THE WEATHER.—The uncommonly mild temperature this week, has been accompanied
by some very high winds. The communication be- tween Dover and Calais was stopped for two days. The English packet, on Thursday, after tossing about for foeir hours was obliged to return to Calais. A Deal boat, with five hands on board, was swamped on 'Wednesday, between Dover and Fi5lkstone ; and the same day, a galliot for Gravelines was wrecked, and the whole of the crew perished.
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Sturuece.—The brig Iris, Wilman, from Bremen to Cuba, picked up, on the 18th ult., the mate and six of the crew of the brig Roberts, of Shields. This vessel unfortunately became water-logged on the 13th in the North Sea. The master and three men perished. The men who were saved received every possible kindness from Captain Wilman, but are so dreadfully frost-bitten that amputation in some cases, it is feared, must be performed. They were landed at Hull on Wednesday, in order to be conveyed to the infirmary. Sciennis.—A footman in the service of Mr. Ellice of the Treasury, cut his throat on Monday night, in a fit of insanity; he was found in the stable belonging to Mr. Ellice, Richmond Terrace, about seven o'clock, quite dead. On Saturday, a lad named Hodges, footman to Mr. James, 28, Fitzroy Square, put an end to his life, by hanging himself with a jack-towel. ATTEMPTED Summe.—A man named Glassborough, a servant at Crockford's, attempted to commit suicide on Thursday. He had, it after- wards appeared, purloined about one hundred pounds worth of the plate of the club-house. He was taken to Marlborough Street. COACT' Aemneeme—On Wednesday last, the' True Briton coach, on its way from Newcastle to Carlisle, was overturned on the bridge, near Bankhead, about three miles east of Brampton. The guard is severely injured by his falling against the parapet of the bridge. A passenger the only one upon the coach at the time, received little or no injury,' although he was thrown over the bridge, a height of nearly fifteen feet. —Carlisle Journal. GIG ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning, as Mr. Joseph Westbrook, of Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, was driving in his gig, accompanied by his wife and infant child, along the New Pancras Road, the wheel came in contact with a wooden post by the side of the road, and Mrs. West- brook and the infant were jerked out of the gig. Mrs. AVestbrook had her collar. bone and wrist broken; and the child falling on its head, no hopes are entertained of its recovery. FAMILIARITY BREEDS Coleremer.—On Tuesday afternoon, while a gentleman's groom was riding through Guildford Street, Russell Square, his horse " shyed" on passing an excavation made for the repair of some water-pipes; he rode back to the spot, in order to familiarize the animal with the sight of the object which had frightened him. But the
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horse, instead of quietly looking at the place as the rider meant he should, suddenly leaped over a fence erected for the protection of pas- sengers, and fell with his rider into the hole. Theagroom fortunately escaped with a few bruises; a considerable time elaps01 before the horse
could be extricated from his awkward position. see
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