Gin ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday afternoon, a horse in a gig ran
with great speed over Blackfriars Bridge ; the driver was thrown out, and immediately after the gig broke to pieces. Opposite Christ Church, the horse came in contact with a gig, in which was Miss Vincent of the Surry Theatre, accompanied by a gentleman. The horse darting upon them from the back of the last coach on the stand, was not seen till met, and came with the greatest force against the gig, knocked down the horse, and broke both shafts. Miss Vincent was thrown with great violence under the two horses ; several persons hastened to her assist- ance, and she was immediately taken to an opposite house. When recovered from fright, she was fortunately found to he but slightly hurt ; the gentleman who drove, and likewise the owner of the other gig, both escaped unhurt.
TWENTY PERSONS DROWNED ar PARIS.—In an attempt, on Saturday, to disperse the crowds which had accumulated near nightfall in the vicinity of the Ile St. Louis and Ile de la Cite in Paris, and which were supposed to be excited to assemble and to threaten the public peace by some desperate jobbers for a fall in the Funds, two masses, in endeavour- ing, the one to retreat from the left, and the other from the right bank, met on the Pont an Change, and by the shock a number of them (it is said twenty) were hurled over the low parapet of the bridge, and drowned in the river. The Seine, at that spot, is very deep.
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