ing of light through a crevice in the brattice partition, his feet slipped. He was conscious at the moment he dropt in, but has no recollection whatever of how or when he caught hold of the engine rope. The first thing he was sensible of was the rope sliding in his breast, and next, its stripping his left hand, which he held mainly on, and also with the legs and feet. He had in his right hand a small stick, of which he kept firm possession all the time, and brought it up with him. There was a chasm of 450 feet perpendicular depth yawning beneath.

1.-Between twelve and one o'clock, the following dreadful catastrophe took place at the house of Dr. Uwin, of No. 13, Bedford Row:-Mrs. Leese, an elderly lady, in consequence of indisposition, was lately sent up to London from the country, and placed in the house of Dr. Uwin, where she occupied apartments, together with her daughter, Miss Leese, in order that she might be under the immediate attention of the doctor. Monday morning, whilst Mrs. Leese was lying sick in bed, and her daughter reading by the bedside, the female servant who was in the habit of attending the sick lady, entered the apartment with some medicine which was intended for her, and having placed the candle in rather an awkward situation, the bed curtains caught fire, which was not perceived till the blaze spread over the apartment. Miss Leese was so much alarmed, that she immediately rose, and, in great agitation, opening the back window, she precipitated herself to the pavement

of the area, and pitching upon her head, fractured her skull in a dreadful manner. The servant perceiving no chance of escape from the immense body of flames which surrounded the door, followed the example of her mistress, by throwing herself from the same window, which belongs. to the second floor back-room apartment: she broke both her legs and her back in the fall. By this time the flames in the apartment were increasing, which, together with the groans of the unfortunate females in the yard, attracted the attention of the persons adjacent to the spot, and assistance was immediately procured. Mr. Paine, of the Wheatsheaf, Hand-court, and his waiter, were the first who entered the house, and proceeding up stairs to the second floor, succeeded in putting out the flames. We are happy to state that Mrs. Leese did not meet with any injury save the excessive fright she underwent, and the effect produced by the melancholy catastrophe of her daughter. Mr. Paine, &c., with the promptest activity, proceeded to the assistance of Miss Leese and the female servant, who were discovered in the most deplorable condition: they were immediately conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where they are lying without hope of recovery. Miss Leese is about eighteen or nineteen years of age. Mrs. Leese is still in the house of Dr. Uwin, where the most humane attention is paid to her in her present distressing situation. The circumstance created considerable alarm in the neighbourhood. Several engines shortly arrived, but fortunately the fire was previously extinguished.

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extinguished. Much damage however, was done.

6. At Dover, between four and five o'clock, as the small boat belonging to the Badger Revenuecutter was coming from the roads to the harbour, with stores for her cruiser, and having on board four men and a boy; just as she had got between the pier heads, she was struck by a tremendous sea, which pooped her, and threw the people on the gunwale of the boat, by which she was upset, and turned bottom upwards. The crew endeavoured by swimming to reach the shore; but although this unfortunate accident occurred at only a few yards from the pier, yet the current was running at the time so strong, they were all driven to sea, and only two men and the boy reached the shore, and this at some distance from where the boat upset; the other two were seen by the survivors making exertions to save life, but from the piercing cold, and the strength of the tide, they were unfortunately drowned; their names were John Dawson and Philip Moss, natives of Harwich or its vicinity, and one left a wife and family to mourn his loss.

8. The remains of a human skeleton, apparently that of a female adult, was discovered near Newtown, by the workmen employed on the line of canal. The soil being peaty, the colour of every part was completely altered by carbonaceous depositions, except the enamel of the teeth, which retained its pristine whiteness. Some parts of the face and temple appeared to have been beaten in and fractured; but their decayed state renders any con

clusion of that kind uncertain. All conjectures concerning the time of deposition must be vague; yet, unlike bones of great age, they did not moulder on exposure to the atmosphere. No remains of sepultural enclosure were discernible. They were about three feet from the surface of the earth, in a boggy hollow, which had formerly been one of the fosse of Hadrian's line of fortification-part of which is commonly called the Pict's wall.-Carlisle Journal.

10. As John Yapp, a poor boy ten years old, but very small of his age, was sweeping the road near Kennington-cross, he was accosted by a man who threatened to take him before a magistrate for begging. The boy resisted and said he would run home, but was followed by the man, and has never been heard of since. This occurrence was witnessed by a little sister of the boy, who, helpless from paralysis, was seated near him to attract the compassion of the passers-by. She describes the man as stout, very short, and having the appearance of a master chimney sweeper.

16. The Linnean Society held its first meeting in 1821. Besides the routine business of the evening, the proposal and election of members, &c., the chief matter before it was, the reading of part of a Zoological memoir, by Sir T. S. Raffles, in which is given an account of certain animals of Sumatra, collected by that gentleman for the Honourable East India Company. These were, varieties of well known species: the most popularly curious of which were

pressed the king's sorrowful feelings, and his kind and gracious wishes to lady Campbell, on the deeply afflicting event.-Portsmouth paper.

25. Just before twelve o'clock at night, an attempt was made to upset the mail coach from Dublin for Cork, about six miles and a half N. E. of Clonmel.- About ten, on the same night, a man who had left a load of corn at Ninemile-house, was met by a party of seven armed men near the cross road above-mentioned, where he was stopped with his horse and cart, tied, and kept in that way till the coach came up about the hour mentioned. A wall of loose stones, about two feet high, was built across the road by the assailant party just as the mail coach came up to the wall, the party fired on the leading horses, wounding one of them in three places in the head, though not severely. For one or two seconds, the horses did not advance, but the driver, Williams, boldly leaped the leaders over, by which the wall was in part broken, and the wheel horses drove through after the leaders, the coach heeling almost on its side. So confident were the villains concerned in the attack that the coach would be upset on coming in contact with the stones, that at this juncture two or three of them rushed out on the road, discharged their arms, and received the fire of Tyre and Henry, the two guards in charge of the mail. Happily no person in or upon the coach received any damage, and all arrived safely in Clonmel, with the mail, at one in the morning.

26. About two P. M. the receiving house of the royal powder

works at Kinterbury, about two miles up the Hamoaze, Plymouth, blew up with a dreadful explosion, by which an old man, named Carne, and a boy called Matthew. son, who were the only persons on the works, perished. A quantity of three-pounder cartridges had lately been received, which the men in the establishment were employed in opening, and putting the powder and shot into separate barrels; happily seven persons were that day sent to measure timber, about the distance of half a mile, so that only two remained on the premises. It is conjectured that in throwing the iron shot together some sparks were elicited, and communicating with the loose powder, which might accidentally have got into the barrel, caused the fatal occurrence. About forty barrels were in the house, headed up, which blowing up at the same time, spread great destruction, and violently shook the houses for several miles round. Nearly all the windows in Kinterbury-house are injured. At Saltash, St. Stephen's, and even in Plymouth, many panes of glass were broken by the shock; and some of the shot were picked up near St. Budeaux.

27. At twelve o'clock, the king, according to appointment, received the deputation, consisting of the lord mayor, sheriffs, recorder, &c. of Dublin, charged to present the address of the corporation of that city to his majesty. The members, dressed in their robes, arrived at Carltonpalace in grand style, and were introduced to his majesty, seated upon the throne. The address was read by J. Greene, esq., the newly elected recorder of Dublin,

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and most graciously received. This is the first address from the corporation of the city of Dublin ever received by the sovereign on the throne.

Lately a young man, apprentice to a collier lying off Execution Dock, attempted to put a period to his existence in the following manner: He had received a slight correction that morning for some misconduct from his master, and soon after got unperceived on the yard-arm, to the end of which he tied a small cord-one end of it he adjusted by a noose round his neck, and then flung himself off; the noose giving way, he pitched on the deck, and, before he could recover himself, fell overboard. A large dog, of the Newfoundland breed, which was on board, jumped into the water, seized him by the collar, and swam with him ashore, when he soon recovered.

Loss of the Abeona Transport. Extract from a letter of one of the persons saved.-"I have the melancholy task of informing you of the destruction of the Abeona transport, of 328 tons, in which I had embarked with other settlers to the Cape of Good Hope; and of the dreadful fate of the great majority of the persons on board her.

"On the 25th ult. in latitude 4° 30′ north longitude, 25° 39′ west, about fifteen minutes past noon, the alarm was given that the ship was on fire. It proved to be in the lazaretto abaft, the receptacle of all the ship's stores and provisions. Every nerve was exerted in handing water to the first mate and seamen who were down in that place; but all proved useless, for the people in a few

minutes were driven up from below by the dense smoke, and the rapidity with which the fire communicated to every surrounding object. In ten or fifteen minutes from the first alarm the case was hopeless, the ship being in a perfect blaze from the mainmast aft on the lower deck; and from the excessive heat of the upper one we momentarily expected the fire to penetrate it. The skiff and two gigs were down, and the long boat almost high enough for clearing the side, when the flames rushing up from the after-hold communicated with the main rigging, flew up to the mast head like lightning, and blasted every hope of getting her clear.

"The panic and confusion were such, that the long-boat proved too heavy to be launched by the few who were sufficiently collected to attend to the orders given, and on the falling of the main arm yard she was stove. Seeing now all was over, and the people were throwing themselves overboard, and into the boats, I also jumped over, and happily was picked up by the gig. Our anxiety was now to save as many lives as our three small boats could possibly swim with; and I rejoice to say that forty-nine were miraculously pre

served.