The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-13 00:00:00

DuRADFUL iiitCIDEI;4 IN )ST. JAMES'S-STREET.

[FURTITER• PiaTieuLArts.]—As the workmen
were "removing the old materials of some houses
at the corner of Little Hider-street, St. James's-
street, about haif-past eleven o'clock yesterday
morning, three of .the houses fell in, and
buried in the ruins eighteen persons who were
engaged in taking them down. Immediate 'as-
sistance .was procured, and every exertion made
to extricate the unfortunate sufferers. Seven
men and a boy were dug out and conveyed to
St. George's Hospital; two of them, we regret
to state, were to all appearance dead; the rest
had suffered very much. It appears the work-
men had incautiously pulled away the inte-
rior of the houses without taking due pre-
caution for the support of the wallsand the chim-
neys. Sir. T. Farquhar sent to the officers on duty
at St. James's, requesting the assistance of.a-file
of men, and Captain' Talbot, of the Coldstreaois,
with the greatest promptitude, dispatched
.them
to keep off the crowd who were presiing upon
the workmen, and prevented them proceeding
with their humane but perilous task. The hou;es
at the corner are in an equally dangerous s.ta-te•
—The premises were formerly the White Hart
public-house, behind which there is now a large
mansion building for Sir Thomas Farquhar.----,
The very 'dangerous state of the corner house,'
which was left standing, and threatened. to rag
every minute, for some time retarded the hu-
mane operations of the persons employed in the
recovery of the sufferers, and great exertions were
made 'by means of ropes to pull the building
down, which finally succeeded : it, fell without
doing-any injury to those employed, about four
o'clock,. upon the ruins of the three houses that
had fallen in the morning, and consequentlf
upon the poor creatures who were buried beneath.
A very fine youth, a son of Mr. Harding,a dealer.
in building materials, was the ninth person whof
was taken out ; he had been three hours anti
above buried alive,,but escaped with only Ili'
shoulder bone broke.. The greatest exertions
were making last night, and were to continue 119
torch light till those remaining under the ruio
are released. Most of the poor men we find,
upon inquiry, have large families..

FATAL MISTAKE.—A few days ago, a lady of
great respectability in this neighbourhood, 101'
was confined by indisposition, requested the set'
vartt to pour out a quantity of medicine, sufficient
for a dose, from a bottle standing on the cliiinuor
piece of the room. Most unfortunately the at'
tendant took the prescribed quantity, above "(A°
table-spoonfuls, from a bottle of laudanum stand'
in; in the tame place, in consequence of which'
though prompt assistance was administered, the
lady expired the following morning.—(LicerP°°/
Courier.)

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE,,--It most' extraordr-

nary circumstance has just taken place at Ontst°ll9
in the neighbourhood of Gainsbro' : a young- girl,
about fourteen or fifteen years of age, of the
name of JANE BORREL, was sent by her master
on Thursday morning last, about four o'clock,
with a note for a person at Morton, aho It three
or four miles distant ; she is supposed to have
been met on Stockwith-hridge, about six o'clock,
but she is not known to have crossed any of the
ferries. A dog which went with her, returned
home about eight o'clock the same morning. She
was dressed in a brown cotton stuff gown, sill',
spencer, yellow cotton handkerchief, and speckle
straw bonnet. VariouS conjectures have been
made, but no circumstance has yet arisen to elty•
cidate her fate, notwithstanding the earnest err
dearours of her afflicted parents.—(Doncaster
Gazette, Oct. 12.)

COAL-MARKET, OCT. 12.
Ships at Market,. Ships sold
39 Newcastle -
12 Sunderland -

Prioe• 3a
34s 6d to 44ass
36s ;Id to 4" 7

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, October 12.
Amstet clam

Ditto, at Sight • ..••••

12 14

,otterdani

12 l

Antwerp l2 10 [le.
Hanihargh 33 24 L-is•
Altona
'5 - o Cs'
Paris, 3 Day's sight • •• V - 3
96 5 i (is. • Ditto
26. 5 0 Vs.
Bourdeaux, &iv)
Frau', tort on the N'ain
Madrid
.10fectls
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Cadiz
5,1' Ellecli!‘
Bilhoa ..
Barcelona . 35 .

ieville ..
Ciibraltai
Legbort
Gvi Ilk% ..........11-----Veniee, Ital. Liv 27 .
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Malta 45 -Naples 39* P
per O Palermo • .., 118,1:
Lisbon
Oporto
Elio Janeiro
Dublin .... 8i........ Cork 9 per Cent.

BULLION.

l'ot tn(al Gold, in Coin
Foreign Gold, in Bars
New Doubloons-
Nr w Dollars
in Bars, Standard -

0 0 per 00'
3 17 10/
•0 0 0
•0 4 9
..; o 4 10.3'

BIRTHS. . -
of ,
On the Bth inst., at Governop.2.l:t-house, Jersey, the 1,3a1f s
his Excellency Sir Cohn Halkett, K. C. B. 'and G. C• IL, . • .
daught‘r.
At Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs. Liddcll, of a son.
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MARK lED. JA
On the 24thult., in the British- Chatrel at •Leghorn'toCv
Christie Esq. of lioddesdon, in the county of Hertford,lopie
maim, eldest daughter of John Falconar, Esq. his R-11
Majesty's Consul-General for Tuscany.