13 OCTOBER 1849, Page 9

The pestilent condition of a sewer in Pimlico has tensed

the loss of five lives. Along a street of new houses under the builder's hands, called Kenilworth Street, runs a branch sewer, which is bricked up at the end farthest from that which connects it with the main sewer. Yesterday morning, three labourers entered this sewer to make arrangements for flushing it ; they never returned. To- wards the evening, Mr. Henry Wells, a surgeon, John Walsh, a young policeman, and Richard Sherwan, entered the sewer at an aperture broken for them in the bricked-up end. In two or three minutes, Walsh reappeared bearing the lifeless body of Mr. Wells; he returned to the sewer, and brought out Sherwan appa- rently dead; and once more—unconscious, it is supposed, of what he did—be re- turned, and himself perished in the sewer. When his body was recovered, a short time after, " the akin was turned blue, and every piece of metal on him was blackenaL" Sherwan was resuscitated by medical remedies; but both Mr. Wells and Walsh were irrecoverably dead. The bodies of the other men had not been ,fip*nd at threl,o'clock this morning.

Several lives were !oat in Brook Street, Bermondsey, last night, by an explosion of fireworks in the house of Mr. Berlin, a pyrotechnist. While several persons were engaged in finishing squibs, a naphtha lamp was upset, and in an instant the house was blown up: the fire which followed was not extinguished until almost everything between the party-walls of the house bad been consumed. The bodies of a youth of seventeen and of a younger boy were recovered from the ruins; those of a young woman and of two very young children were still missing.

The rivers Dm, Trent, and Derwent, have been so swollen by great rains in the North Midland hills, that they have overflowed at various places not usually sub- ject to such mishaps. At Doncaster, the railway works of the Great Northern line so increased the rise of water that much damage to property has been done. The like happened at Sheffield, Masborough, and Rotherham; where several manufactories have been overflowed. At Derby three persona have been drowned in the stream and floods of the Derwent.

A full-sized whale was captured in the Thames, off Gray's near Gravesend, on Monday : an unprecedented event. The whale bad come up stream with a full tide, and it got aground on a mud-bank as the tide ebbed. The water-side men of Gray's attacked it with swords, and other weapons, and soon took its life. They have moored it near a wharf, enclosed it with a screen, and show it to the curious for a fee of sixpence. It is 58 feet long and 38 in girth.