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      THE GOLD IIELDS OF AUSTRALIA . The following " s an extract in m a letter dated Me ' . b inrne , Jan . 17 : — 'L-. nc ere this vou will have karat 'ta opening of the Yictoria ' Mines of Bathurstand Mount Alexander . To these iflust now be added apparently inexhaustible regions , all around the Mount . In point of fact , the yield is actually incredible , and daily incrfasing . The pursuit of goldd griug absorbs all other vocations , noiiving is thought of , spo ' xen of , or written absnt , except gold . Business cmtiacts r . f all kinds , —the social compact , demesne content , tie relation of master aad servant , and all o : her tirs , either civil or religious , are in a state of disruption beyond the power of language to desc-ibe . Six weeks , a m & ntb , a fortnight , —nay , even a week ' s labour , produce occasionally prodigicus turns . I saw four men lifting a seaman ' s chest _

      into a dray half a hour ago , almost too heavy for their unit d strength . This chest contain : d the product of six wee s' labour , and contained 2501 b . of sold . The banks and the post- ' nice are working double hours ; ail other public departments are crippled for want of bands- , male servants are not to be hal , even at extravagant rates ; worn- n are not much better . Marriages are now in high favour ; almost all the single men arrive from the digjims with sold enough to maintain a wife . So far the abitraeti « ii of young yomen from servic ? is desiiablc , be tbe inconven i ence what it may ; bat there are other channels for expenditure where profligacy and licentlou . s . ues ? iV ( i exhibited or . a fearful scale , amid the riot of waste a :: d reckless prodigality . Enormous sums are squandered by the Msgcrs and their families . Every Jack has his Gill , " and Jack has more money besides than his master of ihe preceding month .

      " 1 asked the wa ter , and then the chambermaid of the inn where I sTp . to send me out a bundle of linen to the laundress ; thty , however , state d that they could not find any person williru to wash—under these circumstances I went to the heba dasher for a supply . I notice this as an instance cf the s ate of things here , which are fast assuming a Ca'ifcmian character , with respect to the rate of high prices , equally for the necessaries and luxuries of life . Do you went a pair of boots , the price is £ 2 10 s . ; a pair of strong s ' i 03 =, 20 s . Then there is such a consumption of bottled bjer , champagne , and other wines , spirits , and tobacco , as would astonish a new-comer . An order came to town ypste .-day from a publican on tbe Mount Alexander road for 1 . 2 GQ dozens of bottled beer . This man , lam told , sctually sold seventy dozens in one day to the earning and going diggers , hundreds of whom call at his house every day .

      "I thiak the community of Victoria , tasmg them all in all , are now the wealthiest in the worlrl , and possess , besides , a beiulifni country and healthy climate in the mainthough I must say I do not like the site of Melbourne as a metropolis ; it is singularly hot , dusty , without sewers or drainage , and will by-and-by become very unhealthy . Tha country betwetn Btlfort and Wamambhool is extremely fine ( clcs ; to the coast ) for sgricultural purposfs , and the climate much milder than in the neighbouring district . I think Geelorg ought to have been the site of the capital . I am convinced in a few years it will rival this city . It stands much higher , on the margin of a fine open bay , and commandsafineback country- The-wheal crops on the ' 5 arrabul hills , close to Gcelone , are magnificent ; I calculate

      them to yield filly bushels an acre . There , however , will be great difficulty in getting them iu for want of labourers / though 10 s . and 12 s- fid . per diem , with rations , is freely offtnd . ''The toial quantity of gold shipped to this date from Victoria is 102 , 479 ounces since the 24 th ulf ., and preceding 217 , 825 ounces , or , in round numbers 220 . 300 ounces , which , taken at £ Z per ounce only , gives £ 660 , 900 , or idly as much as the Sydney people have shipped since the discovery , in May last . The effect of such an immense addition of exportable commodity to the customary transport of ? . ool and tallow has been a most extensive or extended issue of bank notes , far beyond the ordinary regulations of banking principles , for which indeed there is no help- The earth in certain psits o ? these colonies teems pith the precious metal . Conceive the astounding quantity of about nine and a quarter tons of Pnre Sold being

      taken in four months from Victoria alone , and this , too , in the most slovenly way imaginable I It is well known thst a great deal more of fins gold , in dust and scales , has been left ( as tot ) troublesame ) by the gold-diggers unwashed , tbe search being confined principally to nuggets or small lumps of metal , ranging from tbe size of a pin ' ehead to a horsebean . "You will doubtless have noticed the separation of tbe colonies . One of the first fruits has been the establishment of dfferential duties , in some cases almost prohibitory , against each other—a most insane project , realising the fable of * the members warring against the belly . ' Only conceive the ccals and cedar of New South Wales , mane , & c . ( only produced there , ) being saddled with duty here ; and wheat , the product of Victoria or Van Diemen ' s Land , similarly charged in reciprocation at Sydney I Such is the effect Of petty colonial jealousy , or rather discord , as I presume no one will deny Nature and Providence intended us to be one family .

      " Had our auriferous wealth been denoted fifteen years ago , when these colonies w-. re one vast prison-honse , and 15-20 ths of the people felons or emancipists , what would have been our condition ? Wisely has it been ordained 1 ' iat these countries should become possessed of a population inheriting and exhibiting : the average amount of order and virtue abounding in the mother country , and also of vast flocks and herds , with agricultural abundance , before the earth disclosed its riches—to attract the hundreds of thousands that will find their way during the present year , lo this onr land of opbir and glittering nuggets ! Conceive a boundless country teeming with abundance of food ; a fine climate , and gold by tbe ton ! If these an not subjects of attraction—if these fail to produce spontaneous and self-sustaining emigration to our colonies from all patlsof tbe world , then the materials of man ' s composition are changed ,

      " Van Diemen ' s Land must cease to be a penal colony Let Swan River enjoy all the benefit she has petitioned for in a large government expenditure for ihe support of imnerial convicls ; and improvement of her locality . Be assured Vih Diemen ' s Land must be relieved from all farther stain ; she is far too near the regions of gold , aud has borne long enough the miseries of penal infliction . " I fear South Australia , ence the most promising or the Australian group , is on the eve of great suffering and dUaster . Tbe accounts are alarming ; land has ceased alraof t to possess a value . The people are coming hither in thousands . Without gold fields she will be lost . Even Sydney begins to feel the emigration of her population for the superior diggiaga of Victoria . No person can , however , fell how Jong it may be before the fables turn . The free pnoulE'jau

      of Van Diemen ' s Land are fast coming over to Melbourne . AH the Sydney people are returning from California and the Polynesian group of islands , but I trust we may nor be favoured with any of the Yankee race , or at least o ? tbat portion rejoicing in the establishment of vigilance committees , six-shooters , and howie knives . I have now written more than I ever intended , yet certainly not half as rauch as 1 cauld say , touching and concerning the wonderful things I hear and see in this extraordinary place . Well regulated minds are bewildered by the strangeness of passing events ; sobriety of thought and the ancient slow operations of bus i ness are upset ; and how can it be otherwise when young men , after an absence of a month or so , return each with £ 1 QQ to Lord knows how much more a pieee , and prepare for a rig-out on a more extensive and appro sea scale for the mines ?"

      " All this is true , and infinitely below the standard of facj Purposing to write again from Sydney shortly after ray arriial . " A letter from another resident at Melbourne , dated Jtn . 1 st , contains the following : — "Tae gold Celds are inexbsasiible . Last night ? . statement nas mads that two rsen had > dit arrived from Gipjiv Land with the intelligpnee that r . evr gold fields were discovered there , ufrch leive the Mount Alexander fields altogether iu ih ? shade ; tlat they bad brought in . - £ 10 . 000 worth of £ old , and there was a supply for the whole world . With ! h « . ' 3 facts before ns , how can this place ba otherwise than ruined ? What is to he done for labour ? Suppose

      100 . C 00 labourers came out here during the next year , will any of them remain in the city or farms , at a few shillings a week , when they can go to the gold fields and make their £ ZQ a day ? n is idle to suppose it . At this moment I cannot get a pair of boots made or mended in Melbourne , if I vrere to ? -:-e any mmev tnat m gU Dfi j ^ J , ^ bread at Colhngwcod by France . The baker v ;! fl not mwlfa - a : e to sappl y oe regularly , but v . ill dotbeksthe can . I pay as . a load for water . tnd 3 f * . for a single horseload of wood . It is with difficulty a dray can be obtated to cany a box , and if obtained the charge is ad UlHitm . I cennot at any price get a man lo chop my wood , and I think nisei . foKcuts if I can prevail on the black gins to work for mi 2 a hour .

      < : ^ e judge ' s servants are allgonf ; he has put down bis car . iage . atd his sons clean the knives and shoes—this I assure vow , is ! r : i-- —and « hfe ; their tfiTcied father about in Sn invalid cheK In this state he goes to his court ofa dav . The men from tbe gold fields are rolling in gold , and so perfectly reckless of it , that the anecdotes told of them ara ' not only anusing but astonishing . One man put a £ o note between two pieces of bread and bnltfr , and eat it t-p as a sandwich . Another rolled two £ 5 notes in ' oasmaU ball , and sxal ' owed it as a pill . Another went into a confectioner

      ' , : r . e-, a few tarts , put down a £ 5 note and --ould not accept : he charge . They seen : to hare no idea of tbe value o- money , and take their losses and robberies as complacently { s ihilosoikers , mere ' s remarkirg 'Well , there is plenty nnie . ' Ths was .-he remark of a man at the bank " ¦ " *¦» «« JM been robled of a check for £ 1-19 , and v . hich w iron wnrd ; jefore he ca ) led anant . t If Ui , ^ -, r-= ; r \ - et , ent ' ar : d would only suffice for a Sv « ^ ruf fertnaate diggers , or if they were in Jbrir piac « w .-n'd s ? " * ° S 3 J t ] mt lhe mafortanes of this f » 3 t . " crij " » mlttB ?* f , / , Ill * ° « rae-thatit would he , in 3 a qnesti , o ! tuns ; but the fklds are unlimited in

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      < xtent and inexhaustible in their treasures . What hope is here tbat we shall have labour , good , wholesome , reason-1 be ? ced labour , here ? It is msdnes ¦¦ to suppose it . " . . ! _ _ _ !» . ...

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      .. iwJ ^ fXD lnG » iLV IMPORTANT FROM THE DIGGINGS "—IMMENSE PROFUSION OF WEALTH -GLO RIOUS TIMES FOR THE WORKERS . Fxlracls from three private letters received this week by Mr . Daniel William Ruffy , and handed by him to the editor . ' " I suppose you have beard by this time of the Gold Mines bein * discovered out here . My husband , Harry , an 1 little George , h ; i \ c pone with a p ^ i'ty to Mount Alexander ; they Lave been there twelve weeks , and are doing pretty well . Johhins and Harry have swit mo down a pound weight of gold e ; . ch . Ii is at the Treasury . It camo down by escort last week . You have no i < ie : i what excitement this gold has caused in Melbourne . You bear nothing talked of but the Gold Diugings . I <"" assure you money is lavished away here as if it were dirt .

      " I must begin again about gold . Of course , I am bko the rest of the people—gold mad . How can it be otherwise ? You would be bujhlv amused if you wcro hereto see the successful gold diggers' wives tfo into tbe linendrapers' ,-hops . If they sec anv ' ladies' iu them , they go bouncing i ., the shops in this " manner , « Give mo a-ten guinea dress , or a ten guinea shawl , or three guinea bonnet . ' They are astonished at so much money , and do not Know bow extravagantly to spend it . It is the poorman ' s dav now . * * * * " Astonishing as the news may be at home by this time of i-ol-i hero , I can assure you i ' , is a hut . California w nothing to this counlrv . People arc now flocking from all parls of the eountrv , or rather the world , to try their fortune ? . Money is here rollimr in the shops—men lighting their pipes wilh £ 5 notes , and their wives strutting in tho

      shops for ten and twenty guinea shawls . Now is tbe time for poor men to b 3 independent of masters . Buildings are all at a stand still . The misters themselves , who were doing well , aro now reaping independent fortunes . I wish you were here—you would be in a land yielding gold more than anv other from the earliest period of history . I suppose it has been one constant theme of conversation at home . Shins :: re , 1 suppose , loading for this place at home—the more tiic merrier—plenty of room here for them . Bat when they come hero they will not bo able to <; ec back in a hurry . Ships are lyin ? in the bay i-ile—caii get no persons to mako agreement , with them . The expense of freightage would be enormous , for they are offering £ 100 for each sailor th > t will go home in the ships ; but the sailors are all at the diggings ; every niecbaokal trado is at a stand still .

      Tho wharf presents ono constant scene of confusionpeople aro flocking numerously from Adelaide . " ¦ » » * * " Dear , —I can assure you I never saw such a quantity of moaey in my life before , for the gold diggers come down to town ;; nd sell their gold , and then they make their money fly in ail directions . My Harry and Mr . Jobbina have " returned with ninety pounds worth each , and they are off again directly . M-ju who once were poor are now worth thousands ; but thev will soon get rid of it instead O" keeping it . They actually , at Christmas time , lighted their pipes with £ o " notes , aud iu another place they would ba eating notes between two dices of bread and butter . Astounding as this may appear , I vouch for its truth . Harry -went to the theatre , and he saw money thrown ou the stage . One piece of money was thrown after another ; aud so it continued for ono hour . One evening there was

      thrown on the stage fif : y-S 2 ven pounds . If you come out here , corneas soon as you can , and you willrealisein three months what I think yon will not realise at home ia a life-time-Labour here receives an enormous pay . 1 saw an advertisement in the paper for a brasswoiher , the wages were to be twenty-five shillings a day . They may not get one lor all that . Buildings here are standing unfinished for the want of labour , which is all up at the " diggins , " and there it will stop while gold is iu the way . California to this place is a mere nothimr . Tons are brought to town by the government escort . The ctrt tbat brings it has six or seven times broken down on its way to town . These are facts indeed . Publicans aro making a rapid fortune here . I hope if yon come , you will persuade ray poor old mother to come , " and bring her with you , as 1 am sure she will be quite happy here . She would think this a fine country . "

      Joseph .Mazzixi And The Frexcii Socialis...

      JOSEPH . MAZZIXI AND THE FREXCII SOCIALISTS . ro THS EDITOR of the SWR OF FUEEOOM . Siu , —I read in vow honourable paper an article of the ISch iast ., in which my friend Louis Blanc is very unjustly accused of having compared Mr . Mazzini to Louis Bonaparte , and misrepresented the conduct of the cxtriumvir at Rome . I think it impossible that this unfair attack against Louis Blanc should have come from the Editor of the " Star of Freedom , " since this journal is particularly devoted to the cause of the people and of its defenders ; and it appears very probable to me that such an article has been inserted , through carlessness , in your columns . * In the first place , if it were true that Mr . Mazzini has been misreprtsenled , it would not be the fault Of LOUIS Bbne alone , but of Pierre Leroux , Cabefc , Malarmet , Bianchi , Vasbenter , Jules Leroux aud myself ; for , I am one of those who signed the lotter in which Mr . Mazzini is censured for having directed tho most bitter and violent

      attacks against ihe French Socialists , at the very moment when all the enemies of the people rose to crush them . It is not true that we did compare , in a general and absolute maimer , Mr . Mazzini to Louis Bonaparte . We said only that , like Lams Bonaparte , Mr . Mazzini , though for much better ends , was wrong in injuring the French Socialists , and in seaming to reckon on physical force atone . We said , also , tbat he was wrong in taking it into his hea-l to school the European Democracy , which acknowledges him as one of its supporte , but not as its supreme leader .

      As for the pompous vselessness of Mr . Mazzini at Rome , wo can prom what we raid . Indeed , sinco our reply has been published , many Italian democrats have written to us , affording both their adhesion and their testimony . We have , especially on this point , a very remarkable letter from Mr . Ricciardi , ex-deputy in the Parliament of Naples , and tho illustrious author of the " History of the Italian jReyohiticn , " in which ho took such an active part , and in consequence of which he is now an exile . In that letter , which wc intend to publish entirely , Mr . Ricsisi'dt says : — " The Grand Duke Leopold had fled from Home , and the Republic had been proclaimed , when . Mr . Mazzini arrived in Central Italy . He had , rherefofe , no share in these events , the able / use of which might have entirely changed the aspect of affairs , and saved the Italian

      cause . Xow , what should havo been done with this object ? The forces of tho four democratic or still free countries of Italy—that is the Roman States , Tuscany , Venice , and Sicily—should have been closely united , and a final effurt attempted , without the slightest delay , on the Kingdom of A ' aples— the most important of the States of the Peninsula , and tho one consequently without which the independence of Italy never will be attained . Saples , once gamed over to Democracy , there would have been , besides the Sardinian States , thirteen millions cf Italians in open opposition to Austria , which would , in all probability , have obviated the fatal overthrow cfl > ovr . ra , or at leastafi ' orded means of easily recovering from it . A noble c . ireer was , therefore , before ilv . Mazzini , who would have had admirable instruments of his designs in Generals Garibaldi and Terrari , to whom a thousand determined men would have sufficed to make a

      dessont on the Ab-nzzi , and thence on Kaplcs , gathering volume , like the proverbial snow ball . Even admitting that the enterprise iu question might scarcely have succeeded , it is not the less true that this was tbe sole means of saving the Italian independence ; for , on one hand , there could bo no safely for the standard of democracy planted at Rome , hut in the cliacce cfrxfeusion to all the provinces of the Peninsula , but , above ail , to the Kingdom of Naples ; and on ihi oilier hr . vd . was impossible , but that , without the aid of the Jattoi * . Piedmont should finally succumb to tho prapMider & Uug forces of Austria . To remain moveless , besides a State such as that of tho King of Naples , to whom the rain or tho existence of the Roman Republic was a question of li ' o or death , was as much as consenting to perish sooner or Inter , cither by the efforts of Ferdinand II .,

      - tided by all the sympathies , if not by all the forces , of tie E-iropean reaction , or under the attacks of Austria , as soon as she should have overcome Piedmont . Such was unhappily the event , thanks ehUSy to Mr . Massini , who , after allowing himself to bo duped in Tuscany by Mr . Guerazzi , and refusing co listen at Rome to those who urgently pressed him to attack the Aurtzz' , aad chosen to place all his :. ope on a new French revolution , forgetting that great convulsions take place only at long intervals , and by virtus of strongly determinant causes . 1 do not hesitate to ? ay openly , it was not alone the French and Austrian coinon which destroyed the Roman Republic ; but , yet more , tho allusions of Mr . Mazzini , who did not remember this double axiom , that a revolution which pauses is a lest revolution , aad that to be respected you must be StrODff ;

      bis whole merit , as chief Triumvir , was confined , in my opinion , ( o the manner equally dignified and intelligent , in which I rejoice to agree , lie represented the Roman Repubi'c towards the agents of the French government . True , his task was rendered very easy by this immense fact , that right and justice were altogether on the side he defended , and secondly , by the inconceivable burgling of Mr . Louis Bonaparte ' s government , I will ever say , that to it must be attributed in great measure that kind of prestige which surround ? the name of Mr . Mazzini , and which ought rather to surround that of G ? ribaldi , tbe chief hero of the noble epocs of which Rome was the theatre . " Yours , ( Signed ) "G , Riccunw . ex-deputy in the uarliament of Xanles . "

      You see , Sir , that the French Socialists , odiouslv calumniated by Mr . Mazzini , brought forth against nim ' noshin i » which is not perfectly true . ° As I incurred tho reproach so unfairl y made on Louis Blanc , my friend , since my name figured ' near his at the end of the reply to lir . Slazzin :, I hope you will find it just to publish in your next number these oascrvalioa * That is a tnina which I have at heart so much tho morels vow honourable ] 'a :-. er has shown mo a kindness , with which I was rxtromth-moved , and tor which I beg vou to receive mvfiateiiial thanks . London , iSth May , 1552 . v n ,

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      , * ? , - „ « „ » = * Pja' » ed i . i .-. i . ]; carca in ihe letter of " Spart : ; eus' intje « star of Freedom , " May Sih . We must express our regrev tha , anv cirromsiwic . should have led to the introduetionof 11 * vixeS ration "hnwecn the Soman Trimnrir ard the Frciu . li Democratic Socialists , into the csJumns of this journal . In our cetiniauon both parties arc indispensablc-both are the sincere friends of Humanity . AVc mifeigncdly deplore this un-: apiy contest , and entreat tl a it mav teiminate -inuoB

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      HORRIBLE TRAGEDY . MURDER OF A YOUNGWOMAN BY A FARMER , .. AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER . The village of Cbeadley , in tbe county of Stafford , has been the scene of much excitement by the commission of a most horrible murder and suicide by a young farmer named Stephen Walker . He was a single man , of about twenty-seven years of age , nnd it would seem tbat he was rather of unsteady habit ? - He bad been for some time paying his addresses to a young girl of the . name of Fanny Walker , the daughter c ' f a publican , but her parents disapproving of tbe acquaintance , sent her out of ihe way . This had the effect of considerably excitin ? him . In the course of the week she returned to her father's house , and he endsavonted to renew \ m addresses . On Tuesday he called at

      the house and stayed fur several hours , the daughter , fit the request of the mother , bring kept upstair ? , away from him . He had some conversation with the mother , and the circumstance of not IHiu allowed to see Fanny excited his deepest anger . He then went , oat for a short tirae and returned with a gun in his hand . The daughter , disregarding her parents'directions to fcep out of lhe way , came down Stairs to see him , as ha assured her that he would not harm her . He then aiked her whether she intend .-d to continue the acquaintance or not . She replied that her only objection to him was his course of life , whereupon he snatched up the gun , and pointing it at tho unfortunate girl , said , " I and , setting between tlTeto , succeeded in pushing him out of the passage into the road , and bolted the door . He then will n owihow yon what I want . " Tho mother screamed , ran to the window , and thrust the muzzle of the gnu through one of the panes . The mother took bold of it , exclaiming

      with the utmost devotion , "Don ' t shoot Fanny , shoot me' ' —at the same moment urging hev daugbAet to ra wA of the room . This the poor girl attempted , but in her trepidation could not unfasten the door ; and just as she was passing out of the room , the rascal discharged the gun , and the contents lodged in her left side , just below the breast . Oa seeiug her fa'l the fellow decamped , taking the gun with him . After running across some fields , be stopped and reloaded the gun , and then taking off his " sammy" hat , hi put a loop of the ribbon on the trigger , and then placed the muzzle under bis chin , and' so , by prcssitii * bis foot on the hat downwards , discharged the sun into his head . As may be supposed his death was instantaneous . A coroner ' s inqniry has been he'd on both bodies , and the jury gave as their verdict— " That the deceased girl was tnurdared by Stephen Walker , and that he ( hei destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insani : y" Although of tbe same name , they were not related to each other .

      Shir Wrecks A Nij Auuidents At Sea. Fear...

      SHir WRECKS A NIJ AUUIDENTS AT SEA . Fearful Loss of Life . —Letter have arrived , communicating the following melancholy occurrence : —The ship Josepha sailed from Bristol on the 18 th of last March , bomid for Boston , with a crew of fifteen hands , under the charge of Captain Cawion . On the evening of the 21 st of April , the people living in Ma ? sachussett 3-bay noticed the bows of a vessel broken just aft of the foreriggins ; on the bar , about a mile northward of the Highland light , and , by the aid of glasses , no f ; wer than fifteen people could be observed clinging to it . The remainder of the vessel was a wreck , and with the cargo was washing along the shore . The unfortunate creatures on the wreck could be seen

      Signalling for assistance but a tremendous sea that was running , combined with the . darkness of the evening , and a fog which set in abaut the s & me twne , prevented help being given . Puriug the night large fires were made along the beach . One attempt was mad « to gain tbe wreck . Two hoalroen contrived to get ( heir boat over ihe serf , and had approached within n short distance of the bar , when unhappily a sea smtck and ca . isised hrr , and the two brave fellows perished . Some lime afterwards the wreck went to pieces , and two only out of the fifteen succeeded in saving themselves ; they were washed ashore on some pieces of spars . All the others mot a watery grave .

      A lighter , with 330 bales of cotton on hoard for the Barbara , loading fir this port , was destroyed by fire in Mobile Bay , previous to April 29 . —Liverpool , May 27 . Blythswood , Giles , was destroyed by fire at Coriuga , April 5 . —Madras , April 13 . D « ke , Welch , of Cork , from Mobile to Liverpool , was lost at the west end of Grand Bahama , April 1-1 ; part of ergo saved . —Nassau , April 21 , Emperor of China , from London to Shanghae , was lost on Coco Reef , Bands Sea , previous to Feb . 15 ; crew and passengers saved by the Far West , and landed at CajelK in Baura . Melrose was passed , waterlogged and abandoned , April 21 , in lat . 41 N ., ion 41 W ., by " the Apolline , Stanbury , arrived in the river . Onyx , from Grangemouth for Boston , was abandoned April 14 ; crew saved , and arrived at Halifax 29 th .

      Princess , from Rnncirn to Wadso , has put hack to this port , leaky , and with pumps choked . She is lr . id on the beach below Egremont , to prevent her sinking . —Liverpool , May 17 . Rosalie , Hay , which sailed hence on March 18 , for Liverpool , laden with wool , hides , and tallow , put back on tbe 23 rd , her cargo having ignited when three days out , supposed from spontaneous combustion . She grounded on a point of rocks at the entrance of the harbour , and was toivfid in by her Majesty ' s steamer Locust , cargo discharging , and so far , the vessel has sustained but slight damage . —Monte Video , April 6 . New Yoik , May 5 . —A large ship totally dismasted , and a large number of vessels w ' uh loss of tupaiasts , were pss ^ d off Sandy Hook on tbe 3 rd inst .

      South RonaldsLay , May 15 . —The Laurel , of and for Aberdeen , from Wale ? , sprang a leak and wag run « - ^ m 6 n the Skerries , and is now a to '?] wreck ; crew saved . Madta . ? , April iS . i ^ 'Jb . e Blythswood was destroyed by fire al Caringa on the 5 th . Canton , March 27 . —The Danish ship Canton , from Valparaiso for China , has been wrecked upon a coral reef ( supposed to he the Cornwallis Reef ); crew saved .

      Crimes And Offences. The Late Munoen At ...

      CRIMES AND OFFENCES . The Late MunoEn at TotLKsnunv . —Ever sinco his libo ration from prison , after his acquittal at the assizes at Chelmsford , in March last , Harrington , the man tried for the wilful murder of . Mrs . Cobb , at Tollesbuvy , has become an outcast , and has only been seen by accident wandering about the fields , to avoid public observation , and until last week , has not been seen or heard of in the neighbourhood for a considerable time , when l . e was discovered by a labourer ' s dog Iving under a hedge in the parish of Wigborough ,

      in the last stage of exhaustion , his frame being reduced by privation from a state of corpulency to that of a living skeleton , and scarcely able to walk . TFheo observed by the owner of the dog , he begged that some ono would shoot him , as no one would notice him except with the utmost derision and contempt wherever he went ; and his lodgings had been the outhouses of th ? different farmers by night , the hedgerows his place rf concealment by day , and his food such vegetables as he could procure in his travels . He is now in the Lexden and Winstree Unionhousc at Stanway , as a pauper of the parish of Salcot .

      Sericcs CnaKCK —On FrHay John White and Lawrci CO Macarthy , privates of the 5 Sth Regiment were charged before our city magistrates with having violently and criminally assaulted Harriet Knott , who is about twenty years of age . It appeared from the evidence that the assault took place in a field near the Military Hospital . White forced a handkerchief Into tho complainant's mouth to prevent her screaming , and afterwards drew a knife and threatened to murder her if she resisted . He also demmded all the money she had , and searched her pockets for the purpose of taking it . The charge was fully substantiated against both the prisoners . The defence set up by both of tbem was that they had seen the girl in a public house in the neighbourhood , but did not go out with her ; that they were in barracks by nine o ' clock , and requested that the orderly sergeant might he sent for , who could prove such was the fact . The sergeant was sent for , hut he stated that the accused were both absent at the time specified . The prisoners were fully committed for trial at the haxt

      assizes . Burglary axo Desperate Encounter at Navekbt . —Betveea two sua three o ' clock on tho mOVning of Tuesday , a thief , at present unknown , broke into the house of Mr . Winn , the keeper of a beer-house in the parish of Navenby , situate in the Brant , near to the four cross roads . The thief entered by a cellar window , tho iron stanchions of which he had forced off in order to enable him to get in . Mr . Winn was awoke by tbe noise , and got a light and went down stairs , when he was at once attacked by tho burglar , who knocked out the light , and struck Mr . Winn so violent a blow on the head with tho iron stanchion as momentarily to deprive him of consciousness . On

      recovering himself a little a desperate struggle took place between him and the burglar , and both were dreadfully injured , aud in the end the burglar escaped , leaving Mr . Winn almost dead . The only inmates in thejhouse wero Mr . Winn ' s wife and children , who were too terrified to render assistance . Nest , morning the slop , cap , boots , and waistcoat of the burglar were discovered lying close to the window where he effected an entrance , on the outside , he having , doubtless , to dispossess himself of these articles before ho could pass through , and blood could be traced for a considerable distance on the road , clearly indicating the severity of the struggle which had taken place . He has hitherto escaped detection . Mr . Winn ia so dreadfully injured as to render his recovery doubtful .

      The Committhu Of Education.—It .Appears ...

      The Committhu of Education . —It . appears from an official document that last year the amount of grants by the Education Committee of tho Privy Council to normal and elementary schools amounted to £ 142 , 229 Ss , 0 | d „ and in tho preceding year to £ 160 , 097 7 s . lOid . Emigbatiox from FiFEsmnE . —The departure of Emigrants from Fifo and Kinross has this season been more marked than it has been for many years past . The greater number have left , or are leaving , for South Australia , a few-. for America , and two or three families for New Zealand

      The Committhu Of Education.—It .Appears ...

      FIRES . HALF A VILLAGE DESTROYED . On Sunday afternoon , between two and three o ' clock , a most disastrous fire , which half destroyed a village , took place at Manea , in Cambridgeshire . The village consists ( or did consist ) of one long street , nearly half a mile in length . The fire broke out in a pig-stye at one end , nnd the wind blowing towards the town from that end , ( he fiimes rapidly spread from one end ot the place to the other , co nsuming everything in its course . One small engine was brought to play , but , owing to the want of water , was of little use . The station-master of the Man < : a station ( withir a mile of the village ) immediately telegraphed for engines from March , and in tha course of an hour one arrived , and was the means of saving abotif . half of the villivj ;? . The loss is not known . F ^ w of the ^ ultVrerB are insured . One or two fields were covered with household goods of every description .

      Alarming Fire In Portsmoutil Dockyard. O...

      ALARMING FIRE IN PORTSMOUTil DOCKYARD . On Monday a fife of an alarming character occurred in one of the establishments-in the dockyard at Portsmouth . From the locality in which it broke out it must have been attended with most serious consequences had it not been promptly extinguished . Of the many extensive siores in the abovfl dockyard , one is for tarring the yam used in the yard and for storing it afterwards . Tin ' s building consists of ihe tarring-homc , tho white yarn hou-p , and the tarred yarn house , and it was in the firsi named that the fire originated . In this department , as its name implies , the operation of tarring the yam is effected , and it appears tbat at about eight o ' clock in the mornintr , tbe men being engaged in their work , one of two

      boilers near the capstan of thesteam engine cmplsycd in the operation burst in the bittom , when the boiling iar it contained , between four and five buckets ( nil , falunst in lbs fire underneath broke out into a strong blaze . The fiimes spread themselves in a moment to the yarn in Hie apartment , and on which the men were at work , nnd there being some fourteen or fifteen hundredweight ofthia in the place at the time , a most alarming conflagration was Urn result , setting fire to the whole of the woodwork in the apartment , and' threatening to communicate itself to the white and tarred yarn in tbe other parts ol the buiblirg . At the time the " boiler hurst there were at work in this room f'mr ropemakera , a boy , and a stoker in charge of the

      steam-engine , aud one ol these at once p . ave the alarm to the authorities , and wont after , the dockyard fire-engines . These were quickly on fclifi spot , those belonging to the rope-making department- being there in a remarkably short space of time , as they were stationed close at hand . One > f these was actually playing on the flames , within , we are informed , three minutes of their bursting forth , a gratifying proof of the state of readiness in which they are kept . Largs numbers of dockyard officers , mechanics , police , mid seamen were also quickly on the spot , and rendered tbe most valuable assistance , and the fortunate result was . thit after burning with great fury for an hour and a quarter , the fl , imes were got under and extinguished .

      On a rough calculation it is thought the loss will be from -61 , 500 to £ 8 , 000 , but it is impossible to conceive what would have been the consequences had the accident occurred whilst the men were at dinner or otterwise absent . Although tha other two departments of the stores were separated from the tarring-house by brick wtljs of some thickness , yet perfect lines ot communication existed between them all , from the white or untaired yarn entering at one pkee , and the larred yarn being drawn out at another . The store set apart for the latter contained fourteen or fifteen tons of this highly combustible article ,

      and had the fire penetrated to this , it is utterly impossible to calculate where tho mischief would have ended , closely surrounded as this building is with the offices of the Admiral Superintendent , the master shipwright , the rope factory , & c „ with the Queen and other large vessels , whose rigging a few sparks would have set on fire , in its imrae . diare neighbourhood . Larce quantities of ihe white and tarred yar'J , nearest , to the fiimes were got out of the building as fast as possible ; but such is the immense quantity in storp , that it would bavft been impossible to save a t ' uhe of it had the fire not been so promptly got under .

      After the flames had been extinguished , a court of inquiry was held at the Master Shipwright ' s office , into the circumstances attending the accident . The people who were at work in the store at the time were examined , and the result , we believe , was that no blame ' was attachable to any person whatever . The boiler , it is considered , must have been defective ; is ia a much newer one than the other near it , having , we are informed , been constructed about sixteen months ago .

      Destructive Fire In Bermondsey. A Fire O...

      DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BERMONDSEY . A fire of a most devastating character , involving loss of property to the amount of many thousands of pounds sterling , broke out about ten minutes before ten o'clock on Tuesday night on tbe promises of Messrs . R . Owst and Ca ., wood and trusshoop merchants and coapers . Bevmondsey-wnl ! , nsai- Dockhead , extending thence over the adjoining warehouses of Mr , Br ' mdley , slate-merchants , Messrs . William and John Hayward , boat-builders , Messrs . Loader , cornfactors , Mr . Crisp , shipwright , and thence lo the craft moored alongside in the river , where three large vessels were wholly destroyed , before the progress of the flames could be allayed .

      Messrs , Owst ' s premises very narrowly escaped destruction about a fortnight since , when Messrs . Davis acd Go's , steam paper-mills , which immediately adjoin them , were burnt down . The officers of the brigade force were still on tho latter premises when the fire broke out at Mtssrs , Owst ' s , and one of them was the first who gave the alarm . It appears that he was going his rounds over the ruin ? of rjie lale fire " when bis attention was aroused by ft yuuT ) g mftD m boy , who ran out ot the wl ) : mmg eoOiJera ^ e upon the wharf-wall crying 'V . O ' uu tnat the place was on fire , The brigade-officer hastened to the spot , and at once saw that a large quantity of dry hoops were blazing away on Messrs . Owst ' s warehouse . His first impulse was to call for some buckets cf water , in the hope that he might he able fcoexiinguish the flames , but so much time was lost in obtaining this needful aid that when it arrived all hope of staying the progress of the fire by juch

      means was at an end ; and messengers were sent off in all directions to obtain the five engines . The combustible nature of the stock in Messrs . Owst ' s warehouse eaused the fire to spread with extraordinary rapidity , and the reflection of the flames was a speedy harbinger of the mischief in progress than any other means that could have been adopted . Tho brigade-engine from the Tooley-street station was very early on tho spot , and others from the Souihwark-bu'dge-road anil Wnterloo-road shortly followed ; but , as usual on the Surrey side of the river , there was a grievous lack of water , anil nearly an hour had elapsed from the outbreak of the fire before either of them could be go » thorouahly into work . The tide unfortunately was at its lowest ebb , and hence , while very little advantage was obtained from the vicinity of the river , the vessels moored alongside were fast In the mud , and threatened to add to the general deslvuction .

      About half-past ten o ' clock the fire was at its greatest height , and at this timo the reflection was distinctly visible in every part of tho metropolis , even to the most western extremity . The shipping in the river snd in the London Ducks—the Hermitage entrance of which faces Messrs . Owst ' s warehouses , the br'dges , St . Paul ' s and all the metropolitan church steeples , v / ero distinctly visible , and for some considerable period the scene was one of awful grandeur . Tho two Uoating engines were brought to the spot as early as possible , and a large number of iron were shipped on board each of them for the purpose of manning them ; but before they could bo got to work two vessels lying alongside Messrs . Owst ' s wharf—the Providence of London , nnd the Violet of Montrose—were enveloped in flames . Mr , Braid wood nnd Mr . Henderson , of the brigade establishment , i . nd Mr . Connorton . tho foreman of

      the West oi England Fire-office , brought their united energies to bear upon the best means of attacking tho flames , and by a judicious arrangement of the various engines , and a well-directed application * of the hose , tho fire was at length'conSnod within a space of 200 feci ; square . This space was entirely cleared of buildings , and the whole of the property contained therein destroyed . A ' more . complete wreck than Mesa's . Owst's premises present has rarely been seen , and some of their neighbours are nearly as badly off . The official report given below will convey some idea of the destructive character of this conflagration . It is to be regretted that circumstances have arisen in connexion w ' th this fire that lead to a suspicion that it may have been wilfully occasioned . In the course Of Wednesday morning throo persons were taken into custody .

      two ot tnemiiavc since been liberated , but ono remains under the surveillance of the police . It is believed that this person is a discharged servant of Messrs . Owst , who appears to have held out a threat that , if dismissed , he would set fire to his emplovev ' s warehouse . The bov , was first seen to run out of th ' o premises by the brigade oftoer , belonging to ono of the vessels moored alongside , lie had given some offence to the captain , and was denied admission to his shi p , as a punishment . The following is the official report : — Messrs . R . Owst and Co ., hoop merchants and coopers , Ber . raondscy-wall ,-Warehouse and contents destroyed ; dwellinghouse much damaged ; contents insured in the Imperial aud other offices . Building insured in the Alliance . Mr j , bnnoley , slate merchant .-warehousc burnt , and contents much damaged ; both insured in the Alliance

      . Messrs . W . and J . Hayward , boatbuilders , —slock much damaged : insured in the Phoenix . Kr . W . Downing , sail and tarpaulin manufaturcr -building much U'jiu-Dd , and stock damaged ; insured in the Alliance . Mr . I nomas Fo . ' . \ private house , —furniture damaged ; insured in the Atlas . Messrs . Loader ' s cmnaries , —front scorched , and stock injured . Hie 1 'rovidence amuck , laden with hoops , —burnt , with the exception ot the hull . It' ! \! n lctj of Montl'oso , schooner ,- similarly destroyed . Hie Ellen aud Esther , a Welch schooner , —much burnt ; mid vanoui smaller craft more or less injured .

      _ The Providence was a newly repaired schooner , and h . id only just come off Messrs . Stokes ' s ways . She was lying alongside , waiting lor her cargo .

      Spinns.—It Appears From A Return To Parl...

      Spinns . —It appears from a return to parliament printed on Saturday that in 1850 the quantity of spirits exported was 308 , 91-1 gallons , of which 123 , 774 went to British colonies and possessions , and 185 , 140 to foreign countries and colonies . In 1851 the quantity exported was 229 , 0 u 0 , being a decrease of 79 , 204 gallons in the preceding year .

      Spinns.—It Appears From A Return To Parl...

      ACCIDENTS AND CAsSS ^ ^ Threb Lives Lost on the Ribblb—i >„„ morRib-nV , by which three persons J 08 t th T ^ o „ J others were placed in imminent peril . The fnn ' ""* four ticulars have been obtained from one of llJ lnS par . B « iweenim and eleven o ' clock yesterday m „ rn UtVlvnr - > - of seven men , James Walton , John Spencer n . "W »» Jamas Howarth , William Hodgson , and t-vo nM ^ names were unknown to our informant all mj \ » wl > osi employ of Messrs . Watson and Alls , ) ,,., ' of , £ ? " < V'n Me from the quay in a boat about niirbteeu ' ( eel ' , * ' . ailed four to live feat iwam , «< wWdv WaUl ) n l * k « l , lhnr old ** , we hr-liovP , was to collect »{" , \ £ ^ S proceeded safely some half-dozen miles du \ vi ' t | ,. ' , V lhe » a sudden gust of wind capsiz-d the ! , M ) , « ,,, . ' . „ J , ' S them were thrown into the stream , with tee rL . of Hodgson , vsho dung to lhe mast . Wafeon Si » . " B . > nih , were cwried away by th « tide and drS ^ other tonr , well-nuh exhausted , were recovered h ' which was put off crom t . iie Sunrfi r 4 bout 250 v „ J ; ?¦ ho « by Heurv Gornal and J „ hn Jackson . The bod , « TW was fomul on the sands the same afternoon ihP n I " bodies have not yet been recovered . Spencer W l ? ' *« and three children ; Walton a wife and our . chil i / Vifs was unmarried . ' > "aoth

      A Family Poisoned—The nei ghbourhood of SnB town jn , « been greatly alarmed hy the poisonln *¦ whul'J family , under tho following circumstances ? i named Wi . lis , residing at 2 , BrilLwalk , S » L' \ ^ who gained his livelihood by hawking and sehW "' cresses in the neighbourhood and along Ciin )( le „ - ' ti ! ! " given lo him at a house in Camden-town a tur eJI ! d on Saturday , which he was informed bv his henef-H ^ been sending since the previous Tuesday , lif ? hurried home with the sonn . of whiM , i . „ u . . f nian Hurried home with the soup , of which he | j - m

      , , „ . ; .. three children partook . Between eleven ? mi V nnd o ' cioek the same m ' ghr , Willis and his wife weie avrt the uifirV . rings and means of the voumsest child wh three years old , and was attacked witii vioh-,, t L - ° vomi' . ing , and other symptoms of poison . ln LJlr ' an hour the other members of tho family similarly attacked , when the husband m ,, ! . *? way to Mr . Su . heren ' s surgery , Cbureh " ™? ? Patterns , ihat gentleman proronll y atrendrd ' , ' upon reaching Miller ' s house , he found the first m ' evi ' , child in a siate of collapse and almost » uUelcss , , „ . ' , : ' . supposed , dying . The mother lay reduced to tW . frightful state , and , like the child , na « q „ f tP ' . i S ! f father and the other children , although sufferi , i » rr . ,,

      trom reicimig and diarrhoea , were not so seriously aliVf i Mr . Siithcren applied a proper antidote , with tho ' htsu'f as regarded the man and the two other children " but » siderable lapse cf titac occurred before he suwHed h storing warmth and consciousness to the mother an " n " third child . On Sunday tho mother irai out of danw ? She however , though greatly relieved , remains in airv precarious state . The remains of lhe soup had a .. , coppery odour , as . if it had been allowed to remain " somp time in a copper saucepan , or ss if a copper ( poop , fo N { was left to stand in the tureen with the liquid , '

      Accident ¥ rom the Bousting pf a "Napth aLa —As Mr . Holgate , Iinendraper . of Queenshcad , near llMav was attending to his duties in his shop last Sainton „\ K ] ii ' a large naptha lamp , with which the . shop vvas iiahted ' suddenly exploded , covering himself and three women who were in the shop , w ' uh its contems , the whole of whom ' were instantly enveloped in flames , Some persons wlm were at tbe door instantly alarmed the neighbourhood nnd nuked in to render their assistance ; and by the aid of sacks , sheets , nnd such things as came first to hand , succeeded in wrap- ' ping them up , and thus extinguishing the flames . Thev were all , however , severely burnt , one woman , it is feared fatally . Mr . Holgate ' s face is frightfully burnt . The catastrophe has caused considerable alarm in ' the neighbourhood , as these lamps are generally used in all the shops .

      Fearful Accident . —A very melancholy occurrence took placo on bowd tbe steamer Whitehaven , when jus ' , off the Heads , on her passage from Liverpool to Whitehaven , oa Sunday morning . The engines had been temporarily stopped for some purpose , and Mr . Robert Orocnshiclds , the chief engineer , was leaning over them for the arrangement of some matter which had got into momentary disorder , when a sea struck the vessel , urging her ahead , and necessarily setting tho engines in motion . Before Mr . Greenshields could withdraw himself , or have the ens uies stopped again , his right arm was caught in the machinery , and in an instant was nearly severed from his bodv . Tho

      unfortunate man made his appearance on deck holding tlio severed portion of his arm in his left hand , a email piece of skin moroly attaching it to the remainder of tho limb . Tho mutilated member was hastily bound up by Captain Askew , of Whitehaven , who happened to be one of the passeneers on board ; and on the arrival of tho Whitehaven in harbour , Mr , Orocnshiclds was taken to tho infirmary , where amputation near tho shoulder took placo at once . HrDROPiionu . —A man named Carpenter , of Courcelles , department of the Oise , was bitten about throe weeks ago by a dog . Asa matter oi precaution tho dog was killed . The wound , which was very Flight , became cicatrised in a

      few days , and the man thought no more about it . On Saturdayasho was at work in a field , he was seized with hydrophobia , and ho rushed to a tree and threw bis arras around it convulsively . His fellow labourers thought he had been seized with passionate grief by reflecting on h ' 13 wife , who had shortly before become insane , and they conveyed him homo . The malady increased , and tho pfortuniQ man fell into a horrible state ; he was fr c-qUehriy In convulsions andIdolirijyj ! , \ Mvred loud SlVvieks , heaped impneat- ! OUS on . a , ? relatives' and friends , and called for death to take him . At length on Wednesdav last ho died .

      explosion at the South Metropolitan Gas Works . — Tbo South Metropolitan Gas Works , near tho Surrey Canal Bridge , in the Old Kent-road , narrowly escaped d «« tructioa on Wednesday , About half-past nine o ' clock in the morning three men were at work in the" valve-house , " as it is called , connected with the establishment , in tho prosecution of some necessary repairs to one of tho valves , when an escape of gas communicated with a small firo in one of tho rooms , and an explosion instantly took place which levelled the four walls with the ground , and set tho whole building in flames . Three men , although seriously burnt , managed to effect their escape , one of them by the doorway , and the two others by jumping into tho canal . T ! iO noiEO Of tho explosion soon brought all tho men employed about the works to the spot , nnd as tho burning

      wreck was within a very few feet of tho largo gas gasometer , cho utmost exertions " of all present wero immediately directed to extinguish tho fire . Por this purpose the engine , belonging to tho works , was dragged out , and under tlic direction of Mr . Moss , the foreman , and Mr . Ilewcs , the storekeeper , a largo quantity of water , obtained from the canal , was thrown upon the flames . The most alarming apprehensions wore entertained lest any of the leaden joints of the largo pas pipes might become fused , and the flames Uito bo enabled to communicate with tho gas in the gasometer , a circumstance which must have spread desteuction around the adjoining neighbourhoo'l . The m «« worked bravely notwithstanding the imminent danger io which they were exposed , and in the course of half an hour the flames wero got under . The gas continued to burn for

      some time , and was only extinguished at last by a largo quantity of cluy being thrown upon it . The accident originated entirely through tho carlessness of tho parties employed i » keeping up a firo while they were emjas «« upon a duty which necessarily involve a large escape ot g : is . Ono of tho four valves employed fo regulate W suppl y of gas to tho streets having worked rather stiuly o * late , James Weslev , a doputv foreman of the works , a « Timothy Smith , a litter , proceeded on Wednesday niornin , to examine the vaivo with a view to easing a spring ] which it is worked . Thev had taken off tho cap of w » largo pipe and were in the act of removing the valve hw the gas , which had been escaping for some time , connnw dated with a small firo in an adioirtinc apartment , m ;'

      instantaneous explosion followed . William Fox , the g » v > keeper of the works , for whose , uso tho fire was kept hi , was in the building when the accident occurred , and k of the sufferers . All three of them were removed to wry Hospital as soon as possible after the accident , jo * » , most severely injured , but neither of tho cases is es pecp . to terminate fatally . Melancholy Occurrknce . —An accident of a mo 6 t ' . astrous nature occurred on Wednesday atternoou Burntwood , near Lichfield , resulting in the ato 0 « . T j taneoua death of the Rev . R . Errington wswM *

      Burntwood and Ilammerwicb . The paintui cue » "f ^ „ of the case are briefly those :-It appears that tue . B" tc ( i connected with the houso had been very much aue ^ with sparrows , and the unfortunate deceased baa asw a ladder for tbo purpose of destroying some nests m"r . tree growing against his residence . , T ^ . ? 'l flDncd off was a wall tree , and the deceased lncautiousljsie ^ the ladder on it , when the branch ^ ^ % * Joona , and he was precipitated backwards headlong to twig , a height of from fifteen to twenty leet , Mrs . x-rn | ^ who had just come to the spot to warn her' M . w » . ffl 0 . danger , witnessed tho accident . A messongcr ws ^ diatoly despatched for Mr . M . B . Morgan , * W » ' & was promptly in attendance , but sonw tm « ™ . « $ s arrival life was extinct . We understand ?» £ Kveral of neck was dislocated , and that his collarbone ^ am ^ his ribs were fractured . Mr . Erringtori toi [ i iis . and three children to bewail their loss , rein dero « ifc b , tressing by tho painful circumstance unuei »«

      occurred . , . * » i , tiii » Pint AecmuM .-On Saturday morning , aB J « oWo ' clock . Adelaino Vfoolenough , aged 37 , a sir ^

      ployed at No . Ill , Sidmouth-strcet , w » - " d belo * . precipitated from tho third story window ^ o the y 0 I height of upwards of fifty feet . In tb couaffl 0 l i she burst through » skylight . The fefliftj JJ lolig ! g the inmates of the house , which is a : rcceptm ° d oUt , establishment for foreigners , »» TC « , ^ : S % fuse 7 fi and found the unfortunate woman hieeduu ? Pj 01 1 fag CallJ her skull , and quite insensible , ^ . f jj ^ m ^^! in , and she was conveyed to tho B » y ^ SEblishn «* Dr . Lane and other medical officers of Uw > ff ^ rendered every humane assistance Bci « frUo ^ S tured , her ribs were droken , and the whole tu ^ her body was shattered . in ¦ »?»' W ™ * expired soon after entering the hospital .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 22, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22051852/page/6/