HunttscasE.—A dreadful storm took place at Galway, on Saturday sennight.
The fine pier beilt by Mr. Nimmo was breached by the waves and wholly destroyed. The fishing-village of Cloddagh was wholly swept away by the rising of the river ; one vessel was forced on the rocks; • another WAS driven high and dry into a potato field; a third, three hundred tons burden, from tVhitbv, struck off Barra Point, where it was totally wrecked. Another large vessel is said to have been wrecked on the Cunnemara coast. A great many bridges have been destroyed ; many boats lost ; and numerous houses, not exposed to the waters, have been unroofed by the violence of the wind. The total da- mage is estimated at 30,000/. Up to the last account, about thirty cases of loss of life had been reported. - It is worthy of remark, that though high tide ought to have happened regularly at half-past seven o'clock on the evening of the day of the hurricane, the ebb began at six o'clock ; after an hour's ebb, the sea began to flow again, and continued flowing -until eight. Almost the only instance oil record of a similar irregularity, -is in the case of the earthquake at Lialien. •t i• Wares OF THE ST. GEORGE 'SIAMuPACILET.-011 Friday, the 19th November, the St. George carried away herthainscable, during a heavy gale; and, in a short time, notwithstanding every exertion, she struck on St. Mary's Rock, in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man. The number of the crew of the St. George. was twenty-two. The Douglas life-boat was launched as soon as the accident was discovered ; and, after great danger and exertion, succeeded in getting the whole safe to land. The steam-boat is almost a total wreck, and the life-boat was very much damaged. The greatest praise for activity and humanity is due to Sir William Hillary, Bart. and Lieutenant Robinson, of the Royal Navy, who were in the life-boat. Sir William very narrowly escaped being drowned.
Fose.—At a late hour on Saturday night, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. King, boat-builder, Commercial Road, by which the whole of the premises and the greater part of the stock were destroyed.
SUICIDE BY A BOY.—A boy only fourteen years of age hanged him- self on Saturday evening, in the stable of Mr. Green, of Crawford Mews, Upper York Street, Marylebone. The unfortunate boy, who was nephew to Mr. Green, had exhibited nOprevious symptoms of low spirits or dis- satisfaction.
EXPLOSION.—A spirit-still at Vauxhall exploded on Tuesday morn- ing, it is supposed from the carelessness of the officer, who, in sealing it, brought a lighted candle in contact with the spirit. Three persons were severely hurt, and the damage is estimated at 3,0001.
PERCUSSION Cars.—A quantity of these irritable little machines ex- ploded yesterday, in Wych Street, and caused a great deal of terror, but luckily no damage. It was at first supposed that the package in which the caps happened to be placed was an infernal machine
ACTING TO THE DEATH.—On Monday morning, a person named Glyddon, late of the Guards, who was taking a part in the rehearsal at Drury Lane, was suddenly observed to stagger and fall. On lifting him up, he was fella to be quite dead. lie had been in uncommonly high spirits during the morning—a not unusual symptom in cases of apoplexy. CARBONIC ACID.—Three of the maid-servants of Lord Farnbam's household, Bryaustone Square, having placed a quantity of ignited char- coal on the hearth in the room where they slept, were found in the morning in a state of complete insensibility. Medical assistance was im- mediately procured, and they are now recovered. BREAKING WINDOWS.—A farmer of a village near Syston having gone home a night or two ago in a state of intoxication, and not being admitted into his house so soon as lie wished, dashed his hand into the Window, and, cutting one of the Main arteries, bled so profusely as to cause his death shortly afternards:-.e-Leicester Chronicle. • LION AND TIGER FIGHT AT THE ToWEA.—The following 'show. man-likepiece of coMpoSition appeats in the Times of this morning, without the word advertisement' prefixed ; so we suppose it is no puff, but the Gazette account of a genuine battle royal. 1'41nel/day foremen, as the man whose ditty it is to clean the -cages of the wild beasts in' the Towers was in' the execution of that Offices he inatifer- 'Maly raised a- door in the upper-tier of 'eel* which coasted, dera
of a large lion'from one in which there were a Bengal tigee'aud tigress. At sight of each other; the eyete of the animals kindled with rage. Thelion instantly erected his mane, and with a tremendous roar aprang at the tiger : that animal was equally eager for the combat, and in a pa- roxysm of fury flew at his assailant, Whilst the tigress fiercely seconded her mate. The roaring and yelling of the combatants resounded through the•yards, and excited in the various animals the most lively derhonStratiens of fear or rage. The smaller and the pacific tribes
vered with dread, .end ran round their cages shrieking with terror ; While the other lions and tigers, the bears, leopards, panthers, wolves," and hyenas, flew round their cages, shaking the bars with their utmost strength,„ and . uttering the most terrific cries. The lion fought most bravely, but was eeidently overmatched; having to contend with two adversaries not more than a year from the woods, whilst- he had been upwards of seven years in confinement. Still the battle raged with doubtful" success, till the tiger seized the lion by the throat and flung him on his back; when, after rolling over each other several times, the exasPerated tigress pinned her enemy by the veranda. In this situ- ation the prostrate lord Of the forest still struggled with an indoniitable spirit, roaring with agony and rage. By this time, however; some iron rods had been heated, the red-hot ends of which were now applied to the mouths and nostrils of the infuriated tigers, who were by this Means forced to relinquish their grasp ; but no sooner was the separation effected than the lion and tiger seized in their mouths, the one the upper, and the other the loWer jaw of his antaeonist, biting and tugging at each other with deadly fury. So excited was their animosity, that.it wes with the greatest difficulty, by the 'insertion of the glowing iron into their nostrils, they could be disengaged, and the lion driVen bark to his cell: the door of. which was instantly closed. The combat lasted full half an hour ; 'the tiger in the last round lost one of his tusks .but-the poor lion, from the inequality in number and strength, .was very severely punished."
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