The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-01 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.--FEB. 28.

A pretty good muster of betting men assembled to-day,
but the betting, was not very brisk. Sorcery has retreated
behind Merchant. Nine to one was in one instance betted
against the Colonel, and :the' same against Sorcery; but
there remained plenty of takers at these odds., Both the
Colonel and Merchant were offered to be backed heavily
against Sorcery. Druid has recovered his place
above Amy. The rumour propagated about Druids
being queer was a mistake, and short odds are taken
that he will be the favourite before the day. Hardly any
betting was made on the Oaks or St. Leger. The follow-
ing are the closing prices :

RIDDLESWORTII.
to 1 agst Shoveller (taken)

DERBY.
8- to agst Hon. E. Petre's The C 010 nel
81 to 1 apt Mr. Thornhill's Merchant
81 to 1 apt Duke of Rutland's Sorcery colt
9 to 1 apt Lord Grosvenor'a Navarin
15 to 1 agst Sir J. Shelley's Amy colt
16 to 1 agat Duke of Grafton's Druid
20 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt
22 to I apt Mr. Thornhill's Mariner
22 to 1 apt Lord Eieter's Folly colt
25 to 1 agst Rogers's Bugle
30 to 1 apt Duke of Grafton's Omen
30 to 1 apt Sir J. Shelley's Barnardo
35 to 1 apt Sir T. Mostyn's Ultimatum
40 to 1 apt Lord Jersey's Mona colt
45 to 1 apt Sir T. Stanley's Herbert Lacy

oars.
9 to 1 on the held
ST. LEGER.
12 to 1 agst Colonel King's Bess] Bedlam
13 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Velocipede
lli to.l agst Mr. Petre's The Colonel
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gascoigne's Cora colt
6 to 4 on the field agst four, and 10 to 1 agst each of five.

EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM
HOBART TOWN, NEW SOUTH WALES, DATED SEPT. 22 :--
ter is nearly paned away, and the trees and shrubs are
now looking beautiful. Gloomy win-
The country is
in, bloom. We are thankful for all newspapers. Mr. A.
seat us the SUN, and promises to continue forwarding it;
it is a' paper in much estimation here ; the Government
have laid a very heavy tax of 3d. per paper. The pro-
prietor and public cry out heavily against this import. Dr.
Ross dill edits the Gazette, and l now sole proprietor.
The next oppoitunity for England will be the Persian,
which will sail in about a month, by which I shall write
a long letter; this goes by the Admiral Cockburn, Capt.
COOLING, which sails to-morrow morning. We are sorry
to hear the disastrous accounts from Old Englapd ; here no
one need fear.dolng well who is incliped to be industrious.

ACCIDENT AT BRUNSWICK TI4EATRE.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

At'three o'clock, yesterday, the parcel of men employed 1
during the morning in clearing a passage by the box-door
entrance, found' the body of one of the carpenters that had
been - employed at work; be was literally smashed j
to pieces by the parts of the building that covered him.— •
His name had not been ascertained when we came away.
As soon as the body was removed, the men were under the
neesssityof suspending operations at that spot where it
is expected there will be found a great many bodies,
and from whence yesterday morning, groans were
heard to issue, to remove a part of the gable which ap-
peared in a most dangerous position, almost overhang-
ing the Sox entrance. The prevailing opinion on
spot is, that there must have been 150 persons at least
within the building, when it fell. At half-past three
the greatest alarm was excited, by one of the
gables which is left standing entirely detached from every
thing, the greater part having been seen to swing, and
heard- to give a crack ; the ay that was sat up by: the
workmen and constables, and the manner in which they all
scampered over the ruins to make their escape, was most
pitiful, yet ludicrous. -Poor Miss Fearon's body now lies
at the King's. Head public-house, near to where the fatal
occurrence happened. Mr. Maurice, one of the proprietors
of the ill-fatedplace, was conveyed home to his house,
No. 5, Magdalene-row, Prescott-street; Goodman's-fields,
in, a hackney-coaeh, a corpse. Mr. Gilbert one of the
performers took a glass of wine at the Standard public-
house, close to the Theatre, a few minutes-before the crash
happened, went into the Theatre to rehearse his piece, and
was almost instantaneously hurried into eternity. We wit-
nessed an almost incredible fact—a carpenter assisting
to remove the rubbish, who happened at the time the
Theatre fell to have been on the very top of it, and who
came to the ground with the roof. So little was he
injured by the accident, that he was industriously assisting
to find some of his less fortunate companions.
' As ioon'as a body is found, the inquiries of females, evi-
dently interested in the lamentable fate of some, after the
name of the person at the corner of every avenue leading
to the Theatre,- and along streets for a considerable distance
from it, are most distressing.
The following is Mr. Percy Farren'a own statement :
" I was sitting on the outside of Mr. Maurice's box,
(which is on level with the stage), speaking to him con-.
corning the entertainments for Monday next (this was
about twenty minutes put 11), and the performers stand-
ing on the stage to begin the opera of Guy Ikfannering—
when a crash directed my attention to the roof of the building,
and I saw the lustre falling. Mr. Maurice pushed to the
centre, and I clung to the pillar of the proscenium. A
minute did not elapse when the whole fell—not by pieces,
but en masse, and entirely swept all before it, boxes, scenes,
stage and actors. A cloud df dust for a second ob-
scured my view ; but when perception returned, I.
found that the opposite pillar and that part of the
box to which I clung, alone remained ; the rest
of the edifice was a mingled mars of iron, timber, and
bricks. I Row distinguished that Miss Yates, by some ex-
traordinary preservation, was making her way towards me,
covered with blood, streaming from her head, and implor-
ing me to save her. I dragged her over the box, where we
remained completely blocked in for near half an hour. At
the expiration of that period, I distinguished three or four
carpenters wading through the rubbish to gain the street,
for the front wall having fallen, a;passage—a fearful one
'tie true, was left, by clambering over, the ruins. Upon
inquiry, I was told that our. present security.was very frail,
and that I should endeavour to escape. .1 did so, and after
some difficulty contrived to get her over the ruins, in doing
which, I need not describe my horror at finding one of the
resting places for my foot was the face of an unfortunate
sufferer, of the name of Gilbert. However, as if by mi-
"racle, ,I did escape, and, as, far as my enquiries lead, the
only person entirely unhurt who did so. I then went to
apprize my friends of my safety."

Late CALAMITOUS FIRE in FIELD-LANE

On Thursday evening an Inquest was held at the
Red Lion, Shoe-lane, before T. SHELTON, Esq.,
the Coroner, on view of the bodies of John Bartlett,
aged 46 years, John Bartlett, aged 15, Thcebe Bart-
lett, aged 43, Phoebe Bartlett, the daughter, aged
17, and Isabella Finnalson, aged 73, the five, unfor-
tunate persons who perished in the above lament-
able fire, in Field-lane, Holborn-hill.

Richard Saunders was a watchman 'of St. An-
drew's parish; about half-past two o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning he was calling the hour, when he
observed a quantity of smoke issue from the house
of Mr. Bedell, No. 5, Field-lane ; he immediately
gave the alarm by springing his rattle, and calling out
to the inmates of the house; soon afterle gave the
alarm, he saw Mr. Bedell, his wife and child, at. the
window of the first floor; the former threw out his
child, Which was caught by a young man who had
come to the spot; Mr. Bedell and his wife got upon
the leads outside the window, and dropped into the
lane, both of them were seriously' injured; they were
taken to the watch-honse in nearly a state ofnudity; the
flames had by this time burst out of the street door and
through the shutters of the shop; witness saw the
deceased John Bartlett, sen., ,at the window of the
second floor ; he was exclaiming " Oh,: for God's
sake, procure ladders to save my.wife and children !"
witness saw one elderly man named James Buck,
who slept in the back room, on the ground floor,
rush out of the street door; in about twelve or fif-
teen minutes after witness first discovered the smoke,
the house wad in a complete blaze, and there was
not a possibility of any one approaching it.
CORONER—If ladders bad been brought to the
spot when you saw Bartlett and his family at the
second fiber windows, could they have been saved
in your opinion 7 I'Vitness-.—Yes, Sir; but when
the ladders arrived the house was like a furnace;and
the whole of the deceased-people must.then have
perished.
George Crane, another watchman, corrobMited
the above evidence.
John Bedell, the landlord of the house, carried on
the business of a hatter en the premises; he and his
wife and child went to bed between eleven and
twelve o'clock on the Tuesday night; on their being
awoke by the watchmen, he threw his infant out of
the window, into the arms of a man named Fournier;
he and his wife afterwards jumped out ; she was so
much injured by the fall, that she now. lies without
wchw as
merely
slightest hopes of recovery; witness broke his
right arm by the fall.
After
corroborativem ueh morn
evidence
of
the was heard,
above,
return-
ed a verdict —" That the deceased five persons were
Accidentally Burnt."
the o hiry

FRUlT.—There have been no arrivals of
Clydesdale fruit for the last fbrtnight. On Thursday a
Dumfries dealer brought in a quantity of golden rennets,
ribstone and stone pippins. These being first rate sorts of
apples, and in excellent order, they were almost instantly
bought up at 10s. a bushel.--Scotrman.

BIRTHS. I
On the 28th ult., at Warblington House, near Havant,
the lady of Wm. Padwiek, jun., Esq., of a daughter.
On the 26th ult., at Ashbury, Berks, the lady, of the
Rev. Wm. Chambers, of a son.
On the 29th ult., at Durwood, , Surrey, Mrs. Henry
Westear, of a daughter.