The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-15 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 14.—The Master and rel. •
10w3 of M.tdalen College have presented the .Ite'v.
Philip S. Dodd, M. „A. Senior Fellow of that So-
ciety, Cletplain to his Royal Highness the 'Prince
&c, to the Re(iory of Aldriegtou, Sessex,
v ieceed by the decease of the Rev. Thomas Paley,
A.—The Rev. John Vander Meulen, L.L. B.
Vicar of Messing, in the county of Essex, and Mi.
noi Cl/mil of St. Patti's Cathedral, .was on Tuesday
last (()hated, by the Dean and Chapter of that
Church, to the Vicarage. of Belchamp St. Paul,-
\it)
,the same c ,linty, a di:pen‘.ation having previ-
oudy passed the Gre it Seal tor that purpose.
RICHMOND THEATRE, (AMERICA).—The Coma
miftee appointed to investigate ti:c cAtLiie of this •
chei'df,l cal oniTy occasioned by the destruo;on of
this Theatre by fire, and the loss of:more 000. '
tenth of the aud,eoce, have Mad, their report, froni,
witch it appears, that on the fatal night the NOW=
mime of " The Bleeding Nun ; Or, Agnes and Ray.
mood," came on for releeSentaiion after the Play
was over. In the first Att, amongst other scenes,
was the scene of the Cottage of 13 iptist, tht.-: Rob,. •
ber, which was illuminated by a c'.andeiier app.,
ten tly hanging from the ceiling. Wh it the;ctirt..in
fell•on tlie• first act, and t,efore it rose On Ibe ,second,
this chandelier.was lifted from its position among the
scenery above; it was fixed with two wicks to h,
one only of them had been lighted, yet when it was
lifted above, this fatal lamp was• not extinguished. —.l
The man who inadverienily raised ii being ordered•
to lower it,. made the attempt : the cords. being en-
tangled above, it failed. He th,n jerked' rind jostled
it, in consequence of which irswet loaf from its per-
peoidicular position, and was thus brought into con-
tail with the lower part of one of the front scenes.—
The scene took fire; the flame rose, and tapering
above it to a point, must have reac4,o the root,
which was elevated six or seven feet above the top
of the scene.—The cause of the fire is thus explain-
ed. The great number of lives lost on the occa-!
sion, was owing to the bad coostruelion of the The-
atre. There was but one entrance to the Boxes and
Pit, and that so narrow that two pers,ina could
scarcely pass at the same time—the way then lying
through a gloomy passage to a natrow winding stair-
case, which terminated in as narrow a lobby, There
were in the Pit and Boxes 548 dollar tickets and
80 childreu—exclusive.of fifty per,ons who were ••
the galleries., Of these, 598 had, to pass through
one common avenue, and although _ail the spetia-
tors in" the Pit may have escaped, except a Sew Who
.
may have jumped into the Boxes, yet the crowd in
the lower and upper Bokes had no other resource ,
then to press-through the above narrow angular stair.
case, or to leap from the windows.

The Grand Jury has thrown out five Bills of In.
dietment, brought by the Society for the Suppres.
von of Vice against Butchers, for selling meat an
the Sunday morning. It appeared that the voor
people, who • were thus provided with a Sund;.ty
dinner, worked till near midnight on the Saturday-,•
and that they were served before ten o'clock in (110
forenoon ; also that the meat Itft uuso!d on the
Saturday would not, in many cases, keep sweet till.
Monday,

CORN-EXCHANGE, FEB. 1 4.—To-day the Market
continues nearly es our last, very few arrivals of
Vlieat, arid not much on hand : in this tra..;e 134
prices are fully supported ; the sarticway be noted
in the trade for Barley and Malt ; l'ease-arid 13-estO
of each sort remain at little fluctuation ; we ha'
same few fresh arrivals of Oats, but not many 03
hand, and hardly sales sufficient elected to warrar4
but little variation trorn last quoted prices ; and
Flour at last currency.
Wheat - -68 s a 925 rros
Fine ditto - - xt6s a ties
Rye - - szs a 58s
Barley - 40 a 555
Malt - -•- 78s a 86s
White Peas, boilers 765 a 82s
Grey ditto' - -58 s a 645
Beaus - 545 a 6os

Tick Beans (new) 5,s a 565
Ditto (fine old) - 4 5?,k:
()atS - - 3os a 34,
Poland ditto - a4r
Potatoeflitto 41s a
Rape Seed - 01'
Fine Flour gos a 914
Seconds - - giss a 9'-'6

13IRTHS.
On the i ith inst. in Surrey (Kent-road), the LadY of
George Redhead, Esq. of a Daughter.,
On Tuesday last, at Blithfield, iu Staffordshire, the RiS--
ht
Hon. Lady Harriet Bagot, ot a Son,
of
On Thursday, at his house in Portland-place, the LadY
Valentine Conolly, Esq. of a Daughter.