There has been another wreck. The Olinda, iron screw-steamer, bound
for the Brazils, left the Mersey on Thursday, with a heavy cargo and several passengers. She met a strong head-wind, and, unable to proceed, was driven on the Harry Furlong rocks, about fifteen miles from Holyhead. All the crew and passengers, except seven, have landed safely ; but the Olinda is a wreck. On the receipt of the news at Liverpool, the steamer Cambria, and the tug Dreadnought, were sent to lend assistance.
An accident happened yesterday, at Pimlico, which will need strict inves- tigation. On river-side premises occupied by Meters. Kelk, builders, was a recently-erected machine, called a "traveller," constructed of wood and iron work, and intended for lifting masses of stone and timber from barges. This machine fell down, while raising, for the first time a huge stone. By its fall one man was killed, and several barges were sunk.
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