lashed her to a large spar and placed her with the rest
of her party on the gallery. Immediately afterwards
a large sea broke over the ship which washed off the
gentleman above-mentioned, with his wife and children
(four in all), and they perished together. At about
this time a schooner was observed about half a mile to
the eastward, bearing down upon the wreck. The
vessel was at that time settling fast in the water, and it
was evident that she could not remain afloat many
minutes longer. I cut the lashings of the spar to which
the young lady had been made fast, in order to give her
a chance for her life. As the spar went adrift, Captain
Butterworth, the second mate, and one or two of the
seamen quitted the sinking ship, and held on to the
spar in the hope of saving themselves. Many of the
people had by this time been drowned, but others
remained holding on, as they best could, on the weather
side of the wreck. She lay thus for about ten minutes
after Captain Butterworth had left her, and then sunk,
going down head first. I scrambled from the quarter
to the mizenmast, which I ascended as the ship sunk.
I found the surgeon in the mizentop, and we went up
together in the mizen crosstrees, when we were
submerged. I lost sight of the surgeon, and swam to
some deals which were floating about. I got hold of
one of them, but shortly afterwards I saw near
me one of the chocks of the long-boat, capable of
affording me better support than the deal, which
I therefore left, and placed myself on the chock.
The schooner was then within shouting distance, being
then about 100 yards to leeward of me, and I hailed her,
begging her crew to go about to windward, and afterwards
drift down among the Dalhousie's people, of whom
several were still alive, and might thus have been
picked up and saved with a little exertion on the
schooner's part. The only response which I could hear
from her was given by some person on board, who told
me to "swim to her," but she was drifting to leeward
faster than any man could swim, and she shortly afterwards
stood away to the S.W., and left me and my
companions struggling in the water. I watched her for
nearly two hours afterwards, but she at length
disappeared without having (so far as I could see) made
the least effort to save any of us, although the schooner
was close to the Dalhousie when she foundered, and her
crew must have seen her go down. In the course of the
morning several other vessels passed near me, both going
up and down channel without seeing us. My companions
gradually perished one after the other, and I was
repeatedly washed off my frail support. At about 1 p.m.
the wind veered to the S.W,, and towards 4 o'clock a
brig hove in sight to windward, standing down towards
where I was floating. I made signals to her with my
handkerchief in the best way I could, which was
fortunately seen on board the brig, and she bore down to
me. The wind was still blowing a gale from the S.W.,
and the sea was running so high as to make it doubtful
whether a boat could live in it. The brig, therefore,
came alongside me, and having lowered a rope with a
bow line in it, I made it fast round my body, and sprang
from the chock into the sea. Although the crew of the
brig observed every precaution in their power, I was
unavoidably dragged under water for a minute or two
before I could get on board, and when I at length
reached her deck I was nearly senseless. She proved to
be the Mitchel Grove, Mr. Rawson, master, bound from
Littlehampton to Sunderland, with timber. Captain
Rawson and his crew treated me with the greatest kindness
and hospitality, and at 4 p.m. on the following day
the brig anchored in the Dover Roads. The weather
was then moderate, and Captain Rawson having lowered
a boat, landed me at Dover. I made application to the
owners' agents, who furnished me with the means of
coming to London, and on the same evening I arrived
in London, and lost no time in reporting the loss of the
ship to the owners. I further declare that when the
ship went down, the light on Beechy Head bore from
N.E, by E., distance about 16 miles, and to the best of
my judgment in about 20 fathoms of water. I believe
that every person on board of her, with the exception of
myself, perished. I cannot account for the circumstance
of the ship foundering in the manner she did, otherwise
than upon the presumption that a butt-end must have
started, either from her having struck upon a wreck, or
from some other cause unknown to me." Of the crew,
15 were English, and 32 were Lascars, who had been
brought from Calcutta in the ship's last voyage. Captain
Butterworth, the master, is said to have been a very
able and experienced seaman.

Another Collision on the Midland Railway, the result
of a disobedience to the company's rules and the want of
attention to the proper signals, occurred on the 19th
inst. Early in the morning a goods train, which had
been despatched from Leeds to Derby, was proceeding
to the latter town, and when it approached the Claycross
Station it came into violent collision with a coal train
which was on the line. The effect of the accident was
to smash several coal waggons and inflict serious damage
to the engine of the goods train, which was a new and
very valuable one. The rails for a considerable distance
were torn up, and the line was entirely blocked up. The
engine-driver, whose name was Briggs, and his fireman,
immediately made their escape from the scene of the
disaster, and have not since been heard of.

A deplorable Accident happened on the 20th inst. at
Hadlow near Tunbridge. For some time past, Mr.
Cox, an extensive farmer and hop grower of Hadlow,
has had a number of persons in his employ, picking
hops, in addition to the resident labourers. It has been
customary, when the picking has been finished for the
day, to convey the people home to the village in waggons.
On the above evening, one of these waggons left the hop
grounds and proceeded towards Tudely, crossing the
Upper Great Hartlake-bridge in safety. This bridge is
very old, and is built principally of wood; it has a
descent on either side, with a close boarded fence between
two and three feet in height; and on the Tudely side
the road curves a little to the left, oak slabs, in a rotten
state, supporting it for some little distance. At this spot,
there is a depth from the road of about eight feet, which
is generally dry, but owing to the recent rains, it
is now covered with water, and thus the width as well
as the depth of the river is materially increased. The
second waggon which contained upwards of 40 persons,
was driven by a man on the fore horse, and the bailiff
sat on the tail-board. As it approached the bridge the
waggoner desired the people to desist from singing, as it
might frighten the horses, and they immediately did so.
The fore-horse had crossed the crown of the bridge and
was descending on the Tudely side, when its foot slipped
from the pieces of iron placed in the roadway to give a
sure footing, and by a sudden plunge disconnected itself
from the waggon, which was precipitated into the river
beneath. Assistance was promptly obtained, and by the
aid of lanterns, the river was examined, but it was too
late, the mass of human beings with the exception of
eight, had sunk to the bottom. For upwards of half-an-hour
after the occurrence, cries for help were heard, but the
unhappy creatures could not be discovered. One little
Irish lad was found about twenty yards down the stream,
with a piece of fence, which he had clung to in his
agony, still fixed in his hand. He was speedily rescued.
The waggoner's mate was sitting on the side of the
waggon, talking to his little boy, just as the accident
happened, and although he attempted to snatch his child
from the waggon he was unable to do so, owing to the
close manner in which it was packed, and he only
escaped by throwing himself in the opposite direction.
The bailiff's life was saved in a similar manner. During
Thursday night and Friday, the river was searched in
all directions, and six bodies were recovered, namely
those of Charlotte Leatherland, Comfort Leatherland,
Nora Donovan, James Mancey, Selina Hearne, and
Kitty Roach.—An inquest was held on their bodies.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a
recommendation to the River Medway Company to erect
a new bridge.

A case in which the Administration of Chloroform
proved Fatal occurred on the 20th inst. at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, to a female patient, named Caroline
Murden, aged 20. The young woman had been for some
weeks an inmate of the hospital, and it being deemed
necessary to have recourse to the use of the "actual
cautery," it was determined, with the consent of the
patient, to apply it under the influence of chloroform.
The chloroform was administered in the usual way by