The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

ST. LEGER.

2 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken
5 to 4 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation--take G to 4
9 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—tkn
8 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Middleham—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Tearaway—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's The Squire—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lampoon—taken
DERBY.

20 to 1 on the field
25 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre—taken
25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hester colt—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's William de Fortibus—tk n
33 to 1 agst Mr. Herbert's Nessus
40 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Espartero
.50 to 1 agst Mr. Coombe's Criterion—taken
The. Doncaster Cup this year will be of the value of
1001; only, and will be raised by subscribers of 10 sous.
each, with 50 added by the Corporation. The weights are
altered, and those who have laid 12 and 15 to 1 agst
Ilyllus will have the worst of it, as he is entitled to 71bs
allowance as a maiden horse.

LATE FIRE AT BLACKIIEATH.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF SIXTEEN PERSONS.
The walls of the destroyed premises are standing, but
their condition is exceedingly dangerous. The escape
of Mr. Waller, with his wife and 11 children, was truly
miraculous. He says he retired to bed with his family
Shortly after eleven o'clock, leaving a female who had
been engaged to make some dresses for his children at
work in one of the front rooms on the first floor. He had
not been asleep more than two hours and a half, when he
was aroused by a violent shriek of a female, and the cries
(-11 " Fire, fire," on the heath ; and on jumping out
Of bed found his room full of smoke. With-
out stopping to put on his clothes, he ran out
of arriving the apartment, when, on at the first
floor landing, he discovered the female above alluded
to in a state of stupor, against the wainscoting in
her night dress, which was on fire in several parts. Im-
mediately on her recovering, which was in a few seconds,
she said, " 0 God, save yourself, the house is on fire, it
is raging in my room," which he found to be the case,
for on opening the door the flames burst forth and as-
cended the staircase. He instantly closed it, and pro-
veeded to awake his mother, who slept in a room adjoin-
ing- that on fire, and carried her out of the house on to
the green facing the premises, where he left her in her
alight dress, and returned to save his wife and children,
Who were all asleep.
It was with great difficulty that they could be got
'down stairs, in consequence of the heated smoke that
'its rushing up from the burning apartment, and almost
Suffocating them. They were all in their bed-clothes,
and were unable to save one particle of wearing apparel.
About three minutes after the flames broke through the
windows and ascended to the attics, where the servants
were sleeping, and they not having made their appar-
*nee, it was feared they had perished from suffocation.
Air. wailer, however, rushed up the staircase at the risk
of his life, and, arriving at the top of the house, found
had
Oe poor creatures screamiscreamingdreadfuliy. They
ioe;:ed their doors and were unable to unfasten them, but
were 2mmediately released as he burst the doors open.
Very s.l,,ortly after the building became enveloped in
flumes, an.:l its destruction followed with rapidity.
It was cor.-ectly ascertained yesterday by the surveyors
of the different. insurance-offices, that the fire originated
in the room when' the female was at needlework, and
it is suspected by 3/Ir. Waller that she fell asleep, and
her" candle set fire to her work on the table, and thence
it communicated to the hangings of the bed. She, how-
ever, asserts such not to be the case. She says she left
off work soon after the family had retired, and went to
bed, and had been asleep long before she was awoke and
found the place on fire. Sue is positive of having safely
extinguished the candle before getting into bed.
The only property saved ottt of Mr. Waller's residence
were two caskets, one containing money, and the other
jewellery of great value. Mr. Waller, who only re-
turned from Java, in the East Indies, with his family, a
fortnight since, is a great sufferer, being wholly unin-
sured, having lost almost all he possessed, besides an
immense quantity of curiosities which he had bean up-
wards of 20 years collecting in India.

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—
This morning at ten o'clock, as Mr. Thompson, in com-
pany with Mr. Richardson, were passing through Wig-
Inure-Street, they observed an elderly gentleman of in-
tlanendmit fortune, aged 84 years, a Mr. Oldfiold, of No.
6, 'Edgware-road, stagger and fall to the ground; they
instantly raised the unfortunate man, procured a cab,
and lost no time in taking him to his residence. Mr.
Ileard, a surgeon of the neighbourhood, promptly at-
-tended ; but, before his arrival, the vital spark had fled.
Ile nevi spoke from the time he was put into the cab up
to the moment that he expired.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.--This morning, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock, George Rudland, aged
twenty-five years, carman, in the employ of Mr. Sinnott,
°f Clerkenwell, dust-contractor, was riding on the
shafts of the cart be was driving along East Smithfield,
when the horse suddenly took fright, and he was jerked
011; and one of the wheels passed over his thighs,
causing a compound fracture of both. He was removed
to St. Thomas's Hospital, and is not expected to survive.