On Sunday, during the performance of divine worship in the
New Trinity Church belonging to one of the districts of the extensive parish of Maryle- bone, a sudden alarm was given that the roof of the building was falling in : so general was the terror, that a simultaneous rush was made from all parts of the church towards :he doors, and had not the beadles in attendance, with great promptitude, closed the doors at which they were stationed, the consequences might have been most serious. The reverend gentleman in the pulpit at the time, addressed the alarmed multitude, and assured them that there was not the slightest danger, as he could see from his position the whole extent of the mischief, which was nothing more than the falling down of some pieces of the plaster from the ceiling of the organ-loft. Be- fore the doors were closed, some few succeeded in escaping from the church ; and of this number one gentleman was particularly observed, on the first alarm, to Sing himself down from the gallery into the body of the church, and. darting out of the door, very humanely and affectionately left his wife and family to escape the danger as they could, without his aid.—Times. On Tuesday morning, an elderly man was observed by a police constable walking along Milbank Street, Westminster, in a state of extreme agita- tion. The constable spoke to him, and, as 1.; received no answer, took him to St. Margaret's watchhouse, to prevent the suicide which he seemed to meditate. Shortly afterwards, he was found in his cell, his throat cut with a penknife which he had in his pocket. He begged that no effort should be made to save his life, as it was a burden to him. He was put in a strait waistcoat, and his wound dressed. His name, he says, is James Ealy, of Greenwich.
Very early on Friday morning, the whole premises of Mr. Scannell, pitch-refiner, in Mill Wall, Poplar, were burned, in consequence of the care- lessness of a tvorkman who had allowed a lighted candle to come in contact with some boiling tar. By great exertions, the fire was prevented from spreading. Mr. Scannell's property was not insured.
On Tuesday, the premises of Messrs. Sutton, shipchandlers, Bankside, 'were totally destroyed by a fire caused by the boiling over of some pitch.
On Wednesday morning, a nurse with a child in her arms, in running up and down the road through Lisson Grove, got entangled with the wheels of a waggon that was passing. The child's head was crushed to atoms, one of the nurse's arms broken, and several fingers of the hand of the other arm torn off.
As the Rocket coach was proceeding to Chatham, on Monday, a sailor, evidently much intoxicated, got up near Shooter's Hill, intending to be set down at Greenhithe, where his ship, an East Indiaman, had arrived the day before. He informed one of the passengers, that he had not set his foot in England for nineteen years. He got down when the coach stopped to change horses, and had more liquor : when he got on the roof again, he swayed over and fell backwards on his head. The wheel passed over the right cheek, which it tore nearly away, and split his ear in a most frightful manner. His life is despaired of. A porter of the name of Fletcher, residing in Aldgate, poisoned himself on Tuesday, in consequence of his wife having been sent to the House of Correction for three months, for the alleged theft of a pound.of soap.
A young woman about twenty, leapt, on Saturday last, from a wherry near Westminster Bridge, but was pulled out of the water by the boatman. The reason of her immersion was, she said, a quarrel with her mother.
On Wednesday morning, as a party of gaily-dressed young men and wo- men were proceeding to Greenwich fair in a boat, they began pulling each other about : the boat was upset, and swamped immediately ; but, fortu- nately, all the party was picked up without further injury than the ducking.
A young man named Houlborn, the superintendent of Messrs. Herbert and Southam's saw-mills, in Gillingham Street, Vauxhall Road, was drowned on Tuesday, in consequence of the boat in which he and some friends were sailing having been upset. The rest of the party were saved. The neighbourhood of Albany Street, Regent's Park, was thrown into confusion on Wednesday, by the appearance of a black terrier, which ran about foaming at the mouth. A policeman and a trumpeter of the Life Guards gave it chase, and succeeded in destroying it. A labourer in the neighbourhood of Manchester' whowas in great distress from want of employment, was last week supplied by a charitable neighbour with some broth that had been boiled in an iron pot. All of his family who partook of it suffered severely, and one of the children died. Above sixty acres of fine plantations, belonging to Nathaniel Bond, Esq. at East Holme, were, a few days since, entirely consumed, through the carelessness of an individual, who set tire to the °heath in the direct course of the wind to the plantation, with which it very shortly communicated, and defied every attempt to stop its progress.—Sherbourne Mercury. A fatal accident happened at Wheal Jewel mine, parish of St. Hilary, on the 1st instant. A miner, named Thomas Moyle, aged about sixty-four, was about to be drawn from the bottom of a shaft, thirty-five fathoms deep, by his son. The unfortunate father had safely reached to within .eight feet of the surface, when the winch came over the upstanders, fell into the shaft, and killed him on the spot.—West Briton.
On the 6th instant, while a boy, son of one of the farm-servants of Miln- craig, in Ross-shire, was amusing himself with a stick, the end of which was on fire, his clothes ignited, and, while running for assistance' he passed a quantity of loose straw, which caught the flame, and the wind being very high, in half an hour the whole steading of offices was in a blaze. The in- mates had scarcely time to save their lives ; and although many persons col- . lected, ready to render assistance, none could approach, and nothing was saved. The loss is estimated at upwards of 18001. Fortunately, however, the premises were insured. The boy died next day.—Inverness Journal. An Edinburgh paper states that an enormous monster has been seen off one of the Orkney Islands. It is ascertained not to be a whale, and the journalist hints that it must be a sea-serpent. Its length is computed at eighty feet. THUNDER.STORM.—On Thursday sennight, four sheep and two lambs were killed in a field near Denham Park, Manchester. Near Broughton, two men were employed in loading a cart with sand : one of them was struck .senseless, and hurled to a distance of nearly twenty feet from the cart ; the vehicle itself was turned completely round, and the horse tumbled on its
knees ; the other man was not at all affected. The ring of the wheel is sup- posed to have attracted the lightning. A female in the town of Manchester was deprived of sight by the vividness of the flashes.
SHIPWRECK.—The body of a female was washed ashore on Towan beach, St. Anthony, near Falmouth, on Friday Forenoon. The day before, a boat
came on shore, having the name—" Friends' Goodwill, Plymouth," painted on her stern, and "Thomas Maim" on the inside. Several other fragments of a shipwreck, in which it seems probable all hands had perished, have been drifted ashore in the same neighbourhood.
The Schooner Hope, of London' was lost last week on her passage from Swansea to Chester. One man had previously died, and another was washed overboard. The rest of the crew, and an American passenger, took the boat. The passenger died, but his companions reached the shore. An Austrian merchantman, the Prince Metternich, was wrecked last month, in a violent gale, in the neighbourhood of Smyrna; the crew were saved, but not the cargo, which is said to have been worth above 20,000/. In February, the shock of an earthquake was felt at Trinidad. HAMPSTEAD HEaTn.—This fine common was attempted to be enclosed and parcelled out, last session of Parliament • but the House of Commons . threw out the bill. It is now to be surrounded by houses. Little by little, the Whole of the petty privileges of the people are nibbled away. The
Legislature of free England makes bolder inroads on the rights of the unre- presented public than the Divan of Constantinople ever dared to dream of, and that almost without challenge, always without hazard.
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