Mr. Hammond, a member of Merton College, Oxford., went out
yesterday week with Lord Radnor's fox-hounds, and in tilting a leap Mr. Hammond, a member of Merton College, Oxford., went out yesterday week with Lord Radnor's fox-hounds, and in tilting a leap over a low fence, in company with Mr. M. Goodlake' near the Sands farm, was thrown from his horse, and pitched on his head; which so
seriously fractured the skull and injured the brain, as to render him totally insensible. He was taken to Mr. Mattingley's house, near Shillingford, where he died the same evening.
On Saturday evaiing last, a very serious accident occurred on the Romford road, near the sign of the Three Pigeons,just after nightfall.
Mr. Rose, a master cooper, of Bow, was returning home from South- gate in a light spring van, accompanied by Battershall, one of his men, and following the track of a stage coach, which was passed in an oppo- site direction by a gentleman on horseback, who rode with such speed and incaution as to run against the van.. His horse received a severe blow on the head against the front of the van, and fell immediately, rolling over his rider ; the concussion was so great as to turn the van- horse round; the latter plunged and broke the shafts, and Mr. Rose and his man were both thrown out. The man had his ribs broken by the rail of the van, and was also severely injured in his legs and hands by his fall upon the ground. Mr. Rose had his skull fractured, and lay senseless upon the road. Mr. Edmund Manning, of Chadle Heath,
with his chaise, in which there were two ladies' came up immediately afterwards, and, at the request of Battershall, alighted, to render as- sistance; while doing so, the van-horse, which had run away, was
turned back by some people on the road, and galloped past Mr. Man- ning with the broken shafts trailing behind him, one of which struck that gentleman on the head and fractured his skull also ; leaving him senseless by the side of Mr. Rose, whom he was endeavouring to lift Tip. The shrieks of the ladies brought some men to their assistance ; and the injured parties were conveyed to the house of Mr. Maiden, a surgeon at Stratford, who dressed their wounds, after which they were taken to their respective dwellings. Mr. Manning, Mr. Rose, and Battershall, the servant, are now lying in a very dangerous condition. The horseman who was the cause of this chain of accidents made off during the confusion, and his name and residence are both unknown.
On Sunday evening about half-past seven, the town of Ramsgate was thrown into great alarm by a brig, the Swift, of Sunderland, lying in the harbour, taking fire. It appears that the Captain had left the the vessel in the evening to attend chapel; and during his absence the Ere in the cabin-stove communicated to the adjoining wood, and it was not until the flames burst up the hatchway that it was discovered. Two engines were immediately conveyed to the spot, and, assistance being promptly rendered, the fire was got under. Had it occurred two hours
earlier, it must have ended in the total loss of three vessels ; as the tide would then have been out, and there would have been no means of obtaining water, nor of removing the vessels which were moored along-. sideof her.—Kentish Gazette.
The sea broke into a coal-pit at Workington yesterday week, during the time the men were at work. Most of the colliers had time to es- cape ; but twenty-two of them were confined by the water, and remained below in a state of dreadful suspense for five hours ; when eighteen were extricated, but four poor fellows were found drowned in the pit.
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