The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

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TOTAL DESTRUCTION BY FIBS
OF A 5T.1.1: AMPHIT HEAT
Ast,ey's Amphitheatre, the scene of the glories of &d
Astley, and o the mere recent triumphs of Ducrew, is note a.
heal, of reins. Shortly after four o'clock this morning ;a
tremendous fire broke out at the back of the heatre. -
at:d in less than three hours the who!e of the premises, "lti'
the exception of the front towards the Westrmister,hritr: •
road, was totally destroyed. The fire is supposM to have 11;la ?MP
its origin in the stable facing Stangate-street, and to ha
arisen from some defect in the gas pipes, but on this Subalect
it is impossible, at (resent, to obtain any accurate.
informaim.. Three of 1..1r. Ducrow's valuable horses have
perished in the flames, and an unfortunate donkey, which ""as
in the stables at the time, has also fallen a sacrifice. We are
sorry to add, that this calamitous fire has not been unattended
with loss of human lilt. One of Air. Ducruw's fernale servants
was suffocated in the. flames, and the both-, dreadfully burned,
was this morning dug out of the rubs. 'I here were three
watchmen in the interior of ;he theafze, and the first knowledge
they had of the existence nf tit fire, was from seeing it boak
it, one mass into the body of the the.tre. The building, "8
understand, ucs insured in the West of England office, but
we. ft ar that the furniture, stage properties, scenery, &e. care
umosurt d. Several houses adjoining the theatre were rat the'
tune in imminent veril, but we are happy to state that al-
though several are much injured, none 'are actually de-
stroyed. The flames were gut, under at about half.past as
o'clock, at which hour the entire building was destroyed.

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THE MARKET:3.-( T I-11 S DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET. . o
clema.ntrio,- bil descriptions of Produce was estrel,:cl,r
dull, and prints on the decline, with very large parcels goo
pressing for sall. B. P. sugar fully supported previ°u4
rates, and the purchases were cotained to the actual wants r-
fife boyers. Bengal ar.d Maur;tius went off s'nwlV. at f2ll;'
prices. Coffer. nuite neglected, .`hough offered on lower tering^
Cectfa dull, and Is. pm cwt. lower. trice was offered at verf
low prices, wi,h,),,t meditating the ,sale in the !east ; miti;lling
White Bengal may bu'obtained at I 3?. 6d. per cwt. Slat"

petre on the declin^, with very 'tittle inquiry.
TALLOW MARKET.
The lar,tc supin fro": Buenos Ayres so damtei the rnsYket
p.
that it wns ditricu tto make sales oven on lower tai ms. rl3"
P. Y. Candle on the spat was offered at 46r. 3!. pit* olt•
The stock is very large.
• • TEA MARKET.
Priecs were filly supported, but the demand was linitedi
in
coniequenc,, of the numerous public sales declared. ComPan° 5
CongOu offered at 2s 2d. per lb. cash.
WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.
We had but a moderate supply,. and the demand dull,
beat quaiiiies met with a redue.ion of at least 2s. per load»
the midcding and inferior sorts heavy on hand. Glover, 31'• •
18s. to hi. Itis.; Meadow Hay, 21. lbs. to 41. 6s. ; Straw, fros,-- „e
1. 16s. to 2/. • 09'4

LLOYD'S SHIT'T'ING--(TI-.IS DA
LoNnosr; SuNa. B.—Wind this day at noon, light breeze
from N. to N.E., cltudy. Ar. #
DEAL, JUNE 7.—Wind N. to N.E., strong breeze.---..
l
rived from the River, the Fiorentine, Goodwin; --for S,vci'f„; •
New South Wales. Arrived from the Inver and ;ailed,
Oriental, for New Zealand ; Sarah, Bombay. Pit
Ann Johnson, for Halifax,' with loss of two anchors and cables.
but has bee.' supplyd. Ti
Du ey.atess, Jc•szr. s.—Arrived off, the Atlas, Seslilds fr°ll,
Terreeecchia ; Trois Freres, Perrier,- Monte Video, for An' 4
wcrp. a, 'if
Livaarooa, JUNE 7.—Wind N.N.E.' fresh.—Ar:•ittfilui
Ann Grant, Walker, from Sierra Leone; Maria. i‘
Iceland; Caledonia, and Isabella Cooper. Caleutt-A ; Alar,
Bulmer, Bombay. Arrived off, the Forth, from the 11.1".
Flee. Salted. the Ocean Britte, Brunton, for the iV;surAilus:
Jacicson, Berbice ; Lydia, Antigua ; Eliza, J•imaica-; Hari;),.
mony, Ocean, and Samuel, Quebec ; Corn, t. Neafounitlano
Columbine, Odessa. The Atlas, bound to Antwerp, str'.k °4ll,
Burbo Bank, yesterday afternoon, was towed of, and at-es-01u
sank in about five fathoms water.
ozl
VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—Robarts, London to Calcutta, to
the 24th April, lat. 4, lon. 21 ; Iron Duke, ::.3aletttta, e
Liverpool, sth ult., lat. 17, lag. 35, by the Caledonia, 'l° f
at Liverpool. Tabago, bound to Antigua, and illargel'.;
Bouers, f.,r ltio Janeiro, lat. 49, 10t'.12, by the 11117,deta nr, •
rived at Dublin. Neptune, Mtli'onall, LiverpeOl, for Vl•lrn, •
raise, 14th April, let 1, S. ion. 24 W. ; General Washing' '•'•
Liverpool to New York, 17th ult., by the Stephen
arrired at Liverpool. Cyrus, from Valparaiso. 19th ultaa'A-,,
38, lon. 43, by the Tiber, arrived at Falmouth. John r'°;.
rocks, Liverpool to Singapore, tith Jan., lat. 35, S. lon.
and
Sophia of St. John's, 15th 'ult., lat. 43. ion. 584 S,-sad. '
Jane, of Donegal, 29th, let. 53, lon. 18, by the Clydesaln'e'
arrived in the Clyde. Charles Heartly, London to Spin
24th Mardi, lat. 33, lon. 20, by the Lord Eldan, arrived l° 11911
the. River Amanda, of Greenock, Newfoundland to 1331,
does, 4th ult, lat. 31, loth 51 ; Wm. Haynes, of Bristol,
lat. 45, lon. 12; Lord Althorp, 28th, lat. 48, lon. 11 ; flel7
of Liverpool, 29th, lat. 50, lon. 9, by the Lady Shaw Stesca• " •
arrived at Whitehaven.
• ,
THE AGITATION.
The bread-taxeas complain daily and nightly in Par;
liament and the press of the dreadful agitatior for
cheap loaf. They do not, however, dislike ag.tatio e., •
.b.britthey h, want to have it all on their own side. lb
have formed agricultural protection societies; they
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subscribed large sums ; they despatch hired and P.lllO
agent-, with sounding professional titles, throo.?4l, ut the
country ; they hold lectureF.; they bribe seine . of ut
working classes to betray their fellows; and tl
forth, on purpose to agitate the labourers,: the inog, of
and scandalous statements about the rowanores:t.- •
labow .in this awl other countries: Their - •
object is to persuade the toil-worn, half-Lm'
reer
people of' England, that they arc better fed and ix
paid than 'any other people on the wide earth.
deubteclly they ought -to be,• for they are more si
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and more industrious than other Lhourers. But Acia
others get is not the question ; the real questioa is , ?
they teL enough ? do they get what justice require
aro tlicy free to buy and sell, and _f;et.a.4- Much as th-•.'
can ? are they, who produce such masses of wealth
the squires and the parsons, themselves well fed
clothed ? They are not ; and while they raise imuienf'
yearly ineoinea for Archbishops and. Bishop; for PAZ
Lords, and Squires, they are themselves in a starving C9ll'-of
tion. -This is Rot right, whatever may be the collodion
other labourers, and the Worse that is, the more arz' 4(l
landlords to blame -for wishing our labourers to pi o "
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tented with something just a little better. If oo -
bourers are now true to themselves, and tell the bre3eii
taxers to preach-patience to those who are well fed„l. •
may undoubtedly remedy the evils of which they waif.'
The condition of the Polish slaves and the Russian.:ito3
is no criterion for them; they are free men. liniy si ... 5
the parson, and the squire, and the.pensiOner, be alw:
sure of his income, whatlayer may be the Seasons tal; •
weather, and the laboukr who produces the 111 .
of others never be secure of his daily bread ? Tinces
an inversion of- the order of nature, which deer.,e- ..
wealth and security to industry, and poverty and (1-390t0
to idleness. It is the duty of the • labourer, therefore 'e
reply to the seductive agitation of the bread-taxers, ..or
care nothing about the bread which sustains slavex;;4
are determined to have plenty of good white bread ;„:
, ...„
plenty of meat, and we insist on Government
diately abolishing your corn and provision laws, by
plenty of good bread and plenty of meat, cheap no
good, are withheld from us." So may the labourer:.l4
the agitation now provoked by the bread-taxers to Wri,e .
account. So may they retort the false and del,,liSbv '
statements about •the poverty of the Russian sers-.0,0
which the bread-taxers seek to persuade them to
themselves to hunger and slavery. -
THE PRESENT CONTEST. • re.
The gauntlet has ben thrown down • free trade or we
stricted, monopoly or no monopoly, the landlords 'oran- '
people, is now the question-7-there is no shirking it,
every man must now take his side and prepare lob
for the coming contest ; and, as we must have a liigilb•eet•
we must in spite ef ourselves go at - once to the ° ?hot.
and end of all that which is called organic reform,"..io 4
a glorious contest it will be for us, either in vieter,y-11,
defeat.—(Hear, hear.) Honesty and truth against dts-
pocrisy and fa,lsehood—(CheerS)-gamblers and sPec4recl
tion against fair and legitimate traders--(r 'enecii-05
cheers)—the mass of consumers against the narrow. ,
interests. A whole nation struggling for bread an 'OO4 ••'
against an oligarchy of Peers and large overgrown'.
proprietors.—(Hear, hear.) Is this mere declatAntiiich
If the landlords have any other right than that toe
belongs to the strongest, to take our bread and to 0:- oe-
our population for their own benefit,l why
knowledge that this is mere declamation.
must be paid. Ought they to be paid by. the
poor? But look at this Corn-law. It is mot
which the poor man peys into the stock of the
put into the pocket of thelandlord. It takes
needy to enrich those already rolling in wealt
Morality—is this Christianity—is this cons!
the word of God, which especially denounces
rob the poor?—(Cheers.) Oh, this protectiot
don't we grow our own wine, cultivate vines
corn,
.in expensive and ungenial soils, and by
hibitory duties upon foreign wines protect the
perry manufacturers, the currant and goosel
and thus establish one griping and eternal sto;
throughout the land ? These home wine gentb
perhaps, a better right to their tax, for theirs
exclusively upon the rice; the corn tax falls upo)
man, his sole food is bread ; whereas if the rid

more for his bread he gets more than an equiv.
in the price obtained for his corn. But I can
Gentlemen, bread forms but a small portion of •
sumption of the rich man's table. It is sontethinFi3iesa
the plan of 'alstaft"s bill in Shakspeare's
a halfpenny, sack a pound."—(Cheers and
They consume plenty of made dishes, plenty- of coot
wines ; but all the bread they eat is perlislS rpo-ie
prised in an.anchOvy toast after dinner for the Pu fie°.
of exciting a thirst. But these monopolists, bealeus
one position, take up a thousand others, each her i 1
tenable as the last. They say, " But if corn is .
this duty, wages are always high in proportion- , pgA)r"•
is untrue as Lord Fitzwilliam has proved, as ego yogi"'
be proved by. a comparison of the prices year 1-'l,or,'"
corn and wages ; it is false in fact, unsound til ;Of
The rate of wages depends upon the quantity Send thin the
of labour the market. If there be much .1.0.1'
market, or many superfluous hands, labour will he 'AO
Competition makes labour, as other things, eitcl.l3 /Dyed`'
the other hand, the population is well and fully,
labour will be high. Now let the ask one questuw•-t_ ove
pose all our nutautactories stopped and our ports slr' ;pet
million of hands would be thrown out of
Would they go to the land, to agriculture, to relle'dy
distress ? They have too many hands 0.11,;g6-
wages are too low. But Work must be found, ail td Iowa)
with this competition superadded, would go still coral
—(Hear, hear.) Now, open your ports,—le" .
from foreign parts,-see then the blessed change,3 wijtl
deserted factories would be peopled and crownivao
fmechanies, artisans, and labourer= 0 everY c''
ca
act
description, all employetl,pach in their separate
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in malting and finishing:4.....Ose goods which 3re.-!;.'ild ,L'44l
changed for the foalduilife. Not only 1;"b„,t;0'141
rua nufaeturing o w n:; _feel the;late li'
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ports and harbours, Would be crushedw
shipping, and .hunan ith
beings. to tratigier.t tile'aur-s"'eroo
their S 6 veral deatinations,. Nary tzillagc
hamlet throughout the etre, to it-rel1;10:-;F!'',41441710
would feel the beneffes greats,--. tilt„;,-17re-1(.014
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