The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

HAYMA.RKET THEATRE.

Mr. Bucketone, the higuly-respected lessee of the Hay-
market Theatre, re-opens his popular establishment on
Easter Monday with a very strong company and at re-
duced prices of admission. The upper boxes formerly
55., are to be for the future 3s. ; pit, 25., instead of 3s. ;
gall, ries, ls. and 6d., instead of 2s. and is.
We sincerely hope that this liberal concession to the
playgoing public may be duly appreciated ; that in-
crease of patronage will follow decrease of price ; and
that the new arrangement, whilst it reflects great credit
upon Mr. Buckstone's spirit as a public man, may also
prove remunerative in a pecuniary point of view.

Austria has announced by telegraph at Constantinople
her rupture with Piedmont.
A despatch from Marseilles (April 7) says the Am-
bassadors of Russia, Spain, and Austria are about to
leave that city en conge.
The Australian Mail brought by the Simla consists of
145 boxes of letters and papars. These boxes are larger
than the Indian and China ones.

At Lloyd'd, yesterday, insurance premiums of 10
guineas and 15 guineas were paid upon a portion of the
gold by the Oneida.
STOCKHOLM, March 30.—The diet have unanimously
approved the abolition of the Sound Dues, and tie
Treaty concluded with the various Powers.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN ROAD. The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the.
week ending March 28, 1857, is 2,533, of which 690
were new cases

Yesterday morning, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold,
the Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa, accompanied
by R. Ormsby Gore, Esq., and Miss Illhardt, visited
the Royal Colosseum in the Regent's•park. The royal
visitors arrived at the, Regent's-park entrance at. 10
o'clock, and were conducted through the different exhi-
bitions and entertainments which had been prepared for
them by special command of her Majesty by Dr. Bach-
hoffner, F.C.S., the managing director; Messrs. H.
Ferrer, F.S.A., and H. Collier, directors of the institu-
tion. On leaving, the royal children expressed the plea-
sure they had found in their visit.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen arrived
at the residence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, C1.,-treaca Howse, St. James's, yesterday, from
Portsmouth.

Lord Broughton will leave town to-morrow for his
seat, Erlestoke Park, Wilts.
Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton left town
yesterday for Brighton.
Mr. and Lady Caroline Townley arrived in town a
few days since from St. Leonards-on•Sea. They will
leave on Monday next for Paris.
Lady Molesworth entertained a select circle at dinner
last evening.
Yesterday was the birthday of his Royal Highness
Prince Leopold.
It is estimated that about 5,500,000 lbs. of tea will
be delivered this week, duty paid, from the port of
London.

The third call of 2/. is to be paid on the new shares of
the London, Tilbury, and Southend Extension Railway
by the Ist of May ; and the third call of 2/. on the
Barking Extension shares by the same day.
The Bail and Countess of Lanesborough have left
town for Switbland Hall, Leicestershire.

The Earl and Countess Howe are expected in town in
a few days, from Gopsall, Leicestershire.
The Earl of Kenmare arrived in town, a few days
since, from Ireland.
The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux
left town, on Monday, for Stoke Farm, Berkshire.
The Earl of Cawdor left town, on Monday, for Car-
marthen. Her ladyship is staying on a visit with the
Countess of Ellesmere, at Hatchford, near Cobham,
Surrey.
The Countess of Kinnoul is expected at her new resi-
dence in Portman-square, at the latter end of the pre-:
sent month, for the season.
The Countess of Sandwich has left town for St. Leo-
nards-on-Sea, for a week or ten days.
The half-yearly meeting of the Great Indian Peninsu-
lar Railway Company is called for the 29th inst.
'The expense of our consuls abroad for the current year
is 185,1841.
For the current year the expense of the Privy Council-
office and Board is 62,000/,
It appears that the annual net amount received by the
sale of Parliamentary papers from its commencement to
the present time has averaged the sum of 4,0001. by sale
and waste.
Three partners in one brewery firm will have seats in
the new House—Sir E. N. Buxton, for East Norfolk ;
Mr. Charles Buxton, for Newport, Isle of Wight ; and
Mr. Robert Hanbury the younger, for Middlesex.
REFRESHMENTS TO VOTERS.—According to the 23d
section of the 17th and 18th Vic., o. 102, it it; declared
that refreshments given to a voter on the day of nomi-
nation or polling shall be deemed illegal, and the person
so offending shall forfeit the sum of 40s. for each offence
to any person who shall sue for the same, with full costs
of suit.
The Crystal Palace is to be again opened on Good
Friday after one o'clock. The experiment was triad last
year for the first time, and was perfectly successful. Up-
wards of 17,000 people, mostly of a class whose holidays
are limited to Good Friday, Christmas-day, and the
Queen's birthday, were brought down by rail, and as-
sembled in the palace for the afternoon, and that with-
out a single instance of disorderly conduct. We think
that in this fact the directors have the best ground for
repeating the experiment, the results of which appear so
unexceptionable, and we heartily wish it success.
THE LATE ACCIDENT IN THE BRISTOL RIVER.—The
Mary Ann Peters, which was stranded in her out ward
voyage to Africa, under the circumstances detailed in
The Sun of the 2d jest., wa-• got off on high tide yester-
day afternoon. Since the unfortunate accident the vessel
had been lighteried of her cargo, and every other means
taken to release her from her perilous position. These
operations were carried to a successful issue yesterday
afternoon, as above stated, when the Mary Ann Peters
was floated off and taken higher up the river. She has
sestained very severe injuries, and her repairs have been
intrusted to Messrs. Patterson and Sons, the well-known
shipwrights of Bristol.
NEW ROUTE FOR CENTRAL AMERIOAN PRODUCE.—
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The steamer La Plata, which
arrived at this port on the Ist inst., with the last West
India mail, brought home, amongst other cargo, a large
quantity of indigo, from the west coast of Central Ame-
rica. The produce of that part of the world has hitherto
been sent to England by the roundabout way of Cape
Horn ; but now, by arrangements made by the managers
of the Panama Railway, it is shipped to Panama on
board a steamer, provided by them for the purpose, sent
thence by railway across the isthmus to Colon, and
there put on board the West India mail steamers for
England. The result is, as in the present case, thatthe
produce is home, and probably sold, at a time when,
under the old system, it could scarcely be expected, even
under the moat favourable circumstances, to have
reached the neighbourhood of the stormy Horn. The
facilities thus afforded to those interested in the speedy
delivery of consignments from Central America well de-
serve, and will no doubt receive, their cordial approbation
and support.
EXTRAORDINARY FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr.
Bedford, coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at the
Green Man, Bedford-street, Covent-garden, on the body
of Timothy Finaughty, aged 65, labourer, whose death
occurred under the following singular circumstances :
It appeared that on the 24th ult. deceased was engaged
in a vessel laden with malt, in emptying it, his duty
being to hold the mouth of the sack while a man named
Maddams fixed round it the noose of a rope by means
of which it was raised to the deck. On one sack being
pulled up, it had not been lifted more than a foot, when
deceased exclaimed, in tones of agony, " Oh, oh," and
it was then found that his left thumb had been fastened
in the noose, and dragged nearly from its socket. Ho
went to Charing-cross Hospital, where the thumb was
dressed, and on a subsequent day amputated, but morti-
s fication ensued, and the poor fellow rapidly sank, and
died. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
FIRES YESTERDAY.—Yesterday morning, between
the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, a fire broke out in the pre-
mises occupied by Mr. Heyday, a boot and shoemaker,
situate No. 6, King-street-terrace, New North-road.
Before the fire could be got under the whole of the stock
in trade in the lower part of the premises was consumed,
and serious damage done to the furniture, &c., in the
upper part. The origin of the disaster is unknown.
The sufferer was insured in the Westminster Fire-
office. About the same time another fire took place
in the premises occupied by Mr, J. Halbert, an
importer of foreign leeches, No. 3, Princes-square, St.
George's-in-the-East. The flames commenced from some
unknown cause in the basement. Considerable damage
was done to the stock-in-trade and the premises. The
proprietor was insured in the Royal Exchange office
A third fire took place in the promises belonging to Mr.
John Baker, a bread and biscuit baker, carrying on busi-
ness at No. 3, Charlotte•street, Pimlico, nearly facing
Buckingham Palace. The fire originated in the third
floor, and as it shot through the windows it reflected so
strongly upon the palace as to lead persons at a distance
to imagine that the royal residence was on fire. The
upper part cf the building was destroyed, and the
lower portion extensively damaged by water, &c. The
origin of this fire was also unknown. The stock-in.
trade was insured in the Sun Fire-office, and the build-
ing in the Law Fire-office. Other fires also took place
in the premises of Mr. T. P. Smith, milliner, No. 32
A, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy•equare, and No. 1, Gravel.
lane, Southwark, but the damage done at each was I
trifling.
ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS.—Her
Majesty a ship Himalaya, 3,500 tons (iron troop ship),
was ordered round from Plymouth to Southampton, for
the purpose of being placed in dry dock, there to be
coated with the composition of Messrs. Peacock and
Buchan, previous to her long voyage to China, and the
fine steamship Teutonia, 2,000 tons, arrived on the same
day from Hambure, to be docked for the same purpose.
Both ships steamed into the tidal basin of Southampton
Docks, and thence into the large graving docks, the
Himalaya drawing 21 feet 2 inches. The Teutonia en-
tered the west graving dock as the screw ship Jason
vacated it. The gates of each dock were then immedi-
ately shut, and the powerful pumps set in motion to
discharge the water from the graving docks. Both ships
were safely on the blocks and shored up in three hours
from the time they entered. The Teutonia was scraped
and received two coats, and cams out of dry dock within
4S hours ; received on board 500 tons of coal and a large
cargo for Lisbon and the Brazils, and proceeded to sea
within three days of her first arrival. The Himalaya
having been coated with the same composition, was
taken out of dock on the third day, and immediately
proheeded to Spithead under steam. It is worthy of
remark that this large ship was fully coaled and provi-
sioned for her 'voyage, and although drawing upwards
of 21 feet, was enabled to dock at neap tides one
hour before high water. Mr. Hedger, the dockmaster,
was entrusted by the Admiralty authorities with all
the arrangements. The Himalaya takes out a consi-
derable quantity of Messrs. Peacock and Buchan's
composition for the use of the iron ships forming the
Gazette.
ChAinasHfllepe,
—CESEhWipSpTinAgRVED TO DEATH.—The following is
an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's relative to the
wreck of an English ship on the coast of Norway. It is
dated " Stavanger, March 14. A pilot on the 2d inst.
boarded a vessel about eight miles from the land, off
Kinn, near Stavanger, dismasted and waterlogged.
Found in the forecastle the bodies of six men, which he
brought with him on shore, and another body was found
between the cargo in the hold, which he could not suc-
ceed in landing. On one of the bodies was found an
English Prayer-book, in which was written Joseph
Bell, Slot-street, Hull, 1840 ;' and on another a double•
cased silver pocket watch, on which the name of J.
Buxton' was engraved. A certificate found on board
proved the vessel to be the Holingen, from Nerve for
Gainsborough, with a cargo of deals, &c. The vessel was
found to be without provisions, the crew are therefore ,
supposed to have died from starvation, and especially as
one of the bodies appeared to bear marks of having been
attacked by the others to satisfy their hunger. Some of
the bodies had evidently been dead some time, others
only a few days. The most remarkable circumstance
connected with this wreck is, that the crew could have
been starved to death on a voyage from Narva to Gains-
borough, a 3 even admitting that they ran short of pro-
visions, or that these were spoiled on the vessel filling
with water, the crew must still have existed four or five

days, and during that period, on a tract so frequented as
the North Sea, it appears btraoge that they fell in with
no vessel of any kind."