The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-06 00:00:00

h:RhAbFUL ACCIPP,WT IN A11,1E1110,4.

tht:Ocallipiore Paper of the 30th•ofiafcernttr,
there is.o3e following narrative of one of the
.most shoOtting accidents that ever - happenel iu
America

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EXTRACT OF A LtTTEtt, DATED DEC. 27, 180.
`et sit doWri to inform you of one of the, Mo%t
dreaclikil aCcidentS which has" happened in this coml.,
try. Last night, there being a rew Play; the House
teas very , full. About eleven o'clock, the Upper
part took fire, and So foridUs- was its vogress, that,
before the audience could retreat, upwardsrof One.
kindred persons, already .aseei-tained, .were burnt tc;,
death, and most Of them to ashes---some were killed
iti jumping out of the winclowS ; Many ran, out id,
flames, and died in a few minutes. Of Seven hun-
dred that were in -the Theatre, but few escaped
Out some injury. Mr. Smith, Govertor of the'
State ; Mr. Venable, President of the &ink ; Mr.
and Mrs. Booth and niece ;. Mr. Cook and daugli-,,
ter ; William Brown, Merchant ; Mrs. Galigo, and
niece ; Mrs. Robert Greenhow'and daughter ; Cap:-
tain Jacobs, daughter and grarid-daupter ; Lieu
tenant Gibbon. But it is impossible to recollect the.
names of all the sufferers. the stores and shops'
have been kept shut. No place ever so,
dreadful as this. Every one is filled with horror.",

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FEB..
XFORD, 14the- beginning of -Lent,
Term, lohn David Nacbride, ESq. D.C.L. was admitted'
Assessor of the Vice-Chancellor of the University
in•the place ot, jamcs Blackstone, Esq. D. C. L. PrincipAL
of New Inivitaiti Mho has resigned.

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On WedifeAkiNy last the following Gentlemen were
'admitted to Degrees :—Masters'of ArtS: -Rev. Rob. Smith,
of Magdalen College; Messrs. Charles Dyson, Edward
NVliitehead, and Robert Gordon Andrews, of Corpus Christi
Ccillege'• and the Rev.-lohn Robertson, of St. John's Col-
`lege.-13achelors of Arts:. MosSrs. Strickland Charles Ed-
ward. Neville, of Wadham College ; Richard tones, of
Corpus Christi; lames Ord, of University-; Thos. Clay-
ton Glyn, john Bull, and !oho Gregg, of Christ Church;
!Qum Edward Nassau Molesworth; Thomas Short, and Ed-
ward Day, of Trinity

Lieutenant OXLEY, of the Royal Navy, is ap.
pointed Surveyor-General of Lands, In New South
Wales, in the Room of C. GRIMES, Esq. resigned.
The city of Catania, which is not more that Se-
ven leagues from the Crater of /Etna, has beea
strongly menaced by it e torrents of lava with which
the valley of Nusara was filled. The stream of lava,
flowed not more than one league from the walls of
the city, which the inhabitants, inlheir first alarms,
abandoned.

Among the Meritoratilia of thepresent Month, it
win, doubtless, be recorded, that on the 181 h wa4
drawn, with 20,000 Prizes, an unprecedented Tara
Scheme of only 8,000 Tickets. (

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The importation of foreign corn into England in
tlie year 1810, amounted to 11221,951 quarters; if
that immense quantity be turned into money it will
amount to more than eight millions sterling, the
greater part of which was thus carried in specie out
of England !
A carriage, in which were three young La!ic,:s,
(the Miss Longs, of Hammersmith) was overturzi-
ed on Monday evening, in 'the road leading troy(' .
Brompton-row to tbe Village orOld Brotniaton,
consequence of the wheel coming in contaa with •
a post, which escaped the observation of the coach-
man, in consequence of the absence of lamps and
the darkness of, the night. We lament to state,
that the Ladies were all severely injured, and that
one of them, the eldest, had her eye quite 'cut out ,
by the glass of the window, which happened to be
up, and against which she fell, The coachman es."
taped Without injury ; but the horses taking fright,
dragged the vehicle a considerable distance lattorc
they could be stopped.
Yesterday a young man of respectable ConnexioPs •
was committed for trial at the Thames Police Office,
under a charge of forgery, having passed a fiaitiuui '
bill for 941. drawn on Messrs. IVlacdougal and Co. la
purchasing a chaise.
The body of a lespeelable woman, which had
been six weeks it the water, was found in the Set'
ptAtane' Iliver on Monday, . - A Coroner's InquesL
sal on the body on TUesday, 'in Mount-street, 6e-
((ire GELL, Esq. and delivered a verdict--Found