week. It strange, while there is so very simple a

preventative to be

found in the ingenious patent of Mr. Somerville, that so ,zhould happen every year that passes over us. The manner in which fire-arms are handled, is in general extremely careless, and we fear no exhorta tion will ever mend it ; it is therefore the more imperative, that those who are in the habit of using them should take advantage of an inven-

tion which renders them almost certainly safe. Had it been appended to the fowling-piece of Captain Jenkinson, that gentleman would ion at this moment have had to lament the death of one son by the incautious-

ness of another. "As the ship Brothers," says the Hull Packet," from Quebec to this port, was nearing Flamborough-head, after passing Filey, at which place the family of Captain Jenkinson resides, his two sons, who had accompanied their father on his voyage, proceeded to the cabin

to procure a fowling-piece for the purpose, it is supposed, of shooting at the sca.fowl abounding on the coast. Some dispute appears to have taken place between the brothers in regard to which of them was to

make use of the gun ; and a struggle took place, in the course of which, by some unfortunate mischance, the piece, which was loaded, went off,

and the whole of the charge lodged in the abdomen of the elder brother, William, a youth about nineteen years of age. He lingered in excru- ciating agony for about two hours ; in the course of which the vessel came to anchor, and the hapless young man was conveyed on shore at

Flamborough, where death relieved him from his sufferings. A surgeon arrived.on the spot an hour after his decease; but stated his opinion to be (such was the dreadful nature of the accident), that, had he been present at its occurrence, professional skill could not have been of the slightest avail. The agonized feelings of the surviving brother, and of the father, on this sudden and melancholy bereavement, may be more

• easily imagined than described."

• ANOTHER GUN ACCIDENT.—A serious accident befel Grenville Pigott, Esq. M.P. while shooting, on Monday last, with his Grace the .Duke of Buckingham, near Stowe. Having cocked both barrels of his gun, and discharged one of them, he incautiously rammed in a fresh

charge, without securing the other barrel by half-cocking it. The im- pulse given to the gun in loading with stiff wadding, discharged the con- tents through the right hand and wrist, and so mutilated it as to render immediate amputation of the hand indispensably necessary.—Orford Journal. •

FATAL DUEL IN SOUTH AarertIca.—Accounts from Santiago de Chili dated the 22nd June state that Viscount Espronville, the French Vice-Consul at Valparaiso, been shot by the Vice-Consul at Lima. Espronville was killed at the second shot, a ball entered his lungs, and he expired immediately.

Ditowtmeo.—An apprentice boy, eighteen years of age, was drowned In Halfway Reach on Monday, by falling overboard from the Hope Oyster-boat, during a squall. -The young man who seems to have been forward of his age, had been asked out at church, and was to have been inarried on Sunday.

PERILS or LONDON STREETS.—On Tuesday, a poor man driving a

• dust-cart at Charing Cross, in his endeavour to avoid another cart, which threatened to crush him was thrown under the wheel of his own which c 'eased over his leg and thigh, bruising and breaking both in the most dreadful manner.

Dilemma; LEAP.-A horse-dealer, who had been drinking freely, irt riding up Holborn on Saturday night, mistook the pavement for tlie

street, and lighting on the hatch of a cellar, both he and his horse in ais

instant disappeared from the wondering eyes of the scared crowd, whom his previous progress had sent scampering. Immediate assistance was procured, when the still unsobered gentleman was found bestriding his steed in the cellar, as coolly as if nothing had happened ; nor did the horse appear at all the worse from his rapid descent. How he and his master contrived to get down, puzzled the spectators as well as them- selves ; for by no appliance could the horse be raised again, until several of the flag-stones were removed to enlarge the hole. When that was done, the horse and man rode off with the same celerity as if their pro- gress had suffered no interruption.

SHIPWRECK. —The brig Scolia, from Dantzic to London, was swamped in the mouth of the Tay on Tuesday last week. She was short of hands from sickness, and was attempting to make the Tay when she struck on the Elbow-end bank, and swinging off into deep water, soon after sunk. The master and a boy, and two sailors who were below, were unfortunately drowned.

FLYING..A mountebank announced to the people of Plymouth, the other day, that he would fly from Prince Island to the opposite shore. The flying, as it was called, was merely slipping along a rope, to which he was attached by a ring; a feat which has often been performed. Un. luckily, in the present case, the rope was not sufficiently tight ; so that when he reached the middle, the poor flyer was soused into the water ; and being unable to extricate himself, he would have been drowned, had. not a boat gone to his rescue.

Mit. EDWARDS.—The body of this gentleman, whose death by drown- ing we mentioned last week, has been found near Livingston, on the coast of Suffolk. The body of the boatman has also been found.

THE WEATHER.—In the North, the weather has been extremely- wet. A Scotch traveller describes the Tweed, some days ago, and most of its tributaries, as very much swollen, and their banks strewed with the spoils which they had borne from the high grounds. In the neigh. bourhood, the quantity of rain that fell on Tuesday last week was so great as to float many of the low parts of the town. In Lancashire and Yorkshire, the wet weather is also the subject of serious fears for the crops. At Keswick, several bridges have been carried away, from the effects of the excessive rains.

PRESENCE or MIND—On Monday, a young girl, daughter of a Mr. Hopkins, Blackfriars Road, accidentally set fire to her dress. She had an infant brother in her arms, whom, with extraordinary coolness for one in such dangerous circumstances, she threw on a sofa at a distance from her, lest it might be caught by the flames. The little heroine, we regret to say, was herself most severely burnt, but hopes are entertained. of her recovery.

HYDROPHOBIA.—The following case is from a Virginia paper, the Charlottesville Advocate. "Died at his residence, about eight miles from this place, Mr. William C. Wren, of hydrophobia. Mr. Wren was bitten in two places on the foot, by a strange dog, on the 7th of June last. Both wounds were much lacerated, and one of them penetrated felt no uneasiness about his situation, not supposing the dog to be mad. The wounds continued to heal regularly, and in a short time were per fectly well. On the 15th of August, more than two months after the wounds were received, he felt some uneasiness in the foot, which gradu- ally extended up the leg until it reached the body. He then had pain in the back, lower part of the abdomen, and some soreness about the throat. These symptoms continuing with little variation, were ascribed by him. self and friends to the rheumatism, or cold brought on by recent ex- posure to a shower of rain. By family prescription, he was bled and took a dose of oil. The bleeding relieved his pains, and he supposed himself nearly well, until on the evening of the 17th of August, while attempting, to swallow some water, he was immediately seized with spasms. He then, for the first time, became fully aware of his awful condition, and applied for medical aid. The spasms continued to in- crease rapidly, and were much aggravated by the approach of any one to the bed side or any sudden noise. Attempts were made by every means to get him to receive drink and food, but the approach of either, in any manner, immediately threw him into the most violent agitation. In the intervals of the spasms, and even during their continuance, he retained perfect possession of all his mental faculties until within an hour of his dissolution. He repeatedly invited his friends to his bed-side to shake hands with him, assuring them that he was perfectly in his senses, and felt no disposition to do injury to any one. The spasms continued with increasing violence twenty-one hours, when death relieved him from the most awful sufferings." [We may take this opportunity of advising those who are unduly haunted by the apprehension of mad dogs, to read the very sensible article entitled "Hydrophobia," in the last number of the Heettninster Review.]