SUSPENSION-BRIDGE AT MONTROSE.—On the afternoon of the 19th, an immense
crowd of people having assembled on the suspension-bridge at Mon- trose, to witness a boat-race, one of the chains unfiatunately gave way to the strain, and a portion of it falling on the heads of a man and two boys, they were killed on the spot ; several others were seriously hurt, and one is since dead. The noise occasioned by the disruption of the chain is described as equal to a discharge of artillery. The accident occasioned great alarm, as it was at first supposed the whole bridge was giving way ; but luckily, be- yond the tearing of clothes, and loss of shawls and bonnets, no damage was sustained by the terrified crowd in their rush to the land. The bridge (which was a very handsome one, and opened only a few months ago) has been shut up until it be properly repaired. We owe such accidents as this to the tax on Swedish iron, which compels us to have recourse to our own cheaper but more brittle manufacture.
Damara/ea.—An unfortunate man was swept, on Thursday last, by a violent gustof wind, into the river Dee, in Aberdeenshire, and drowned. His wife happened to be passing at the time, unconscious of who was the sufferer, and was the first to give the Oalarm. The poor woman's anguish may be conceived, when, on dragging the body to land, it proved to be that of her husband !
On Monday last, an accident arising from fire-damp occurred at the col- liery of Mr. C. Smith, at Churwell, near Leeds by which one of the colliers was killed, and four others were severely scorched. On the same day, as two brothers, of the name of Clark, together with a boy, were ascending from the bottom of a coal-pit, at Bowling, near Bradford, a large quantity of earth fell from the side of the pit, and knocked them out of the corf; they were precipitated to the bottom ; one of them was killed on the spot, and the other two are since dead.
On Saturday last, the horses of the Manchester and Huddersfield mail proved quite unmanageable at Longroyd Bridge--estarted off at full gallop ;
and overturned.the coach. One of the passengers was killed, another had his kg broken, and the coachman was severely injured. The guard and the other passengers escaped without injury. It is with deep regret that we have to announce the wreck of the Maid of Morrell. steam-boat, which left Inverness on Monday the 8th inst., for Glasgow, by the Caledonian Canal: All the goods on deck were washed off by the tide, and the passengers' luggage soaked with salt water. No lives were lost, nor any person hurt.—Inverness Courier.
A fine boy, the son of Dr. Mallison, was killed some days ago, on the Shoreham road, near Hove, by a horse falling on him, and his nurse-maid was dreadfully injured by the same accident. The rider of the horse and another were running a race on the road when it happened. The two fellows, whose recklessness has been productive of so fatal effects, are des-
cribed by the Bristol Journal as " two respectable young men, the one a horse-keeper, and the other, recently, a coach-washer to Mr. Goodman, of the Red-office, a stage-coach proprietor, in Castle Square."
On Sunday, a fire broke out in a sug-arhouse in Lord Street, Liverpool. Property to the amount of 30,009/. was consumed. A wherry, with a watermaut, and three corn-porters, was overset last night between Rotherhithe and Wapping, in consequence of coming in contact with a hauser. One of the porters was drowned ; the others were with dif- ficulty saved by some sailors who witnessed the accident.
Mr. Payne, a merchant of the City, was thrown out of his gig in Hyde Park last night, by coming in contact with a carriage, the wheels of which passed over his body and killed him.
A shock of earthquake, which lasted nearly four minutes, was felt at Leisterbrunnen, in Switzerland, on the 27th of February.
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