TWELVE PERSON'S DROWNED.—Ab011t eight o'clock on Saturday morning nineteen workmen

entered a small boat that was in readiness to

carry them over the Invell, at Manchester, to their breakfast. They had been employed in the construction of a bridge now building for the purpose of carrying the railway across the river. The boat was so crowded by the men, that the boatman was unable to use his oars, and the force of the cur.

rent drifting it against the piles of the bridge, the:boat swayed to one side, and the whole of the passengers were in a moment thrown into the water.

Five persons, including the boatman, reached the shore by swimming ; two clung to the piles, and were picked up ; but the whole of the remainder perished.

MORE DIIOWNING.—The Mayo Free Press states that a small boat with fourteen persons on board was upset last week in the bay of Westport, and only two were saved. A boat from Cromarty to Invergordon was upset last week, and four persons were drowned. The loss of lives by drowning within these three weeks has been remarkable.

FLOOD.-111 consequence of a strong north-west wind, the spring-tide of the Dee rose so high on Saturday last, that many houses in Chester were completely flooded, and considerable damage was done to the adjoining country.

On Saturday last, a coach, called the Accommodation, that runs between Louth and Lincoln, was upset by a sudden gust of wind. Three of the out- side passengers, who were females, escaped with a few bruises ; but a man, named Richard Whitton, fell to the ground with great force, and in his fall came in contact with a lamp-iron, which fractured his skull, and his death was instantaneous—Boston Gazelle.

ATTEMPTED SU I CIDE.—A girl, calling herself Douglas, was brought before the Magistrates at Lambeth Street, charged with having attempted

to drown herself in the Lea, on Monday night ; from which she was with difficulty rescued. She said she had been sent to London from Aberdeen, in consequence of a letter from an uncle, whom she had sought for, but in vain. She had spent all her money, and, not knowing what to do, she de- termined to drown herself. Her uncle's name was stated to be Thomas Young. She was sent to the workhouse until means could be fallen on for reconveying her to Aberdeen.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A man named Thornton was killed last week, by six waggons passing over his body, on the Canterbury and Whitstable

railway. He had been repeatedly warned against carelessness by the en- gineer, and for the last time on the morning of his death. He fell in alight- ing from a waggon to remove a stone from the railway. ACCIDENTAL PotsoxiNo.—On Monday last week, a poor man named Armitage, a shoemaker of Huddersfield, killed himself by drinking an infa. sion of foxgloire, as a remedy for cholera. The recipe was taken from Culpepper.

LONDON CIIIMNEYS.—On Wednesday, a young man attempting to fix a chimney-pot in Little Park Street, Dorset Square, missed his footing, and,

catching at the brick-wOrk, the whole chimney fell down along with him. He was a good deal hurt, but not dangerously. The brick-work must have been finely banded !

SUDDEN DEATH.—A policeman having taken hold of a girl who was obstructing a passage in the neighbourhood of Compton Street, on Monday evening, a child of twelve months old, which she held in her arms, was so much alarmed, that it fell back iu a fit, and notwithstanding every atten-

tion, expired.

HAIR-BREADTH Esc Aen.—Partridge, a sailor, fell, last week, from the top-gallant mast of the brig John, in Lynn harbour ; and his body having

struck against the side of the vessel, he then descended into the river, but was fortunately rescued from drowning by one of his brave companions. Although he fell from a height of sixty feet, his body was not seriously wounded.

Bea:en-G.—A man named Shane O'Marley, in the parish of Kilmacrenan (Londonderry), accidentally set fire to the straw in a cowhouse. He imme-

diately sprung forward, and set loose one of the cows ; but the animal, in- stead of running out, ran behind the door, and thus shut in both herself and her master. The latter was released by the bursting in of the door ; but he was so much injured, that, after lingering two days, he expired.

SINGULAR ESCAPE.—On Monday morning", a deranged shoemaker, named Morley, jumped from a two-pair of stairs window in OfAlley, Hun- gerford Market ; and, marvellous to relate, though he was much bruised, he did not break a bone. He was removed to the Westminster Hospital.

On Tuesday, a sawyer named Fyle had his thighs so dreadfully crushed, by a log of timber falling on them, that amputation of both was found neces- sary; and he was not expected to recover.