On Monday last, Mr. James Orchard, the celebrated diver, walked
ender water from the Pier-head, at Bridport, to the buoy, a distance of half a mile, and from thence landed on the beach, east of the harbour, to the gratification of about 2,000 spectators.—Somerset Gazette. On the breaking up of the various workhouses on forming the Plympton Union, a labouring man of the name of Trehan, who had been receiving parochial relief out of and in the workhouse at Meavy for more than twenty years, offered 2001. for the house rather than be turned out of his favourite residence.— West Briton.
About a week since, a bet was made by some military gentlemen over the wine-cup, as to the ability of one of their servants to eat three fowls and drink a bottle of whisky, at least, in a given time. The task was undertaken and fulfilled; but at the sacrifice of the poor fellow's life, whose stomach was incapable of digesting the monstrous load; nor could that invaluable instrument, the stomach-pump, dislodge its contents; and emetics failing to act, he expired in great agony._ Plymouth Journal. [Are the "gentlemen" to be put upon their trial for murder ?1
Thirty-one men were drowned in a colliery near Mold, in Flints shire, on the 10th instant, by the sudden irruption of water into a pit. A most extraordinary accident happened to the Norvvich mail on its way down on Sunday night. Within aboat a mile of Hallow, whilst proceeding steadily aloag, the off leader was observed to swing her off hind leg in a very strange manner; but kept her usual pace for above a hundred yards, when the coachman pulled up ; and upon examination it was found that the thigh-bone was snapped in two about the middle. It was of course necessary to detach the pour animal immediately, and a farrier was sent from Harlow to put her out of her misery.—Suffolk Chronicle.
The bridge about to be constructed between Weymouth and the Isle of Portland, it seems, is to be built of timber on stone piers. " It is more than probable," says a provincial journal, " that if Portland stone had been distant more than a hundred miles from the site, the bridge would have been constructed of that inure handsome, as well as more substantial material."
As some men were employed last week in digging in the garden of Mr. Chew, of Armston, near Oundle, they discovered, within three feet of the surface of the ground, six !Hunan skeletons of gigantic stature. One of them was in nearly au erect posture, in a most beau- tiful state of preservation, and evidently the remains of a young per-
son. The jawbones of all tire of an immense size, and the teeth int admirable order, and quite sound and white. Some portion of a Ro- man pavement was also discovered near the seine spot.—Lincoln Mer- cury.
A desperate affray with a band of poachers, seven or eight in num- ber, armed with bludgeons, took place on the tld instant, at Shimpling Thorne, between Bury and Sudbury. The party entered the rookery to steal the rooks, and compelled a man and boy, who were employed to watch them, to retreat ; further assistance being obtained, a regular
combat ensued, during which Mr. Samuel Rulfell and his son received many severe wounds, thorn latter having bit bead cut in three places. Henry Steward, a ringleader, from Lavenham, was captured on the spot, and has been committed.—Esser Herald.
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