The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-18 00:00:00

CHESS

We have received the following in answer to the
challenge which appeared in our paper of yesterday:—
" Paris, Jan. 14.
" I have read in your journal of this morning a letter
from Mr. Staunton, to which I shall feel obliged by your
pAlishing the following brief, and, I think, conclusive
reply. I have played two matches with Mr. Staunton ;
I won the first, and last the second. We were to have
played a third, which his departure alone has prevented
—for the last three months I have been here at his dis-
posal. After my having declared, repeated, and pub-
lished (Pal tmede, vol. iii., pp. 203, 417 ; vol. iv., pp.
38, 83, 92, 133, 182, 328, 329) that, not being a
chess player by profession, not accepting any con-
tribution from my fellow-citizens, having, besides,
commereill establishments in France, as well as
my family, it was impossible for me to sacri-
fice all to go to England to play with him a match
at any importance, and taking up a certain period of
time—he challenges me to proceed to London, and gives
himself the satisfaction (very little compromising, Imust
say, to his purse) of offering to stake 1501. to my 1004
As he is already perfectly aware that I cannot accept his
offer, I ought perhaps to feel thankful to him for not
having proposed stakes mere disproportionally insulting
to me. We were to play here a third match, for 1001.
a-side, with his own men (it is all that I could concede to
him), and it is not from me, but from him, that it comes
to pass that this match has not taken place. Such is the
exact truth, and as history ought to be written.—l have
the honour to be, s•r, your very obedient servant.
—Gulignani. " ST. AMANT.'"

TIER MAJESTY'S BUCK HOUNDS.—The celebrated
stag, Rory O'More, afforded yesterday one of the best
runs this season ; the meet, at which Lord Rosslyn and
a field of nearly two hundred were present, taking
place at Gerrard's Cross Common. Rory, omi being
uncarted near the Pig and Whistle, on the Beacons-
field.road, made for Chalfont St. Giles's, across
Bulstrode Park, to Hedgerley village, and Burnham
Beeches, crossing Littleworth and Woburn Com-
mons, and thence to Bone End, where it crossed the
Thames to Berkshire, the hounds being taken over Cook-
ham Bridge. Upon being again laid on near the village
of Cookham, the stag went away to Quarry Wood, where
it doubled to the left, and swam the Thames a second
time, landing on the Bucks side, and was taken at Great
Marlow, after a capital run of an hour and a half.
SINGULAR DEATH OF A CHILD FROM EATING A
PIECE OF CANDLE.—Yesterday a fine little boy, named
Thomas Morgan, two years and a half old, a son of
Captain Morgan, residing at No. 13, Wathey -street,
Commercial-road, St. George's-in-the East, by some
means obtained a piece of candle, and contrived, before
he was discovered, to eat a considerable portion of it.
About three hours afterwards he was seized with a vio-
lent vomiting, by which some part of the candle was
ejected ftom the stomach. Mr. Hawkins, surgeon, of
the Commercial-road, was called in, and, upon being in-
formed of the cause of the attack, administered the ne-
cessary remedies; but in vain, for the child died in a few
hours.

HE RETRIBUTION STEAM FRIGATE.—This mag-
nificent vessel, the largest steam-frigate in the service,
left Blackwall on Thuasday morning for Chatham.
She got under way at ten minutes past seven A.N., and
proc,eded until she reached Gravesend, at a re-
duc, d speed, in consequence of the numerous vessels
coming up the river, it being nearly high water when
she stsrted. Upon her arrival at Gravesend she
stopped her engines for ten minutes to land a gentle-
man who had proceeded thus far in her, and upon
resuming her course, it was resolved to try her, at
full speed, in order to test her own as well as the
capabilities of the engines. The trial was particularly in-
teresting, and the result was most satisfactory, as the
speed of the vessel after leaving Gravesend was fifteen
mile, per hour, and it was the general opinion of all on
boat d, that when she gets deeper in the water sbe will
even increase her speed. The total a eight of the whole
machinery is nearly 600 tons ; yet, notwithstanding this
immense weight, and their extraordinary size and power,
the engines worked with the greatest ease, and were as
readily controlled by the engineer as any of those in the
smallest river steamer. It might have been supposed
that when this immense mass of ponderous machinery
was set in motion with such velocity, that
the vibration would have been very considerable. Such,
however, was not the case ; for when the vessel was
going at her greatest speed nothing of the sort was in
the least perceptible, and persons below would not have
known but that the vessel was at anchor. She brought
up in the Medway, within four miles of Chatham, at
10 50 A.M., the tide not enabling her to proceed further.
There is no instance on record of any vessel having made
such an extraordinary quick passage before, as the whole
distance was run in three hours and forty minutes. She
was taken from Blackwall for Chatham under the com-
mand of Captain Smith, of Woolwich Dockyard. Mr.
Lie). d, the engineer-in-chief of that establishment, was
also on board, as well as several other scientific indivi-
duals. Upon the making of the flood tide she got under
way again, and proceeded on to Chatham.
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.—We are glad to learn that
within the last fortnight the Carlisle manufacturers have
advanced the handloom weavers' wages fully nine per
cent., making a total advance of 20 per cent. on wages
since the spring of 1844.
BRADFORD.—REPRESENTATION OF THE EMIOUGH.
—A good deal of talk has been occasioned by the ap •
pearance among us, during the last two or three days, of
Mr. Wilberforce' one of the borough candidates at the
last election. Whether his visit is connected with a
political object or not, we cannot ascertain, but certainly,
taken in conjunction with the fact of Mr. Hardy's late
illness, it looks suspicious. He was staying at Scarr Hall
with Mr. Pollard, and visited his old political supporters.
—Leeds Times.
The Hon. C. A. Murray, who is now convalescent,
left Windsor Castle on Wednesday for town, and is ex-
pected to proceed, in the course of a few days, to
Naples, to enter Upon the duties of his new appointment,
as Secretary of Legation at the Neapolitan Court,
NEW THEATRE IN SHOREDITCH.—The new theatre
which has been for some months in the course of erection
in Shoreditch, facing the Eastern Counties Railway, has
at length been completed, and is to be opened on
Mondaa evening. It is one of the most elegant and
cepacious minor theatres in existehee The building has
been erected under the entire direction of Mr. Gibson,
the architect. It will contain an audience of 2,200
people, namely—gallery, 700; pit, 1,000; and boxes, 500.
The gallery is so constructed that an entire view of the
stage ran be obtained from every seat, The front rows
of the pit are rather below the level of the stage, it then
rises on a slope and the back rows are on a level with
the stage. The boees are so divided that no inconvenient
pressure can arise from a full house. An eedellent
arrange ment is made with regard to the approach,
so that those who have an objection to a saloon can enter
and leave the theatre without coming into contact with
it. The saloon is large, and fitted up with every regard
to comlort and ease. The stage is thirty-seven feet from
wing to wing, and nearly fifty feet from the foot lights
to the back. Beneath it is an arena for horsemanship
(during an equestrian season) forty feet in diameter.
To display this the stage will travel with the greatest
ease to another part of the building, so that the delay
in preparing the arena will be as short as if a usual
interlude followed. The proscenium boxes draw back
to prevent any obstruction to the view, and, as the
curtain rises, a pair of very elegant Corinthian gold
moulded pillars draw off at the side, leaving the stage
its entire size during the dramatic representation, and
closing again as the act drop falls. The divisions of the
boxes are supported by Corinthian columns, gold
moulded, and the dome is in strict accordaece with the
same style of architecture. The interior of the boxes is
hung with crimson. The ceiling is divided into six com
Tnements, with the following devices ;—" Tragedy,
Music, the Dramatic Poet, attended by Fame and Ap-
plause; the Comic Poet creating his subject; the Painter's
Dream, and Romance borne by two youthful poets." The
circle between the boxes and gallery are decorated with
nautical and equestrian sketches in the panels, whilst the
circle between the boxes and pit are in the arabesque
style, with vignettes and various devices. The house
will be lit by a chandelier of a novel description. The
building lays great claims to external elegance, and
opens under the joint direction of Messrs Johnson and
Nelson Lee, late lessees of the Pavilion Theatre,
SLOUGH, FRIDAY.—Mrs. Hadler (the mother of
the unfortunate Sarah Hart, who was murdered at Salt
hill, on the Ist instant), with her husband, left the neigh-
bourhood of the melancholy catastrophe yesterday morn-
ing for Gravesend, taking with her the two children of
the deceased. A subscription has been commenced at
Salt-hill, under the auspices of a lady sojourning at
Bothans's Hotel, to which liberal contributions have been
made by most of the principal inhabitants of the vicinity,
for _ thear benevolent purpose of providing for their future
mbaesntkioiniedy tlhacton Mr.sen tßedothtnamre,
cet vee spurbo-- scriptions in their behalf.
GREAT LIBERALITY
Exeter, was applied to by a
.—A clergyman, not far from
poor woman,
who had done
some service in his famil
baptize her infant, and per-
form the usual offices of the
e church after her confine-
ment. The service was performed, and the generous
clergyman, whilst he himself
re
the most wealthy of his parishioners,ceived the full fee paid by
the clerk and sexton, that on accountstrictly
ofadmonished
the poor woman's
extreme poverty, they should receive but half of theirs.
—Correspondent of the Western Times.
SKELETON FOUND IN THE NEW-ROAD.--On Mon-
day morning a police-coastable found the skeleton of a
young child in the New-road, nearly
opposite to th
e
Marylebone Workhouse. Dr. Boyd, the Physician
to
the infirmary of that establishment, has examined it
a the request of Mr. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, and sent to
that gentleman the following description of it;--It con-
sists of the bones of the head and the trunk (91 inches
long). The extremities are wanting. There is an in-
dentation in the right parieter bone of the skull. The
neck of the lower jaw, on the right side, is broken
across. The collar bones are broken, and numerous ribs
fractured. The spine is nearly divided at the bottom of
the neck. The thigh bones are absent, all but the'heads,
and the skel.e,.,
child—h .in L-.eetns to have been that of a malformed
erie a suspicion that it been &stn." .t.,(1 Ott
account of its deform t Coroner 3
Of LUVIISIin" • in Iy. e awaits the result
~ations progress be` Ore he des des s whether
Or not be shall hold an inquest.