The Duke of Buckingham put his yacht into Guernsey harbour
on Monday last, having struck on a reef of rocks and carried away her keel, and sustained considerable damage.
A few days since the servant of Miss Champion, a lady of property, at present sojourning at Ramsgate, happened to be walking under the cliffs at the flowing of the tide. He heard time voice of some one crying for assistance ; which be discovered to have proceeded from a woman with her two children in her arms up to her waist in the sea. He immediately rushed to her assistance, and rescued her and her two children from their perilous situation. On hearing the mother exclaim that there was another, he again dashed into the water ; when lie found a male child struggling to clamber up a rock, and an old woman (the latter having been twice washed away by the waves), both of whom he also fortunately succeeded in rescuing. On reaching his mistress's house, his mind became overpowered, and it was with difficulty he was restored from a long fainting-fit. It is worthy of remark, that the man who thus fortunately recovered so many of his fellow-beings from drowning, was himself unable to swim.
During the race of sailing-boats at the Beaumaris Regatta on Thurs- day, last week, one of the boats unfortunately upset, and Mr. Wright, editor of the Carnarcon Herald, who was on board, unhappily lost his life.
Mr. William Atkinson, a resident at Sheffield, died on Tuesday week, in great agony, of hydrophobia. He had been bitten three weeks before, on the lip, by a young puppy.
An inquest was held on Monday, at Greenford in Middlesex, on the body of Mr. Benjamin Dixon, a large landed proprietor in that neigh.. bourhood, who was thrown out of his gig while driving furiously over
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Ealing Common, on the zal instant He was very much intoxe ated, and was trying to beat the mail. A friend vt ho was with b m was ho drunk. Mr. Dixon lived only a few days. The verdict rt turned was Accidental Death.
A little boy, nine years of age, son of Captain Burrowes, late Com- mandant of the Waggon Train, was drowned on Thursday week, while bathing with a number of his schoolfellows at Lancing. On Tuesday week, while six men were at work in the colliery of Mrs. Elizabeth Holloway, at Springfield, near Wcstbromwich, a large quantity of coal gave way, and five of them were killed by the fall. • The other was also hurt, as part of the coals struck him in their descent.
A fire was discovered on Sunday morning, in a field adjoining the Bath road, about three miles from Newbury ; and a rick of clover bay, the property of Mr. Thatcher of Speen, was nearlyconstuned. It was evidently set on fire by some incendiary ; and a reward of 201. has been offered by Mr. Thatcher.
Mr. James Coxeter, a clerk in the office of a solicitor at Dartford, was riding in a gig with another person on Thursday last, when the horse took fright at a fire made by some gipsies on the road-side, near Foot's Cray, and started off at full speed. Mr. Coxeter was thrown out of the gig, arid killed on the spot, and his friend's leg was broken. The horse kicked the gig to pieces.
For some years past, a swarm of bees has been observed about the chimneys of the Robin Hood public-house in Bedford. 011 remov- ing some bricks from a cavity, or dumb chimney, a few day's since, three regular tiers of combs were found, from which were extracted be-
tween thirty and forty pounds of honey. It is calculated this indus- trious fraternity has sojourned in this singular retreat for the last eleven years.-Northampton Mercury.
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