Dudley Thornton, eldest son of Sir Edward Thornton, of Wens--

bury, was drowned on Monday last, in the Yealin River, Plymouth, where he was bathing with his brothers.

On Friday week, Mr. A. Prideaux, of Totness, who bad been for some time in a state of despondency, in consequence of the death of bis son, committed suicide. Shortly after breakfast, he retired to bis study ; and his daughter, perceiving his low spirits, followed him, and remained with him some time. A few moments after leaving the °Sara she heard a groan ; and, running in, beheld her parent with his threat cut in so dreadful a manner that death immediately ensued. sarsssis!ssa Some men belonging to the Preventive Service observed a persson throwing a girl into the sea, off Seaford, on Saturday evening. Thay immediately rescued the girl. She had a stone tied round her neck, and was about six years old. She said that the man who had attempted to drown her had stolen her from her parents at Brighton. Ile was taken into custody.

On Thursday week, Captain F. Cock, whilst casting a grapnel from a boar in Padstow harbour, teas drawn overboard by the rope eoilirg, about his leg. The body was recovered after about twenty minutss; when every means for restoring animation were resorted to in edits. Captain Cock was brother of the late Mr. J. F. Cock, of Camelford. —Falmouth Packet.

A girl at Thornhowe, named Yaxley, had the misfortune, a few days since, to kill her own mother. The old lady was scolding iier, nisi the daughter, feeling a little irritated at what her mother had said, took :sip her work-bag mid threw it at her. There was some penny• pieces ;0 it; and these striking her on the temple, she fell down and died oe the spot.

One day last week, a man named Thomas Harland, who resided in Bilton Street, in Layerthorpe, near York, havinab been a short time previously indisposed, to all appearance expired. His coflhoboard tams brought into the house, and preparations were commenced for Losing him out. When these were nearly completed, to the astonishment those present, he suddenly rose up and revived. The next morns, however, he actually departed this life, and his remains were inoarstst. the same evening.—York Chronicle. [The same evening ! this owls rather quick work, under the circumstances: perhaps, after all, rheas= was buried alive.]

The Leeds Express coach was accidentally upset, about six rrtiir from Northampton, on Wednesday morning. The guard's collar-Lave was put out, and the coachman was considerably injured. The leg of one passenger, who was in front of the coach, was broken, the inns. railing having caught him in the thigh. The rest of the passe.ossms escaped without any material injury. The forewheel had come after which the axle-tree broke.

On Tuesday week, as a party were returning from a pigeon-shootine- match in a double-bodied gig, the horse took fright near Tetterthat and set off at full speed; when, curiously enough, at the top of Tettena hall Rock, the fore part of the vehicle, containing two individuals, was completely severed from the hind part, in which there were five, asise, were unceremoniously dropped in the middle of the road. The horse held on his course ; and was nearly in Wolverhampton before the luck- less frights had time to ask themselves where they were. Fortnaatoly no injury of any consequence was received ; and it was amusing eneasgh. to see the travellers come down the hill, rubbing their knees, and ask- ing, " How far are they ? "—Hereford Times.

Early on Friday morning, a fire was discovered in a barn belonging to Mr. Hase, ironfoundcr, of Saxthorp, Norfolk, which burnt trite great fury until the barn and all within was destroyed, leaving only the bare walls standing. One end of it contained twelve acres of barley, which had been got in but the day previously, and two or three loads.of wheat ; in the other end, were patterns and tools connected with tie foundry business, valued at 2001. or 3001. ; all of which were complezel, destroyed. There is no doubt of this being the act of some incendiary; it is the second time the premises have been set on fire.—CambrifFge• Paper.

A Mr. Pring, a tavern-keeper at Portishead, near Bristol, with se- veral other friends and his wife, imprudently ventured into the ChanneR on Thursday week, about eight o'clock at night, in an open boat. fie refused to attend to the warnings of a pilot, and his boat was soosa swamped, and all in it were supposed to have perished.

On Sunday week, Mr. John Tattersall, son of a cotton-spinner at Bolton, hanged himself, in an attic of his father's house. He appears to have laboured under a speci s of religious lunacy.

Two privates in the Scotch Greys were drowned when bathing lie the sea, near Hartlepool, on Saturday.

A soldier of the 84th Foot, who was confined in Worcester Gaol for desertion, one day last week, placed his right forefinger on the lock of s. door, and then drawing to the door violently, part of the finger ors wrenched off. He did this to disable himself from service.

An inquest was held at Huddersfield, on Tuesday week, on the bothy

of a in man who lost his life from an injury he received from the machinery n Mr. Nathan's mill. The verdict was " Accidental death," with a deodand of WI. on the machinery, which was declared to be in a dangerous state. The Jury wrote a letter to Lord Melbourne, calling his attention to the dangerous state of the machinery in that and gilts mills in Huddersfield.

A Coroner's Jury, which sat upon the body of Mr. Dingley Gar-as tf,, an insane person, once a cabinetmaker in Broad Street, but lately con- fined in the lunatic ward of Portsea Poorhouse, returned a verdict on Monday, that his death was owing to an effusion of water on the brain, but that it was accelerated by bad treatment on the part of his keepers.. A barn, containing a hundred bushels of fine seed wheat, two wheat- ricks, and bay-rick, all belonging to a Mr. Jones, a farmer of Mu& Dewchurch, in the county of Hereford, were destroyed by fire on &la" day night. This fire is also said to have been the work of an incendiary,. Fourteen or fifteen houses were destroyed by fire in Frog Street, Tiverton, last week ; occasioning the loss of property to the amount of 1,0001., which we understand was insured.

The house of Mr. Thomas Sharman, called Swayfield Lodge, near Corby, was attempted to be entered on Monday morning last, bet without success. In the evening a stack of straw, the property of Mc. S. was set on fire by some incendiaries, which communicated witian. wheat hovel containing eight acres of wheat, and the whole was de- stroyed in a very short time. The loss is estimated at 2001.-,LOctis- shire Chronicle. An explosion of what is called wildfire took place, on Saturday, in a coal-pit near Dudley; by which thirteen men lost their lives. The pits in this neighbourhood are very deep ; notwithstanding which, the lame issued out of the mouth of the one in which this dreadful acci- dent happened as out of a chimney when on fire.