The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-26 00:00:00

CITY THEATRE.

The loss sustained by Mr. Anderson is very great,
and sympathy for his misfortune has been widely and
generally expressed. The unprecedented exertions he
made to render his place of amusement one worthy of
the city, and the success with which these exertions were
crowsed in raising an establishment unequalled in this
country, at least for its interior magnificence, we should
have wished to see meet a better fate, but the event has
been ordered otherwise. The building, we understand,
cost upwards of 7,0001., and Mr. Anderson estimates the
loss of scenery, wardrobe, machinery, and properties, at
3,0001., making in all a sum of about 10,0001. To cover
this loss he is insured to the extent of 6,500/. in the fol-
lowing offices :—ln the Yorkshire, 2,000/. on the building,
and 1,000/. on the scenery, wardrobe, &c.; in the Sun
1,500/. •, and in the Royal Exchange 2,000/. An iron
safe, which was placed in Mr. A.'s own room, on the
second fluor, contained a number of valuable papers, in-
cluding his insurance policies, the books of the theatre,
and upwards of 100/. in bank notes, gold, and silver.
The safe was yesterday found in the lower part of the
house, having descended with the floor on which it
rested, It was taken out, but the whole of the papers
and notes were reduced to ashes. From 40/. to 501 in
gold and silver were recovered, completely blackened by
the action of the fire. Not the lutist painful circumstance
connected with this calamity is the distress to which the
people belonging to the establishment have been re-
duced ; upwards of 100 have been suddenly thrown out
of employment, and in addition, they have lost valuable
articles of dress, music musical instruments, workmen's
tools, &e. Their case is one deserving of public sympa-
thy, and we are happy to understand that, in the course
of to-day, subscription-sheets will be placed in the dif-
ferent banks, and at the bar of the Exchange, for the
purpose of raising the means of immediate relief to them
and their families, Many of them are entire strangers
in the city, having no friends to apply to, and we
therefore confidently hope that the generosity of the
public Will be largely extended to them. On Wednesday
night last, the attenders of the Adelphi Theatre were
thrown into a state of considerable alarm, about eight
o'clock, by the fall of the eastern brick wall of the City
Theatre, adjoining along with the gable on the south of
that fated building, which, as our readers are aware,
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening last. The
noise occasioned by the fall is described as having been
most alarming—almost resembling the shock of an earth-
quake ; and such was the effect upon the minds of the
audience in the Adelphi, that had the theatre
been crowded, the consequences would have been
most disastrotts. As it was, the moment the shock
Was heard, the people got upon their legs and
rushed to the doors, the ladies screaming with terror ;
and until the cause of the disturbance was described by
Mr. Miller and his dramatic corpP, who, along with Mr.
Knowles, did their best to quiet the panic, the house
was in one general uproar. After this, however, the
performances proceeded as usual. The wall having fallen
inside the City Theatre no person was injured—indeed,
it was almost impossible that any one could have . been
hurt by the casualty, as the Glasgow police superintend-
ent had established a sufficient patrol, stationed at proper
distances, within about 15 or 20 yards of the tottering
ruins. Yesterday afternoon the necessary measures were
taken by the authorities to provide against accidents, by
having the north and south walls pulled to the ground.
Saturday Post.

We are sorry to learn that the murrain, or some-
thing like it, has made its appearance among both the
foreign and home grown fruits. It is said to be quite evi-
dent that the apples and pears will not keep this year, as the
rot is making rapid havoc among them. The fruit-dealers,
like the potato merchants, are hurrying their stocks to
market.—Greenock Advertiser.

ACCIDENT.—An accident which might have re-
sulted in very disastrous consequences occurred on Wed-
nesday, at St. Catharine's Bay. An English gentleman,
who had been only a few days in the island, and who
meditated taking his departure the following morning,
was taking advantage of every moment he could seize
to explore the beauties with which the coast abounds.
When he left Gorey, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
the sun had broken forth into momentary radiance,
but he had not proceeded very far, when the rain again
beginning to descend, in a few moments waxed into a tor-
rent. The sky was dark and gloomy, and the vapour which
arose from the surface of the sea diffused a peculiarly thick
haze, for at least a hundred yards upwards from the shore.
The gentleman was riding onwards at a furious gallop, in
the hope of getting himself and horse sheltered under some
adjacent "spieling," when all of a sudden his charger making
a start at some object or other lying upon the ground, the rider
was in a moment pitched from his saddle, and thrown
headlong upon the sward which girds the edge of the
road next the water. His efforts to regain his feet
had well nigh rendered the mishap fatal, for seizing hold of a
branch which grew at the very edge of' the precipice, the
slender twig broke in twain, and the gentleman losing his
balance, fell down upon a ledge of rock. below. In this posi-
tion he lay for several moments, when his self-possession
returning, he well surveyed the nat are of his predicament,
before snaking further attempts at rising. In the course of
a quarter of an hour he was on hid horse again, no further
token of his " hairbreadth 'scape" remaining than an ugly
scratch in his cheek from rather close contiguity with a
bramble bush.—Jersey Times.
The French man-of-war briKL'Abeille, of 18 guns,
Captain Du Brasses, out from Cherbourg six days, bound to
Senegal, as a cruiser, was brought iin here on Sunday morn-
ing. She is quite a new vessel, and has a crew of 150 men.
In the thick fog of Saturday, she 'dad a narrow escape from
being lost. being embayed in the Mount's Bay, and obliged
to anchor near Mullion, within t.wo miles of the land, when
having fired two guns and hoist ed a whiff, two men went off
from the shore, one a coast gua rd an and the other a fisher-
man. The Captain. by the advice of these men, got under
weigh, and off the Black He? ,cl, Falmouth pilot boarded her,
and brought her into Falmo.uth harbour. The officers speak
in high terms of the capabilities of our po4.—Fulinoutli
Packet.