The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY Pv E!'4 It-CAMARCH 8 1856.

rescued from pollution. Round and round them
vehicles may ply for hire their labouring wheels ;
but within the sacred precincts of the Gardens
they may not enter. Through Storey's-gate and
through Buckingham-gate there will be free ad-
mission, alike to the cab, the brougham, and the
chariot of the costermonger—not even the dray
will be excluded. Before these exigent locomo-
tives, and their imperious freights, the column of
that immortal Prince, on whom, after his yet
more illustrious brother, the hardly.less immortal
FITZGERALD, was made to implore a celestial
benison, with the united gusto of effervescent
loyalty and bottled pop after this fashion—
" GOD bless the Regent, and the Dake of YORK "
is to bow its head, and be carted away, we
trust, along with the rubbish at its base, to
some chance spot where they may do " the State
some service," if not meet with some worshippers.
By Marlborough House—that splendid tribute of
' a nation's gratitude—a second entrance is also to
be made, and a third, making in all five, is some-
what obscurely adumbrated in the Report. "As
regards an opening from the Park to Charing.
cross," that gratifying document informs us—
" Your committee are not prepared to recom-
mend that such an opening should be made at
present, but they are of opinion that an opening
for carriages should be made from Trafalgar-
square to the Park." Is it meant that an open-
ing should be made in the vicinity of Pall Mall,
and only for the elite in their carriages ? We are
quite at a loss. Why not, as has been suggested,
enlarge the entrance at Spring-gardens? But let us
not look too closely "a gift horsein the mouth." The
recommendations of the Committee, such at least
as are intelligible, will, we are persuaded, meet
with general approval, notwithstanding the ex-
pense, which is somewhat heavy. The taking
down of the Duke of YoiU's Column involves a
serious expenditure, but will at once remove an
eyesore, contribute largely to public convenience,
and throw open a pleasing vista to the eye of
taste. Twenty-five thousand pounds, or five
thousand less, is a large sum to secure an entrance
alongside of Marlborough-house, but hardly too
much when the advantages such an entrance
would confer are taken into rceonviAtz And to
crown all, to add the beautiful to the use-fu-1, and
the useful to the beautiful, a bridge of com-
munication for- foot-passengers is to be thrown
across the Serpentine a light, ornamental
structure —we trust in perfect keeping
with the beauties of the gardens. The
Committee have done " their spiriting gently "
and featly, and are entitled to the grati-
tude of the population. Would recommendations,
equally potent, were thrown as a mantle of pro-
tection over the wilder beauties of another place
of recreation, which has long and perseveringly
been besieged by the Vandalism of the capitalist
—we mean Hampstead Heath ! Let not the
lesson here inculcated fail of its effect in relation
to the Heath. The people have but to bestir
themselves in this country, when right is on their
side, to beat back encroachments from whatever
quarter they may be threatened.

LATEST NE WS.

DESTIZ ETCTL)S Ole COVENT-G JR DEN
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PARIS, MARCH 7.

This morning a numbir of men, under -the direction
of the Messrs. Holland, the builders, commenced erect-
ing scaffolding in Hart-street, fur the purpose of pulling
down the walls of the theatre, in obedience to the orders
of the Commissioners of Police. The manner in which
the workmen have conirnenced operations will appear to
the unitiated somewhat extraordinary. Immense poles
have been laid from the tops of the houses in Hart-street
to the outer walla of the unfortunate building, and
boards have been placed thereon, which has formed a
kind of platform, and on this structure the work of de-
' molition has commenced. The engines still continue to
discharge large quantities of water on the smoking de-
bris, and even at this time an immense body of fire
exists under the heaps of ashes, molten glass, and other
refuse. The sulphurous vapour still emitted from the
ruins is in some parts stilt overpowering. •
Amongst the ruins early this morning we noticed Mr.
Horton, the musical librarian of the theatre, anxiously
seeking for some of his cherished treasures, but not a
vestige could be found. In preparing the accounts we
have daily published since the terrible calamity, we feel
it our duty- to acknowledge the assistance rendered to us
by Mr. F. Perria, the chief engineer in charge, in the
difficult duty. Every facility was readily rendered, and
where explanation was necessary most readily and
clearly given.

Two Aides-de-Camp of the Emperor of Russia,
who left St. Petersburg on Saturday, have just
arrived here with despatches for Count Orloff.

KONIGSBERG, MARCH 6.

General Luders has telegraphed to St. Peters-
burg, from the Crimea, that a meeting of pleni-
potentiaries from the belligerents took place at the
Bridge of Traktir on the 29th.

Hostilities were suspended in obedience to the
decision of the Paris Conferences.

HAMBURG, MARCH 6.

Admiral Watson sailed from Kiel. He has
ordered the fleet to assemble off Moer Island, and
announced the renewal of the blockade of the

Russian ports.

BERLIN, MARCH 'T.

Count Schouvaloff and Count Levascheff passed
through this city en route for Paris. They are
the bearers of fresh instructions for the Russian
Plenipotentiaries.

The police arrangements of Superintendent Durkin
and Inspector Dodd, from the first breaking out of the
fire to the present moment, have been admirable.
The day for the inquiry into the origin of the fire is
not yet fixed, but it is generally understood that it will
take place on Tuesday next.

FRANCE.
The following is the letter of the Times' Paris
correspondent, dated yesterday, 6 p.m. :
The prospect of a settlement of the various points
under the consideration of the Plenipotentiaries was
gloomy enough last week, and I suspect that more
than one Plenipotentiary began to be seriously ap-
prehensive of the result. Had the members of the
Congress been at liberty to speak their thoughts some
six or seven days ago, I believe it would be found
that war rather than peace was by them regarded as
more likely to follow the expiration of the armis-
tice. Matters have now changed, ind changed
much for the better. The three sittings of the
Congress last week Were far from justifying the
hopes of a pacific arrangement. The two sittings
of the present week are far more cheering so far as
they have gone. I have already told you that Tues-
day's Conferences ended mere satisfactorily than the
previous ones ; and I think I can now inform you
that those of yesterday are still more so. Indeed,
s©: sanguine is the hope in certain quarters
(as I am informed) that the chances in favour of
peace are greatly augmented, that peace is looked
upon as all but certain. There were two modes of
arriving at peace ; one by large concessions on the
part of the Allies ; the other, by large concessions
on that of Russia. So far as can be ascertained in
matters where everything is against obtaining ac-
curate information, no concessions of any moment
have been made by us. The logical conclusion is
that it is Russia that is gradually yielding, while
England and France are still united and firm as
ever.

The Duke of Cambridge visited the ruins of the theatre
yesterday morning. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred
also came, accompanied by Lord Alfred Paget and Col.
Biddulph. The firemen (Perrier and Swanton) two
officers of the brigade, and Mr. Connorton, of the
West of England Office, conducted his Royal High-
ness over the ruins. Shortly after Prince Alfred had
departed his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ar-
rived, in company of Mr. Gibbs, his tutor, and was
received by Sir Richard Mayne, Mr. Superintendent
Durkin, and Mr. Superintendent Braidwood, who con-
ducted him over every part of the building considered
to be safe.

Mayers, the conductor of the Royal Society for the
Protection of Life from Fire, was about the first to
arrive with his machine from the Leioester-Beware sta-
tion, and, with the assistance of Messrs. Baddeley and
Spencer, the inspectors, and other conductors, rescued
a great deal of property belonging to Mr. Anderson.
A man named Lloyd, commonly called "Comedy,"
assisted the conductors, and saved a great many other
articles, and Mr. Charlton, a dresser in the wardrobe
,lepartment, fetched Mr. Lawrence, the master, and
brought him out on his shoulders. A man named 11.
Forster brought down Jane Smith, the forewoman of
the wardrobe, and the account belonging to Mr. An-
derson were rescued by Burgess, the bill-sticker of the
I.heatre. " Comedy," as he is called, likewise saved
three women at the stage entrance. The fire was not
entirely extinguished at nine o'clock last night.

Russia calculates on the gradual loosening of the
bonds which unite England and France, if she
cannot cut the knot herself. She believes that two
countries with a form of Government so opposed,
and with institutions so different, however they
may unite for common safety in days of difficulty
and peril, must be dissevered when the danger is
gone by, and that there are a hundred chances,
any one of which may be advantageously made use
of to that end. Were the small extremity of the
wedge to be inserted, Russia would answer for the
speedy introduction of the whole.
The Moniteur contains an imperial decree call-
ing out for active service the 140,000 young sol-
diers of the class of 1855.

BOURSE, March 7.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
li per Cents 94 75 —f. —o.
3 per Cents 72 80 72 80
New Loan 73 30
Bank Shares — Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,585 Austrian
Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes
Piedoziontese(s) i).o 25 Home Debt

RAILWALYB-708 CAUL

Pr. C. _ fr. o.
Orleans ' 1,272 50 Western BBO
Northern
Lyons -
11editerranean - Grand Central 653 75
Lyons Geneva 770 Toste
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