Star.
London, England, 1823-03-28 00:00:00

FIFTY-THREE FIRST-DRAWN PRIZES • ;
ALI. CAPITALS, 9th APRIL.
T and J. SINTEWItIG HT congratulate their F-riendi
efi • on tl:e continued success which has attended the Purchasers,
at their Offices, 37, Cornhill ; 11, Holborn ; 38, Haymarket,
corner of Coventry-street ; having Sold in Shares ik Prize of
£16,000, and other Capitals, in the Lottery just ended, in addir:
riots to the Grand List of Prizes Sold by them in the Lottety.,
which finished the 15th January lastrviz.
1,467 £16,000 • 17,746 £3OO
14,315 10,000 N 0.401 200. .
2,612 2,000 1,603 200
11,291 1,000 . 4,848 200
1,505 500 14,147 2CO •
12,344 - 500 • 15,220 ' . 200
4,878 300 . 48,836 200
The present .Lottery betkitu oth April—the Scheintr
contains THREE of £20,000, and EIGHTY other Caknall,
all lottey—the FIFTY-TIIItEE Fitst-drawn Prizes will bi
each entitled to a Capital, viz.—the First-drawn *ill hay*
£`30,000 !! ! the Two Nest £ll,OOO each, and the -Fifty Neil
either £560, •se3oo, or £2OO. - •
Tickets and Shares are tat 0;i1e it itIVRWRIORVOXICC4,
as above. - .

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We yesterday copied.-an aedbunt ,nf this tretitleile
from a Morning Paper, which how appears ter- be
somewhat incorrect:- The children were not .suffo.
cated from being crowded into a •corritlor in which
there was r.o windows, andky the door being locked
-and the man absenting himself with_ the key. Nov
%ere • tliere so many sufferers as. we then stated.
From an official document published at Valletta, Fe-
bruary 14., 1823, and authenticated by the signature
of Richard Plasket, Chief Secretary to the Govern-
ment, we now copy a more exact account of this un-
fortunate affair.

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It has been usual for many years past in• this
Island, on the last days of the Carnival, to collect to-
gether, in Valletta, and in the. three. cities on the
other side of the harbour, as many boys of the lower
glasses, of from S to 1.5 years of age, as chose:toot-
tend—to form them into a 'procession, and .toi take,
them out to Florian or elsewhere; where, after at-
tending Service in the Church, a collation of bread;
and fruit (provided from funds partly given by Go,
vernment and partly by beneficent individuals) was,
distributed to them—and this with the view of keep-
ing them out of the riot and confusion of the Cara
val in the streets of the cities.
The arrangement of this procession, under the con-
troul of the Lcclesiastical Directors of the Institution
for teaching the catechism, took place on the 10th
inst. The children went to Florian, just outside of
Valletta, and thence returned to the church of the'
Minori Osservanti, in Valletta, and bread was on that
day distributed in the Convent of that. Order without
any accident or confusion. • - •
On the llth, the procession, as usual, proceeded to
Florian, and returned to the Church of the Minori
Oservanti, and the bread was to be distriktute.d as on
the preceding day, in the same Convent. • •
Unfortunately, however, the ceremony had been
protracted to a later hour than usual, and he Car-
nival being over) a multitude of treys end full-grown
people, passing by the Church, and knowing.that -
bread was to be distributed, mired. With the children
in the Church with the view of sharing if with them.'
—On the door of the vestry being thrown open, about
sun-set, the whole multitude of men and boys forced
into the corridor, and pressed upon the foremost,
pushing them gradually to the other end of the cor-
ridor,.v, here the door was only half open, with the
view of letting out one at a time. As soon is the
people had all entered the corridor, the vestry door'
was as usual locked, and, though there was one lamp
lighted in the corridor, it appears, by some accident,•
to have been early put opt—thus leaving this kn.'
n:ense crowd entirely in the datic andthere'being,i
uuturtunately, a Right of eight steps within the.haif
door, at the opposite end,cilehe corridor,
crowd behind, whupressed upon the foremoati-forced
the boys down the steps, who fell onemponthe otheai
thus, unfortunately, choaldag up the half-shutdoor
at the bottom (which opened iewourflsitiast4444e#4::lo
the digress r when din shrieks 01 ..the tebikken avem
!mud Icy the persons employed.. iuttherdisuiburiciph9(
the bread, their eaertions, were. noVin. Lime :to 1.444
the unhappy .isuffesers. 7 „ , ~I•, ~.ti).•l
Many, however,,werethairoarituf faboies, 44-
recoveled ; others, apparently lifeless, were atte;-
wards brought to their sense; but, we regret to add,