SIR THOMAS Meanto.—This gentleman, the son of the late Major.

General Sir Thomas Munro, Governor of Madras, in jumping lately across a ditch in a field at Rushbrooke, unfortunately broke his arm. The bone was fractured in two places. He is now doing well. DUEL.—On Monday morning, a meeting took place at Castleconnell, on the borders of Tipperary, between Charles O'Connell, Esq. and G.

Cummins, Esq. ; the former attended by Charles Brennan, Esq. and the latter by Captain O'Gorman. The signal agreed upon was, " ready —tire." At the word "ready," Mr. Cummins fired ; when Mr. O'Cona nell discharged his pistol in the air, and thus the affair terminated.-- Dublin Morning Register.

S UICIDE.—We regret to state, that during the night of Wednesday last, the Reverend Arthur Browne, of St. John's College, terminated his life by cutting his throat. On his room-door being forced open in

the morning, the unfortunate gentleman was discovered quite dead. He had complained on the previous evening of a depression of spirits,

but no other motive is known for the committal of this fatal act. An inquest was held on view of the body, before Mr. Chevell, and a verdict returned that the deceased cut his throat in a fit of insanity. Mr. Browne, who is about thirty-six years of age, had only arrived in Cols lege on Tuesday afternoon.—Cambridge Chronicle. ATTEMPTED SUICIDES.—NOt fewer than seven females, of different ages, 'attempted to put a period to their existence on Monday. One of

them, whose name is unknown, had taken oxalic acid ; she was con-

veyed to the Middlesex Hospital, with but little hopes of recovery. Another was detected by her husband in the street, swallowing the con- tents of a phial of laudanum ! Another female made an attempt to cut her throat in Holies Street, Clare Market, but was happily prevented. [In all Cases of attempts, bread and water with the tread-mill for three. months are sovereign remedies.—ilbernehy.] Two Wais OF TELLING A Sa-orty.—A waterman named Dunleary was drowned on the 14th. His boat was found next morning, cut in two ;

and from that circumstance it was inferred that the death of the poor man was occasioned by a steam-boat, and of course by the carelessness of its conductors. The accident, it has since been ascertained, was at- tributed to its true cause, but the mode of describing it is rather diffe- rent. Dunleary was so intoxicated as to be incapable of managing his boat ; and in attempting to cross the river from Limehouse, in the di- rection of Deptford, he was run down by the Eclipse. The vessel was bearing up the river very rapidly at the time. On perceiving the boat, it slackened its speed ; and the people on board sung out," Keep astern;'" but the deceased went ahead ; the steam-packet, in order to avoid him, bore to the southward; but Dunleary went in the same direction, appa- rently from some misconception, and the stem of the Eclipse struck the wherry, which immediately sunk under her bows. The steamer in-

stantly stopped and lowered a boat, and every effort was made to save the deceased, but neither the body nor boat could be found. Under the most careful guidance, wherries below Bridge are becoming a very hazardous mode of conveyance. It is obvious that their build must be altered to suit altered circumstances ; and so it will, when a hundred or two of the public have fallen sacrifices to the present mode. DIAMOND CET litaannan.—On Sunday afternoon, the Fire Fly new Government steamer, going down the river on an experimental voyage, ran foul of the Venus Gravesend steam-packet off Limehouse Reach, corning up laden with nearly six hundred passengers ; the figure-head of the Venus was broken in two, and the larboard paddle-box smashed to pieces. The passengers, under great alarm, were put ashore in small boats.

ACCIDENT IN TIIE TOWER.—On Sunday morning a private in the Foot Guards, viewing the wild beasts in the Tower, imprudently placed

his hand upon a cage, in which was a lion; the animal instantly sprang from the opposite side of the cage, and seized the soldier's hand in one of his paws. The soldier cried out, and the animal was beaten off by one of the keepers, but not until the soldier's hand was very much torn. [The cages ought to have moveable wire guards.]

FATAL CART ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, in the streets of Taunton, as a poor fellow named Gugg was driving his master's horse and cart, the horse took fright, and ran towards High Street at a tremendous rate. When it arrived opposite the market-house door, one of the wheels crushed the upper part of the poor fellow's thigh against the iron lamp-post, in such a dreadful manner, that a person who was standing near observed the bone protrude through his trousers ! He was imme- diately taken to the hospital; when the thigh waeamputated, as the only possible chance of saving his life. He continued in the most shock- ing state until half-past nine, when death put a period to his sufferings. —Dorset County Chronicle. FIRES.—About three o'clock on Thursday morning, the extensive saw- mills and contiguous buildings at College Wharf, Belvedere Road, Lam- beth, in the occupation of Messrs. 'Walker and Co., had a narrow escape, owing to a stack of deals having been piled up too near a chimney of the engine-house, which took fire, and in a short time the flames acquired great ascendancy. Fortunately, by the prompt • attendance of the en- gines, they were got under, but not until they had done material damage. A dreadful conflagration occurred at the same place four years ago.

MOOR-BURNING EXTRAORDINARY.—Early on Thursday, on the fire being set to some kilns of moss for burning them on ground in course of improvement, near Blackston, below Paisley, some of the embers were blown over the heather, which instantly to/ fire ; and although those employed used every means In their power to extinguish it, in a few minutes there were several acres in a blaze. Owing to the dry state of the heather and the height of the wind, the flames rapidly extended Over Linwood Moss. Several hundreds of aci.es of fine plantations on the outskirts have been totally destroyed—Glasgow Chronicle of Friday. NEWIX-DISCOVEItED Atieer.—One half of the boat in which Sir Joseph Yorke was • sailing; in company with Captains Bradby and Young, has been found ; and from this circumstance it is enn.jectured that she was severed by some electric matter.—Hampshire Tikgraph. [ne circumstance of finding the half of the boat, is a whimsical ground for a theory so extraordinary as the cutting of a vessel in two by a flash

of lightnieg. What would have been the consequence if only a quarter had been found ? that the lightning had cut it in four ?]

Turauste-semier.—On Tuesday, the 24th, a farm-house called the Furze. near Winslow,. Bucks, was struck by lightning ; which totally unroofed one end, and entering the east window of the dairy, forced out two side-panes of glass, together with the beam and some part of the ceiling, and taking another direction through the second, third, and fourth windows of the dairy, shattered the glass to pieces. Two females and a youth were in the house at the time, who providentially escaped any injury.

ANOTIIER.—" On Sunday last," says the Essex Herald, "a storm of a most awful description passed over Chelinsford. Its course was from east to south, the wind at the commencement lyingfull north, but iortly after shifting tofu// so/It/i. The lightning was extremely vivid, and one or two claps of thunder followed so instantaneously as to cause great apprehensions for the safety of persons as well as property. The reports were so sharp and so loud, that they resembled the discharge of small- arms ; the window-sashes were agitated in an extraordinary manner." The consequences of this awful storm were most astounding—" Mr. Allen, schoolmaster, of this town, was struck upon the foot by the light- ning, which scorched his boot, in space the size of half-a-crown, which caused a slight pain ; and at the sometime the lightning singed the hearth- rug near where he WaS sitting." This was not the only fatal proof of the violence of the electric matter. "At Hatfield Priory, the residence of P. Wright, Esq. nearly twenty panes of glass were broken, and a great number cracked ; same trees in a pasture, a short distance from theman- sion, were stripped of their bark, and in an oat-field the ground was ploughedmp for forty rods, nearly six inches deep, at which place the electric matter appears to have dispersed." This, we are fully given to understand, was the self-same flash that cut the boat through the middle in which poor Sir Joseph Yorke was sailing when he was drowned ; it came round by sea to Chelmsford. FIRE-DAMP.—Ten persons were killed on Monday sennight by an ex- plosion in a coal-pit, near Newton, in Lancashire ; and six others so se- verely hurt, as not to be expected to recover. One of the miners was blown to a distance of thirty yards.