The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-14 00:00:00

CONFLAGRATION AT NEW YORK

Saturday a public meeting was held at the Freemasons'
Tavern, for the purpose, as stated in the bills, of raising a
subscription for the relief of the sufferers by this calamity.
Among the persons present known to the public were Lord
Dudley Stuart, Mr. D. O'Connell, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Pot-
ter, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Stanhope, and
Mr. Sheridan Knowles. A letter was read from the Lord
Mayor, expressing regret at being unable to preside, and
expressing sympathy with the sufferers on whose behalf the
meeting was convened.

Lord DUDLEY STUART having been called to the Chair,
his Lordship stated the object of the meeting.
Mr. O'CoNNELL then moved the first resolution, express-
ing a sympathy with the sufferers, which he introduced with
a speech stating their claims as the assertors of liberty, and
descended from the same stock.
Colonel L. STANHOPE seconded the resolution.

Mr. EWART moved the second resolution, expressing
the admiration of the meeting at the fortitude with
which the sufferers have sustained their loss. He said he
felt a deep interest in America, as it was assimilated to a
great portion of the people of Great Britain in democratic
principles.
Dr. BowIING seconded the resolution.

Here a boy of about fourteen years of age, the son of
Ellen Courtney, and who,claims Mr. O'Connell for his fa-
ther, rose to speak, but was prohibited by the Chairman.
The boy sat down, and Mr. O'Connell almost immediately
after retired.

Mr. SHERIDAN KNOWLES seconded the resolution in an
eloquent speech. It was the only one worthy of notice.
Mr. POTTER moved the last resolution, recommending a
subscription, wnich was carried unanimously ; after which
the meeting separated.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—A new piece,
called The Fate of War ; or, Adventures in a Camp, was
produced at this theatre on Saturday night, and met with a
most disastrous fate. Its scene was Spain during the Penin-
sular war, and it exhibited some very extensive stratagetic
movements of detachments of both French and British armies.
But the Generals in command were almost as bad as some
who are recorded in our annals, and their blunders were so
palpable and perpetual, that the military instincts of pit,
boxes, and galleries were alike shocked, and for the last two of
three acts the heroes of the adventure were assailed with an
unrelenting mistraille of hisses,'groans, and whistling, and other
accoustic projectiles. Poor Wallack, who played the part of
an 0' Gallaher, of " the fighting division," came in for his due
share of the good things going. At the fall of the curtain he
was specially and uproariously summoned before a formidable
Court-martial, where he had to purge himself of any share in
the command of the rig'lars and irrig'lars. In conclusion, he
announced, amid the shouts of the enemy, that the piece was
surrendered unconditionally. By a stretch of generosity he
was allowed to march off with bag and baggage.
Indian rubber has been applied in Pans to the casing
of steel busks for ladies' stays, and is said to answer well in
resisting the metallic oxides upon the dresses.
STATISTICS OF SWEDEN.—The freehold property
in this kingdom continued in the exclusive possession of the
higher classes longer than was the case in more commercial
countries. Of late years the lower classes have been making
rapid strides in advance ; and in " Forsell's Sweden," they are
represented to be now the .wners of more than four-fifths of
the country. Some tables which have been recently prepared
by the Swedish Government give the following details on this
interesting subject :—From January, 1822, to December,
1834, the freehold property of the nobility had decreased to the
amount of 631,362/. ; that of' the middle class had increased
by 360,176/. ; and that of the peasantry had increased by
271.599/. The unredeemed mortgages of the property of the
three classes are stated to be—of the nobility 2,511,6611. ;
middle class, 2,222,7741. ; peasantry, 2,247,375/. All trans-
fers of land are registered, and all individuals are divided by
law into these three classes ; so that the accuracy of the above
calculation may be relied on.

March is said to " come in like a lion, and go out
like a Lamb." The last week certainly exhibited all the lion
qualities in more than ordinary fierceness, if hail, rain, and
tempest may be so denominated.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN A LEAD MINE.-011
Friday last a miner of the name of James Wood, of Wensley,
near Matlock, was employed excavating in a lead mine ; in
the course of his operations a large quantity of stones and
earth fell upon him ; though assistance was at hand, and the
rubbish promptly removed from him, he was found quite dead,
it is supposed from suffocation, as no bruises were observed
upon the body. He has left a wife and three small children to
lament their loss.—Doncaster Gazette.

There has been lately, in the Canton of Tessin, a
fall of snow exceeding any within the memory of man, and all
the roads arc utterly impassable. The President and many of
the members of the Grand Council, who were proceeding to
Bellinzona, were stopped on the road, no money being suffi-
cient to induce any one to attempt to convey them forwards,
or even to carry them back home. Several disasters are ap-
prehended from avalanches.
When Mr. Justice Williams entered the town of
Reading to hold the Assizes, attended by the High Sheriff
and the usual cortege, there was in the rear of the procession,
and as if belonging to it, a tilted cart, on the tilt of which was
painted the name " John Doe."
INCENDIARISM.—The inhabitants of Wareham '
were on Wednesday night alarmed by a second fire on the pre-
mises of Mr. Townsend, brewer. From the statement given
by the man who has watched since the first attempt, the fire
occurred in the brewhouse. The whole range of buildings,
including the dwelling-house, was soon one mass of fire, and
no efforts to stop its progress were availing. There were con-
sumed about 160 quarters of barley, 130 of malt, 50 pockets of
hops, a quantity of new staves, the brewing utensils, and house-
hold furniture. There seems reason to fear it was the work of
as incendiary, as was the previous fire. Mr. Townsend was
insured.—An incendiary fire broke out at Rushton Farm, near
Wareham, on the 6th instant, which totally destroyed a barn
and wheat rick, containing about 80 sacks of wheat, about 400
reed sheaves, and two rick staddles.
ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE Or LADY COVENTRY.
—Extract of a letter of the Ist inst. from Rome :—" The day

before yesterday, at five A.M., an attempt was made on the
life of the Countess of Coventry by a man named Rocco„.ot-
taviani, a native of the province of Frosinone, in the Roman
States. The villain entered her Ladyship's bedchamber with
a lamp in one hand and- a weapon in the other. It appears
that her Ladyship heard a noise in the room, and cried out—
' Who is there ?' when the assassin answered---' Eccelenza,
it is Rocco,' and immediately rushed to her bed. In
.great alarm her Ladyship slipped from the bed, rung a
bell, and got to the door of her room, where a struggle
ensued. She again escaped from the hands of the assas-
sin, and,reached another room, where a dreadful struggle took
place, that lasted nearly twenty minutes. The villain never
succeeded in throwing her Lady prostrate, but, when
on her knees, defending herself with great courage and exer-
tion, he attempted several times to strangle her, whilst with
a weapon (supposed to be a clasp knife) he wounded her in
several places. At last her ladyship felt exhausted, and
screamed, You have murdered me.' The villain then made
his escape by a back staircase ; the servants at last appeared,
and found her Ladyship on the floor exhausted, and her night-
clothes saturated with blood. Dr. Kissock was immediately
called in, and pronounced that no mortal wound had taken
place. Mr. Aubin, Secretary of Legation to the Embassy at
Florence, and Mr. Freeborn the British Consular Agent, re-
paired immediately to the Palace Barberini to render assis-
tance ; and a demand for prompt and ample justice from the
Roman Government has not been neglected. The assassin
had been employed twelve years at the Palace Barbarini as a
house-porter (fachino), and had been discharged on the Ist of
January for a theft. It is reported that revenge, and an
tion to steal her Ladyship's jewels, actuated the villain
corntnit this outrage, Her Ladyship is now doing well.

IRELAND: (A
REPRESENTATION OF KILBF, have been
watching with intense interest, fo the :go-
eeedings of the Dublin Election C '6o,..Nl4'dopr,eitend
that the result will be the loss of ise -...tOrrsifting
bleaker& Mr. Sullivan, our pregtht ttek
Minded representative, has signified r- bat
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was only waiting some favourable pq re
to theta, unsullied, the high trust repo [ittl , thin. it
might be hatidird over to such successor as he was sure
would be amen by the free and unbought suffrages of the
electors of Kilkenny. If we mistake not, Mr. O'Connell
would feel complimented by being returned for Kilkenny,.
so famed for its election purity, and uncompromising inde-
pendence ; and we are confident he would not fail, in the
event of an adverse decision of the Election Committee, to
solicit and obtain the free suffrages of its emoituency„
should Mr. Sullivan think well of affording him that oppor-
tunity. These are suggestions which we respectfully sub-
mit to Mr. Sullivan's consideration. He was determined
to leave on the 10th, but we are sure that by deferring his
departure for a few days, he will do his constituents and his
country service, because, in the event of our apprehensions
being realised, and our expectations and our wishes with
regard to him and to Mr. O'Connell not proving visionary,
his presence here would be of vital importance.—Kilkenny
Journal.
REPRESENTATION OF SLIGO.—It is intended; we under-
stand, during the present Assizes at Sligo, to hold a meet-
ing there, for the purpose of carrying into effect the views
of the Reform Registry Association. The representation
of both the county and the borough of Sligo is at present
a disgrace to the Liberal interest. The great mass of the
population and of the electors is Catholic, and they tri-
umphantly asserted their independence in 1828, by the re-
turn of General King ; but since he betrayed the trust
reposed in him, by votinc, contrary to his pledges on the
hustings, they have sunk iglu a most reprehensible apathy,
and have tamely consented to yield up all their electoral
rights into the hands of a few Tory landlords. The repre-
sentation of the borough, too, was compromised in the re-
turn of Mr. John Martin, who is supported by a foriner
violent opponent, to prevent his father from exerting his
influence in the county against Colonel Perceval. We
trust the men of Sligo are at length determined to rid
themselves of the reproach to which, by their want of
spirit, they have been so long subject.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal.

Three Men hers of the Peerage, ten Deputy Lieutt-
nants—fortv-eight Justices of thePeace—twent3-six Cler-
gymen of the Established Church, and near three hundred
others of independence and intelligence, have signed an ad-
dress to the High Sheriff of the County of Kerry—and the
signatures are still increasing—for his spirit, loyalty, and
propriety, in refusing to convene the County, to raise some
fetid incense acceptable to the 0' Mulgrave nose. It is well
to see so erect and manly a spirit still alive and strong in
Daniel's District, where he affects uncontested supremacy.
—Cork Herald.—[lt were really difficult to determine
whether truth or felicity of expression most predominate in
the above paragraph.]
DUBLIN CORPORATION.—The Dituitn L'Aining Post, in
commenting on Mr. Shaw's silence, asks, " Is not the very
circumstance—the mere naked statement of the circum-
stance—namely, that the veriest Tory in England, nay, the
most outrageous Orangeman in Ireland, was ashamed to
say a single word in its behalf; nay, that its own Recorder,
overwhelmed by the might and magnitude of its disgrace,
voted—for he supported by his vote Lord Francis Eger-
ton's amendment—for its utter annihilation. And will the
public remember—can, indeed, the citizens of Dublin ever
forget—the insolence, the brutality of these fellows while
they exercised Municipal authority in Dublin? We have
grown prematurely grey in struggling with this foul con-
federacy—we could almost chaunt Demittis me, Domine,
now that we have lived to witness their approaching ex-
tirpation."

DUBLIN SOCIETY.—It is suggested that, for the recon-
struction of a " Royal Irish Institute," " Seven, or five,
English and Scotch (no Irish) Commissionars, at the least,
should be appointed for the investigation ; and when the
report shall have been made, Government will be in a con-
dition to legislate wiol,v and maturely, as to the expe-
dience of establishing a scientific, a practical, and a literary
society in Dublin, worthy the Jiberality of Parliament, the
prodigious advance which has taken place in all the arts
of life, and the incalculable influence of snch a central body
in the capital of the country."

TITHES.-It will be seen by the following extract from
Mr. Butler's letter, that the Hon. and Gallant Member
for Kilkenny entertains doubts as to the intentions of the
Ministry, regarding the vitally important and all-absorbing
subject :
" I believe I need not assure you that I perfectly agree
with you in the view you take on the subject of tithes ;
but, sorry am I to say, that I fear the present Ministry
take a very different viow of the matter, and, I much ap-
prehend, that their Bill of this Session, come when it may,
will be even worse than their two last, rejected by the
House of Lords."

THE ENNISKILLEN ORANGEMEN.—A number of per-
sons, Protestants and Catholics, were brought to trial at
the Fermanagh Assizes on Thursday, for a riot in which a
homicide had been committed. It should be stated that at
the previous delivery of the gaol two persons had been con-
victed of manslaughter, and there was an understanding, it
would seem, that the two batches of the adverse factions
recently arraigned should only be put upon their trial for an
aggravated assault and riot. The Crown Counsel, how-
ever, showed a disposition to persist, but the Court, Mr.
Justice Moore and Mr. Baron Pennefather, humanely, as
well as justly, directed that the milder issue should alone be
rent to the Jury. We never yet, in the course of our ex-
perience, read a speech from the bench which has filled ra
with feelings more deeply gratifying, and with hopes so rea-
sonable, that its effects will be permanent—that its opera:

tion upon the country will outlive the present times, and
that hereafter the name of this Judge will live in the grate-
ful recollection of a county restored to peace, and purged
from the miseries and the crimes of faction.—Dublin Post.
DISSOLUTION OF THE ORANGE SYSTE:►I.—The
Balli-
nahinch Orange Lodge, county of Antrim, has come to a
determination of dissolving, and we have good reason to
know that the other Lodges of this county are preparing
to follow the good example. The Boyne Orange Lodge
(Meath,) have resolved, in pursuance of the wish of the
King, and the advice of Randal Plunkett, to dissolve
forthwith. The Summerhill Lodge, in the same county,

have dissolved, after voting a loyal address to the King.
Alost sincerely do we congratulate our Orange brethren

on the judicious determination to which they have come.--

Dublin Post.

W. F. FINN, Ese•, M.P.—A subscription has been
set on foot to mark the sense entertained by his fellow-

countrymen of the services of this uncompromising and
indefatigable Irishman i❑ reference to Orangeism. The

merit of its overthrow is so entirely his, that little of it can
be ascribed to others, however good their intentions, or
useful their exertions in recent instances.—Register.

THE IRISH MEMBERS.—The sudden return of some of
the Irish Members before the termination of even one
month of the Session, is loudly and justly complained of.
During the recess, parties were considered nearly balanced
in the House of Commons, and there has been yet only a
single division of any moment. It was unquestionably the
duiy of Irish Members to make arrangements for remain-
ing at their posts until the principle, at least, of the great
measures so vitally affecting their country, was decided in
the House.

WRECKS.

(From a New York Paper.)

The brig Regulator, Phelps, from Smyrna, for Boston, went
ashore on Brown's Island, near Plymouth, last Thursday even-
ing, and five of the crew perished. Vessel and cargo a total
loss. Captain Phelps and the surviving part of the crew,
were taken off by the brig Cervantes, Kendrick, from Charles-
ton, for Boston (below). The names of those who
perished arc—George Dryden, an Englishman ; Daniel
Canton, of New York ; Augustus Tileston, of Vermont ; John
Smith, a Swede ; and a Greek by, of Smyrna. Captain
Phelps had one foot frozen, and otherwise frost bitten : Mar-
tin Adams, chief mate, both bands and feet frozen, and badly
bruised ; James Warden, second mate, hands frozen, feet frost
bitten ; Elijah Butler, hands and feet fruzen • Lewis Almeira,
hands and feet frozen, and badly frosted ; Cook, slightly frozen.
Her cargo consisted of the following articles :-460 bales
wool, 35 cases opium, 25 ditto gum Arabic, 12 bales,senna,
12 drums scamony, 2,000 drums Sultana raisins, 2,000 boxes
raisins, 5 packages cow tails, case safflower, 400 sacks salt,
tons logwood. Captain Phelps spoke about 26th ult- lat. 61,
long. 67 50, British ship Majestic, from Dundee, for New
York—had been run foul of, lost bowsprit and head, and leaked
badly—wanted no assistance that he could render.
Brig Triton, Wortman, of New York, from Wilmington,
N.C., for Port-au-Prince, was wrecked on the night of the
28th December on the Caicos. The Captain, crew, and
some of the effects saved, arrived at Turks Island previous to
the 13th ult.
The ship Scotia, at St. John's, New Brunswick, saw ox the
sth November a wreck to leeward, with a signal of distre-ss
flying—bore down, and found it to be the John Miller, of
Liverpool ; hard gales prevailing to the N. W., hove to under
her lee, and remained by her until 10 A. N. on the 27th, whet
our boat was got and we succeeded i nbonaurdbr
ineg.therch wreck,
weather n
in rescuing the officers and crew, 23 in n m
continuing stormy, and being rather short of water, bore up
for Floris on the 29th, where a supply was obtained, and 14
men left in charge of the British Consul. The John Miller
sailed from Liverpool for Savannah on the Ist November.
The Falmouth and Halifax packet Star, arrived some time
since at Nevis, was in company Nov 21st with an American
bark, and at eight A. M. saw her
American
and bowsprit go by
the board—she then showed ari and at nine
her main and mizenreasls- went by rtiheellbeonarde, and' in alolut
15 minutes after she went down.