200, h ft; T.Y.C.—Duke of Bed-
ford's ch c Sik, by Sobraon out of St. Rosalia, Bst 71b,
agst Lord Glasgow's oh f by Pyrrhus the First, dam
by Lanercost or Retriever out of Physalis, Bst 3115.
MATCH, 150, h ft ; Bst 71b each ; T.Y.C.—Lord Glas-
gow's i by Pyrrhus the First out of Miss Whip, agst
Mr. Greville's Twitter, sister to Flutter.
MATCH, 500, h ft ; A.F.—Lord Glasgow's Barbatus,
Bst 71h, agst Mr. Greville's Invasion, Bst 11b.
MATCH, 200, h ft ; Bst 41b each ; D.M.—Lord Exeter's
Filbert, 4 yam, agst Mr. Payne's The Trapper, 3 yrs.
MATCH, 200, h ft • 7 st each ; last three-quarters of Ab.
M.—Mr. Barber's Domino agst Mr. Fenning's Hum-
boldt, both 3 yrs.
MATou, 100, h ft ; Bst 71b each, D.M.--Duke of Bed-
ford's Diomedia, 4 yrs. agst Mr. Rogers Exact, 4 yrs.
MATCH, 100, h ft ; Bst 71b each ; T.Y.C.—Duke of
Bedford's Pugnator agst Sir J. Hawley's Parchment.
MATCH, 200, 11 ft ; A.F. Lord Clifden s Alembic, Bst
ist, ag.t Lord Glasgow's ch c by Pantaloon out of
Physalis, Bst 21b.

A female has died in the Infirmary, after an amputa-
tion.
A. number of others in various places, of whom we
have as yet received no account.
Mr. Harrison, Head of Dean-street, is missing.
Mr. Bertram, of Gateshead, also missing.
In the hospital of the barracks, no fewer than forty
soldiers are at present under surgical treatment for dif-
ferent and frequently severe injuries.
In the lower part of Gateshead it is almost imposSible
to make way through the streets, so overpowering is
the vapour of burning sulphur ; and this effectually pre-
vents, for the present, any attempt to ransack the ruins,
or even to approach them, with the object of preventing,
the fire from spreading ; so that the most dreadful sus-
pense, as well as considerable danger, must continue to
exist for some time, unless some plan can be hit upon to
neutralise the effects of the fume with which the air is
impregnated.
No death has, so far as we are aware, resulted di-
rectly from the fire ; the entire of the fearful list of mor-
tality being attributable to the tremendous explosion in
Mr. Bertram's bond warehouse. In this country the
only parallels to this explosion are to be looked for in
the depths of the most firy of our coal pits ; and even
there we doubt if we can point to an occurrence so ex-
, tremely disastrous as this has been. It now appears
more than probable that future investigation will elicit
the fact that it is to gunpowder rather than to any for-
tuitous generation of gases from sulphur and nitrates
that the great calamity is due ; but in the meantime
nothing positive is known. Of course, a few days will
bring the truth to light.
At present the fire on the Quayside, where alone it
may now be considered immediately dangerous, is in a
great measure circumscribed, and will in all probability
be prevented from extending.

AIICHAELHAS RENTS 02f CORN

AVERAG'ES.

THE SIT'N, LONI3ON, SUNDAY h

J SOPS,

HA.NDICAP of 15 am each, 10 ft. for two and three-
YEeEa;slAlcsk of 10
T.Y.C.
Swsob's each, for two-year olds ; colts
Bst 71h, fillies Bst 51b ; the winner to be sold for 40
ROVE; if demanded, 30. ; first half of Ab. M.
SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each, for two-year-olds ; colts
Bst 71b, fillies, Bst 41b, the winner to bc sold for 150
soya if &mantled, &c. ; last, half of Ab. M.
The 111EXAKIIRAST STAKES of 50 sovs each, ii ft, for two-
year-olds ; colts Bst 71b ; fillies Set 51b ; T.Y.C. ;
20 subs.
Splitvote - Supplicant
Lady of Lyons Kingstown
The Professor c by Venison
Besika Calypso
Almond Conveyancer
Strood Cinnamon
Joshua Pommel
MATCH. for 100 sovs, h ft ; Bst 71b each ; T.Y.C. ; Lord
Chesterfield's Fayaway, by Orlando out of Boarding
School Miss, aget Major Martyn's Daisy, by Lauer-
-, cost out of Cowslip.

Claret
Arnaut
Valentinian
Uncle To►ri
Priestcraft
Cortes

o.7sible arrangement has been made by the
RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.
Every p
Eastern Countie: Company, under the direction of Mr.
Church, the indefatigable traffic manager, for the con-
venience and acconimpJation of the visitors to Newmar-
ket during the approachlnq meeting. On Saturday, the
NI (this day), there will be a train from Peterborough
to Newmarket at one p.m. in conjunction with one from
York at 8.15 a.m., Knottingly at 9:3, Doncaster at 0'33,
Retford at 10.8, Newark at 10'50, and Grantham at
11.25 a.m. On Sunday (to-morrow) there Will be the
usual special from Shoreditch at half-past 1 p.m., and on
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday mornings a first-class
special at 8'55 a. m., returning from Newmarket an hour
after the last race or; Qaell o! those 4375,

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FRIDAY.
A. HANDICAP of 20 sovs each, and only 5 ft if declared
I by ten o'clock the evening before running, to go to
the second horse, for three-yr-olds and upwards ;

OCTOBER 8,

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.
FOREIGA--OFFICE, SEPT. 19.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George
John Robert Gordon, Esq , now her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Oriental Republic of
the Uruguay, to be her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Swiss Confederation.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 4.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of 'a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Stockholm,
inclosing a translation of a Proclamation issued by the
Swedish Ministry. of Marine (copy of which is subjoined),
notifying the " Flagmarks" which have been set up on cer-
tain shoals in the Gulf of Bothnia.
(Copy.) (Translation.)
The Royal Administration of Marine announces, for the
irformation and guidance of Mariners, that according to,
his Majesty's gracious command, a great flagmark has been
set up on the east side of each of the two Fuingrunds, and on
Grundkallegrund, situated in the South Qrarken, east of
" Grason," viz.:—

EAST FUINGRIRED,
the shallowest portion of which is hardly 2 fathoms deep,
with an extent of about 700 fathoms in length, from
W.S.W. to E.N.E., in au average of 4 fathoms of water.
East of the shallowest spot, at a distance of about 500
fathoms, 54 fathoms deep, a largo mark is moored, the iron
cone of which bears an iron pole 12 feet long, painted
white, and furui-4hekl at the top with a large red ball, which
is visible at a distance of 4 geographical mile. This shoal
can bs sounded up to from the north.

WEST FUINGRUND
bag its shallowest spot only from sto 7 feet water. The
shoal, which is of a triangular form, has its longest sides
4 and 703 fathoms in length in the respective directions of
N.W. and S.E. About 330 fathoms from the shallowest
point, and east of the same, in 6 fathoms water, a mark
is set up of similar else and form to that on the east shoal,
but its polo is painted red and its ball white ' • it also is
visible at a distance of geographical mile. This shoal
cannot be sounded up to from the north side with any
security.