The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

ROUEN CATHEDRAL.

We have received from Rouen, dated the 16th,
further details on the burning of the Cathedral.
" At half-past five o'clock of the 15th, an elec-
tric cloud advanced to the centre of the town.—
Several claps of thunder were heard ; the last,
more, terrible than the others, struck with light-
ning the base of the steeple, which in an instant
set it on fire from the bottom to the very top of
the pyramid. You may imagine this terrible
spectacle, and the dread which seized every
body on beholding the fire. The lead running
down in large waves, the beams separating from
the upper parts, and burning as they fell, till at
length the base could no longer support the
upper part; the pyramid then fell with a dreadful
noise, and a cloud of burning smoke, ashes, and
pieces of wood, rose from the volcano. The wind
was from the N. E. and blew towards us. The
heat was sensibly felt at our house ; the ashes and
splinters filled the air, and were wafted, some
of them, as far as the street Des Cordeliers.—
The houses in Du Change-street, and Du Bac-
street were so heated, that the engines played
on them constantly to prevent their catching fire.
In falling, the ruins of the pyramid set the roof
of the church on fire ; a part of the' nave was
burnt ; all the covering of the choir, and of the sa-
cristy, is consumed. I'4 roof work of the Place
de la Calendre, Street St. Romain, has also
suffered considerably ;.the interior of the church,
however, has not suffered much, and the Arch-
bishop's palace very, little. The houses in dui
Change-street, contiguous to the church, are very
much damaged ; two of them were destroyed by
the falling of the burning steeple. Those also of
St. Romain-street have also suffered considerably ;
as also the Chapel.—This morning, at seven
o'clock, the fire was not above six or seven feet
high from the lower part of the tower, but all
danger is over.---Besides the total destruction of
the upper part, and the calcination of the stones
of the tower, the galleries and the arches have
suffered very considerably. It seems certain,
however, that we hive to deplore the loss of only
one individual, who was sent to the hospital in
such a condition as to be despaired of. The
soldiers of the Garde Royale, the fire-men, and
several citizens, have been wounded more or less,
but we have not yet received any certain infor-
mation on this point."—(French Paper.)

The Turin Gazette announces that the cele-
brated Rossini is going to Verona to superintend
the Opera of that town during Congress. The
same Paper adds, that he will bring out a new
Opera of his own composing.
In the course of Thursday night the house of
Mrs. BRYAN, of Fortman-place, Edgeware-road,
was entered by thieves, who ransacked the lower
part of the house to a, serious amount, which they
carried off unobserved. They gained admittance
into the house by means of perforating with a
centre bit the shutter of the back kitchen win-
dow, in which an aperture was made of sufficient
magnitude to admit a man's arm, and the fasten-
ings were then easily displaced.

The Constitutionnel has published, according
to its promise, two official Bulletins of the vic-
tories of the Greeks. They are dated " Clenia,
July 26," and " Cortesse (near Corinth), August
8." They were brought by the lonian, Cap-
tain VIDAL', whose arrival at Leghorn from
the Grecian Islands was mentioned. in our Fo-
reign Intelligence yesterday. If these important
and most gratifying documents are genuine, and
it is most improbable that they should be fabri-
cations, since Captain VIDAL.I had himself been
at Argos on the twelfth of August, where he had
an interview with the Grecian Vice President
KANAKARA, and where he saw the head of the
Turkish Commander in Chief TCHAR HADJE
ALI PACIIA brought in ;—the cause of Greece,
so far from being hopeless, is more secure than
ever. The details given in the Bulletins, as our
Readers will observe, relate to events consider-
ably posterior to the irruption of the Turks into
the Morea, and may therefore even be con-
sistent with some ' advantages gained by the
Ottomans in the first instance. ' The patriotic
heroism of the calumniated Greeks, however.
towered superior to the sudden and perilous
emergency in which they were placed ; and the
expulsion of the Turks, if not the utter destruc-
tion of their army, by a detached portion of the
Greek forces, has probably ere now established
the independence of Greece on a firm basis.—
What is very decisive evidence of the authen-
ticity of the Bulletins, is, that they give clear
and accurate statements of dates, and places and
positions, so that the movements of both armies
may be correctly traced on the map. Supposing
the loss of the Turks to have been exaggerated,
still we have the great and important fact that
they have been compelled to retreat, and to ex-
change offensive for defensive uperations.—
Captain VIDAL' states, that up to the eighteenth
of August, the day when he left Spezzia, addi-
tional details were constantly arriving of the
advantages gained by the Greeks, and additional
assurances that the situation of the Turkish army

was desperate.
The Journal des 'Mats, a French Ministerial
Paper, contains, as well as the Constitutionnel,
news from Spain, which is highly favourable to
the cause of the Constitutionalists. Letters
from Bayonne, Oloron, and St.' Jean Pied-de-
Port, of the 10th, 11th, and 12th instant, all
agree in stating that the Army of the Faith had
been totally defeated, and that the Royalists,
thinking themselves betrayed by their Com-
mander in Chief QUESADA, had loaded him with
chains, and were about to try him as a traitor.

FRENCH FUNDS.—SEPT. 18. •
Five per Cents. for the Opening on the 22d Sept.
Opened at
Highest
Closed at 9l f. 85 c.
Bank Stock
Neapolitan Five per Cents 768. '
:.2.Excliange on London—One Month 25 f. 45 c.
Three Months 25 f. 35 c.

This day being a holiday, both at the Bank
and Stock Exchange, very little business is doing
on the Royal Exchange in the Funds.
Messrs. WILLIAMS and SMITH, King's messen-
gers, set off at nine o'clock last night from the
Foreign Office, Downing-street, for Vienna, to
be in attendance on the Duke of WELLINGTON.