a draper of Doncaster, was discovered by two boys, lying in a ditch a short way from the town. The head was shattered, the pockets were rifled, and the man's hat had been thrust into an adjoining hedge. Two gunshot wounds were found in the head. The body was soon identified; and subsequent investigations led to the arrest of two men on strong circumstantial evidence. Two days before the body was found, Mr. Robinson had dined at Sheffield with James Barber, a young man, and with three other young men, all travelling drapers. James was a nephew of Mr. D. Barber, Robinson's emplayer; he had been in his service with Robinson; but he was discarded for embezzlement. A silver watch, intended as a gift to him, his uncle gave to Robinson. At the dinner, James Barber was heard to offer to introduce Robinson to some good customers at Gleadless, a village five miles from Sheffield; the two set out together about two o'clock, Robinson taking his pack: he was no more seen alive; the field in which his body was found was in the direction of Gleadless, but quite away from any house or public footpath. At five o'clock, Barber re-entered Sheffield, and left the deceased's pack at a public-house, where he carefully cleansed his clothes and boots. On the evening of the day on which the body was found, Robinson's watch was pawned, not by Barber, but by a companion of his-a young fellow named M'Cormack. Barber and M Cormack were arrested; on the former the pawnbroker's ticket for the watch was found; M'Cormack admitted that he pawned the watch, but said he did so merely at Barber's request, to whom he gave the money. Barber denied his guilt. At the coroner's inquest, the evidence substantiated the above circumstances. Alexander Robinson was a Scotchman, twenty-four years old. At the spot where the body was found there were marks of a violent struggle; a pool of blood was covered with long dead grass. So mangled was the face of the corpse, that Mr. Barber, Robinson's employer, could only recognise the body by a peculiar formation of the feet, by the hands, and by the clothes. The prisoner M'Cormack was allowed to give evidence. He stated that he had been employed by Barber in his trade; he had pawned the watch at his desire. Barber accounted in various ways to different people for his sudden possession of a watch. The wife of a publican gave this evidence of a conversation with the supposed murderer: "On Monday afternoon, about two o'clock, the prisoner came to our house, and he had some chops. I said to him, 'Mr. Barber, what a dreadful murder this is!' and he replied, It is, poor young man.' I said, 'Have you been to see him?" He replied, I would not see him for fifty pounds.' I said, You having been companions so long, if I were you I would have run to see him, and nothing would have stopped me.' He never said anything in reply; and I said, What looks stranger still is, that you have not gone to Doncaster to his funeral.' He put his hand before his face, but he did not speak. I then said, 'It will be a great loss to Mr. Barber; and he replied, 'Yes, it will; Mr. Barber will lose five hundred pounds, for he had three thousand customers about Sheffield.' I said, 'When did you hear of the murder? On Friday night,' he replied." On a subsequent day, additional evidence was tendered, tracing Barber to within half a mile of the spot where the murder was committed. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against James Barber." He is committed to York Castle for trial. accounts, a defendant, after some ineffectual opposition on the ground of expense, was compelled to set out in a schedule to his answer mere copies of accounts from his books-the books themselves having been produced to the plaintiffs, and who had the original accounts, as delivered, in their possession, of which the stationer's charge for making a single copy amounted to 1207. When a chancery-suit is commenced after the 2nd of November next, the plaintiff will prepare his bill aecording to a concise form given in the new orders; which he must have printed on writing royal paper, quarto, in pica type, leaded,' with blank paper of the same kind interleaved; and this is to be filed with the Clerk of the Records. Instead of serving a subpoena, a mere writ of summons, the plaintiff must then serve each defendant with a printed copy of the bill, on which is an endorsement informing him when he must appear, and the consequences of his non-appearance; such copy having been authenticated by the stamp of the Record Clerk. The bill is to contain no interrogatories; but if the plaintiff requires an answer from any defendant, separate interrogatories may be filed for the examination of the defendant within eight days after the time limited for the defendant's appearance. Each defendant is entitled to demand ten printed copies of the bill from the plaintiff, at a fixed price, one halfpenny per folio of seventy-four words. Thus the bill having been once printed, all the various parties to the suit have the benefit of this convenient form in every stage of the proceedings; and though in some cases the first cost to the plaintiff of printing the bill may rather exceed that of a single written bill, yet in the end, the unsuccessful, as a rule, having to pay ultimately all the costs, the saving at the termination of the suit will most likely be very considerable. If amendinents or additions are required to be made to the bill, they are to be printed and served in the same way as the original. The orders give a concise form for answers. But if no answer is required by the plaintiff, or thought necessary by the defendant, he merely files a replication, and leaves the plaintiff to prove his case in the best way he can. At the end of three months, if the plaintiff has not proceeded with his suit effectually, so as to bring it to a hearing, the defendant may move to dismiss the bill for want of prosecution; when the court may make such order as may be just and reasonable. Thus, a defendant can never have a suit hanging over him more than three months, unless there be substantial and active proceedings in the cause. In many cases the object is to get a speedy hearing; probably there is little or no dispute as to facts, and all that is wanted is the decision of the court on legal questions. In other cases, again, prompt decision is of the essence of justice. This is now provided for: when the defendant's time for answering has expired, the plaintiff may move for a decree, giving a month's notice and previously filing all the affidavits he means to use, and giving at the foot of his notice a list of such affidavits. In fourteen days the defendant must file his affidavits in answer, giving his opponent a list of them] who has seven days more to file affidavits, which must be confined to matters strictly in reply.' When no such motion for a decree is made, but issue is joined, either party may give notice of his intention to examine the witnesses orally, when that mode of taking the evidence is to be adopted; but where neither party requires oral examinations, the evidence will be given by affidavits. Not to pursue farther at present the details of the new course Mr. Simpson, of Cremorne Gardens, and Monsieur of procedure, it will be obvious, that with the reciprocal and Madame Poitevin, were charged at the Westminster power plaintiffs and defendants will have of forcing on police court on the 7th, with Cruelty to Horses, which suits to a termination, and with the necessity both were taken into the air suspended beneath a balloon, a parties will be under of proceeding promptly, a chancery-person sitting on the back of either animal. The prosesuit will take no longer time than may be due to the cution was at the instance of the Royal Society for the substantial merits and difficulties of each case. When Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The chief witness to this we add the abolition of the Masters' Offices, and for the prosecution was Mr. Daws, a veterinary surgeon. the substitution of the judge before whom the whole He said the suspension of a horse to a balloon would cause has to be heard, as the functionary by whom all cause "compression of the abdominal viscera, congestion incidental questions arising in the progress of the suit of the blood-vessels in the hinder extremities, extraare to be decided, and the great reduction of fees pay-vasation in the peritoneum lining the abdomen, producing able by suitors, we may fairly anticipate that the Court internal bruises, and giving a great deal of pair and of Chancery will be deemed, much more generally than suffering to the animal." But when cross-examined, heretofore, a fountain of prompt and speedy justice." he said he believed the two horses in question were in A Dreadful Murder has been committed near Sheffield. good health. He thought if they were brought to him. On the 4th instant the body of Mr. Alexander Robinson, as a veterinary surgeon, notwithstanding the com trial preparatory to executing the ejectment; and with that view, proceeeded to Clashganny, to endeavour to come to amicable terms with the parties. About seven o'clock in the evening, as he was returning home, he was fired at, near Kilmanahan, a few miles from Clonmel, and afterwards dragged inside the ditch; and, lest the gunshot-wound should prove insufficient for the accomplishment of the bloody deed, his head was battered with a bill-hook, or some such instrument. A policeman hearing the report of the gun, at once hastened to the spot; where he perceived Mr. Ryan's horse standing without its rider, and also marks about the ditch which induced him to enter the plantation, which skirts the road at either side; and, being guided by traces of blood, he soon discovered the mangled corpse. coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." On the following day two men, named Hackett and Norman, were arrested on suspicion. There were spots of blood on their clothes; and they had a hatchet with them also bloody. Three other men have since been arrested. The government have offered a reward of 1007. for the conviction of the murderers. A pression of the abdominal viscera, and the congestion of blood-vessels in the hinder extremities, and the extravasation of the peritoneum," that he should certify that they were in good health. The compression and congestion of the blood-vessels would injure only for a time; for as soon as the cause was removed they would resume their pristine form. This witness, it appeared, was a friend of Mr. Simpson's, and had spent the evening with him, whilst he knew that this case was in preparation against him. A policeman deposed that he saw one of the horses when it descended at Wimbledon: he passed his hand over the horse, and it felt very hot; the perspiration was dropping down its shoulders; but the horse stood perfectly quiet; the eyes appeared wild, and like anything in terror-like a horse that had run away. For the defence, it was stated that the exhibition was not to be repeated. A commission had been appointed by the French Government to experiment on the suspension of horses by slings before M. Poiteven ascended: the commission pronounced that the suspension was not cruel. If it were considered cruel, it would be difficult to conjecture what might not next be deemed cruelty. The fairies and angels that flitted across the stages of our theatres might be embodied in A recent inquest on the body of an old woman, who the catalogue; they were suspended in a far less com- died in a state of intoxication in a filthy den in Clerkenfortable manner, by a mere band. A number of wit- well, gave occasion to some remarks by Mr. Wakley, nesses, including the Poitevins and several veterinary the coroner, on the mischief done by those Charitable surgeons, declared that there was no cruelty in the sus- Institutions which support Vagrants in a state of Idleness. spension. The magistrate deferred giving his decision; Mr. Wakley said: "The charity of the metropolis is and, on the 13th, he gave judgment. While condemning too indiscriminate; and thus the deserving poor are such exhibitions, and stating his opinion that it was unheeded, and drunken, reckless characters, are well really, though not legally, cruel to place animals in a provided for, either by private munificence or workhouse position where they were helpless if a mishap occurred, relief, which enables them to lead an idle merry life. he dismissed the summonses: it had not been proved The money they get is squandered in drink, and at that the ponies had been cruelly treated by the defend-night for a few pence they obtain a bed in a wretched rnts-that the animals had suffered either pain or fear. stinking hovel, where all ages, both sexes, and all diseases The same parties were charged, at the Ilford petty ses- are crowded together, forming so many plague-factories sions, with Cruelty to a Heifer, Madame Poitevin having and disease-depots. By such means these hovels are ascended on its back in a balloon from Cremorne Gar- supported and kept up. I was much pleased at reading dens. The magistrates inflicted a fine of 5. on each of in the Times of yesterday, an ably-written article conthe three defendants, refusing, when urged by counsel, demnatory of the system of administering indiscriminate to remit the fine on Madame Poitevin. Mr. Simpson charity; and I hope that it will be put down, for so long addressed the bench, earnestly declaring that he never as a vagrant can live without working he will do so. So would have sanctioned any exhibition in which cruelty convinced am I of the consequences of the evil, that I was inflicted on animals; and he announced that no have ceased to be a Vice-President to the Soup Kitchen. more ascents with animals are to be made from Cremorne. In fact begging has become a regular trade. A few Outrages, usual at this season in Ireland, are taking years ago, one of the fellows who followed that avocation place by tenants, in Resisting Distraints for Rent. Among was examined before a committee of the House of Comother cases, the papers contain the following. On the mons, and stated that he had travelled over the kingdom night of the 9th inst., about 12 o'clock, a party of men for nine years as a beggar; that he was treated as a unknown, about ten, arrived on the lands of Čarrigaae, gentleman in prison, but most disgracefully in workin the parish of Lisgoold, and seized James Ryan and houses, especially in Lambeth, where he had to work Patrick Buckley, keepers in charge of a distress for rent before breakfast; that a slouched hat and a smock-frock, due of John Murphy and James Terry, tied their hands with a bundle of herbs in his hand, formed the best garb and legs, and then tied the men together, in which state for a London beggar; and that there were not ten out they were found in a field by a female at an early hour of one hundred vagrants worthy of relief. Such are next morning, who untied them, the corn and hay the disclosures made by him regarding the begging trade. under seizure having been removed off the land during the night. The property, when the distress was made, was in the Court of Chancery, in the suit of W. Morrogh, Esq., against G. S. Barry, Esq., and has been lately sold in the Encumbered Estates Court. The seizure was made by receiver Edwary Barry, Esq., of the Court of Chancery, for the last March rent, and it is supposed the offence in question had occurred under the idea that all power of the receiver ceased on the property being purchased. The keepers cannot identify any of the party, who had no arms, neither was there any violence done more than tying them together. On the morning of the 14th instant, a party unknown broke open the barn of John Bagott, of Castletreasure, and carried away a great quantity of oats which was seized for rent due by Daniel Whelan,of the same place, and placed in the barn under the charge of Daniel Sullivan, a labourer, who said the corn was carried away on cars whilst he was asleep. Mr. O'Callaghan Ryan, a gentleman much esteemed in his neighbourhood, has been Murdered in the county of Waterford. Mr. Ryan resided in Clonmel, and possessed some property in the parish of Newcastle. Having occasion to take legal proceedings against some of his tenants, the necessary process issued to enable him to evict them. Mr. Ryan wished to give them one more am, however, happy that the press has taken up the subject, and trust that it will not cease its efforts until this monster evil is completely put down, and thus prevent charitable institutions being abused, and their funds wasted upon lazy worthless characters." The jury concurred in the justice of these remarks, and the foreman promised to lay before the Vestry and the Board of Guardians of the Holborn Union the result of the inquiry, with the view of having immediate measures adopted to improve the sanitary condition of the neighbourhood; as he deemed it most important, at a crisis when a frightful epidemic was desolating not far distant countries. Mr. Solly's Indiscriminate Charity has given rise to further police proceedings. Three women were charged before the Lord Mayor, on the 1st inst., with being common beggars and impostors. They formed part of the numerous crowd of vagrants who dog the steps of Mr. Solly. It was considered useless to call that gentleman as a witness; but his steward was examined, and said "My lord, it is quite impossible to give you a correct idea of the scenes I witness daily. Our persecution begins in Great Ormond-street, and master is besieged by all sorts of beggars, from the tip-top begging ladies in silk stockings and shawls, down to the lowest poor creatures without any stockings at all. I have seen the three women at the bar frequently receive money from him; in fact, they would not leave him without dragging money from him. Sometimes the beggars abuse him in the most shocking manner, so that the ladies in the street are quite ashamed at the scene. Sometimes they fight among themselves, and accuse each other of getting all from the old People would suppose that the newspapers would frighten them off: quite the other way. Ever since the account of my master and his beggars was published, he has been ten times more solicited. I am now obliged to take up his letters on the largest-sized waiter; and the crowds of fashionable beggars that apply to him would astonish any one in his senses. The Lord Mayor observed-"Surely the representation of the very great impediment Mr. Solly causes in the city must have some effect in giving a better direction to his charity. It is quite impossible that such a nuisance can be endured in our crowded and busy streets. I sentence each of these defendants to hard labour in prison for one month." An atrocious Murder has been committed in Clare. The victim, Mr. Thomas Stackpoole, was a young man under 20; the reported murderer was his uncle, who bore the same name. The young man was to have come into possession of property to the extent of 60%. or 701. per annum on attaining his majority, and in the event of his death this annuity would revert to the uncle, Thomas Stackpoole, as next of kin. On the night of Saturday, the 18th inst, the young man arrived at his uncle's house at Bleanalega, near Miltown Malbay, having been previously invited to spend the following Sunday with him, and shortly after his arrival, it would appear, the diabolical act was committed. His mutilated remains were found on Sunday afternoon, some distance from his uncle's house, at a place near the Sand-hills, the skull dreadfully battered, his cap on his head, nearly clean, and having the appearance of being put on after the murder, and his boots lying near his head, also clean, and just as if they had been deliberately placed there. In consequencle of the uncle having absented himself on Sunday, suspicion was aroused, and he and his family were arrested soon after the body was found. A little child of his it was not she did it, and named some persons who she said had committed the foul deed in the house on Saturday night, while the deceased was in bed. When the inquest was held, a man named Richard Stackpoole, à distant relative of the deceased, surrendered himself, and intimated his readiness to reveal the entire circumstances. His account is similar to the child's but more detailed, and implicates the uncle and aunt of deceased, Richard Stackpoole (the informer), himself and wife, and the servant boy of Thomas Stackpoole (the uncle.) It appears that deceased made great resistance, and there is a cut between the forefinger and thumb of one hand, as if received in warding off the murderous blows of his cruel assailant; and the same arm is also cut in several places. After the murder was committed, it is said one of the women carried him on her back to the spot in which the body was found. The coroner's jury returned a verdict in accordance with the circumstances, and the accused parties will be tried at the next assizes. A remarkable instance of evident Imposture and Credulity has occured in the county of Suffolk. Near Ipswich there is a village called Shottisham, in which becoming alarmed, afterwards began to cry out, said there lives a family named Squirrell. One of the Squirrells-Elizabeth-has turned out a prodigy. At school, says the local journalist, she showed "great natural ability," and remarkable aptitude for study. At the age of twelve in June 1850, she went home in consequence of illness, caused by over-work at school. She had the best medical advice, but grew worse, and at length lock-jaw set in. She continued to live by suction for some time. In Midsummer, 1851, she recovered from lock-jaw, but remained deaf and blind; yet in this state continued to exist by suction alone. And now her fame began to spread-for numbers had visited her; and her talk and her writings were reported to be so eloquent and so touching, especially on religious subjects, that she was regarded as little less than one inspired. The marvel increased. For the last three months she is said to have lived without food. In this state she declared that she had seen a vision of angels, one of whom had consented to become her constant guardian; and that she was the especial object of God's favour; as heavenly music (sounding very much like the ringing of glass) testified, for it was swept by the wing of the invisible angel. The Ipswich Express says that the excitement among the people of Suffolk has been very great.-"Medical men, clergymen, Dissenting ministers, carriage aristocracy, gig, cart, and foot folk, alike shared in the intense desire to gaze on this extraordinary child, and to listen to the words which fell from her with as much weight as if she really had indisputable credentials that she was an oracle from Heaven. On being asked when and how this mystic scene would end, she replied, 'Oh! in my triumphant entrance into glory.' As a matter of course there were sceptics among the visitors, who desired to test the miracle. A watch was organised and kept upon the girl. Nothing could be discovered, until a Reverend Mr. Webb thought he detected certain indications anything but miraculous, implying that Elizabeth Squirrel did not differ from other mortals in her subjection to physical laws. The report of these watchers however does not seem to have been accepted as conclusive; and the miraculous nature of the case is still insisted on by many of Miss Squirrell's partisans. A melancholy case has occurred of Attempted Suicide by Voluntary Starvation. Two maiden ladies, who had seen better days, went to lodge in the neighbourhood of the Edgeware Road. Lately they locked themselves in, and so aroused the suspicions of the landlady. By a device she obtained admission, and found them starving. She offered food; they refused it; and on her departure they again locked the door. But moans were heard; the door was forced, and the authorities interfered just in time to save them from death by starvation. They were taken to the Marylebone Infirmary, cared for, and are recovering. It appears they had come to London to seek a livelihood by the needle: and failing in that, had resolved rather to die than "bring disgrace on their family by applying for relief." At the Middlesex Sessions, on the 20th, Thomas Scott, butler to Matthew Forster, Esq., M.P., pleaded guilty to an indictment, in which he was charged with having Stolen many articles of silver plate, value 2007., the property of his master. The prisoner had been fifteen or sixteen years in Mr. Forster's service. On the 27th of August, a Highland dirk was missed from the drawing-room, and in consequence a constable was sent for; and on his arrival an examination was made of the contents of the plate-chest. It was then ascertained that the property mentioned in the indictment had been abstracted. The prisoner was given into custody; and afterwards he admitted having made away with the property. At the police-court he made this statement:-"I pawned all the plate myself, not with the intention of not redeeming it. I fell into misfortunes; and if I had a few days I should have redeemed it. Horse-racing brought me to it. Sometimes I had a thousand pounds in hand, and at other times I have been without a penny." A good deal of the property had been recovered from various pawnbrokers, with whom it had been pledged at different periods during the last three months, and in one instance he had represented that he was Mr. Forster's confidential servant, and was pawning the plate for the use of the family, who did not want such a circumstance to be known. Mr. Forster, addressing the court, said he wished to recommend the prisoner to its indulgence, on account of the length of time he had been in the service of the family, but more particularly because it appeared that he owed his present position to the mischievous "betting-office" system. There were not at present any means for putting down these nurseries of crime, and until there were, he thought their unfortunate victims ought scarcely to be visited with severity. Mr. Witham, the magistrate, said this was an extremely kind recommendation, and had saved the prisoner from a sentence of transportation; not because it appeared that he had been a victim to bettingoffices, but because he had for many years been a faithful servant. Any man who became connected with these disgraceful places ought to be ashamed of himself; and it gave a feature of aggravation, not of palliation, to an offence. The sentence was, that the prisoner be kept to hard labour for one year. Cornelius Tripe and Henry Graham Montague, who, it will be remembered, were committed on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences-the pretences being that they were acting under the authority of a Fictitious Gold Mining and Emigration Company, were tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court on the 21st inst., and sentenced to transportation for seven years. Richard Sill, the attorney who was convicted at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court (see Household Narrative for August, page 173) for Obtaining Money on False Pretences, was brought up for judgment on the 23d inst., and sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour in the House of Correction for two years. Two soldiers of the 31st regiment stationed at Fermoy have been Attacked by the Country People in the neighbourhood of the barracks, when one of them was killed on the spot, and the other dangerously wounded. It appears that this occurrence is connected with the unfortunate Six Mile Bridge affair, and that the soldiers have been the victims of a sanguinary retaliation. A singular investigation has taken place before the Bishop of Exeter, in consequence of charges of Popish Practices brought forward against a clergyman of his diocese. These charges were preferred, by clergymen having local cures, against the Rev. G. R. Prynne, incumbent of St. Peter's, at Eldad, near Plymouth. Mr. Prynne, it was alleged, had set up a confessional in his church, where confession was secretly carried on, and compulsorily as regarded the girls belonging to the Orphans' Home, a school set up by Miss Sellon; and that confession was enforced upon very young children, from twelve years of age. It had been alleged by a girl of fourteen, that she had frequently confessed to Mr. Prynne, and that he had put questions to her of a most indecent kind. Evidence was heard; consisting of the written and spoken statements of the girl, her mother, several Sisters of Mercy, and clergymen. The published reports have been mutilated; but it was stated by two clergymen that the girl made the most disgusting communications to them in private. As to the allegations, they are utterly denied by Mr. Prynne. He says there is no confessional in the church, and certainly no one could prove that there was one; but he admits to receiving persons to confess. He does put leading questions, but he is judicious and careful in putting them. Such doubts were thrown on the girl's statements by her contradictions and the allegations of those who knew her conduct, that the Bishop did not deem them conclusive; and he declared, " as a man, a Christian, and a bishop,' that it would be the " grossest injustice to withhold the confirmation in Mr. Prynne's church," [one of the objects sought to be obtained by the inquiry]; saying, moreover, that he felt bound to declare his opinion of Mr. Prynne's innocence in that emphatic manner. This decision has excited some surprise, as the charges appear to have been very imperfectly investigated. NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND A SHOCKING Steamboat Accident took place on Lake Erie, near Buffalo, on the 28th ult. About 2 o'clock in the morning the steamer Atlantic came into collision with the propeller Ogsdenburg. A dense fog prevailed; and, as the numerous passengers on board the Atlantic, composed chiefly of Norwegian emigrants, were unable to see the exact nature of their danger, they were greatly alarmed, and several leaped overboard. The captain endeavoured to restore confidence, and the steamer kept on her course; the water, however, gained rapidly on them, despite the efforts of the crew, and by the time they had proceeded about two miles from the spot where the collision took place, it was found that the vessel was rapidly sinking, the fires in the engine-room being extinguished by the water. The emigrants, who could not understand a word spoken to them, by their cries and The cabin terrors added to the horrors of the scene. passengers, and all who could be made to understand, were exhorted by the captain and officers to remain in the cabin, and provide themselves with chairs, settees, beds, &c., all of which were patent life-preservers, and would buoy them up in the water. Numbers, however, unheeding or not understanding the advice given them, rushed overboard to certain death. At about half-past two o'clock, amidst the wild shrieks of the passengers, the steamer settled and sank. The propeller had kept in the wake of the Atlantic, and those on board her did all in their power to preserve the lives of the hundreds of human beings who were now seen struggling in the water. The fog hindered their efforts, but about 150 were rescued. The last persons taken from the boat were Mr. Givan, clerk of the boat, and Mr. Bueil, first engineer. The steamer had then sunk all but her stern, and they, with some Illinois passengers, were clinging to a rope attached to a floating mast and the wreck, being up to their shoulders in water. As soon as the shrieks of the drowning passengers were hushed, the voice of a little boy was heard, and it was then first discovered that a child, about eight years old, was also clinging to a rope a short distance off. The little fellow talking to himself, was saying, "Oh, I can't hold on much longer! If papa was here he would hold me up." A man from Illinois, a fine powerful fellow, immediately moved a long rope, and seized the boy as he was about to sink. He held him for some time, and called out to Givan to come to his relief, as he was nearly exhausted by the weight. Givan made an attempt to reach him, but in vain. At that moment the boat of the propeller, loaded to the water's edge with rescued passengers, passed, and Givan hailed them, and entreated them to save the boy. Mr. Blodgett, first mate of the Atlantic, who was on board, jumped out, and swam to the rope, took the boy off, and returned to the boat. He was thus saved. The little fellow was with his uncle, who was drowned. The next boat from the propeller took off the clerk, first engineer, and the illinois passenger. The rescued passengers were conveyed to Erie, where on landing they assembled together for the purpose of returning thanks to God for their deliverance. It was stated that about 200 persons, composed chiefly of poor emigrants, had perished. Among the list of missing is the name of Mrs. Cornwell, sister of Elihu Burritt. Railway Accidents continue to hold a prominent place in the news of the month. The following have occurred since the beginning of September: While a train heavily laden with passengers was going at thirty miles an hour, at the Lenton Junction, near Nottingham, the engine burst, the passengers were enveloped in steam and smoke, and the train came to a stop. Many persons left the carriages in their fright, but no further mishap occurred. The driver was much burnt and scalded; but the stoker escaped by climbing to the far side of the tender. It appeared that a steam-tube had recently been damaged, and was soldered and plugged: the steam forced the plug into the fire. This patching of steamtubes is denounced as very dangerous. As the morning express train from London, on the Bristol and Exeter railway, near Taunton, was running round a curve, just beyond the Chard Canal bridge, the engine and tender broke away, left the rails, and ploughed into the bank of a cutting; the luggage-van fell upon the bank, having separated from the four passenger-carriages; these dashed onwards, one wheel got on to the up-line, and the vehicles came to a stand. The front compartment of the first carriage was smashed: fortunately it was used for luggage. After the carriages had passed, the van fell back across the rails: this part of the matter was something wonderful; a corner of the van grazed each carriage as it passed, making a groove all along the train. Only one passenger was hurt-a gentleman whose forehead was cut by the rim of a hat on the head of a person sitting opposite to him. The railway men were less fortunate. Humberstone, the fireman, was killed-crushed into the earth, under the wreck of the engine and tender; Eaton the driver's hand was smashed; and a porter's leg and thigh were fractured, The telegraph posts and wires were destroyed. An up express-train arrived immediately after the disaster, but stopped in time to escape another accident. Assistance was soon got from Taunton, whither the wounded men were conveyed. At the inquest on Humberstone's body, Capt. Laffan, the Government Inspector, was examined, but was unable to account for the accident. The jury stated in their verdict, that of the cause of the accident they had no satisfactory evidence; but they added: "We have, however, sufficient evidence before us to show that the portion of the line upon which the accident happened is naturally defective in respect of the soft stratum on which the rails are laid, particularly after wet weather. This ought to be remedied." An aged woman has been Killed on the railway at Baschurch, near Shrewsbury, by a train running over her at night. A railway labourer saw her on the line, and warned her that she was trespassing; she replied, "I know all about it!" She refused to give her name, or say where she was going; the man said he would follow her; she exclaimed, "If you follow me, I will knock your brains out!" The man then left her. Poor people are in the habit of going on the line to pick up pieces of coke. A coroner's jury gave a verdict of "Accidentally killed;" and the railway man was reprimanded for not forcibly ejecting the deceased from the line. There has been an Accident on the Scottish Central Railway. A luggage-train came to a stand in a tunnel near Perth; notice was sent to the man on guard at the entrance; yet he allowed a mail-train to enter the tunnel on the same rails: the result was a collision. The guard of the goods-train was much hurt, and many passengers in the mail-train suffered. The scene in the tunnel-the terrified and wounded passengers screaming in the darkness-was frightful. A goods-train ran into a passenger-train at Monkton station, near Ayr: this was a flagrant case of Accident by neglect. The passenger-train was stopping at the station as usual; when the other train approached the danger-signals were up; but the driver took no heed of them, and continued his course. A porter gave the alarm to the driver of the stationary train; who immediately put on his steam; but there was not time to avoid a crash. A carriage was smashed to pieces, and many passengers were hurt: one person received a concussion of the brain; another had a rib fractured; and the collar-bone of a third was broken. A Dreadful Accident happened on the 8th. An ordinary passenger-train, from Sheffield to Retford, had not advanced four miles from the starting-place, before it ran off the line, tore up the rails for some distance, and then the engine dashed down the embankment, fifty feet high, on one side, while the carriages rolled over on the other. The guard was killed on the spot, the engine-driver was buried under the engine, and the stoker escaped from the same place. Wright, the enginedriver, did not die until the following evening; enduring the most exquisite agonies. He has left a wife, and a child by a former wife. It is stated that about two months ago he ran his engine into another, at Leeds, for which he was suspended, and that this fatal Wednesday was the first day on which he had resumed work.Tuckwood, the guard, was a Londoner, and only twenty-four years of age: he had been married only a few months. train, and proceeded at a rapid speed on to the crossing, A fatal Coach Accident occurred on the evening of A tremendous Storm of Thunder and Rain did much mischief in the counties of Worcester, Gloucester, and Hereford, during the night of Saturday the 5th inst. Its greatest violence was felt in the county of Worcester, westward of the Severn. For twelve hours the rain descended in torrents, accompanied with fearful lightning and thunder. The greatest ravages were inflicted on the valley of the Teme river, which runs from Herefordshire and Shropshire, and falls into the Severn about two miles below Worcester. Upon this river, and its tributary streams Laughern and Leigh brooks, the destruction of property has been very great. Most of the bridges upon these streams have been blown up, or are so far damaged that they will require rebuilding. The rise of water upon the Teme was the most rapid and the highest upon record. The destruction of crops and live stock along the Severn valley has been dreadful. Nearly all of the wheat had been got in; but large | fields of beans were swept away, and whole hop-yards in which the valley of the Teme abounds-were destroyed. The damage done to the meal and grain in the corn-mills in these valleys is great: and the number of sheep washed away in the parish of Powick alone, is reckoned at 2000! Among the losers are the poor villagers of Powick, who have the right of depasturage on a common near the river called Powick Ham. The whole of the sheep on the ham were swept away. Next day, when the waters had partially subsided, carcases of sheep were seen lying about in all directions. At Hanwick Mill two men had a narrow escape: they were overtaken on the road by the flood, had to swim to a tree, and remain there for hours till rescued. At Stone Bridge, on the Leigh brook, a cottage was swept away, and a woman was drowned. An Accident occurred on the London and Birmingham line on the morning of the 13th. The accounts of it next day were exceedingly various. The following seems the most probable. A relay of the rails of the up-line is taking place between 200 yards north of the Leighton station to within about 100 yards north of the 41 mile post of the line. Various precautions are stated to have been dictated to the engine-drivers of the line. A cross line had also been laid down; and signalmen had been appointed to remind the drivers of the necessity of caution. In addition to this, a pilot-engine had been stationed near the relaying, under the conduct of which all trains were to make the transit. The 6.30 The Bhurtpore, emigrant ship, has been Lost on her down-train, heavily laden, arrived in due course at passage from Liverpool to New Orleans. This vessel Leighton. The pilot-engine came up to the Leighton- was about 1,500 tons burden, having a crew of 35 hands station, and having been attached to the down-train, and 485 souls (men, women, and children) as passengers, proceeded with it over the single line to that point the latter, with the exception of 56, being all Irish, and where the relaying of the up-line terminated. The generally young people of the peasant class of life. She pilot was then unhooked from the engine of the down-left Liverpool on the morning of the 16th inst., and |