The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-03 00:00:00

SUNDAY NIGHT.

The workmen have been employed throughout
the day and until dark this evening in the removal
of the rubbish, but no other body has yet been found.
In my report, dated Saturday evening, I stated that
it had been pretty well ascertained that no other
person had suffered by this calamity, in addition to
those whoge- names I had giver). To-day the rub-
bish in the Pit of the Theatre has been all cleared out.
1/4.

The persons who came from different parts of the
metropolis to visit the scene of the tate sad disaster
comprised many thousands, and of every class in
society, from the highest to the lowest. The Lord
Mayor was yesterday on the ruins, attended by a
number of gentlemen., who viewed every part of the
interior of the late Theatre.

...His. Lordship was joined by the Duke of St. Al-
ban's, who, in the mostbenevolent mapper, express-
ed his desire to afford immediate relief to the suf-
fererS, aml other distressed persons connected. with
the Theatre, out, of his private purse. The Lord
Mayor, after a warm panegyric on the kind and be-
nevolent feelings of his Grace, stated to. the Noble
DUke that on Thursday next a public meeting would
be held on their behalf, and their distresses would
then be relieved. 'His Grace replied,
.that in all
probability some ;,of
.the performers might be re-
duced to utter Starvation before Thursday, and he
wishdd to obtain a list ()Nile names and addresses of
the performers; and, at the same
,time,
,the Duke
took out of his pocket a bag, containing five -bun-
dred;stivereigns, which he wished might be applied
to the use of those wilio Were suffering from the me-
lancholy. occurrence. The .Lord 'Mayor informed
the' Duke that those` persons 'who were in a very
necessitous stalk had • received temporary relief,
and that whatever sum his Grace might think pro-
. per to subscribe for the benefit of the sufferers,
would be properly applied by :.the Cominittee
which would be appointed at the public meet-
ing, at the Mansion House, on Thursday next,
Several noblemen and gentlemen visited' the ruins'
'this afternoon, and amongst thein I ebserved the
Right Hon.'Robert Feel. The Hon. Gentleman
came on horseback, and alighted in \Vellclose-sqnare,
and was conducted through Grace's-alley into Well-
street, by Mr. Hardwicke, and, froin thence to the
site
.of the late Theatre. The Right Honourable
Gentleman took a view of the remains of the in-
terior, which is now merely bare walls, except two
boxes only, which are suspended by strong pieces
of iron. The rest of the boxes,' right and left, were
'all crushed into the pitby the falling of the roof. Mr.
Peel made inquiry whether other' bodies were in the
ruins, and appeared highly, gratified when informed
that 'it was the opinion of all persons connected
with the 'theatre, that at most only one body more
could be in' the ruins, and that is the body of
a man named. Brown,' lately residing in Chan-
cery-lane, who had been repeatedly inquired
after' since Thursday last, aid has not been found.
Mr. Richardson, the gas-fitter of the theatre, Says
that he waS'''On the stage when he heard the clatter-
ing of the slates on the roof, and he ran to the wall
on the prompter's side of the house, against which he
stood as close as possible till'after the roofhad fallen
in. He saw the Misses Freeman and Fearon when
the ruins buried them ; he had previously seen Mr.
Maurice go to the box in which Mr. Percy barren was
sitting, and he obserVed that the, latter gentleman
' appeared quite panic struck; after the roof had fal-
len in, Mr. Richardson passed over the ruins'into
the box in which Mr. Farren- was sitting, and he
saw a man named Finlay, in the spiral-staircase op-
posite; he rushed from thence through the ruins
into the street, and a female came out with him
hi a bleeding state, and her bonnet cut to pieces.
He was told" that , he was the second person who
had escaped from the scene of destoiction. In about
an hour afterwards his (Mr. RWiaidson's) journey-
man, named Clarke, who stood, by his side for
some time on the st;ge while the roof fell, was taken
alive. out of the ruins by the assistance of the Rev.
Mr. Smith, and a number of labourers. A boy in
the employment of Mr. Wilkinson had a very narrow
escape, He_was to have joined his master by eleven
o'cloCk, lint as he was leaving the house to go to the
theatre, Miss Wilkinson sent him on an errand, and
he arrived in Well7street only one minute after the
theatre was destroyed.. Mr. Richardson says that
he did not perceive the chandelier shake till it came
down along with the .roof. Mr. Percy Farren's
statement, which is not deficient in dramatic interest,
is somewhat inconsistent with the statement of other
persons who witnessed the alarming scene. Some
allowance must be made for the terror which must
have affected every one in a greater or lesser degree
who witnessed it.
The death of one. of the most
,prOmising of the
performers, Mary Anne Fearon, must have been in-
stantaneous. One of the labourers, on going to the
Irelief of the sufferers, saw a bonnet lying on the
ground, and on taking it up, what was his horror at

finding, a part of a girl's head in it!. and it was soon
ascertained that it had been just separated from the,
body of Mary Ann Pearon-,-she was a most animated
little girl; she was.to haie performed on Thursday
night in the " Fatal Prophecy." She was also one
of the principals of the Corps de Ballet.. It is rather
extraordinary, that
,about ,a fortnight. since, this
Theatre had a very narrow escape from, being burned.
It haiing become necessary to have Ji fire upon a
scaffolding in the immediate vicinity.of the roof, by
some:awkward mistake the coals.were turned over
into the orchestra, in ,which there was a quantity of
shavings, which "immedintely ' caught fire, but for-
tunately were extinguished.
STATE OF THE BUILDING YESTERDAY.
The labourers resumed their work yesterdaY morn-
ing, at eight o'clock, 'and continued, with increasing
exertion, to remove fragments of timber and iron
from the portion of .the ruins which had originally
formed the entrances to the boxes and pit, and it
may now be satisfactory to state, that the result of
the examination is,- that no other human being re-
mains entombed.

u
Those parts of the Theatre which' the e
each s d e
as dressing-rooms were yesterday exposed, and
1 was discoverable, by the names.of the particular per-
former to Whose use it was appropriated being
1 written on a portion of its tottering dilapidated wain-
-1 scot. The situation of the roof of the house, which
had, in its descent, lodged .upon the ruins of the
1 galleries, caused great. anxiety, from its peculiarly
dangerous position-; and though it formed a work of
immense hazard, it was determined, as a matter of
necessity, to pull it down. Fortunately, after much
judicious exertions, this was accomplished withoOt
any accident,. and! the gallery now is visible, and
forms a most interesting ;feature in the scene f de•
vastation. The rows of scats are piiti a clear of
rubbish, and the flooring supporting them merely
rests upon two ruinous boxes in the centre. .

The horses of Mr. Elliot, •the- brewer, were pro-
ceeding, at the time the . building fell, at the usual
pace along the street. The leaders of the first team
appeared restive and uneasy a•few minutes before the
'crash, 'and suddenly stopped, then as suddenly
plunged forward, gallopped past the building, and
escapee!, but the two horses in the next dray were
overwhelmed and killed. A cat, the property of
Mr. Chapman, of the Star public house, was seen a
second or two before the: building fell, ,to snatch
up its kitten 'and instantly dart off. It was thought
to have perished; but poor•puss. and her offspring
were yesterday recovered, having taken up her
'abode iq Wellelose-square. In Mr. Chapman's
house are lodging several of the gallant crew of the
Albion, which ship bore so. distinguished a part in
the memorable battle of Navarin. These tars were
at home Whew the'Theatre fell, and though the crash
of its .fall might not, perhaps, have been so loud as
the blowing up of the Turko-Egyptian fire-ships,
yet, 'regardless of the danger of the' frightfully tot-
tering walls, they were seen busily occupied upon
the rubbish, dragging out fainting and terrified per-
sons. The Standard public-house, opposite the
Theatre, was most eagerly sought after, and at ten
o'clock, an hour and a half before the accident,
2,6001. was refused for its possession, by the preSent
holder.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Saturday, Match 1.

Sir—lt was, perhaps, too much to hope that the public
prints would have abstained, on a question of so much inte-
rest as the late accident at the Brunswick Theatre, from dis-
cussing, to some little extent, the conduct of the architect.
At this moment, when every attention ought to be given
to the relief of the unhappy sufferers, nothing shall induce
me to intrude upon the public mind any lengthened defence
of my own conduct. Yet, although I shall await with pa-
tience the due time for vindicating my character for a com-
petent knowledge of my profession, I cannot endure the
imputation of having been careless of the public safety. • I
pledge myself, therefore, to the fullest proof of the follow-
ing facts, on the earliest opportunity afforded me:--
1. That the walls of the building were of proper strength
and thickness, and in every respect fitted for their legiti-
mate purposes.
2. That tile roof, which -was of wrought iron, .was
lighter than one of wood, and in every respect sufficient for
all purposes for which it was constructed.
S. lilat a large floor, extending over a great part of the
theatre, together with the floors over the stage, and all the
machinery of the theatre, weighing many tons, were sup-
ported chiefly by being suspended from the roof, contrary
to the object of the roof, and without any reference to the
plans upon which the theatre was erected.
4. That over these erections I had no control whatever,
they being expressly excepted in my written agreement.
5. That, nevertheless, I frequently and urgently re-
monstrated against thialicproper use of the roof.
,6. That after communicating with me on the subject,
the constructor of the roof protested, in writing, against
the additional loading of the roof.
7.
,That, from the nature of the construction and material
of the roof, I knew that no accident could take place without
a notice from its appearances, which would afford ample
time to prevent all personal danger.
S. That such notice of the failure of the roof under its
load, was, in fact, given, and observed by the responsible
persons, more than 24 hours before the catastrophe; but
that I was kept in utter ignorance of this most important
circumstance.

9. That the difficulty with which some of the box-doors
are said to have shut on Monday evening (supposing the
fact to have been as described), and also of one of the flits
sinking, had no connexion with the accident, and were not
at all calculated to awaken suspicion.
10. That, although I never, either directly or indirectly,
sanctioned the suspension which caused the accident, but,
on the contfiry, repeated my warnings from time to' time,
yet I examined the roof on Monday evening, the last occa-
sion of my being at the theatre (my occupation there
having been quite finished), and could perceive no symptoms
of failure.

I have.enly to add to these facts, that I yesterday made a
formal application to the Right Hon. Robert Peel, praying
him to direct,' as-Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, a rigid inquiry into the causes of the accident.
I remain, Sir, your obedient and faithful servant,

STEDMAN WHITWELL.

P.S. I subjoin a copy of a letter, which I addressed yes-
terday morning to each of the three acting Magistrates of
the district in which the accident took place:—
Friday morning Feb. 29, 1828.

Sir,—As the Architect to the Brunswick Theatre, I am
holding myself in readiness to furnish any assistance in the
investigation which will, no doubt, take place, into the
causes of the melancholy accident of yesterday. From the
advice of some friends, who have witnessed the expression
of popular indignation against all concerned in the erection,
and more especially the architect, I have refrained from at-
tempting to reach the spot; if, however, you should be
pleased to suggest any mode in which myservices can be of
use, either there or elsewhere, I shall feel it my duty in-.
stantly to attend to any communication. At the present
moment, it would argue a great want of feeling on my part,
to occupy my own time, or that of others, in personal ex-
planations ; yet I must be allowed to say thus much, that I
have the fullest means of showing, at a future moment, that
not the slightest responsibility rests upon myself.--I have
the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
STEDAIAN

NORTHAMPTON, MATICIT 2.

The Assizes for this county. commenced Yesterday.
Abotit five o'clock the Hon. Sir G. S. 'Holroy d, arrived in
town, attended by the High Sheriff (Henry Hungerford
Holdich Hungerford, Esq.), and a respectable retinue of
that gentleman's tenants, &c., in a ,very splendid' uniform.
His Lordship immediately proceeded to the County 11,11,
and having opened his commission adjourned the Court till
Monday. This morning his_Lordshipattended divine ser-
vice at the church of All Saints, and a very excellent dis-
course was delivered by the Chaplain to the High Sheriff,
who selected for his text the sth and 6th verses of tlie 187th
Psalm,.-." If I forget thee, 0, Jerusalem," &e.
The calendar is very heavy, containing no less than 5.5
prisoners. Of this mwiber, 34 do not. exceed the age of.
25, among whom are three charged with robbing the mail-
cart going from this place for Oxford, four, for highway-
robbery, one for horse-stealing, four for sheep-stealing, ten
for burglary, &c. . There are also several causes entered in
the Nisi Prius Court ; 'among which the long-pending suit'
originally instituted by Lord Sondes, against the It ev. Mr..
Fletcher, respecting the living of Kettering, in this county,
is expected to form a very prominent feature.

Sir GREGORY PAGE TURNER, who has been
for some time past under the care of a Committee appointed
under a Commission of Lunacy sued out against him, con-
trived to make his escape on Saturday morning last flow
his attendants, and no trace has since been had of him.

rio L.;

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1828.

The Gazette de France of Saturday has arrived
with the other French Papers, but it contains no
news of importance from the East. An article from
Constantinople, in the German Papers, says, that on
one o the Dragomans having remonstrated with the
REIS EFFENDI on the character of the late proceed-
ings of the PORTE, that Minister threw off the mask,
and replied—
" What then would subterfuge avail us? Why should we
temporize when our enemies have definitely resolved ? They
threaten us with fire and sword, they wish to destroy the
Ottoman Empire ; they are merely delaying the execution
of their projects, and do they expect to find us unprepared ?
The proclamation which has disturbed Europe is nothing
more than an instruction addressed to the Agents of ,the
Sultan, and zio others should take cognizance of it. If it
were not their fixed intention forcibly to interfere in our
internal concerns, why should they seize upon the present
act to distort it into a crime?"

This may be all very fine declamation for the
REIs EFFENDI—but it will avail him nothing.

We haie been all along of opinion that the
Manifesto was intended only for internal effect—not
for any external purpose further than making a show
of preparation and activity.

The following are extracts from German and
Italian Papers, received this morning :
CORFU, JAN. 12.

PROCLAMATION.

His Excellency the Lord . High Commissioner of his
Majesty, the -Sovereign Protector, has received from his
Majesty's,principal Secretary of State of the Colonial De-
partment, the copy of an order issued by his Majesty in
Council on the 16th Nov.. 1927, by which the officer
commanding his Majesty's naval force in the Mediterranean
is authorised to stop and detain all armed vessels under the
Greek flag met with at sea, with the exception indicated
in the said order.

His Excellency has therefore commantled that the said
order of his Majesty in Council he published for general
information in the Greek and Italian languages.—Corfu,
Jan. 7, 1828. •

BERLIW, FEB. 19.

The conversion of the Duke of Brunswick to the Catho-
lic Church at Vienna, which is announced on authority
that seems deserving of credit, is a subject of conversation
here, and gives rise to the mostserious reflections. People
are very curious to see how Prussia will express its Senti-
ments on this occasion. Reports of war appear to gain
ground on Change. The Funds have fallen three quarters
per cent.
ODESSA, JAN. 31.
FROM A COMMERCIAL LETTER.)

However well founded the complaints may be which are
made in various places, by merchants, of the injuries which
accrue to them from the present distracted state of the East,
there is certainly no commercial town more prejudiced
by it than ours, and no class suffers more severely than the
landholders in Southern Russia, and the adjacent Polish
Provinces. The rich productions of their fruitful corn
fields and luxuriant meadows, namely, corn, wool, ox-
hides, tallow, &c. have hitherto been conveyed almost ex-
clusively through the medium of our market, by the Bos-
phorus and 'the Dardanelles, to the great European mar-
kets, where they found purchasers and consumers. This
channel is now closed against the English, French, and
Russian flags, and the immediate consequence of this must
be the entire depreciation of all those articles.,
VIENNA, FEB. 20.—Metalliques, 90k; Bank Shares,
/044.

ODIISSA, FEB. 5.
The uncertain slate of political affairs still continues, but
on the whole, there is .more appearance of war than peace.
Among the many recent circumstances which seem to indi-
cate war is, in particular, a notice published last week by
the Magistrates of this city,,that 32,000 chetwertwof wheat
which are not yet ground, must be made into biscuit for
the army in two months, and the inhabitants are;therefore
invited to declare how much each is willing to undertake
to bake. The flour will be furnished by the Crown. It
is thought that this is for the Black Sea fleet. Military
preparations are carried on with activity.

TURIN, FEB. ?I.
The Theatre of La Sutera, in this city, was burnt down
last night.. Two lives were lost.

The Manifesto of the Porte is well calculated to
excite astonishment, considering that so bold a tone
is held, while there are such inadequate means for
giving it effect. There is indeed in the policy of this
barbarous power such a miserable disproportion be:
tweet' its means and its ends, that we can with dif-
ficulty be persuaded that war will yet take place.
The objects which the SULTAN purposes by war
could only be accomplished by the most comprehen-
sive schemes of offensive hostility, while he is really
not in a condition to defend himself. The imme-
diate cause of the war in Greece—the propositions
of the Allies for terminating the slaughter and de-
solation of which that country has long been the
scene--have been rejected with disdain. The SUL-
TAN will not listen with patience to such a
; suggestion, . and he goes to war to prevent it.
In this case, then, his first operation must be to
transpart a large force into that country, to perfect
the work of conquest so prosperously begun. But
how is this to be accomplished in the face of the
triumphant naval power of the Allies' One cer-
tain consequence of war will be, that every thing
which bears the Turkish flag will be chased from
the sea; the foreign commerce of Turkey will be
ruined; her war ships will be locked up in her
ports; and the Allies will proceed quietly and without
tht least molestation in completing the independence
of Greece, the object of the war, and to prevent
which the PORTE had recourse to arms. But the
dama.ge of war will be by no means confined to the
loss of this object. The SULTAN will draw on his
defenceless kingdam the whole accumulated weight
of the Allied hostility. The frets of France and
Great Britain may harass his coasts ; duo), may dis-
embark troop-, on whatever points they may think

expedient for such hostility, and keeping the shores
of his empire in a continual state of alarm, may thus
distract his military resources from other quarters ;
while,Russia,in all the pride of her great military
array, with numerous and well appointed armies,
trained to the discipline and to all the complicated
tactics of modern war, will pour her legions into
his territories, and will advance on his capital. Such,
if the Allies put forth their strength,must be the inevi-
able consequences of war. And what can the SULTAN,
it may be asked, oppose to the overflowing tide
of Russian invasion ? His armies cannot be so nu.l
merous as those they would have to oppose; and
in discipline and appointments, and still more in
military science, how vastly inferior must—they be.
We •are warranted to infer, therefore, that, they,
'never would be able to maintain an equal 'conflict svith
their enemies, and what can be the induceinents in
such circumstances to declare war it is not easy to
explain. -We can easily understand t how Russia,
"grasping in her inordinate ambition'at the conquest of
Turkey, and confident in her strength,' should seek
war as the road to dominion and glory. But it is to-
tally inexplicable, even making due allowance for the
ignorance and improvidence of a barbarian power,
how- Turkey, with the experience of the last contest
before her, should declare war. against RusSia, or
should 'even meditate so fatal a scheme, 'seeing that
her most sanguine partizans can never expect more,
from war, than the successful defence •of her own
frontier. So long as she remains at peace, her
frontier is in no danger. It is secure at present;
and the hazards of war are voluntarily incurred
without the smallest prospect of any corresponding
advantage. But the probability is, that the Turks
will not be able to defend ;their, own frontier; for
certain it is, that they have never yet been able to
resist the progress of the Russian armies. War is,
therefore, to the Turks, a • most disadvantageous
lottery, in which all are blanks and no prizes. They
may be humbled and even ruined. But they can
gain nothing.
To illustrate more forcibly the vast inequality
between the Turks and the Russians, we may refer
to the events of the last war, which, as our readers
will recollect, was begun in 1787. It is remarkable that
it was preceded, as at present, by a manifesto, which
took an extremely high tone, and in which the Sut.,:`
TAN appealed in an ardent and patriotic strain to the
religious feelings of the Mabometan people. It was
in short a manifesto precisely in the same style as
the one lately issued—haughty and presumptuous in
its language, and complaining, no doubt justly, of
the grasping policy of Russia. A war was in cou-
sequence commenced, and what was the result ?
The Turkish armies were defeated by the Russians
in almost every engagement ; they displayed no
doubt desperate bravery, • but they were fearfully
overmatched by European science; and accordingly,
after a succession of the most cruel disasters, ter-
minating in the storm of Ismail, that daring but
sanguinary exploit, which casts such a stain on the.
Russian annals, they were rescued from the iron
grasp of their enemy only by the interventicrn of-
other Powers, at whose instance a peace was con-
cluded, not so disgraceful as would have been war-
ranted by the events of the war. With the recent ex-
perience of such misfortunes full in their view; namely,
the loss of all their strongest fortresses, Choezim,Ben-
der, Ismail, and, on the side of Austria, of Belgrade,•
Orsova, &c., and the enemy preparing to advance
through the breach thus made in their iron-bound
frontier, we can scarce believe that the Turks are
in earnest in their warlike declarations; or .at any
rate, it seems certain that at present, under such
a pressure of accumulated hostility, they will
be even sooner reduced to reason than in the war
which commenced in 1787, and which continued
for about three years, entailing, in its- prdgress a
train of unparalleled disasters on the Turkisb arms.

By the Columbia packet ship, Captain DELANO,
arrived off the Isle of Wight, from New York, papers
have been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house to the 10th February, but their contents
possess no political interest. The Americans appear
to have a society for the promotion of temperance,
whose funds are said to amount to nearly fourteen
thousand dollars. We should have thought that the
less funds people had, the greater chance was there
of their being temperate and sober.
The following is given in the National Intelligencer
on the dimensions of the United States ship of the
line, Delaware, Captain Dowmis, which are said
to be those of the North Carolina :---

From the end of the jib and jib boom to the end of
the ring tail boom, 379 feet. Height from keel to
the top of poop deck, 53 feet ; from keel to moon
sail mast head, 253 feet; breadth of beam from
outside to outside, 55f feet; number of guns, 96,
of heavy calibre. The force of this class of ship is
but little more than half that of the Petasylvania,
now building at Philadelphia.
The House of Representatives are contemplating,
and have brought in a Bill which has been read
twice, imposing fresh duties on imports, in order, as
they state, to protect their home manufactures; it was
high before, but the Americans seem to be going on
a contrary principle to that of the British govern-
Ment.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TIVRiVB.
• _o'Ciocr.

There is no particular feature in the English Funds this
morning. Consols opened at 931 -I, were done at 83i,
and since have dropped, to 83k sellers, but are now buyers
at that price. The premium on India Bonds and Exche-
quer Bills is somewhat higher, in consequence of several
parties who have sold Consols, investing the produee in
these securities. The former are 'now 86 88, the latter
57 58 premium.

In the Foreign Market little is doing. Some enquiry
has been making in Colombian and Peruvian Bonds, under
an impression that an arrangement will be made to conso-
lidate the dividend—the former arc 20126, the latter
25 26.

Three per Cent. Consols, 531 j; Ditto, for the Account,
8311. ; India Bonds, $6 88 ; Exchequer Bills, 57 58 pm.
FoßElGN.—Brazilian, 62i 3 ; Buenos Ayres, 6 per
Cent. 35 7 ; Chilian, 25 7 ; Colombian, 2426
.; Danish,
61 4 ; Greek, 154 164 ; Mexican 5 per Cent.;
.254 64 ; .
Mexican 6 per Cent., 341 f ; Peruvian, 24..26'; Portu-
guese, 74 5 ; Russian, 90 5, cx. div. ; Spanish, 104.
Mmes.—Anglo Mexican, 624 60 die. ; Brazilian, 42
44 pm ; Bolivar, 3 2 dis. ; Colombian, 5 4 die. ; United
Mexican, 214 204 dis. ; General Mining Association, 104
114 pm.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols remain very steady, with the trifling alteration
of being 841 for money, and 831, buyers, for the amount ;
Russian Bonds are per cent. lower, being 881 90, ex. div.
THREW O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account, 88f, buyers ; sellers
for Money.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICEA.
Consols 834 I Danish 611,
Do. for Ac. 831 I Greek, 1825 16
Brazilian Bonds 63 Mexican, 1825 34 •
Buenos Ayres Peruvian 241
Chilian Do. 26 Russian 89}
Columbian, 1824 2.51- Spanish, 1821 10i

,1
AMPHIBIOUS CA.PTurRE.7--On zunupy last,
a'remarkably line otter, measuring four feet from the tip of
the snout to the extremity of the tail, was taken in the
rivir near the village ollgcor-Noriktoionplrork

I

DESTRUCTION OF THE BRUNSWP
THEATRE.

At six o'clock this morning, the operations were c
menced• During the early part of the day the majoril
workmen, were engaged in erecting scaffolding for the
pose of bringing down the standing walls ; others
continuing the turning over of the ruins, in se
of some more bodies, but none had _been 11

--- -
since Friday, until we went to press to-day ;
it is with unfeigned satisfaction we haVe to state tIP
the expectation in' the quarters molt capable of forsai
an estimate now is, that hitt
.very 'few, if any, di
bodies will be found. The calamity therefore it
believed will not be so extensive as was at first ape
hended, but it is utterly impossible to say with par!
certainty to what extent it has reached in the destruce
of life.

The Star public-house, which is immediately opposi'
the doors of the Theatre, and a great part of the front
which was knocked in by part of the Theatre falling agd
it, is found this morning to have sunk six inches.
Mrs. Batt, the baker's wifer occupying the house ut
to the Star, the whole of the front of which was drip
in, is not dead, as was reported, nor was she: injure'
but her san was moat miraculously saved * have
been jammed between two sacks of flour.

Jane Wall, a girl, who was passing -the Star pub')
house at the time of the accident, and who got both of)
thighs fractured, died on Saturday in the London'llospi,
of the injury she then sustained. The Coroner's ine
on her body was to take place to-day, at three o'clock/
The statement that Mr.. Percy Farren hung by,
'Post, with Miss Yatee suspended from his legs, for V
space of 20 or 2 minutes, is totally unfounded. l
tunately, 'that young lady was assisted out by Mr. Farfi
and Mr. Wyman, but. Mr. Farren passed along the stre,
leading to the Theatre, within five minutes after the crA
took place. •

We are happy to say that no musicians were in t
Theatre at the time of its falling but Mr. Fearon, and Al
escaped with some bruises. Since the accident he
been confined to his bed, but was able to
up this morning. Miss Fearon and Miss Mary At
his sisters,
.were at a little distance from him. The latter
not
.yet buried. Mira F.;'e comb was driven into her h
She received several lacerations of the head and face, 9.
ifts, until to-day, considered in a dangerous conditiol
her medical attendant however, we are happy to find, 0
tertained this morning a` more favourable opinion of
safety.
'• Miss Holland lodging in the same house with Mr
Fearon and her family, was alio violently injured, but
too, is happily doing well.
Poor Mr. Maurice Mutt have nearly effected his esca
his bedy having been picked up off the street.
Mr. Nichols, conductor Of the chorusses, *to whose cif
lity we are greatly indebted for information, had a ino,
narrow escape. It was his: duty to have been with Mr. F.'
the erne the-accident happened, but fortunately he WM4 (I',
tamed on hls way to the theatre a few minutes beyond b
appointment. When he reached Ahe building, it was a la
of ruins. Miss Harris, A singer, was entering the thed
with her friend, Mr. Evans, and her father, just at td
moment the accident occurred. SLe escaped unhurt, BC,
Evans was killed, and hex. father had a simple fracture'
his leg '•he is now doing well, He remained an hot
and a half . beneath the • ruins. • "
•Vhis morning the surveyor of the district "was, sent fol
to examine the,,pretnisesr—bnc the answer •wa.s that he bi
not returned to town.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
A wooden palisading has been erected round the buil
ing to keep off the erocid. A lessee number of offici
is therefore now requisite, and the military force is di
pensed with altogether. The- thoroughfare through t
opposite court into' the square is now open, but it requi
the exertions of several constables, to keep it so, every Pl
senger being- desirous of inspecting the rents
of this once beautiful, but frail structure. Sol
of the workmen are" employed in 'taking down 1
walls, a task apparently very dangerous. lode
the • spectator would be somewhat puzzled to

whether he more admired the courage, or depreca
the rashness, of those who risked their lives in such mop]

till
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nlent, standing as they sometimes do upon the height
a tottering wall, and breaking it away piecemeal bole
their feet. Various reports are in circulation, as to persoil
being, still beneath the ruins, who haVe been spoken Sri'
but cannot be extricated ; but for these rumours there
not the slightest' foundation, althoUgh they appear to
credited eagerly by the multitudes who throng all sr.
adjacent streets. The Star public-house, which 0
tamed serious injury when the Theatre fell, 10
heard to crack this morning
.at an early hour
the inmates, who were awakened -by the noise fror
their sleep, and iinmeliatelY abandoned the house, whit
has since been -shored Up 'to prevent further accidents.
-Without•unianing to give any opinion upon the cat),
Which led to this unfortunate occurrence, and with
meaning to attach blame to any individuld, we canv
help stating that which forcibly struck us up'
examining the ruins. The walls appear to be
thickness by no means proportionate to their height ; beP
only two bricks thick besides the facing brick. Not heir'
architects, however, we may be mistaken in-this puticept
but there is one thing in which we think we cannot '-
Mistaken. The mortar appears to be little else than WO,
sand, and many of the bricks on the surface of the svt
though apparently fast, may be withdrawn wit '
the most perfect ease, by the hand, and as city`
as when they were new, not a particle- of mortar se
bering to • them. Indeed the mortar altogether if,
pears to be rather a bed upon which the bricks migr
rest easily, than a cement to keep them in the position
which they were placed. In fact it does not appear to I,
;possessed of any adhesive qualities at all, for when preset •
to hand it crumbles away like so much sand-dust. Thi
however, is a subject for the Inquest, and our only obje
in mentioning it, is to call their attention. to the matte
We are, however, informed' that they have' already takg
steps to 'get every information, as to real gate of the buie •
ing, as well as to the qualities of the materials employed is
its structure..

Last evening the Rev. John Clayton preached in 10
chapel in the Poultry to a most crowded congregation, f°
admirable, powerful, and applicable sermon on the occasii)
of the destruction of theßrunswicktbeatre, and the devastati‘4ll
of human life there, from these -words (Ezekiel; chap.
verse 14), " So will I break down the wallthat ye ha
daubed with untempered mortar, and bring down to till
ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be disooverdi
and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in ,the
theieof: and ye shall know that I am the' Lord:"

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MARRIAGE IN HIGH We hear fr 01)
good authority, that the Duke of BuccLancat is shortly $
lead to the Altar, the beautiful and accomplished 141 i)
SHERIDAN. His Grace has atpresent 140,0001. per
e.
num, and will get 60,600/. a year more at the death of
grandmother. Miss SHERIDAN is daughter of To),
SHERIDAN, and granddaughter of Itictrain
SHERIDAN. Her mother WAS Miss CALENDat, daught)
/of Lady ELIZABETH CALENDER, who was sister to Ut
late Marquis of Arrant. Miss Snaminsn'saister is mat
ried to Paws Btacawoon, Esq., eldest son of the Her,
HANS BLACZWOOD, who is heir presumptive to the Loll
Dre:PdaYzip7in. His Grace has several princely mansions,
,;paily at Dalkeith. The noble edifice, tb
Castle of Drualanrig, in Dumfriesshire, built by Into,
Jonas, it is said, is to be thrown down, and • Still mor
Apleadid.residence erected on its site; certainly, it is oil
of the meet romantic scenes in Scotland.'—Droghedi
Journal. '

SAVAGE MURDER.--JAMES BOURKE,
tenant of Lord Caanr, was barbarously murdered on 85.
turday night, in the neighbourhood of Boher, while on hi' .-.11%.
return from this city. Captain WICKIIAIIf with the po
lice, went in pursuit of the murderers, and overtook tw(
of them, (JOHN RYAN and JouN WILKINSON,) who at
in custody. —Liznerich Chronicle.
MAR VELLOUS Esc APE.—Thursday se'nnigi),
a sweep fell from a chimney top, 80 feet high, into Gibb?,
Close, Canongate, and, strange to say, was not only ne•
killed on the spot, but walked home on his own feet, aboi
ten minutes after the accident. Our informant, who sa:
the fall, says that the sweep shafted from house-top
house-top, and from wall to wall of the close, with tl
elasticity of a hand-ball thrown up by a boy. His fin
fall was about three stories, when he struck the roof of
house ; from thence he instantly rebounded, and struck Ii
wall opposite, and agaia that on the other aids of the clor
By this time he was within ten feet of the ground, where
ultimately settled in a sitting posture, and, as &treat
stated, after resting about ten minutes in an apothecsi
shop adjoining, walked home almost wheliy 1413C,14;11,
Caledonian Mercury.

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ans were

the majorit;'
sg for the 1
; others
,ins, in sea
been futl
to-day ;
.Isl
to state
ible of ford
if any, 00.
herefors it'
at first apPi'
y with pao
the destructl

iately oppoi`
of the front.
e fitlliag ago
ebea
he house De
ich was drip
she injure
ed

Star pub',
;ot both of
ndon'Hospiti,
roner's inqUl
iree o'clock,
hung by'
legs, for
bunded.
by Mr. Farl
wig the strer
after the cro

as Were in e
Aron, and isi
ecident heim
able to
se Mary A
. The lett
into her
and face, al
aus conditio4
)y to find, ei
opinion of 131

ise with 1%1
njured, but

ted his eocal

to whose ci4.
In, had a Ind,
with Mr. F.l
tely he WV (b
'tea beyond b
, it was a int
ing the thear
er, just at tb
KI unhurt, 31'
pie fracture'
tined an he,

was seat
(as that he to

mut the bu
ober of ofE,
ry force is ,
xe through
but it requ
t so, every ]

the rerna;
eture. So A
ing downl
ous. In
azalea to
or depreea
such etiaplo
n the height
Tweet lone
I, as to perso.,
!rt spoken Wl'
=ours there
ey appear to
broug all sr
e, which 0
tre fell, WI
early Lour
he noise fr.l
house, wbig,,

accidents.
Ton the 017.-
, and with
ial, we cavil'
ack us up
ear to be
r height ; beio
Not beiP
;this particuld,
we cannot I/ s
else than WI
ice of the Wl'
hdrawn wie •
and as clef
of mortar 0,1
altogether al
to bricks migl
the position ;
of appear to t
r when press
and-dust. Tht,
our only obje
to the matte
already take
tate of the buil,
als employed i