The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-07 00:00:00

THIS EVENING,

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
DUMBOLTON'S SERENADERS.

The Programme ;ill include a variety of original Songs, Glees,
&c., en,irely new to this country, written and composed expressly
for this company.

Deors open at Eight, the Entertainments to commence at HaL
p ist Eight.

Bt.xes, 43.; Pit, 2s. Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal L
brary, 33, Old Bo_d-street ; and at the Box office of the Theatre.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication can be attended to unless authenti,
cared by the name and address of the writer.
fio*ted communications cannot be returned.

WEATHER—SUN OFFICE. DECEMBER 7.
Tif kaIIOMETER, Lowest, 40; Highest, 49; Noon, 53.
BAR. M VrEa, 29.61.—W1ND S.W.; hezy weather.

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1.(i:,,D0N, THURSDAY, DECE.III3ER 7, 1843.

Let us talk no longer of the unparalleled cruelties
of Sua. DowLAll, the Nabob of the great pro-
vin,-e!s of Bengal, Orissa, and Balm The awful
crime, w hich has rendered the Black Hole at Calcutta
a name hideous to the ears of Englishmen, has been
repeated in the December of 1848 on board the Sligo
steamer called the Londonderry. The horrors per-
petneed by the despot of Mwrshedabad have been
renewed by the underlings of a mercantile commu-
nity; and what makes the circumstance the more
deiiierable and the culpability the more heinous,
if that be possible, is, that while these horrors
arose at Fort William from the motives of cu-
pidity and vengeance, they have emanated, in the
Irish Channel, from the most reprehensible negli-
gent e Whoever has read the history of the rise and pro_
gres of the British empire in Hindostan, whether
narrated by the frigid perspicuity of MILL, or
plieted with the lavish and gorgeous colourings of
Oame, will remember vividly that occurrence over
which he has shuddered with emotions only kindred
t-e sensations inspired by the dismal story of Ugo
'6EI3. He will bear in recollection the fact that 146
wrffcheel beings were crammed into a dungeon called
the Black Hole in that portion of the Iloogley which
known then as Fort William, and which has
Lbsc quently beccme famous as the great city of Cal-
cuta. He will not have forgotten how the miserable
pri•.4oneri, who were packed together in that den, the
sp:lce of which was merely twenty feet square, raved
fer air during many hours, trampling each other to
death in the delirium of suffocation, and exciting the
laughter of the savages who peered in through the
bars of the doorway, by their agonizing cries and
frantic gesticulations. He will remember, moreover,
that when the day dawned after that most awful
catastrophe twenty-three emaciated creatures stag-
gered out over the 123 dead bodies of the men who
on the previous evening had been their companions
Horrible as this incident is, in every respect, it i,
now, alas ! no longer without a parallel. The fore-
cabin of a Sligo steamer has been the scene of tor-
ments as distracting as those which were once tx-
perinced in the stagnant atmosphere of an Indian
dungeon.

The circumstances of this dreadful calamity are
simple and terrible.
At about four o'clock on Friday evening, the Ist
of December, the steam-boat Londonderrye left the
hal hour of Sligo with an average
sos, a large stock
nfgroe The
mrs.
of live cattle, and from 150 to 200arpag
vessel was crossing over to Liverpool,
ch
port the mijority of the unfortunate Passengers
in-
tended to proceed as emigrants to America. Towards
nightfall a heavy gale came on, and at last blew with
so much violence, that shortly after midnight, or
rather towards one o'clock on Saturday morning, the
decks were cleared of all except the seamen. The
s'eerage passengers, nearly 100 in number, were
crowded into the fore-cabin—men, women, aid chil-
dren, all were driven below driven, we say,
because several struggled against those who forced
them flown the companion ladder. After some diffi-
culty, however, many remonstrances, and much op-
position, the poor emigrants were crammed into the
narrow compass of the fore-cabin--a compartment
I.ttle more than 18 feet long by 11 feet wide, and
seven feet high. The space wes capable only of
a7commodating about forty passengers, and here were
cane i-surAd:ed of both sexes huddled together
crimi;,aely, the old and the young, the robust

th sickly, the adult and the iniant.—Mean;hlle

t'l2 ~ea w.ts running high in the channel, so that the
.4"...o.4ieigilkeatedly broke over the steamer. Then it
trtiriietiTi4through the insane ne;:ligence of those who
re4on3i ble for the lives of the people on
boad, a 4 measure of momentary convenience

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:,aa adopted which led to a catastrophe the like ci

L`g vkhi~h A only occurred before in the notorious
of-'Calcutta. The companion —the only aper-
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...lure* which the fore-cabin received ventilation—
W. 13 closed, and
.over the companion was nailed down

Will be performed a new Ballad Opera, entitled ROBIN GOOD-
FELLOW.

After which, a new Farce, entitled THE MODEL COUPLE, in
which Messrs. Oxberry, G. Cooke, Mrs. Selby, and Miss E. gtarkley
will perform.
To be followed by a New DIVERTISSEMENT.
To conclude with the Farce, entitled HIS FIRST PECCADILLO.

This celebrated Troupe, whose performances hare excited univer-
sal admiration throughout the United States, will repeat a short
Series of their popular ETHIOPIAN ENTERTAINMENT at the
above Theatre THIS EVENING, D,censber 7, to be continued
every Evening during the week.