Quebec has sustained a terrible calamity from fire. It occurred
in the night of the 12th June, in the Theatre Royal, St. Lewis Street. There had been an exhi- bition of chemical dioramas; and the fire is imputed to the oversetting of a cam- phine lamp. The house had been densely crowded, but some of the audience had gone away before the accident. In an incredibly short space of time the whole of the interior of the building was enveloped in one sheet of flame. A rush was at once made to one of the staircases, the other means of egress being overlooked in the excitement; and the staircase fell with the weight of those who crowded upon it, cutting off that chance of escape. The loss of life was very great: forty-six bodies were recovered up to four o'clock of the 13th.
A sad accident occurred, on the 8th instant, on the Great North of France Railway, recently opened, to connect Paris with Brussels. The disaster occurred on the frontier of the two countries, between the stations of Arras and Douay. As a train of thirteen carriages was proceeding at a moderate rate, the engine ran off the rails, while passing a bridge; burst through a low parapet wall, dragging the carriages along with it; and all were precipitated into the water. Accounts vary as to the loss of life; some stating nineteen as the number, and others twenty- six, with sixty or seventy injured. The accident had caused much consternation at Brussels.
A terrible calamity visited Truro on Thursday afternoon. A violent thunder- storm attended by a flood of rain that resembled the bursting of a water-spout, broke over the town. Torrents from Newlyn Downs filled the shaft of the East Wheal Rose lead-mine, (which is eight miles from Truro,) sweeping rubbish, and even stones or other thins of great weight, into the mine. The shaft is forty fathoms deep. Some of the workpeople contrived to reach the surface, and escaped; but forty-three men and boys were missing, and were presumed to have been drowned.
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