The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-13 00:00:00

COVENT.GARDEN THEATRE.

WEnEtt.'s new Opera of Oberon was brought
out at Covent-garden last night; and, as might
have been expected from the fame of Der Frei f
chutz, produced an overflow in all parts of the
theatre. The dramatic portion of an entertain-
ment like this stands of course entirely subordi-
nate to the basiness of the music ; and becomes,
indeed, chiefly either valuable or defective, as it
does, or does net, afford scope for the powers of the
composer. To most of the leading features of the
Opera, we alluded yesterday, in our notice of the
rehearsal which took place on Tuesday evening ;
but its general effect was materially.aided last
night by the presence of Miss PATON, who
seemed entirely recovered from her slight acci•
dent, and sang with even more than her ordinary
power. The general beauty of the Oberon music
lies more, perhaps, hi a constant variety of
striking and scientifically managed passages,
than in that simple and definite style of
melody which made parts of the Per Frei-
schutz so popular. To this general arrange-
ment, however, there are instances of ex-
ception ; and the battle song by Anal!, in
the first act, the chores of fairies in the first
scene, the song by Madame Yes-rats in the se-
cond act, the waltz introducing the Princess in
the first, and a quartette hi. (we believe) the
second act, by BRAbAtst, ISAAci, Miss PATON,
and Madame V, Emus, aye of a character «hick
cannot fail to heattractive ;to all dispositions.—
The getting up, tind decoration of the piece has
been peculiarly expensiVe and splendid. The
water scene, with the change of lights, by
.Git Eyx, is particularly fortunate ;
deed, it is the best managed wof the
kind which we recollect to have seen exhi-
bited. The'' Haunt of the Spirits of the Storm,"
too, in which a mass of rock becomes miraculously
peopled with deamons from top to bottom—as u
piece of machinery, is novel and effective. In-
deed, the whole of the scenery, by GRIEVE and
Sons, excelled any thing of the kind we ever be.
held. The overture, with a variety of the other
music, was encored; and the performance did not
termivat until a late hour. Mr. 13nanast was in
admirable voice, and sustained his d rama tic charac-
ter of Knight-errant by no means discreditably.
M. WEBER, innerson, presided in the orchestra ;
and was warmly welcomed by the audience upon
his appearance. At the conclusion, being called
for he came forward after some time, introduced
by Mr. FAWCETT ; but very soon retired, and
received with as much modesty as seeming good
semis the applause which was bestowed upon him.

EDINBURGH UNIVERSIT We understand
that the classes in the College, especially the
medical classes, have turned out extremely well
this year, Though they were pretty full in 18%4.5,
the number of students who have matriculated
during the present session exceeds those of the pre.
ceding by 40, and as a few enter for the summer
classes, the excess altogether will not be much short
of 100, and the whole number of students abora
two thousand. If to these are added the two
hundred and sixty students in the Divinity
Classes, the whole number of young men attend.
ing-the classes of this University will be nearly
two thousand three hundred. There will be
three or four thousand summer classes, namely,
Modern History by Sir William Hamilton—Nu-
tura! Ilistory by Mr. Jameson—Botany by Dr.
Graham—and, probably, Natural Philosophy by
Mr. Leslie.

SHOCKINO ACCIDENT.--011 Sulicitly lust tlir
eldest 01 Mr. LION LYMAN, Proprietor of the
Surrey Theatre, a young gentleman about ten
years of age, with two playmates, were walking
along the Lambeth road, near New Bedlam,
when a young Man passing, mounted on a spi.
riled horse, dropped his switch, which Master
lioneyman good-naturedly stooped to band him,
when the vicious animal kicked at him with great
force, and struck him on the head. Fortunately
he was in some measure protected by a strong
new hat, which perhaps alone preserved his life.
The hat was cut through, and one of his eyes
dreadfully lacerated, lle was immediately car.
tied into the shop of Mr. Stephenion, near the
Stags, and, the wounds having been dressed, was
sent home to his afflicted family. A total loss of
sight was at first apprehended, but the fever
having abated, Mr. Stephenson is not altogether
without a hope that vision may be still pre. I
served.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--During the dread-
ful gale •on the afternoon of Thursday, ,the Gth
of April current, a Cellurdyke fishing,boat was
lost about six miles to the eastward of the Isle of
May, and her whole crew, consisting of eight
persons, were unfortunately drowned, excepting
one man, who was picked up by another boat,
after remaining about an hour in the water. By
this calamitous event, four poor widows, and a
number of helpless children, totally unprovided
for, are left to bewail the loss of their husbands
and fathers. Two of the persons who have.suf-
feted were lately married, and their widows are
pregnanL Such as were unmarried wore the
support of aged parents, or of younger brothers
and siSters.—(Edinburgh Observer.)

The Jamaica Courant contains the following:
—" George Isaacs, a slave, belonging to W. H.
Hall, EN. was yesterday brought before the
Sitting Magistrates, and sentenced to 39 lashes
in the workhouse, for flying a kite in the town,
in breach of the City ordinance." If every
kite:flyer in London were liable to be punished
with thirty-nine stripes, it might prove a good
regulation, but what work there would be !
A person in Glasgow, who has long been sus-
pected of being employed in the disgusting trade
of cat•slaughter, for the sake of their skins, was
on Friday lest detected, and his room forcibly
entered, when no fewer than thirty cats and owe
dog were found.
On Wednesday last two partridges, in flying
over the town, were so terrified by the noise and
illpttle below them, that they alighted in Lothian-
street, and would not rise again. The tme ran
into• it common stair, the other into a shop, and:
were both taken without the least resistance.—
(Edinburgh Paper.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH—MIN-Day.)

ABDUCTION OF MISS TURNER.
On the Judges corning into Court, it was an-
nounced that Mr. William {to
was in at-
tendance for their Lordships' decision regardin4
the writ of Habeas Corpus which hid been men.
tinned yesterday.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said? that the
Court was very nnwillkg to prnnounce any thing
like an opinion on the' eitse, !Art 'uridVr'rill the
circumstances it thought: thqt Mr.. ‘vilkofield
might he discharged from cust9tly,, oti,prkiyiding
twoi‘isru. iptfi 71(7 t ircesmiani
remained` in
colat t
pectilig
the arrivul of his friends to bail him. '

OLD BAILEY.--(7'1119, aty.)

OblV COURT. ' •
BefYre the RIECORDER and a Loudon Jury,}.
UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COIN.
• John Callaghan was indicted for uttering a
shilling, knowing the
.same to be false and coon.
terfeit.

BOLLAND stated the case for the prosecu-
tion. It appeared that the prisoner had been to
several places and tendered bad money,. having
base half-crowns in his possession, but may one
case oas proceeded upon, which scold auswrr
the ends of justice.
Ann Percival lives at No. 44, Iloundsilitch. , On Saturday,
10th March, the prisoner came to her shop fur a penny loaf,
and tendered s shilling, which witness took and gave him
change ; he came back in five minutes for other bread, and
tendered liall-a-crown, which witness knew to be bad; this,
induced her to look at the shilling she had just took of him, as
she had no other in the till. In consequence of her suspicions, •
she gave information to Forrester the officer, and detained him
and the shilling now produced.
Mr. John Compton keeps the Sir John Falstaff; at No. 105, •
Iloundsditch. The prisoner was at his house about 12 o'clock,
on the litth of March, and asked for a pint of porter and paid
for it—he came again about two for a glass of gin, and also
paid for it with a shilling. Mrs. Percival Caine in and told
what had happened, when witness looked at the shilling, for
he had no other in the till, he found it was bad, having marked
it previously. The prisoner was taken into custody in about half
an hour.
A Gentleman who lives at Kidderminster, and was at Mr.
Compton's when the prisoner was apprehended-11e tried to get
away—in the struggle witness discuvesed same money—the psis.
Monet put his band into witnesses breeches pocket, witness
caused him to draw it out and in it was a bad half crown, which
he dropped in the struggle, the half crown was picked up and
given to the officer.
John Forrester stated, that he received one shilling from Mrs.
Pcrceval, one from Mr. Compton, and !Nan-crown from the
last witness; they had all been kept separate evtr since
Mr. John Field, an inspector at the Mint, examined the
money now produced, and he pronounced it all base and coons
terfeit; they were of copper, slightly washed with silver; the
slightest friction would destroy them ; they were not worth a
farthing.
The prisoner made no defence.—Verdict, Guilty.—Sentenee,
Imprisonment for one year in the House of Correction, and
kept to hard labour; and to find sureties, at the expiration,
forgeod behaviour, for one year.

NEW COURT.
(Afore the COMMON SERJEANT and a London Jury. )
Du ItG LA It Y.
John Edward Oakieq, alias John Edwards, was
indicted capitally for burglariously breaking open
and entering the dwelling•house of Mary Charles,
widow, and stealing a quantity of linen and
wearing apparel &e.
The prosecuttix is a laundress living in Cox-court, near
Whitecross-street. On the 4th of March she left her room a
little before eight o'clock in the evening, and fastened the door.
When she returned her room had been entered, anti nearly the
whole of her moveable property taken away.
Bradford, an 'officer, stated, that about a Yinarterpait eight in
the same evening, he met the prisoner with a large bundle, and
suspecting all WAY not right, after some inquiry, coneeyed him
to the watchhonse.
.The prisoner, in Ids defence,: said, he met a man who told
him to take the bundle to one Mary Carpenter, in Old.street ;
never 'Saw the man befoie': he thought it very hard to be,pu.
nishel for the acts of another person.
Coat MON SERGEANT. said, that the defence was quite
common place ; but the Jury would consider what ctedetkee it
was entitled to.
Two witnesses gave the prisoner a good character up' 'to a
short time before the alleged robbery.
The Jury, without hesitation, ibund the prisoner Guilty._.
Death.

To an inquiry by the COMMON SERJEANT, the officer said
that he had been intinmed that three persons • had becnson.
caned in the burglary ; 'hence the expedition which was used,
as only a quarter of an • hour elapsed between the proseeutrix
leaving home and his meeting. the prisoner. -
There were 23 male and 'four female prisetters brought, into
Court and discharged by proclamation, the Grand Jury having
ignored the bills which had been preferred against thetui

A TTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM A the cbross
of last week, Thos. Connor- and John Nl‘Dariald,
prisoners in the Calton Jail, under 'sentimee.of
transportation having learned that they 'Were
about to be sent off to the balks, made an
attempt to escape. Conner being heard' to
express a desire for a nail to hang. his clothes
on—which he knew could' not be allowed
him—this excited suspicion in the Governor,
whO visited the two prisoners about an hour and
a half after being locked up for the night, when
he found them busy at work with the blade of a
breakfast knife, which they must have either got
thrown into them by some of the debtors, or
from some one coming io under pretence 'of
siting the debtors, and with that instrtititent
they•had worked completely through the ruble
part of the wall to the outer course of stones,
and would, in a very short time, have been able
to have got out into the yard. They. were pro-
perly secured. There are at present- about
ninety criminal prisoners in the jail:----(Edinbirgia
Paper.)

NATURAL PHILOSOP—.....—.IIY CLASS.—The following
were the questions proposed for the annual ekes
prizes given by the Town Council, and which
have been this year augmented to 104
tt Suppose at the equator, whose diameter is
7,995 miles, a cannon ball were fired directly
upwards with a velocity of 1,120 per second,
where would it fall to the ground ?" 2, 44 if A
thermometer were formed of a very thin bail of
zinc, with a. fine glass stem, and filled with pare
water, at what temperature would this li-
quid appear stationary ? The expansion of
water being denoted by ,0000044 n, and
the linear expansion of zinc by 000088-14
in centesimal degrees." 3. " A boat is
drawn by a force of 15lbs. along a canal atib•
rate of one mile an hour ; what, then, %uilt be
the greatest speed with which a noise would pull
it, and what the pace of a horse,set to drags (man
of
a horses power given in the
frolintv,eopeucfohrmbousitas? of is, to by dtdirce,d
Memento of Natural Ithilosnil." ,I" 11i 4".
stint ease each of the v:110(1014 .wel "Iv"' but."
no one pupil solved all the three, noiirstpriaa
was awarded.—(Edinburfa Observer.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Exfractafront the Morning Papers,April 13,1826.

[BR ITI SII PRESS.]

It is impossible to calculate on the good faith of
a peciple so utterly destitute of all principle as
the Burmese. That the King of Avis should
have broken the armistice has nothing surprising
in it ; but that his Golden-footed Majesty will
repent his want of fidelity, we may foretell with-
out the gift of prophecy. Not only will Sir
Archibald Campbell not offer any other condi-
tions of treaty than those he had proposed, but
we may rest assured that no terms of any kind
will be again offered. What conditions the Gal-
lant General may hereafter chose to dictate,
are the conditions to which, we confidently pre-
dict, his Burmese Majesty will be compelled
to accede. The proposed terms of the treaty,
to which the violated armistice has put an end,
were, the cession of Arracan, Cheduba, Martaban,
'Pays, and Mergui, together with the payment
of two crore of rupees (two millions sterling.)—
The Kee Whoongee (Prime Minister), who has
a' little more sense than his Imperial Master, did
not consider these as articles which were to be
rashly rejected ; but having a natural wish to
keep his head on his shoulders, the official func-
tionary very wisely kept his on n counsel. It
will be recollected that, with a force of about
3,000 men, we beat the Burmese army of upwards
of 60,000, headed, too, by their renowned Bun-
doolah, in the brilliant affair at Rangoon, and
after many days' hard fighting, killed 14,000 of
those troops, and captured all their artillery.—
With this event fresh in memory, the public here,
we think, need be under no apprehension as to
the result of the recent action at Prome, what•
ever the numerical superiority of the enemy may
have been. The 87th King's Regiment and the
33d Regiment of Native Infantry will have since
joined Sir Archibald, and would hove enabled
him to advance to the capital with about 6,000
effective troops. This force will not fail to bring
the Burmese war, which has been hitherto most
ably conducted, to a speedy and favourable
termination.

[MORNING HERA LIL]
Our attention has been drawn by a correspon-
dent to the apparent neglect which exists in pro.
vitling competent means of escape for' persons
who have the misfortune to be inmates of houses
when on fire. The alarming frequency of such
accidents, especially in the Metropolis, as well as
in other large towns and the numerous instances
of loss of life by them, render it a subject well
worthy of public attention, and of some general
regulation. From most houses there is no egress
bet by the street door. Even where there is a trap-
door in the roof its use is little known, and the
state of alarm so great that it is seldom available—
a means of escape, by the bye, which is now be-.
qntring even less so by the extreme height of
nidern.built houses over many of those which
adjoin them. Of this specimens enough may be
seen at this time in St. James's-street alone. It
would lw extremely advisable that every house
should be provided with a ladder of ropes, witl.
proper stancheons (which need not be at all un-
seemly), securely affixed to the up-stairs windows,
so as to facilitate their use. Rut as this implies a
degree of foresight which we fear is not very
likely to be very generally adopted, our cur-
respondent suggests, that besiies the parish
ladders (which somehow or other seem generally
tiafely locked against the walls), 'each engine.
should be provided with rope-ladders, or such
means of escape as may be found most portable
and useful ; and we cannot help thinking, that
If the pompous puffing secretary of one of the
Fire-nffices, who has lately circulated, in his
quarterly notice papers, a method of curing scalds
and burns, had suggested to the different offices,
and adopted in his own, some such mode of say.
ing lives as that pointed out by our correspondent,
it would have given one a better idea of the uti-
lity. of Fire offices in general, and of the under-
standing . and humanity of
.those ho conduct
them

fritiw TimEs..l

We refer, our readers to a Report, in another
column, of the Meeting of the Mcndicity Society.,
an! institution of as much practical utility as any
one that was ever established in this metropolis.
It iy quite lamentable to observe, that the efficacy
of this A isucia tiou has been paralysed hy mise.
ruble ealumnios in onprinciplA newspapers; and
it would, be still 'mom Is to trace the
;natives of the catatonia tors. A proprietor of the
Tithes, several years ago,,got, into a personal ills.
vote with the Secretary of,the Mendicity Society,
audheinprompletely foiled in Jsis attack on that
.gentleman, lie tuts ever since vented his spleen on
the society! The publiConean while, ignorant of the
base and despicable motives ortheli bellerotre led
*itivity'lly an impudent pretence of public princi-
in reality, is nothing more than a
'Oleak for private Malignity ! TlS'ore is perhaps
116.0renter'IIIIINV of fraud in thiwirnetrOpolis than
what' hi effected'hy means of bogging !otters. The
late'routrificentßiShOp of Durham received, it is
said, between six nod seven itundred.ol them in
one year, all of Which he referred to the Mendicity
By the' itidicious' arett`Ogeinents of the
letters are briftrgitt'to the test of
fatl' nineteen 4 wentleths of them life proved to be
and the writers'of the remainder are
iitotrtly relieved, A:ed this • is a Nysitim which
Mei fia,l ties then profligate audacity to call in'-.I
Times thus beComes the advo:.
Cate 'oil top 0,4 ti re and f eau il--;w IfY ? Because it
INN had a quarrel' with the Secretary of . the
Mendicify`Society ! Of all the- gross, shameless
''a !irises of 'ptiblie et/Oho cre which' that worthlesi
Journal has committed, this is one of the most
shameless, 04 the most., grOss.--Wheti we reflect
en the thousands of 'idler persons in this. Metro..
poiis,, who, if not contsoulFed by some such super.
itisiony'would swell the 'ranks'of mendacity, eve
cannot btit think that thiesuppoltot this valuable

Society is an object well worthy the attention of
the Public.

LTIIE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Letters from Corfu, dated the 12th and 22d
ult. were received yesterday by a most respect-
able house in the City. Those of the former date
merely state, in reference to the affairs of Greece,
that up to the sth no formal attack
,had been
made on Missolonghi. The brilliant victory said
to have been gained by the garrison of that place
two days before, turns out, as we expected, to be
no more than a pasteboard triumph. Yet, with
what confidence was this statement published
and republished. Nothing too could be more
circumstantial than the account ; and yet, like
many other claims of the Greeks to the
most decisive success, it happens not to have
had the slightest foundation in truth. The news
in the letters of the 22d would be highly gratify-
ing, supposing the various versions that have
lately appeared in the French Papers respecting
Missolonghi, were merely embellishments of the
first rumour which announced its fall. In these
letters it is distinctly stated, that, nothing new
had occurred in the relations between the be-
siegers and besieged. It is therefore certain
that up to the 20th the place had not fallen ;
and, what is more, that no signal advantage
of any kind had been gained by the forces
stationed before it. The storming of a
fort, commanding the entrance of the har-
bour, which took place, according to the French
Papers, on the 9th, is consequently without a
shadow of truth. This circumstance would

ierefore throw complete discredit upon

telligence of the capture ; but that in the first
report it was most distinctly and positively affirm..
ed, that this bulwark of Western Greece was
stormed on the ¶23d, which would satisfactorily
account for the silence of the letters of the T2d

from Corfu. A doubt, however, has been raised
upon the supposed impossibility of an event,
which took place on the 23d ult. at Missoloughi,
being known in London on the sth inst. But this
objection seems to be more specious than solid,
as the news was said at first to have been con-
veyed in six days from Ancona to Paris, whence
it was transmitted to London in about 27 hours.
We have an instance before us, in the letter of
the 22d, upon which we are commenting, where
the passage from Corfu to Ancona has been made
in 42 hours ; whilst the distance frog►► Misso.
longhi to the former place is no more than 110
miles, and from all of which it may be seen, that
the idea of impossibility is wholly out of the
question. Such, therefore, as still found any
hopes of the news proving incorrect upon the
circumstances that it could not reach London

in 13 days, cling unfortunately to a broken
reed ; and in confirmation of this opinion, we
have only to state, that on the margin of the let.
ter of the '2211 there are these words, written with
a pencil—" All is up with the Greeks." This
was written at Ancona on the 25th, probably
after the arrival of the messenger there, who had
brought the disastrous intelligence of the fate
that had befallen the brave garrison of Misso-
longtii.

[THE TIMES.]
Notwithstanding the awe which seemed to
have been imposed by the country gentlemen
upon the minds of his Majesty's Ministers, at and
since the commencement of the session, we still
flatter ourselves that those who call themselves,
and who ought, bona fide, to be the Govern►nent,
will so far shake oil their unbecoming deference,
for those whom they profess to rule, as to attempt,
before the dissolution of Parliament,somethiug on
behalf of the general industry and poverty of the
country, by laying the ground-work, at least, of
a reduction in the enormous price of bread. We
have before us an official return, printed by
order of the House of Commons, and specify-
ing, on the authority of the British Consuls
in every part of Europe and North Ame-
rica, the market price of foreign corn
within their respective jurisdictions. To make the
matt,rr short and intelligible, we shall merely
transcribe the comparative prices at which British
corn at home, and foreign corn in the outports of
the several countries where it mightmost easily
be imported into England, are'quoted for the
month of June, 1825, whence a tolerable fair
view may be taken of the different rates at whirl
subsistence could then be obtained in Englanc
and in neighbouring countries ;. and, of course, o
one g► eat ingredient in the means of competition
enjoyed by a British manufacturer against his fo
reign rival :

1. J.

While wheat was in England, June, 1825 67 8 per Qr.
It was at Odessa . 20 2
St. Petersburgh .. . . 25 11
aottenburgh . . 35 4
MxTow . . 19 3
Konigsberg . . . 18 7
Memel: . . 15 .t)
Copenhagen . . 14 4
EM MEN • . • 17 6
HAMBUIIIIII . . . 16 7
A MSTERDAII • • . 18 9 .
. Bordeaux 36 6
Charente . •
. • 29 6
'Havre . - . . 37 0 ‘ '
We need not push the quotation farther. The
places printed in capitals are those from whence
the chief supplies of grain might be expected,
and it thence appears, that adding an average of
7s. per quarter for freight, insurance, and other
charges of transit, wheat brought from Ravre,
the dearest market on the list, would have
cost the consumer in England last' year 445.
per quarter, and from MPMNi, the cheapest
place. set down, the sum of 225. ed., inbtead 1
of 67s. 13d., the cost of the same article
of English growth. Now this, we are will-
ing to confess, cuts both Ways :—lst, it is a
cruelty upon the-English manufacturer to subject
him to such a dreadful disparity of expellee,
in comparison with his continental antagonists ;
2(1, it would he on equally. serious hardship on
the British agriculturist, to levy the same weight
of taxes from him as at present, and to reduce
his income to one half, or less than half, of its
actual amount : but, in fact, there is no such
extreme alteration of English prices • contem-
plated now by any person whatever, as a thing
'for immediate. adoption. If a -demo" for
°reign, corn were once created in- .England
by (lid Opening (:)f. Our ports, the first effect
would be an instantaneous rise in the market.

value of all foreign produce, so as probably'
to bring the average prices of the articles to
nearly the calculation ascribed to Mr. Huskis-
son to Mr. Jacob, as that at which they might
be estimated throughout the ports of the German
Ocean, vit. from 40s. to 455. per quarter. In the
next place, nobody has thought of at once intro-
ducing foreign grain into England, without levy-
ing on it such a tax as would operate powerfully
for the protection of the British agriculturist;
while in so far as it failed of securing to him a
practical monopoly of the home consumption,
it would, precisely in the same ratio, assist the
revenue to which he contributes by the whole
amount of the tax. It is obvious that the rate
of duty would constitute the only question enti-
tled to much deliberation ; and in roughly con-
jecturing its amount at 12s. per quarter in the first
instance, to be susceptible of reduction after-
wards at stated intervals, we name an impost that
would probably determine the cost of foreign
corn to the consumer at or near 565. a quarter--
a price in all conscience high enough for a manu-
facturing nation to afford. Without, however,
►tickling for a precise sum, let the subject be fairly
brought into discussion, and a definite prospect be
afforded to the people of one day or other getting
rid of a monopoly the most excessive, and dis-
heartening, and intolerable, that ever was in-
vented by selfish ignorance in the exercise of un-
bridled power.

LATE FIRE AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE.

The ruins yesterday still continued to emit
large bodies of fire, upon tvhich the firemen were
employed without intermission in throwing wa-
ter, by which means the flames were prrvented
from again attaining any ascendancy. The whole
of the morning Mr.,Dutor and his sons, besides
other persons connected with the establishment,
were engaged in exploring the ruins, in hopes
of discovering some of the lost property,
but their labours were attended but with
little success, inasmuch that they only found
a bag containing about Mt. in silver, part of
the receipts of the preceding night, which had
been deposited above half an hour before the fire
began by the money takers. Such was the
anxiety of Mr. Farrell, the stage manager, to
rescue as much of the property as possible, that
he ran through the long gallery passage, arid.
leaped through a window communicating with the
wardrobe, but the flames bore. down upon him,
and he was obliged to retreat as fast as possible,
without succeeding in his object. His right hand
is severely lacerated by the attempt. The front
wall of the theatre, which is nearly 80 feet high,
is still standing, but in such a' tottering and dan-
gerous state, that strong wooden barriers have
been erected at either end of Well-street, and
constables are stationed to. prevent persons
passing and repassiug, lest theY should meet
with any accident ; yet, notwithstanding these
precautions, vast crowds of inconsiderate
people were flocking all day, regardless of
the impending danger that presented itself.
We understand that a lady proprietress, named
Steele,'is the only person that is insured, and she
we are told, had insured her share in the house
to the amount of 1,5001. in the Phoenix In-
surance-Office. By the unfortunate calamity
nearly 200 individuals have been thrown out of
employment, besides the destruction of all the
property they possessed. All the corps dra-
matique are left completely destitute, as they
are prevented from procuring any engagement
at the summer theatres in the metropolis, or
the provincial, the Managers- having made all
their arrangements for the season during Pas-
slots week, which is their - usual prac-
tice;--therefore their situation is most de-
plorable. Amongst the most extensive suf-
ferers are, Mr. Dunn, the proprietor, who since
the failure, of the banking-house of Sir John Per-
ring and Co., where he always kept cash, has de-
posited the receipts of time house in the Treasury ;
and at the time of the fire had an immense sum
therein. The receipts of that night were between
2001. and 3001.; IGI. out of which (as above stat-
ed) had been found. In addition to. this, a valu-
able stock of music, consisting of the productions
of Sanderson, Corri, Hughes, and others that
have been for years in his collection, have been
all consumed. Mr. Dunn estimates his loss alone,
at least, at 3,0001. Mr. Farrell's (the manager's)
wardrobe, worth 801., has also been demolished.
Another performer, Mr. Saicer, is a sufferer to
the amount of 501. Monsieur %Penile, a per-
formes on the violoncello, has li.ad his instrument,
worth 501., destroyed. Another performer' on
the double bass has been deprived of his instru-
ment, worth 1001. Mr. Wyatt, who had a
line collection of comic wigs, has had the whole
of them consumed.—ln consequence of this
calamit y,"a number of gentlemen resident in the
vicinity of the theatre have formed themselves
into a committee for the :purpose of taking into
consideration the best means of • relieving the
members of the late, establishment. They met
yesterday at the Castle Tavern ill Mark-lane,
and Mr. Dunn the proprietor, and Mr. Farrell
the Manager, attended. After considerable dis-
cussion, it was resolved, that au appeal be made
to the public, by advertisement in the news-
papers, for the purpose of raisins; a'subscription
to enable the committee to carry into effect the
following resolutions r-viz.
" That an immediate application be made to AIL Ebers, the
proprietor of the King's Theatre, to ascertain the terms on
which he would grant the use of his house for the benefit of the
suffererers. That the sum raised by subscription, or otherwise,
be placed in the hands of a treasurer, to be appointed by the
meeting, for the purpose of promoting the interests of Mr.
Dunn the proprietor, and the performers, in such manner as
the Committee may think fit." .

y.--MI'SSr4. FULT..EItSt
Digboth, about fifteen
FORTUNATE DISCOVER
brothers, pawnbrokers,
years ago, missed a large quantity of gold coin,
amounting to 6001., or 7001., and after an inef
fectual search -
b, every probable place of conceal.
rent, concluded that the property had been
stolen. They have recently built thernielves a
new house, and in taking down that which they
formerly inhabited the lost treasure was dis-
covered.--(/3irmingham Journal.)