Government has agreed with the Directors of the Norwich and
Lowestoft Navigation to advance the required loan of 50,0001. to com- plete the works, and it is expected that rapid progress will be made with them in the ensuing spring.—Nortekh Post. The opening of the tunnel between Charmouth and Axminster took place on Monday last. The tunnel is rather more than seventy yards long, substantially and elegantly constructed with an elliptic arch, capable of allowing two of the largest-size stage-waggons to pass. Returns have been required fromdLittle Marlow' Medmenham, and Maidenhead ; and we believe it is the intention of Government to add these three places to the borough of Marlow. This will be opening it indeed, making it free to all intents and purposes, and will be a means of defeating any coalition, however popular or powerful.—Reading Mercury. The typhus fever has prevailed for a considerable time in the villages of Beely, Pilsley, and Baslow, Derbyshire. In Beely about eighty persons were at one time confined with the disorder. At present it appears to be spreading in Baslow. The Duke of Devonshire allows the poor the benefit of his own physician, together with medicines, and even delicacies from his festive hoard; and when the patients become convalescent, he has ordered them a sufficient supply daily of ale, porter, and food, till they are perfectly recovered.—Nottinghant Mercury.
Lord G. Paulet and his boat's crew had a very narrow escape from drowning in the Shannon, last month. In the first attempt to fetch the Nautilus, which vessel Lord George commands, the bowman of the boat was dragged overboard, from the rapidity of the current, and with difficulty reached the boat again. In the second attempt, the boat struck the vessel, and was swamped ; and the whole of her crew, Lord George included, were thrown into the water, the tide at the time run- ning about seven knots an hour. They were saved with much difficulty, and after they had been at least half an hour in the water, by a boat from the Nautilus.
The mother of Matthew Warry, one of the men convicted of being concerned in firing the Bridewell, died on Thursday evening, of sa broken heart, at her dwelling in Lewin's Mead. She had been in a most dreadful state of mental affliction for the last few weeks, owing to her apprehensions about the fate of her unfortunate son.—Bristol Liberal. Last week, a respectable female, near Banbridge, drowned herself in an extraordinary manner. She had been for a considerable time con- fined in consequence of insanity; and as her attempts at self-destruction had been frequent, she was closely watched. As every thing by which she might be likely to effect her purpose bad been removed, she took an opportunity, in the absence of her family, of. plunging herself into a churn of butter-milk, in which she was shortly afterwards found drowned.—Belfast News Letter.
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