The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-19 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS,

The number of persons killed and wounded, as well a; of the firemen
who fell victims to their zeal on this occasion, has no' yet been car.
rcctly ascertained. Five firemen were crushed by the fall of a frog.
ment of a wall, and several others severely wounded. An officer having
stated in the morning that four of his men, including a sergeant, wrre
missing, a young conscript offered to seek them in the midst of the
ruins: At his desire he was entrusted with the perilous mission, but at
the expiration of a few minutes quitted the burning mass without hay.
ing male any discovery. The unfortunate sergeant is said to have loft
a widow and seven children. A fireman descended from the top of lila
theatre clinging to a rope, and holding between his lege an old man
whose weakne,s had prevented him from attempting to escape. Another
discovered in the garret of the building an infant in its cradle, and Orb
scended in safety with the child, greeted by the enthuSialltia attelartlk
tions of the crowd.
The Commerce contains an account of the fire front an eye wittwei4
who appears to have been one of the persons actively engaged In ejta
tinguishing it. His statement, which accords in the main with thflit
a'ready in possession of our readers, contains several details Ss tis;thil
time in which the several stories of the edifice fed in ont tier thf
ether. The firenem established themselves as well as they Could at the
openings of the windows on each of the staircases leading to different
pelts of the Luialing, from whenei: they retreated only wh" t!
position was no loner tenable. The Prefect of Police way ~-leir
al one of
the staircases giving advice and encouragement to the o.rorrn. e 7.),..
Balling-in of each story and of the staircase Wag 0-„,.
fi, rvrtmo, e.
the spectators without, to whom the sight 7eppea.
ed much 1-- - -Qie to
and pregnant with danger than to the fire- ".
i.,
_aore terrible
paced within. This account mentine., ii-nnc." aa other individuals
railed ; that the engines were.ifseeee'o.,..L.:.•‘lat great want of order pre.
the firemen were not proper,- -'lYan`.. irregularly worked, and that
variance with all the oth but in this particular it is at
'r".".--witnessea and of journals that we have
become acquainted e...••
ith.-
much with th- Perhaps the writer of it view. d theaflkir too
M. s -..eY'-' 71 a profe,sional man.
d' ..evetitil had a natural apprehension of fire, and was so bewil.
areal that he knew not what ho did. He reached a window looking
into the Rue Ifavart, about two feet above the awning not long ego
raised, to ',,rotret persons corning to or going from the doors of ;he
theatre. tin that side from the rain. He was recognized by some of the
P".ople outside, who, believing he was intending to throw himself out,
collected together a number of mattrasses for him to fall upon ; but his
trepidation was so great that lie did not measure the distance, and came
down upon the stone pasta. He was taken up senseless and carried to
the Hotel des Italions, but died on the way. It is said that at the mo-
ment he was taking the spring he was called to from the interior to re-
main, as relief had arrived, but it was too late. M. Severini is to be
buried to-morrow,
Scarcel,.; had M. Severini met his fate than Col. Paulin made his way
tlirr.':ugh the smoke and flames to the chamber he had left, the disorder
of which too plainly showed the extreme terror its occupant had under.
gone. The drawers were all open, the contents dispersed about the
floor, a small pocket book which had been emptied was on a chair, and
his gold watch on the bedside table. The escape of M. Robert, the
brother of the director, was most extraordinary. He was in bed in his
chamber on the second floor, when the flames burst in. He imme.
diately wrapped hirnse.f in his dressing gown, gathered up the sheets and
coverlid ofhis bed, and got on the roof by one of the sky-lights. Hence,
being hard pressed by the fire, he slid down to the parapet, and tying
the sheets and counterpane together, arid fixing one end firmly at the
top, he got by these means within sixty feet of the ground, where he re-
mained suspended for some time, till at length he by an effort which un-
der other circumstarices he never could have made, gained the balcony,
from which he reached the ground in safety by a knotted rope which one
of the. firemen threw up to him, -
The lasses sustained by several individuals are irreparable. Rossini
had an apartment in the theatre, and the whole of his musical library,
which is said to be valued at upwards of 200,000 e, is entirely destroyed,
besides many rare and valuable manuscripts. The library of M. Kale.
proth, the musical repertory of the director, and his furniture, have
been saved.
We are enabledto contradict the report that all the scores belonging to
the theatre are teat. A great quantity of old music has been thrown
into the street half.burnt, but we arc assured that the scores of the new
pieces are all safe, having been placed in a part of the building which
the flames did not reach.

It is apprehended that M. Lablache has sustained an iimnense and
irreparable loss by the death of M. S^verini, who acted as his agent In
the investment of his savings, and in whose hands were all the doeu_
ments by which was secured the accumulated property clerked from
twenty years' arduous ext rtions in his profs ion. If this be so, M. La.
blache and his numerous family will be totally ruined.
The building of the Italian Opera House was com..menced in 1781,
and finished in 1783, on the site of the ancient I'.otel of the Duke de
Choiseul. It was called the Theatre Favart. The company of that
day, fearing they might he confounded witn the strollers of the Boole.
yards, insisted upon there being no frorltage that way, and the architect
was obliged to erect it as it now is. In 1784 some improvements were
made by the architect M. \Vailly, Comic operas were performed in it
till ITO, when these representations were transferred to the Theatre
I Feydeau, and the Theatre Favart remained useless, till the Odeon was
burnt down. During the rebuilding of this last house, the Odeon corn.
pany performed at the Theatre Favart, which was again abandoned when
their own stage was ready to receive them. At the Restoration the
Theatre Favart was appropriated to the Italian Opera, and has so re. mained till its present destruction.
The NaMnial makes the following reflections on the three great fires
which have takes place within so short a space of time, in the three
great capitals, St. Petersburgh, London, and Paris :—" It seems that
each country has been affected in its peculiar characteristic. May not
the Imperial Palace, the Exchange, and the Opera House be considered
as the emblems of the Absolutism of Russia, the Mercantilism of Eng.
land, mill the love of arts in France, which is daily increasing?"
Therae continued smouldering all last night, and cannot be said to
'oe totally extinguished at the moment of our going to press,

A FRENCH INN.--After dinner (at Calais) we set
off, intending to go to Montreuil, sixty miles from Calais.
They told us we travelled en poste, but I am sure we did not
get on more than four miles an hour. At Marques we were
shown into an inn, they called--I should have called it a pig-
sty. We were rut into a room with two straw beds, and with
great difficulty they mustered up clean sheets, and gave us two
pigeons for supper upon a dirty cloth, and laid wooden-handled
knives. 0, what a transition from happy England I But we
laughed at the repast, and went to bed with a determination
that nothing should ruffle our tempers.—Naval Keepsake for
1838, containing a new Life of Nelson, by the Old Sailor.
DUBLIN, JAN. 16.—MEETING AT THE CORN
EXCHANGE.-Then is to-day a meeting of the constituents
of Dublin. A petition on the subject of Poor-laws has been
read, and its further consideration postponed to this day week.
Mr. O'Connell moved the adoption of a petition praying for
the total abolition of tithes, and entered into a detail of the
origin and working of the tithe system, from the period of
its introduction, in the reign of Henry IL, to the present time.
An unusual press of matter to-day precludes the practicability
of our giving the report of the proceedings which we have
received this morning from our own correspondent. This
pressure on our space compels us also to postpone some other
reports relating to the affairs of Ireland.—At the annual meet-
ing of the Mendicity Association, his Grace the Archbishop
of Dublin objected to a compulsory provision for the Irish
poor, on the same grounds as Mr. O'Connell ; namely, that
its inevitable tendency is to increase the amount of pauperism.
The difficulty, however, observes the Freeman, of procuring
funds to satisfy the current expenses of the institution goes far
to prove that the voluntary system is totally inadequate to meet
the wants, or affard anything like effectual relief to the desti-
tute poor of Dublin.

GENERAL POST-OFFICE.—An accumulation of
ice having made the passage of the Elbe impracticabte for
steam-vessels, the mails of Tuesday night for the north of
Europe were despatched by special messengers, via Holland.
Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, Hart., has been ap-
pointed, by the Right lion. the Governor of Bombay, magis-
trate and joint collector at Nassuck, East Indies.
Sr. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Last right a new mu-
sical piece, entitled The iltusiei,n of Venire, was produced at
this theatre. It is not without merit, though, as the music is
attributed to M. Nati, a composer who has arrived at some
eminence in his profession, we expected, perhaps, something
superior ; the music contains some redeeming qualities, but is
deficient in any air which is calculated to enhP.nce the reput
tion of M. Nati, as an original composer, or leave an im-
pression on the minds of the auditors. The drama possesses
little oc no novelty, though apparently an adaptation from a
French talc. The acting and singing was altogether excel-
lent, and the piece was given out for repetition amidst a dis-
cordant x&ngling of ayes and noes, but the former decidedly
wedominated.
Major-General Sir James Maedonnell, Equerry to
her Majesty the Queen Dowager Adelaide, has been offered
the command of one of the divisions of the army to be sent to
the Canadas, and, it is understood, has accepted it. The
Right Hon. General at prcs.mt coannands one of the dis-
tricts in Ireland.
THE BA Ly,-,T.-A rcTlisition is in the course of
signature fe,,r a mee.ing, to petition the Legislature for an Ex-
tension of the Salfrage and Vote by Ballot, at Wakefield.—
DOneasier Gazelle.

Countless flocks of birds, having the appearance of
fieldfares in the distance, passed over the north-eastern parts of
the metropolis. in a southerly direction, at the latter part of
last week. So numerous were these winged fugitives from the
bleak north that they darkened the air like a cloud, and their
transit occupied several minutes. The weatherwise consider
the circumstance a sure prognostic of a long and severe winter.
FIRE AT MR. WARD'S, P.--A file broke
out at twelve o'clock on Saturday night, at Gilston Park, the
residence of 11. G. Ward, Esq., M. P., which threatened the
destruction of one of the oldest and moat beautiful places in
the county of Hertford. By dint of the most energetic exer-
tions on the part of the family, who were left to make head
against the flames for nearly an hour before more assistance
could be procured, the fire was kept under until help arrived
in abundance from various quarters, and consequently not
much damage was done, the fire having been confined to two
rooms in which it originated. We regret to add that Mr.
Ward was much ir.jurcd by a fail, having again dislocated his
shoulder and cut his arm severely.
EXTRAORDINARY FREAK OF NATURE.—A fine
grown dog was exhibited at the White Hor.te Cellar, New-
bury, on Thursday last, covered with a most extraordinary
growth of wool, which resembles the fleece of a sheep, is of
four years' growth, and lays on the dog in flakes of great
weight ; the proprietor has bet n offered a considerable sum for
the animal, which he refus's to take. —Reading Mercury.
TUE WEATIIER.—Winter has now fairly set in.
The weather has been hitherto remarkably mild for the sea-
son; but yesterday we were visited by a sharp frost, and to-day
it is snowing heavily.—Scotsman of Wednesday.
CORONER'S INQUEST —An inquest was held on
Saturday last, at Enfield, on the body of John Nicolas, coach-
man in the employ of floatwhite, Esq. The unfortu-
nato man, at about seven o'clock the previous evening, loaded
his gun, and went into a field at the back cf his master's house
fur the purpose of shooting t hare, several having been seen
there ; he, however, hags not gone far when he saw what he
supposed to be one sitting justbAire him, and taking hold of
the barrel of the gun struck at it, which, instead of being a
hare, was a log of wood; the.gun from the force of the blow
went off, the contents entering the poor fellow's right side. He
.
had the preseneo of mind to place .bis hand upon the wound
to stop the blood flowinTc and managed to stagger into the
house, where, meeting one of the domestics, he exclaimed,
"Call Charles (the footman), fur /am a dead man." The
poor ;oan, after lingering for uoarly three hours, expired in •
the mmt excrutiating Tilt.) deceased was about 28
years of age, aml wa4 ,Nrs ateady man.