Une bien petite partie de la France crie " Vive
Louis Philippe !' tout le reste en rut (Henri).—Le Corsaire. Une bien petite partie de la France crie " Vive Louis Philippe !' tout le reste en rut (Henri).—Le Corsaire. General Bourmont, with his son, and fifty French officers, has ell I barked at Gibraltar on board an English brig for England. The Gazette de France says—" The Count de Menars has just set out for London. He is charged to sell the collection of pictures be- longing to the Dutehess of Berri ; a collection which is of great value, and the principal articles of which are already contended for by British amateurs. Some great personages in England have even offered to take the whole collection at a valuation, and to return it to the Princess at any future period, upon the reimbursement of the sum paid." The disasters at sea have this year been frightfully numerous. There are at Boulogne alone, no less than three hundred children who have lost their fathers since the commencement of the herring season.— Galig- nani's Messenger. The Haubetz linker, a fine Norwegian ship, was dashed to pieces in a storm off the French coast, near Boulogne, on Saturday last. The crew all perished. They were seen for two hours clinging to the bow- sprit, by thousands of spectators, who could render them no assistance, for want of' a lifeboat.
The St. Martin, an American steam-boat, plying on the Mississippi, was destroyed by fire on the 31st of October. Out of sixty pas- sengers, thirty are supposed to have been burnt in the vessel. • One lady evinced remarkable courage and energy in preserving herself and her husband : the latter having refused to follow her into the river, she laid hold of him, and threw herself overboard with hint : they both reached the banks of the River in safety, by means of a hen-coop which they caught floating in the stream. Another gentleman on board offered a reward of two thousand dollars to any one who would rescue a young slave belonging to him but no one would run the necessary risk ; and the slave, clasping his fiends, and raising his eyes to heaven, sprung from the burning vessel, and disappeared in the mighty waters.
Another dreadful accident occurred on one of the Mississippi steam- boats near the mouth of the Ohio, on the 8th instant. The boiler burst ; and thirteen persons were scalded to death, fifteen others were seriously injured, and nine were lost overboard.
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