The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-14 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY )
SHREWSBURY RACES. Tanusn.T.
The County Members' Plate of 601. Beats twite.roand, and
a distance.
Mr. J. nes's Portrait, 4 yrs • (Jones) 1- •
,Ir. Cwsley's Happy-go-Lucky, 3 yrs
~3
Mr. Arthur's The Star, 4 yrs
Mr. J. Day's Tamburini, 6 yrs • 2'&
FRIDAY.
The Cleveland Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 h f, and 5 011131 if
declared, and 25 added. Mile and three quarters.
Mr. Collett's The Dean, 6 yrs, 7st 71b .(Whitehouse)
. 2
klr. Morris's Fat Jack,. aged
The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Two miles and a half.
11r. Holmes's Vulcan, 5 yrs (Wakefield) I •
Mr. Jones's Portrait, 4 yrs - ..... 2
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each and 20 added. Three quarters .of '
a mile.
Ur. Owsley's Happy-go-Lucky, 3 yrs
Mr. D'lsraeli's Blacklock, '2 yrs (Bradleybo)ited
BEVERLEY, RACES.—A'nuasnlr.
The Hotham Stakes of 15 Says. each, 5 ft, and 20 aide"'
Mile and quarter.
Mr. Watson's Arcanus, 3 yrs
`.:r. G. Clark's Woldsman, 3 yrs
Ihe Kingston Stakes-of 10 Suvs. h ft, and 20 ad(dielda."°Vini-
ston Course.
Mr. J. Peck's Frea, 4 yrs
2
Mr. Kirby's St. Lawrence, 3 yrs 3
Mr. Simpson's Mr. Timid, 3 yrs...
The Beverley Stakes, cf 7 Soya. each, 5 ft with 20 a
Once round and a distance. 1
Mr. Simpson's Aggravator, aged, 122 st 4ib (G. Simpson)' ,
Mr. Warren's Waterlily, 3 yrs...
Mr. Clark's Grindsle, 4 yrs
Mr. G. Heynard's Marchioness, 6 yrs
The following were not placed :—Mr. W. Simpson's Chal.
dean Princess, 4 yrs ; and Mr. Smith's Obed, 3 yrs.
KELSO RACES --WEDNESDAY.
The Buceleuch Plate. Heats. Two Miles.
Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Foxberry, 3 yrs, 7st 21b......... 1
2 2
Mr. Crawford's Royal Charley, 3 yrs, 7st
yrs,
Mr. James Elliot's Little Johnny, aged, lOst 31b... .. .. . . 34 r"
The Farmers' Hate, with 101. added. Heats. Once roar
and a dis. 1 •
Mr. Taylor's Young Corrector, 5 yrs, llst In.__ 2 1
,•
Mr. Laidler's Ti lside Ltiss, 5 yrs, llst 121 b 3 3 *;
•
Mr. G. Wilson's f. by Valr.sr,ailsoos,ts2ylbrs., 10st 121 b.. 4 4 ."
Mr. Fawcas's Charlton, 3 1 24r.
..
LATEST BE'IIING AT MANCHESTER.
Dtunr.— 9to 4 agst Scott's lot; 20 to 1 agst Forth's Mi.: '
30 to 1 agst all-the Mares ;sto 2 agst Coldrenick ; 7 tfij
apt Attila; 9 to 1 agst Canadian; 11 to agst Auckland
1 to 1 agst Jack (t) ; 20 to 1 agst Chatham (t) ; 620 to
agst Lord of Holderness ; 24 to 1 agst Meteor (t); 50
asst Tiptoe; 50 to 1 agst Ghuznee ; 1.000 to .20 agst Belca""
100 to 1 agst Ballinkee!e.. No other change. •
Wilts.-6 to 1 agst Dilbar ; It 3 to 1 agst Amima filly. 1."-
rest as before.

CAPTAIN DUFp.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN
Sits,--Having seen a statement in The Sun of last nig,b,t;'.
headed " Scenes in St. Giles's," that Captain Duff appearea!l
Marlborough police court on Monday, to enter into the 11`,414
recognizances to answer a charge of assault 'trete, red- Wt.! r ;S.!'
him at the Old Bailey by Mr. Cridland, •in jusice to my :,fr"
1 think it right to inform you that the charge was not prefelitLe
by Mr. Cridland against Captain Duff at the Old Batley's
at the Crown-office, and that the statement in your
to the origin of such charge is not correct ; but, as I !o'';;4:7,*
.any ea-parte statement of the circumstances which indtm-d•
Mr. Cridland to proceed against _Captain Duff unfair and
iust, I decline entering into them, knowing that in due tiwur:.
they must. be detailed to a Jury, in Whose minds I 91.1°°
tom' --
regret any prejudice to arise front statements previous to. 0.
trial.—Your insertion of this letter will much oblige your
obedient servant, J. L. DALE,
7 Furnival's Inn, Holborn, Attorney., for the Prosecut'°".,
12th May, 1842.
[The paragraph was copied from a Sunday paper.—En. 5u5.

FIRE AT HAIVIBURGH.
(EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER.) '4'
HAMBURGII. alas- 10.—The dreadful codiagration o'l'4
as destroyed one of the Most favoured parts of our city,. lit-ea
length ceased. 'Thirty-seven streets, including the churu,",,•
A St. Nicholas and St. Peter, with their admirable steep
is in ashes. A tremendous storm from the south confincottsv.
flames at length between the. rampart of the suburb of he'
(_,eorge and the great basin of the Alster, and in that space t •
tire died out by its own rage. • -
We count 1,200 houses gutted and. destroyed , toanJ,„o,s.
them were blown up or battered down- with balls, to put
to the progress of the flames. , Four days and nights the 110110'
• lenient raged, and Mocked the almost supeiluman exert°
dt our inhabitants. Many of them hAve. fallen sacri6s;
to their courage. During this dreadful period all distitO°t,,
;f rank or of station w.as obliterated, and all pre-ented the ea 's
tying example of self-devotion for the general good of A ,
native city. This excitement could alone have enabled '15,4
bear the unceasing exertions of four days. But few c•11'
their eyes durir's that thee.
turess
Now that the fire is extinct, .some degree of quiet re.-.
but the pain and griet only now begin to b:• felt. Fortun!F;;;
there are not many quarters inhabited by poor poPireLls
eluded in the pale of destruction, and the inexpres•ible
and misery exhibited during the time of terror by:tholir.-tbe
of homeless wretches, exposed to all the inclemency 'I; of
night air, arose, indeed, from the precipitate flea
`;ho
hose whose habitations have ben apare-'id, and,„s'i
have now returned to them. The real stiff 'ar"" °I
erers are ( ;et_
with admirable kindness. All the cities around us have• ch'e•
with each other in their efforts to assist us from the very :
ginning of our misfortune. Lubeck, Kiel, Luneburg.
burg, &c., sent engines, workmen, and food in plentY,s 'llO.
fourteen hundred carpenters marched in from Bremen, i".
mirable order. !Mt
Our pew Bourse is saved, .as also the Bank. at le
the Silver and the books—that is to say the 'most yarn
portion of its contents. Indeed, the fire never reached tlatitay,
commercial portion of the city, but rather the seat of , "Tbf
and we shall long have to mourn over our "heavy 010
mercantile body hope to retrieve their losses soon' a,,d more
course of three yearx, we may lila), t,, see a' r'e'v nAles.
beautiful city al isuig fr.ni pr'esent heap.of ruin' an" --A-000,
his lamentable event ha, rtepr,ved our- S nate. ever' 7,;1 of
the lowest and least eduea•ed ettsses, of all'eright tO i" ".:ear
"Most Wise," which placed its members apparently to° hod),
the Almighty. To the weak-minded members of that "aty
alone do we owe the fearful Spreading of the, the
truetive element ; to their total disregard ()
advice, the prayers of • well-informed profess,,,
men who, at the very outset, recommeoded energetic mew,
for stoing the progress of the flames. At a later period,...„
true, the" Most WiA" allowed a corps'of Hanov, rian artilrofi
and of engin, ers, to take those steps which they had errGseocl
when their own imploring fellow-citizens proposed them.
oay forgive them—our shaver will. t the
Our own mutual friends escaped; it is true tits
t 0,,,
habitation of G. 0. lies in ashes, but he, not being a SOIL a
fotesaw the coming danger, and removed all his propertv. d
place of safety. 1 live in the country inystlf, and our place
business lies far from the 'scene of destruction.*
ttect
You will, most likely, h ar of several excesses comill'eja
by our populace against English workmen, who,, °
well employed, and not living on good terms with the Gettaoas
have been looked upon as incendiaries and thievoa by It
canaille. lam afraid there is one individual against who° 0.004
an accusation might be made without injustice. The-rua'
citizens of Hamburgh, however, have shown themselves love
ciently shocked at the excesses to which I alluded. and re
repeatedly risked their lives to save the unhappy virgins °
pular fury. Let us hope that such a fearful time'of here' °r
excitement may nut recur, and we shall have cause to 4 -
well even of our lowest classes.

The street here alluded to is mentioned in one 319rP:'
Paper of this day among those totally destroyed.
NEW FOUNTAIN IN ST. JAIVI,-
PARK.
This ornamental fountain was erected last week in that-:
Lion of the water more immediately fronting the 1/31ace` bog
pretends to something like classical design in its ms jlrt'
when it is considered that an ornament to the chief,of ou
tish Parks is composed merely of stone, plaster,_ and.
work, it forms a poor contrast with the smallest of the ",tritc-
cascades which Versailles sets forth to be the gaze and
tion of visitors from Paris and its suburbs.
The structure of the New Fountain may be thus deseritovf
—The pediment emerging from the water is pyramidally'-'. 00;
flattened at the to and the sides overlaid with ,',!
Live p'eces attached, made in imitation of fan-3'101:
sea-shells. On this a pillar about two feet and
in height, upon which rests a sort of basin, like the r-tor,',
of a sut flower, and out of this another ornamsot at tli.'lo
'the water w ill, without rising any height, fall over the
this and then descend in a cireular show er of about five or 511xfor:
in depth into the water below. It was tried the day lioli;
yesterday and bound to act well. The fountain, on , I
wai form a neat appendage to the Park, and give a. tb(”3o/1
to this end of the Palace. 11r. Simpson, the architect, 'ctor,,,
works are near the Wooden-bridge Chelsea, was the coatr,bt
the component parts were forme4 at his works, and broitoe'
the spot finished. A larger fountain., which will aim St 4 tii°
thing snore of style, is now in progress of construction hYo tlts
same party, which is' destined, on completion, to ad°f
centre of this fine piece of water.

•
FOREILiN FUNDS.
DOTI:sr. 1' UN 115.—murreanam, May 10.
ROD'
Mount. -
Acrum flit, f:1,4 per Cent
Jittu, ditto 5 per cer:t.
Amor t syndic,r Ni per cent........., ..... WN, 11/4
Ditto, ditto, 31<, per cent ilk.
Commercial Ccunsany, 41,2 der cent 15414
Ditto (IKIS and 1r37) 5 per cent.
Loan 1537, ~er cent. 94
Exchange en London, One month l2 12}1a
'lwo months
flamburgh, One month vs 3114
Two months 35 IP;i
Mach Papers, May
I'UND:.-1311UtSELts, MAN 11-
Actual 1)ebt,•214 tier Cent.
Bothsehild'eLoaii, 5 per Cent .... jrA3),
Loan or Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent..........
3 per Cent.
--Thirty.seven
-------- (140) ll4 ,_
Loan of City, N 32,4 per Cert.
Ft;
Society of Commerce, 4 6pcx Cent.
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... .......
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
kirussels Papers, May 11.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—‘ is.rsa, MAY 2- al4
f Inner Cysts. Metalliques
' Four per Cents.
Three per Cents. ......
1667
Bank Shares ...
Ills
FRENCH* PLAYS.--Mademoiselle DejaZe oeoit/
last night at St. James's theatre, in a piece which
...
the English public, and which at Paris had great Suctiectio°o,
title is the Fiole de Cayliostro. if she were not Petilept f,o{
Vert. Pert, this would be reekored her moat eV' airttle
ranter. Several distinguished personages were pre,el't' of
whom was the Duke of Beaufort. wearing the ribbon
Order of the Garter.
MURDER IN THE COUNTY OF IamEItICK 0 jot,
Limerick Chronicle of yesterday contains the foll°ty 0.1,j!e
count of a horrifying murder committed in that cep
is supposed, either Saturday or Sunday last, but trci I'sl
time is yet a mystery :—" A fine young man, na3l,e hotP,,d
Walsh, was found bathed in blood, at an car'Yo.o
Sunday evening last, in a cart, the horse of which ent9
ing along the road at Cogha, Lord Stank). "
within a mile of the village of Doon, in this cotint).:iteecle,
than half a mile off the pcnice station. lie was,l.:e'tfe,'„
and smeared with gore, which also disfigured -be
Surgeon Tho Mas Wilkinson, who was known Westin ft1:1
neighbourhood, was at once sent for,life was.,,,,cif°oo,
fore his artival. This gentleman, who was e%at'it:iVelVoic;
inquest, deposed that death was caused by-an ci_t,P,'ing.l.o),,r;
passing obliquely through
tureon the forehead, and through which the brain `f to otr.',,
Head constable Sanderson, with the police Particsthe
and Capparnore, were indefatigable in scan:lring
rtil,if,
the right eyebrovr,°e.t—'o.os
for the last tw nnight,,, and h,:ppilv succeeded in a%
man, on whom strong su•Picion of murder rests, ald
coat was spotted with fresh blood, for which he C°lll,, • kiciiij
lode, near Ulla, when he was waylaid
factorily account.. he tlecuased was nu big "V (It
G
and war
wherefore is yet a mystery."