It is said that, on examination. the Eddystone Lighthouse is
found I not to have experienced the least injury from the late storms. It is said that, on examination. the Eddystone Lighthouse is found I not to have experienced the least injury from the late storms.
On the 22d instant, the Royal William steam-Alike front London to Leith, fell in w a boat, having ova blankets hoisted for sails, off ramborough Head. There were twelve persons in the boat, who had escaped from the wreck of the Thole, vthich struck on the Leman and Owen on her voyage from Hamburg to London. They had been fifty hours at sea, and had suffered dreadfully from cold. Captain Richard- sun, of the Hoy at William, took them to Leith; and they received all necessary attention at the Trinity I louse.
The liftwic4 Weeder relates a needier of facts to prove that the Nor- thera l'oeht certainly was lost at sea ; altlemeh the story of her hat ing reached Christlimsand appeared at first to deserve credit. Ciaitein Simi:sem of the Ceres, a I b;titlee c.. eel; had been absent from III:, country for twenty eare ; a',-: lie reporeel, that whilst. a: Mandel the landlord of the inn told him that there had beenta deal of rough me:alter, and that one English veseel, the Northern Yacht, had reached Christiansand, having been out nowt: than six tt eeks. Captain Simpson had never heard of the Northern -1 acht benne:. Late accounts front Christinnsand make no mention of the unfortunate vessel.
Eleven men lest their lives, on We'dne'sday week, by an explosion in a coal-pit, forming part of the great Wallsead
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