The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A detachment of the 39th Regiment of Foot embarked
at Deptfiu.d, on the 4th inst. on hoard the Bussorah Mer-
chant, for New South Wales.

Detachments of invalids embarked at Madras, on the
30th August last, on hard the Coldstream, for England.
Further detachments of Invalids also embarked at
Madras, on the 17th September last, on board the Susan,
for England.

The. depot of the 93d Regiment of Foot has been ordered
from Halifax to Stockport, and will march on 10th inst.
The depot of the 4th Regiment of Foot, has been order-
ed from Tynemouth to kierwick-upon-Tweed, and will
march on' I lth inst.

The removal of the tith Dragoons from Nottingham to
Ipswich will commence on 12th inst. when two troops
will march, and the head-quarters on 13th inst.

117.,

DESTRUCTION of the NEW BRUNSWICK

TREATRR, WELLCLOSE-SQUARE.

ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST,
(THIS DAY.)
To-day the Coroner and Jury met at a quarter-past Ple
o'clock, in the Court-house, Wellclose-sqnare, for the par
pose of prosechting the further inquiry upon the Coronel
Inquest. The whole of the Jurors regularly answered a
their names on being called over.
Mr. Hill (barrister), and his client (Mr. WhitiVell), ice
present, but Mr. Cornyn was not in attendance on belisl
of Mrs. Maurice, he having gone on his circuit. 0
taking his leave of the Court on Friday, he expressed Is
conviction that he should find the inquest proceeding wile
he returned.

Before the inquiry was entered.upon, the
,Foreman
the Jury hefted to observe that be had received a letter ad`
dressed to him out of Court, respecting' the business 00
which the Court was sitting, which had considerably sup'
prised him. He could assure both the Learned Coroners
and every other person, that whatever letter (should there
be any) might be addressed to him with regard to thie
affair, he should abstain from reading it at the earliest mo'
ment he could ascertain the nature of it; nor should be
hold any conversation or receive any communications what-
ever from any body out of Court, respecting the theatre,
until after the inquest was concluded. He added his cow
viction that when he said thus much, he had only expressed
the feelings of every Juryman present.
The CORONER considered this joint expression of the
Jurors as extremely gratifying.
The Foreman then said, perhaps I might not belie a more
convenient opportunity of conveying to you, Mr. Coroner,
the mutual wishes of my brother Jurymen, that we should
in future, while this investigation goes on, adjourn from
time to time, and meet every alternate day.
The CORONER—Gentlemen, if we only secure the walla
so as to keep them" standing in their present state, justice
requires that you should not be taken out of your oc-
cupations to dedicate the whole of your time to this
business, because if the witnesses should prevaricate,
or the evidence be at all contradictory the walls,must speak
the truth. And, Gentlemen, if you observe any one, or
learn that any individual is removing the, smallest piece of
material belonging to the building, or any way defacing its
characteristics, I entreat you will at once send a apecial
messenger to me at the Tower, that I may, knoW who it is
that wants to destroy the testimony which must be true.
I having told the public by large prjutid notices, that,
every person entering within the horde that encircles the
ruins, will he in imminent danger, and the utmost care
being taken that I can think of to keep the walls in the state
they now are, there Will be no nicessity'for ypur sitting, as
it might he suggested, everyday of your life. ,
A Juror.—l believe there has been nothing ,remeyed
since Tuesday last.

,

Coaosaa.—lf there be any diner to any adjacent pro-
perty by' keeping the walls in their present state, I shall
have them shored, or as I believe they. call it needled up ;
'because, as I have said before, we should destroy the most
valuable evidence, if we were not to preserve the walls. I
therefore, am only anxious to secure the building as it is,
or the materials of it, that you may have a view of the
component parts of the building, lest there should be a con-
fliction in the evidence. Under these circumstances, there
can be no reason for hurrying so important an inquiry as
this is ; and therefore, I think, your suggestion, of the
mode of your attending, Gentlemen, will be the most con-
venient, that the inquest may have your greatest powers
of mind applied to it. Only as! have stated, let every care be
taken to preserve the standing of the walls, and the materials as
they now are, notwithstanding the Statements I have had
made to me that I have taken upon myself all the respon-
sibility of such an act, and that the Lord knows bow many
more deaths will be occasioned, should the walls be kept
standing.

A Juror—l. think you need not be under any apprehen-
sion of the effects of a step so desirable to be taken.
CORONER-1)o you think it will be a convenient time
now to take the evidene of Mr. Shaw.
A Juror—Are you quite done with Mr. Arding ?
CORONER—I don't mean to say so. He will be here
to-day again at half-past three o'clock, and it will be com-
petent fur you then, or at any subsequent time, to put any
question to him that may occur to you to be at all necessary.
In the great rapidity of our proceedings here ! ! it is not un-
likely that many questions of great importance to be asked,
should be omitted, when a witness is first before you, but
which may afterwards suggest themselves to your minds.
Edward Shaw, clerk of the works, under Mr. Whitwell,
was then called and sworn.
Examined by the CortoNza—l live at the Black Dog
public-house• Vauxhall-walk, in the parish of Lambeth.

I am a carpenter.
Will you tell the Gentlemen of the Jury what you
know, in your connection with the late Brunswick Theatre,
of its 'fittings up and its entire arrangements?—l was em-
ployed by 'Mr. Carrtithers in the scenery and machinery
department of the Theatre.
Were you engaged in writing? was there a written
agreement ?—No, sir ; I believe that it was about the be-
inning of July last that I was engaged. Not beginning
the work at the theatre so soon as was expected, I waited
for Mr. Carruthers, at his own house, till Wednesday, the
Ist of August. At dinner-time, on that day, I was sent
down by Mr. Carruthers to measure the stack of old bricks
that was at the theatre. Mr. Pound and Mr. Whitwell
were there at the same time. On the 2d day of August,
as nigh as I ean tell, about nine o'clock in the morning we
began the works, and proceeded on. Mr. Carruthers told
me, about an hour after they had began, that I was to con-
sider myself as clerk of the works, under the direction of
the architect.

CO RIJN Eft—State his name.--Mr. Whitwell. Mr.Whit-
well then gave me orders how to clear away the rubbish for
beginning; he also gave me orders to have the whole foun-
dation sound, to be carried two course of bricks above the
level of the pavement in cement. I believe that there were
seven openings to be left in the new wails ; two of them
were large, about eleven feet seven inches wide ; the other
five openings were four feet seven inches in width. I was
then desired to be correct in having inverts (arches) in
every opening. Then we went on in the regular way of
building, grouting every fourth course. At nine feet high
we began the first tier of chain bonds : that did not
go round the whole building, but only the north-east
wall, the south end, and west side ; the north-east side
was the front of the Theatre. There were indents
l
ttsohio,trohedenato,at
rsthaoefcnotouirirsetletioeoln; adjoining Mr. Jones's),
cut in the old walls, and fresh bricks set in them ;
the
and from that the bonds were every four feet or thereabouts,
luntil (
oe:vdfer front there sotponeneinwghsicihn tphreojefreotendt,
for the purpose of forming the cornice above the openings;
from that to the plate round for the shop floor there was
.a
distance of about five feet and a half. The next tier of
bond round was about six feet, from that to the plate,
where it was to receive the roof; the distance was about
seven feet.

The CORONER now desired the witness to produce any
working plans of the building which he might have.
The witness said a Mr. &vaster had the plans belonging
to him.

The CORONER then directed a messenger to go to Silves-
ter's house for them, and that an officer should accompany

Examination' resumed.—l believe that the walls were
standing very nigh a fortnight before the roof came.
(Mr. Silvester now entered the Conrt.)
Coaorqra to the witness.--Describe how the walls
went up, where cemented, and what the thickness ; how
high from the pavement (lid the walls go up with three
and a half bricks ?..—Not higher than the pavement.—
They were cemented to that height and two courses higher.
From that level the wall set off to three bricks, which were
cart ied up nine feet six inches; then in the centre, where the
small openings were (in the front wall) was a set off of half
a brick until such time as they got to the stone coping ;
then the wall adjoined the sets-off that were from the
piers below to bring the walls to a regular thickness.—(A
drawing was here produced for the purpose of explaining
the evidence of the witness.)
The Coitoorn asked the witness for the pleat by which..
he worked.—.lhave it not.

slaVwh ra. nNd a ‘svhh:nr
de didi‘lr yous mlast e ee it ?—Up
staino.
A Juror—Has Mr. Nash taken the plan ?—Coroner—,
Certainly net; we could give the architects no plan except
it had been properly identified. I now, therefore, want
the witness's working plan for himself.
The witness then examined several plans that were pro-
duced, and handed in one as the working plan by which the
wall was built.

CARONER—To what scale is this laid down?—To one-
eighth scale of an inch to a foot, eallthciospaii;o:akihnagifdbrariwck-.
Mg of the front wall—from the I
stone e
was added to the wall, and was thus made three bricks. in
thickness up to the plate of the shop floor. The wall continued
from the plate of the shop floor to tile wall plate under the roof
of like thickness, that is to say the front wall—the two end,
walls and the back were two and a half brick thickness from
the pavement to about nine feet six; the south end and the
west walls were carried up three bricks thickness;. from
that up to the roof they were regularly two and a half
bricks : and where the north end rested on Mr. Jones's,
wall, we made it two and a half bricks. We pulled down
Mr. Jones's wall to about twenty feet high from the pave,