The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-08 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE MANCHESTER CUP.
4 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Bellona—offered
6 to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's The Shadow—offered
to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's The Cripple—take 7
7 to 1 agst Mr. CoHetet; The Dean—take 8
8 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's La Sage Femme
10 to 1 agst Mr. Haworth's Fair Louisa
11 to 1 agst Mr. Loy's Ararat
11 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Imogene
to 1 agst any other
Offers of 6 to 1, bar one, field v. three.—The course is in
prime order.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND LOSS

OF FIVE LIVES.

Yesterday morning a destructive fire, attended with
the loss of five human lives, occurred in Ivy-lane,
Newgate-street. About one o'clock the fire broke
out in the premises belonging to Messrs. Price and Pal-
mer, booksellers, adjoining the extensive premises of
Messrs. Vertue and Co., the publishers. Messengers
were instantly despatched to the various fire stations,
and, in the meanwhile, every exertion was made to
arouse the inmates. After a few minutes of painful
anxiety a man appeared at the window, who, on learn-
ing that the place was on fire left it. In a few
seconds other persons appeared, and the flames begin-
ning to ascend with fearful rapidity they dropped
from the window on the leaden till, which
was about fifteen inches in depth, and from
thence into the street, being in a state
of nudity. It was at first thought that all the inmates
had by some means effected their escape, but in a short
time it was discovered that no less than five persons,
bad fallen victims.
The following are the particulars : The first person
who appeared at the window on the alarm being given
by the constable, was Mr. Price, who, upon being made
aware of the tire, ran back to the bedroom for the
purpose of arousing his wife, whom he succeeded in
waking, begging her to get up, as the place was
on fire, and he went to the front window. He then
went and alarmed his apprentices, two young lads
about sixteen years of age, both of whom slept on
the third floor. Shortly afterwards Mr. Price returned
to the window, having a child in his arms, apparently
between three and four years of age, with which he
effected his escape. This occurred at the back part of
the house, which looked into the yard of Mr. Reid's
house, but no other person v,-as seen to follow. In the
front an equally painful sight took place. In the se-
cond floor front room resided a ma►; and his wife, of the
name of Sinfield, in the employ of Mr. Brown Hay,
salesman of Smithfield, residing in the Old Bai-
ley. While the flames were ascending (which, ac-
cording to the statement of acting Inspector Wal-
lace, who was present, enveloped the entire front
of the house in the course of five minutes),

the parties were to be seen one at each of the
windows, the female having a girl in her arms,
which she flung out, and the little creb.ture
caught by the persons in the street uninjuret2. The
man then got out of the window, and having be& sus-
pended for a few seconds, dropped on the leads over .13 e
shop, and escaped without the slightest injury. His
wife also got out of the other window, and hung by ber
hands to the upper part of the lower sash for a period of
from 10 to 15 minutes. While in this extraordinary
position she drew her feet up and thrust them through
the lower panes of glass, evidently unconscious of what
she was doing. By this time a sheet was obtained, and
although the flames were rushing out, several men in a
most heroic manner held it open, and called out to the
female to fall, and at length she fell and fortunately was
caught uninjured. By this time it was too evident that
several lives were lost, and the firemen and police re-
doubled their exertions to extinguish the fire. By the
direction of Mr. Braidwood, the ruins were instantly
examined, whin in the course of an hour they began to ar-
rive at the bodies, all of which presented a horrible sight.
On examining the premises, it was discovered that Mrs.
Price had not got out of bed. The sufferers are Mrs.
Price, aged 35 years, her three boys, aged 2, 10, and
12, and the apprentice, aged 16 years. The cause of
the fire has not
been ascertained. An inquest will be
held on the bodies in the course of this afternoon.

The British Museum will he o en the whole of
the week until Saturday, on account of the Whitsun holidays.
BLENHEIM, FRIDAY.—The Dowager Duchess
of Marlborough arrived here yesterday, on a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Marlborough. The arrival of her Grace was
announced by a discharge of cannon, and the bells of Wood-
stock Church rang a merry peal. It is upwards of twenty years
since the Duchess was at Blenheim. On Tuesday last the
Marquis of Blandford completed
his eighteenth year, when the
Mayor and Corporation of Woodstock dined together, with a
numerous party, in celebration of the happy event. There was
also a public dinner. The Noble Duke has been elected a mem-
ber of the Oxfordshire Agricultural Association. Great im-
provements are going on here, and the residence of the Duke
and Duchess with their amiable family at this princely scat
affords considerable satisfaction to the inhabitants of Woodstock
and its vicinity. A school is about to be established at Wood-
stock, for the eiucation of the children 'of the poor, by the
Duke and Palm

Some articles in this Number are written with much
spirit, but, we are sorry to say, not always with the
best spirit. There prevail through some of them a
violence of political feeling quite inconsistent with the
impartial discussion of questions of law, and a sort of
rabid hatred of Whigs and Whiggery, which would
withhold from the devil his due. Canterbury Brad-
shaw could not harangue against them more fer-
vently than does the writer of an article de-
nouncing them and the Edinburgh Review.
" The Whig Reviewer," says the author, " with
unabashed effrontery, presumes to charge hatred of
Whiggery, which is worse than Whirrs, as lies are worse
than the devil, who is the father of them, as a crime on
the Conservatives. If a hate of what is sordid, time-
serving, self-seeking, and utterly degraded ; if to loathe
the appalling unmanliness, the stupendous cowardice,
that would imperil a crown worn by a female and a child,
all for the sake of a party, and of a party bound by no
tie save antipathy to the men sworn to uphold the
Church and the State, God and the Queen, be a bond
of union to the Conservative party, long may it
be so ; aye, though as this audacious declaimer
would insinuate, it be the only one." In another
article on the Registration Bill the writer displays the
same pugnacious disposition. The revising barristers
are attacked—so is the bar—so are the Judges. " The
independence of the bar is mere hollow verbiage, a
specious euphonious lie, when it is predicated of the re-
lations that subsist between the Judges and men who
are willing to take the office of revising barristers, and
who make a practice of soliciting the Judges for an ap-
pointment to that office." Nay, like another animal,
when in a certain state, the writer goes out
of his way to bite others of a different spe-
cies. He cannot bite the lawyer without snapping
at the doctors, who, in respect of their esprit de corps,
he says, " are but a sorry set." Barring this frailty,
however, the article in question is drawn up with judg-
ment, and contains some suggestions which deserve the
attention of the conductors of this Bill. The copious
notes of cases that are heard in all the principal courts
of law and equity, will be found serviceable to practi-
tioners as well as students.