Three youths, sons of a very respectable tradesman in Pimlico,

and of the ages of thirteen, fifteen, and sixteen, went. out in a boat near Battersea, about five o'clock on Wednesday morning, for the purpose of bathing. 'The

oldest being an experienced swimmer, jumped out of the boat in the midst of the river, and desired his brothers to take in the oars while he swam about for a short time. On his return to the wherry, not perceiving that his bro thers were both leaning on one side of the boat, he incautiously placed his hands on the same part, and was about to jump in, when the boat, overbalanced with the weight, completely overturned, and plunged the three youths together into the water. The youngest being totally unable to swim, immediately sank to the bottom, and, notwithstanding the assistance of his brothers, was drowned. The other two being expert swimmers, escaped.

On Tuesday night, a report was circulated on Saffron-hill, that some person had been murdered in the neighbourhood, and thrown into the Fleetditch. This arose from an alarm given by a woman named Hickery, living in Lily-street, that she had heard screams ; and, on looking from her back window, saw distinctly a human hand and part of the arm, stretched from the water, as if grasping for assistance. Search was made, and, after a lapse of some time, several detached portions of a human body were found, and the arm was found quite perfect in all its parts. They appear to belong to a female.—Daily Paper.

On Sunday afternoon, as a waterman was rowing his wherry between Mill-stairs and Founders'-stairs, near Rotherhithe he observed something floating on the surface of the water, which he at irst conceived was a dog. On approaching it, for the purpose of ascertaining accurately what it was, and putting his hand underneath the water, he was alarmed on taking hold of a human foot. With the assistance of another man, the body of a male adult, without a head, was then lifted out of the river into the boat. It was ascertained that the head must have been severed from the body by a sharp instrument. There is a mystery about the matter, which the parish-officers have undertaken to investigate.

The premises of Mr. John Galloway, a carpenter in Glasgow, were burnt down last week, and nearly one hundred men were thrown out of employment.

The eldest son of Mr. Wright, of Havvthorpe' in the parish of Imhain, has been killed by a wound from a pitchfork, which run into his body eighteen inches, as he slid from the top of a haystack.

Several persons have been much hurt by the overturning of the Mail from Chester to Hereford, at Church Stretton, fourteen miles From Shrewsbury. Richard Breach, who was to have been executed on Wednesday, has been respited during pleasure.

A man named White died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, of a fall which he sustained in fighting with another man, both of them being intoxicated. The jury on the inquest pronounced the death accidental ; but the evidence described one of those too common scenes of brutality, which induced the Coroner to declare, that all the bystanders ought to be indicted for a misdemeanour.

The Dumfries Courier thinks that the City of Dublin steam-packet, on its passage from Liverpool to Dublin last Friday night, ran down another steampacket, supposed to be the Birmingham, "probably full of Irish reapers going to seek harvest-work in England."

During the thunderstorm on Saturday, a labourind man trenching potatoes near Clashmore, county of Waterford, was struck 'by lightning, and killed on the spot. A large cock of hay in the vicinity was consumed.—Limerick Chronicle.

A bricklayer was killed at the christening of Messrs. Nicholson's stills on Thursday week, by a fall from a plank eighteen feet high.

In the North of Scotland, seven boys have been almost killed by eating the roots of hemlock. They were saved by the application of very powerful emetics, succeeded by castor oil.

On Thursday evening, two gentlemen and a lady, supposed to be strangers, passed the farm of Cobble-hill, to the eastward of Elgin, in a gig ; and about an hour thereafter they were found lying at the foot of a precipice near the road, the lady unhappily quite dead, and the gentleman so seriously injured, that, though medical aid was immediately procured, no hopes are entertained of his recovery. The gig was broken to pieces, and the horse had escaped.—Inverness Journal.

A few days since, at Ballina, a man, whilst giving a drench to a glandered horse, received some of the diseased matter into a cut upon his hand ; in a few days afterwards, his hand, arm, and body swelled to an alarming extent ; and, notwithstanding medical assistance was promptly called in, he died in great pain, evidently from the effects of the matter imbibed.—Dublin Evening Post.

At the Mullingar assizes, two persons, accused of the murder of a police sergeant, were found guilty of manslaughter only, "in consequence," as our informant states, " of its appearing in evidence that an affray, in which the deceased lost Ins life, originated in the unnecessary intoference of the police." At the same assizes, as many as seven Peelers were sentenced to various degrees of punishment for other acts of "unnecessary interference," such as breaking into a man's house and assaulting the inmates, on pretence of" putting out a fire."—Dublin Paper.

Lima was visited on the 30th of last March by a terrible earthquake, which destroyed and damaged several churches, convents, and houses. More than 1,000 persons are supposed to have perished. There was a report that Triadic) had likewise suffered from a similar visitation.

The College of Villeneuve, in France, was almost entirely destroyed by lightning on the 19th ult. A flame was seen to descend upon the roof, in the form of a whirlwind, And speedily communicated to every part of the building. The executioner of the town of Rhodes has been tried and condemned to a year's imprisonment, for having exercised unnecessary ferocity and cruelty towards a culprit, while branding him with a hot iron. The culprit, who had been arrested by some gendarmes as a deserter, made a desperate resistance, and, in the struggle, killed one of the gendarmes. For this he had been sentenced to hard labour for life and branding. The gendarmes, however, not satisfied with the severity of this sentence, resolved that he should undergo an additional punishment ; and, for that purpose, invited the executioner to drink with them, and prevailed upon him to make use of a red hot iron, and to apply it with all his force. The executioner kept his promise, and burned the unfortunate culprit to the bone, who fainted away from the torture. The people, indignant at this atrocious cruelty, were about demolishing the scatlidd, and maltreating the rudianly executioner, when the King's Procurator, who happened to be present, succeeded in calming them, and promised them t that strict justice should be done upon the delinquent.