and on mentioning their supposed loss, the farrier replied "Oh, he has been here and shod, and gone home again;" which on their return they found to be actually the case.-Cheltenham Chronicle. 3. A melancholy accident occurred on the beach at Hastings. About half-past eight o'clock in the morning, a galley was perceived to be making for the shore, with thirteen hands in her, from a cutter in the offing; and as the surf was very heavy, many persons were looking expecting from the state of the weather, some mischief would ensue. On her making the shore, she came through some very heavy seas safely, and had just encountered one when the boat came broadside to; one of the men in her was seen to stand up, and she immediately upset. The men were most, if not all of them, seen floating about, and every exertion was made, by men swimming out with ropes fastened to their bodies, in order to bring some of the unfortunate beings on shore. Four were brought in by their exertions, but only three survived; the other was too far exhausted to be recovered: nine met with a watery grave. One of them was clinging to an oar for a considerable time after the others had sunk, and waved his hand for assistance; at last he was overwhelmed in the heavy surf, at a time when a man who had swam out was within a rod of him. Thus have nine persons perished in sight of hundreds of their fellow-creatures, who had no means of giving them any assistance. 5. In the afternoon, Mr. David Brook, a carpenter, at Thorp, was returning home from Leeds, on the rail-way towards Middleton, having elevated his umbrella to prevent the sleet beating in his face, a number of coal-waggons drawn by the loco-motive machine came upon him unobserved, and passing over his lower extremities mangled his legs and thighs in so dreadful a manner, that he died in the infirmary in the course of the same night; the deceased has left a widow and six children. A still more terrible accident occurred at Lofthouse on the following day, by which four persons lost their lives. It appears that early in the morning of that day four persons were descending in a corve into a coal-pit, when, the rope giving way, they were all precipitated to the bottom, and two of them killed on the spot; the two others, one a boy about sixteen, and the other twelve years of age, were removed to the Leeds general infirmary, where one of them died immediately on his arrival, and the other within half an hour afterwards. names of the deceased George Hould, a boy about sixteen years of age, and Hould, his father; a young man whose name we have not heard; and Joseph Farrar, a boy about twelve years of age. The same day Thomas Salt, foreman to Messrs. Brown and Co. sheargrinders, at the Crown-point, got entangled in one of the fly-wheels, and was literally cut in two. deceased was a steady worthy man, and had been in his master's employment upwards of six years. The are, The 7.-Two cows and a bull, supposed to be the only existing remains in Scotland of the ancient Caledonian Caledonian breed, were removed from a field near Ardrossan, where they have been kept for nearly thirty years, to Mr. Corbett's, of Doughall, a distance of twentytwo miles. Being in their wild and untamed state, they became quite unmanageable on the road. The bull rushed at one man on horseback, and tossed both over a hedge, threw down another man and horse, and attacked several horses and carts, and people on the road, in the most furious manner, but luckily his want of horns prevented him from doing any material injury. It was at length found necessary to fasten the bull and one of the cows on separate carts, which was accomplished with considerable difficulty, and in this state they were carried to their place of destination, where one of the cows died in about an hour from fatigue, and the bull was not expected to survive. These animals are of the common size, but of a very handsome make; they have no horns, and with the exception of part of the ear, which is brown, their bodies are entirely white. 8.--About ten at night, Thomas Evans, blacksmith, of Rhydfendigaid, in the parish of Caron, Cardiganshire, was most inhumanly murdered. Three persons have been committed to Cardigan gaol under the coroner's warrant, a verdict of" wilful murder" having been returned against them. A murder has not been committed in that neighbourhood within the memory of the oldest person; and such was the sensation felt on the present occasion, that above forty men came voluntarily on the Sunday morning (though the Sabbath is perhaps more religiously respected in that vicinity than in most places) before a magistrate, and requested that they should be sworn in as special constables; and they searched that day almost all the houses in the neighbourhood. The result was, that the three men were apprehended and committed. 12. About six o'clock in the evening, a most promising young gentleman, fifteen years old, and highly accomplished, the eldest son of major Lenon, who resides at Grange-cottage, in the Queen's county, within three miles of Carlow, got leave from his father to go out for the purpose of killing rabbits. The young gentleman wrapt himself up in a Portuguese cloak, with the intention of calling upon the son of a neighbouring farmer, of the name of Maher, some years older than himself, who generally accompanied him on such occasions. In a fatal moment, however, Mr. Lenon conceived the idea of giving the young farmer a surprise, and concealing his face-which he did by elevating the cloak above his head-on arriving at Maher's house he assumed a feigned voice, and, leaning over a hatch door, demanded their money, arms, &c. Young Maher--the rustic friend and companion of Mr. Lenon's house of recreation-struck with the supposed danger of the moment, seized a blunderbuss loaded with slugs, which lay by the fireside, and, horrible to relate, fired at the young man in whose defence he would have died himself. The nose and a considerable part of the head were literally blown away! Dr. Read and surgeon Byrn were immediately sent for, but they could only put an (N 2) end end to the torturing anxiety of the wretched parents of both the parties, by declaring that hope had fled for ever! Mr. Lenon died on Thursday. The miserable young man who committed the act was seized with a delirium, and has gone off, no person can tell where. 13. The inhabitants of Kendal were impressed with a general gloom, occasioned by a melancholy catastrophe, which took place about eleven o'clock on the preceding night, and which has involved in the most poignant sorrow the respectable families connected with the parties. Mr. Towers, a surgeon of that place, most unexpectedly discharged one pistol at his wife, and immediately after another at himself. Mrs. Towers expired in the space of a few minutes; but the ball, taking a slanting direction in his forehead, did not produce the same fatal effects on himself. Mrs. Towers had nearly completed the 29th year of her age, and was most exemplary in the discharge of every moral and religious duty--which reflection must impart the best consolation to a widowed, and now childless mother, when time shall have mitigated the shock which now bows her honoured head to the dust. The memory of the deceased will be ever held dear by her friends. A coroner's inquest was held in the afternoon of Thursday, which brought in a verdict of Wilful Murder; and the wretched culprit will be conveyed to the county-gaol at Appleby, as soon as his wound will admit. 15.-A shocking accident happened at Scremerston colliery. John Aitchison, a single man, serFant to Mr. Herriot, at Folly Hills, Berwickshire, while waiting for his turn, went to warm himself at a fire that is usually kept burning on the hill, and having done so, he then thought of preparing for loading, but not recollecting his situation, and a thick volume of sulphureous smoke issuing from a pit that lay in his way, anxious to get through, he quickened his pace, and, melancholy to relate, rushed into the pit's mouth, and fell to the bottom, a depth of forty-five fathoms. It is almost needless to say that death was the consequence. 18 & 19. Of all the dreadful storms that we have experienced during the last two months, that of Monday night and Tuesday morning, was the most terrific. Very heavy rain fell, and at one period the storm more resembled an American tornado than the heavy gales to which we are sometimes subject in this variable climate. Towards morning, the lightning was awfully grand. Indeed its rapid coruscations were more like the vivid flashes of electric clouds within the tropics than any we recollect to have observed in a northern sky. From Thomastown we learn, that the thunder and lightning were more frightful at that town than any in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, and all our country friends, whom we happened to meet on Tuesday, spoke of the storm as terrific in every direction. We fear that great damage and loss of lives have been produced by this hurricane both by sea and land. In the neighbourhood of this city, at least one melancholy accident has occurred. The house of Thomas Delany, at Ballynabola, between Dunbell and Dungarvan, was overthrown overthrown by the storm, and that industrious man and his daughter both perished in the ruins. It was generally reported that Delany and his whole family had been destroyed, but we have reason to believe that the father and daughter were the only persons bereft of life by the afflicting casualty. The wind continues in the same foul quarter in which it has been nearly stationary for two months, and the sky is still overcast and lower-, ing. All country labour has been suspended for some time, and the ground will not be fit for wheatsowing until it has enjoyed several weeks of dry weather. Many fields of potatoes are still undug, and we are told the crop is souring in the ground, or rotting in pits.-Waterford paper. 19. This morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the following very melancholy occurrence happened a short distance from London-bridge. A large barge, heavily laden, which had passed under one of the side-arches of the bridge, a current at that time running strongly down, when a small wherry, in which were two men and a boy, endeavoured to pass; unfortunately the barge ran down the boat, which, together with the unfortunate individuals on board, were out of sight for some minutes, having been driven under some large craft moored off the Tower. The boat shortly after appeared, but, melancholy to relate, every effort to recover the unfortunate persons proved abortive. Two of the persons were of the names of Helliar and Euston, and it is understood the boy is one of their sons. There can be little doubt but the strength of the cur rent at this part of the river was the occasion of the misfortune. 21.-A poor woman, of Ide, near Exeter, was found drowned in a mill-pond, in that village, into which it is supposed she was blown by the high wind, on passing to her home, on the preceding evening. 22.-On Tuesday afternoon, six persons, three young men and three females, respectable tradesmen's sons and daughters, hired a skiff of a boat-builder for the purpose of taking an airing on the water: two of the young men rowed the boat down to Millbank, and about five o'clock returned toward Somerset-house with the ebb tide, which flowed very rapidly. The young men found the boat unmanageable, and they were carried on the Surrey side of the river with great velocity, in a direction where a number of barges lay moored off. They, with all their exertions to alter the direction of the boat, became alarmed, and called with all their might for assistance; but before any one could arrive, the skiff ran foul o the roads, and struck under the heads of the barges, near Mr. Lett's timber yard, with great force. By the violence of the concussion, two of the party were thrown into the water, and the other four were in imminent danger. The screams of the unfortunate persons were heard by the officers on board the Thames Police brig, and by the watermen at Strand-lane stairs. George Heath, senior, a waterman, took a boat, and, accompanied by one of the Thames Police officers, rowed to the spot from whence they heard the cries of distress. It was very dark, but the shouts of the distressed led them to the place, and they saved four of the party. Two of them had been carried by the tide down the river, and sunk to rise no more. The persons drowned are Mary Ann Lacohee, aged 18, the daughter of Mr. Lacohee, a respectable grocer, No. 134, Union-street, Southwark, and Benjamin Lawson, a young man who paid his addresses to her. On information of the melancholy circumstance being given at the house of Mr. Lacohee, it was found that he was gone to Norwich, and what is most affecting she was his only child, and he lost his wife very recently. About eight o'clock the same morning, a young man, near Skelmorlie-castle, by the help of a spyglass, descried a person seated on the keel of a small boat, in the middle of the Frith between Bute and the Largs shore. No sooner was the circumstance known, than the people about the castle put off to his deliverance, which they effected. On reaching the land, it was discovered that the boat was the property of a fisherman belonging to Largs, and that the stranger thus providentially rescued from a watery grave, had, during the preceding night, stolen her away from the beach, together with four oars, a sail, and two empty casks, that had chanced to be left there. Of these the boat only was recovered. fellow, it is said, belongs to Greenock; and such an ingrate was he, that he made an attempt to carry off some decent apparel which his hospitable deliverers had clad him in while his own clothes were drying, The A pensioner residing in Abernethy, left the same day his house after a domestic broil, expressing his firm determination to make away with himself. He proceeded straightway to the Tay, and unmoored a boat, which he plied up the river. A person, who had been aware of his intention, unmoored a second boat from the same station, and was joined in the pursuit by another from a vessel lying in the river. On reaching the mouth of the Earn, the pursued truned his boat in the direction of that river; but observing the other boats gaining fast upon him, he stood up, folded his arms across his breast, plunged into the water, and was never seen more. A few days ago, a well-dressed man went into the shop of Mr. Taylor, watchmaker, in Claytonsquare, Liverpool, and desired that eight valuable gold watches, which he selected, might be sent down to him at the Angel Inn, when, he said, he should be provided with money to pay for them. When the messenger with the watches arrived, he was shown into a room where the purchaser was seated, who took the box into his hand to carry it to his bedroom, saying he should bring the money down stairs immediately. His hat, gloves, and a glass of liquor were left on the table to avert suspicion. However, instead of going up stairs, he contrived to steal out of the house, and has never since been heard of. John Kilburn, a person well known on the turf as a list seller, &c., was at a town in Bedfordshire, and, according to a turf phrase, "quite broke down;" it was in harvest time, the week before |