The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-26 00:00:00

Mr. Perren's lonic.

(Hornsby) 0

Lord Derby's Umbriel (Templeman) 0
Duke of Richmond's Pharos (Flatman) 0
Captain Lane's Ninnyhammer (Sly) 0
Lord Clifden's Cheddar (A. Day) 0

Lord Caledon's Prince Leopold (W. Shari)) 0
Mr. B. Way's Brocket (Thick) 0
Mr. Knowles's Talfourd (Basham) 0

Mr. J. M. Stanley's Orinoco (Marson) 0
Mr. Howard's Lascelles (W. Day) 0

Mr. Oliver's Ethelbert

..(Ciickmere) 0

Mr. Surtee's na Honeywood . (J. Osborne) 0
Mr. Rowan's Fion ma Coule (D. Wynne) 0
Mr. J. Ayling na Rattle (G. E. Sharpe) 0
Mr. Thompson's Coomburland Stathesmon(Aldcroft) 0
Lord Glasgow's Barbatus (Whitehouse) 0
Lord Eglinton's Vanderdecken (Marlow) 0
Mr. Wilkins's Peggy (H. Neale) 0

Betting at Starting-6 to 4 agst West Australian, sto
1 agst Orestes, 6to agst Honeywood, Bto 1 agst Sit-
tingbourne, 20 to 1 agst Umbriel, 20 to 1 agst Pharos
(off), 25 to 1 agst Ninnyhammer, 30 to 1 agst Cineas, 30
to 1 agst Peggy, 50 to 1 each agst Cheddar, Barbatus,
and Rataplan, 100 to 1 agst Coomberland Stathesmon.
An excellent start, all getting off in a cluster, except
Coomburland Stathesmon, who was some lengths behind.
Cheddar and Cineas started in front, but they had scarcely
proceeded halfway up the hill when Umbriel took up the
running, with Cheddar, Cineas, Orestes, Ethelbert,
Ninnyhammer, and Rattle, well laid up, and directly in
their wake were Pharos, Honeywood, and Filbert ; West
Australian, with Sittingbourne in close attendance upon
him, being the next two. No material change occurred
until they arrived at the turn into the straight, when
Umbriel began to drop off. Rattle immediately went
on with the lead, but at the road was passed by Cineas,
and at the same time West Australian, with Sitting-
bourne at his quarters, was seen to draw forward. At
the distance theseitwo singled themselves out, and a very
exciting race home ended in favour of West Australian
by a neck. Rataplan, who left the ruck in the last
quarter of a mile, and gradually improved his position,
finished about half a length behind the third. Honey-
wood and Rattle were the next two. Barbatus pulled
up lame.
Run in 2 min. 56 sec. Amount of the stakes, 5,4251.
Jerry Kent was scratched at 10.30 a.m.

EPSOM-TowN PLATE of 50 sovs. (Handicap) for all ages.
Winners extra. One mile.
Mr. Drinkald's Snarry, by Sleight-of-Hand, 4 yrs,
6st 101 b (Aldcroft) 1
Mr. Reeves's Abdallah, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Bartholomew) 2
Mr. Magennis's Sandhurst, 3 yrs, 7st (Oliver) 3
The following also ran :—Telescope, Merriment.
The betting opened at 6 to 4 agst Telescope, but closed
at 2to 1 agst him. 2to 1 agst Snarry.
A fine race with Snarry, Abdallah, and Sandhurst.
Won by a neck ; the second beating the third by three-
quarters of a length. Telescope a bad fourth.
GREAT EXHIBITION PLATE of 100 BOYS. (handicap),
for all ages ; winners extra. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. Magennis's Clair de Lune, by Lanercost, 3 yrs,
sst 51b (Oliver) 1
Mr. Wigan's Forester (h b), aged, 7st 71b (Wells) 2
Mr. Y. King's Narcissus, 6 yrs, Bst 4 lb...(Charlton) 3
The following also ran :—Puritan, Sweetheart, Iresine,
f by Confederate.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Narcissus, 3to 1 Clair de Lune,
5 to 1 agst Forester, 6 to 1 agst Puritan. Won cleverly
by a length ; a neck only between the second and third.
Sweetheart and Iresine were fourth and fifth.
DIIRDANS STAKES of 5 30VS. each, with 50 added, for
2-yr olds and upwards. Optional selling weights. Half
a mile. (10 subs.)
Lord Londesborough's Gold Dust, by Dulcimer, 3
yrs (601.), 7st 51b (E. Harrison) 1
Captain Little's m by Counsellor—Miss Lucy, 5 yrs,
(401.), 7st 101 b (Charlton) 2
Mr. J. Dawson's Shipwreck, 3 yrs (401 ), Est 121 b
(Aldcroft) 3
Betting-2 to 1 agst Gold Dust, sto 2 agst Empress
colt, 3 to 1 agst Venison filly, 5 to 1 agst Counsellor
mare, Bto 1 agst any other. Won by half a length ;
length between the second- and third. The winner was
afterwards sold for the 230 guineas ; the fund thereby
realising upwards of 1801.

LATEST BETTING ON THE OAKS.
2to 1 agst Catherine Hayes (taken).
sto 2 agst Misletoe (taken).
6 to 1 agst Mentmore Lass (taken).
7to 1 agst The Queen.
10 to 1 agst Lady Louisa.
10 to 1 agst England's Beauty.

DESTRUCTION OF THE A DELPHI THEATRE,
EDINBURGH, BY FIRE.

On Tuesday afternoon a fire broke out in the Adelphi
Theatre, Edinburgh, which ended in the entire destruc-
tion of that building, and nearly all its properties and
accessories. The fire was discovered about a quarter to
five o'clock by a carpenter, who observed smoke issuing
from the omnibus-box and the coulisse on the left of the
stage, and coming apparently from the music-room im-
mediately below. The manager, Mr. Wyndham, who
resided within the building, was immediately apprised
of the fact, and an alarm was speedily conveyed to the
fire-engine stations.
Within a very short space of time the fire caught the
scenes and proscenium, and before a quarter of an hour
elapsed, the flames had traversed the whole area of the
interior, and sought egress by several windows at the
side and by the roof. The work of destruction was fear-
fully rapid, and the beams of the roof and wooden gal-
leries, ripened for combustion by age and the drying
heat of the gas, were quickly encompassed by a general
blaze. In little more than half an hour after the fire wa
discovered the roof fell in, and the flames burst forth
with intense strength and fury, causing great alarm for
the security of contiguous buildings. So great indeed
was the mass of fire that, though the wind was light, it
caught the window-frames of a house on the opposite
side of Little King-street, fully 60 feet distant.
The Adelphi Theatre occupied a site in the corner of
Broughton-street and Little King-street, these streets
being respectively to the east and south. On the west
was a high and thickly-populated tenement, into which,
by a gable window overlooking the theatre, the flames
obtained success. On the north was St. Mary's Roman
Catholic Chapel, and between it and the theatre was a
small cloister or ante-chapel. The roof of the cloister
and the astragals of the Gothic windows of the chapel
took fire, and considerable apprehension was entertained
as to the safety of the consecrated edifice. The altar-
piece, a painting of the Virgin, valued at nearly 5,0001.,
was dislodged from the wall, and all the sacred vessels
and properties removed to a place of safety. By the
praiseworthy and well-directed exertions of the fire-
brigade, however, the chapel was preserved, and the
flames which caught the two other buildings were ex-
tinguished before they had gained strength, or had
caused much damage. The efforts to confine the fire to
the building in which it originated were thus happily
successful ; but, though the fire-engines had arrived
very soon, and the supply of water was most abundant
and well applied, the progress of the flames could
not be stayed till they had left the theatre a complete
ruin. The building was about 130 feet long by
60 feet broad, and the front of it towards Broughton-
street was occupied as the manager's residence.
A stone wall separating the house from the theatre, the
manager was able to save a large portion of his ward-
robe and property, as the fire did not immediately en-
velope that portion of the building which contained
them. On either side of the box entrance and corridor
and under Mr. Wyndham's house were shops, a large
part of the stock in which was saved.
The Adelphi theatre has for 60 or 70 years been a
place of public entertainment in Edinburgh. It was
originally known as Corri's Rooms, and subsequently as
the Caledonian theatre. Latterly, and for a long series
of years, it was leased by the late Mr. W. H. Murray'
along with the Theatre Royal, thus preventing dramatic
opposition. Since Mr. Murray's retirement, however,
nearly two years ago, the two theatres have been let to
different managers. In the competition which ensued
Mr. Wyndham was able to keep his grouannd,against
lastutecr-
cessive lessees of the Theatre Royal ; d
having become for the third time vacant since Mr.
11.1urray's retirement, Mr. Wyndham offered himself as
one of the candidates, and was accepted as the lessee ;
and it is a somewhat singular coincidence that the
Adelphi theatre should have been destroyed the day
previous to that on which Mr. Wyndham was to enter
on the lesseeship of the Theatre Royal.
The Adelphi Theatre was insured to the extent, we
believe, of 3,0001. or 4,0001., on the building, and the
manager was insured to the amount of 1,2001., a sum
which will not, it is feared, be adequate to meet his
losses. Unfortunately, the whole wardrobe of Mr.
Wyndham's large and respectable dramatic company
was destroyed ; several of the musicians likewise lost
their instruments.
It is truly fortunate the fire did not occur three hours
later, when the audience would have been assembled.
The quick destruction of the building would in such a
case have been most frightful and calamitous, for the
means of escape were scarcely so ample as would have been
needed for a crowded audience, such as would probably
have assembled on the evening of the Queen's birthday.
The engines continued to play for above four hours
upon the building. There was no accident, except a
fireman, who was scorched and bruised by a fall. The
Lord Provost and the civic authorities were present at
the scene ; and the ground was kept by the police and a
detachment of the 4th Regiment from the Castle. The
conflagration attracted many thousands of spectators,
the crowd being all the more numerous as the day was a
holiday.
The origin of the fire has not been ascertained.

' last few days, and which come down to the 13th.
The first fact worthy of remark mentioned in our
letters is that the note by which the Porte signifies
its refusal to accede to the demands of Russia was
drawn up, and notified to the Russian Ambassador
by the Minister of Foreign. Affairs, who was put
in possession of power at the time of the arrival of
Prince Menschikoff at Constantinople, for our
letters say nothing of the Ministerial crisis which,
on the 13th, brought Reschid Pasha to the Minis-
try of Foreign Affairs. His return was to be re-
garded as a confirmation by the Sultan of the de-
termination ho had come to not to yield, and
which appears to have caused not a little surprise
to Prince Menschikoff. As a comminatory demon-
stration he had, in fact, embarked two days before
with all the personnel of his Embassy on
board the Russian steam-frigate Bessarabia, an-
chored off the Palace of Buyukdere, and on the
10th he received the negative reply of the Divan.
Instead of starting for Odessa, as was expected, he
on the 11th sent M. Argyropoulo, first dragoman
of the Russian Embassy to the Porte, to declare
to the Ministers of the Sultan that he considered
their reply as evasive, and requested to have a
more categorical one. M. Argyropoulo was, more-
over instructed to recommend the Ministers to
accept a fresh delay of three days which the Prince
offered to them, in order that they might have time
to weigh maturely the consequences the negative
reply they had sent might entail on the Sulta and
on the Empire. If, therefore, the telegraphic
dispatches, dated the 13th, are correct, and the
article of the Moniteur proves that they are so, we
may conclude that the Porte, encouraged perhaps
by the hesitation which appeared to it to be
evident in the conduct of Prince Menschikoff, re-
plied
to his fresh overtures by the nomination of a
Ministry notoriously hostile to Russia. On the
other hand, we are assured that the language used
by Lord Clarendon in the House of Lords, on the
24th April, contributed to induce the Divan to
show resistance, and that the note by which
it signified its refusal to accede to the demands
of Prince Alensehikoff had been concerted with the
English Ambassador at Constantinople. However,
the note is moderate and polite, but dignified and
firm. If we are well informed, it is couched some-
what in the following terms : The Porte is animated
with the strongest desire to draw closer the bonds
of perfect amity and alliance between the two
governments. The Sultan is himself constantly
and sincerely disposed to keep up and to increase
the relations of good neighbourhood and intimate
union which have so long and happily existed be-
tween him and the Emperor of Russia. The Porte
will therefore receive favourably such of the
demands of Prince Menschikoff as wound neither
its honour nor its independence. It grants the erec-
tion at Jerusalem of the church, the convent, and
the hospital which the Emperor Nicholas wishes
to found there, provided that it takes place in such
a manner as to maintain intact the rights of the
Sultan to internal administration and after mature
negotiation between the two governments. As
far as regards the religious privileges granted to
all the Christian subjects of the Porte, and espe-
cially to the Greeks, by the predecessors of the
Sultan, and on the maintenance of which Russia
appears to have some doubts, not only has the
Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid never thought of withdraw-
ing or restricting them, but their maintenance and
development at present and for the future have
been, and always will be, the object of his con-
stant solicitude. At the same time he cannot con-
clude any treaty with any foreign power on a ques-
tion which exclusively belongs to the internal
administration of the Empire. To do so would
be to sacrifice his rights of sovereignty and his in-
dependence ; and whatever may be the character
of the friendship.with which the relations and re-
ciprocal sentiments of the Sultan and the Emperor
are impressed, that friendship cannot go so far
as to impose such a sacrifice on the Porte. It would
be contrary to international rights, and to those of
every free and independent State. The Sultan ap-
peals entirely on this subject to the justice and
equity of the whole world, and particularly of the
Emperor of Russia, who is so well known for his
good faith and uprightness of character. The Sul-
tan formally declares in the face of the universe
that he will maintain in all their extent the pri-
vileges and immunities which have been so long
enjoyed by the Christian Churches in his State,
and particularly by the Greek Church. This de-
claration ought to suffice, for he would no longer
be an independent sovereign if he were to consent
to bind himself on the question by any treaty or
convention with a foreign power. Such is the
sense of the note, which does honour to the govern-
ment of the Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid. What followed
is known, namely, the offer of a fresh delay made
by Prince Menschikoff, and the return to power
of Reschid Pacha. It is the debut of a new state
of things.

The -following telegraphic dispatch has been
received in Paris. It dated Constantinople the
16th :—" The new Ministry has issued a firman
relative to the question of the Holy Sepulchre ;
the other negotiations are still pending. Prince
Menschikoff has obtained an audience of the Sul-
tan ; but nothing has transpired of the result. The
preponderance of the anti-Russian party is gene-
rally believed in, without, however, any fear of
serious complications being felt."
The English fleet was still at Malta on the 18th
inst. On the previous day the French fleet had
anchored at E in the Bay of Salamis.
gm a,

The following information extracted from a per-
fectly credible private letter, cannot fail to prove
interesting

" CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 12.
" It was not until the question of the Holy Sepulchre
was settled that new demands were formally made by
Prince Measchikoff. Strictly speaking no ultimatum has
been presented, but a period was fixed within which a reply
to a certain demand was to be returned. This was, that all
the concessions and privileges granted to the Greek
Church since the reign of Mahomet 11. (1451) be guaran-
teed by a regular diplomatic convention. The Greeks in
Turkey are governed entirely by the clergy, who unite
temporal with spiritual authority ; consequently, should
the Porte consent to the wishes of Russia, the non-
united Greeks and Armenians will become in reality
Russian subjects. The Sultan •ffers to make any such
arrangements for securing the rights, privileges, and
religious freedom of all the different Christian sects as
may be required by the parties to the treaties of 1841.
But will Russia be satisfied with this 1' Can or will the
other powers look quietly on should the Russian Govern-
men t attempt to carry its measures by force ? This
question is more than I can answer."

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 85