4 MAY 1839, Page 7

On the night of the 26th April, Sir Hussey Vivian

was knocked down by the pole of a carriage, as he was crossing Jerulyn Street.

with Sir John Macdonald and Sir William Gossett. The horses went over hint, and the front-wheel reached his shonlder and struck it ; but by this time the exertions of the coachmen, aided by Sir John Mac- donald, who with great presence of mind had run to the horses' beads, had stopped the carriage, and thus left Sir Hussey lying between the horses' heels and the near fore-wheel ; from which most perilous situa- tion he was extricated by the assistance of' Sir William Gosset and some other gentlemen, without having received a scratch or any injury of the slightest consequence.