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The Town-Council of Newcastle-upon-Tyne are to invite Prince Albert to visit their town on the occasion of the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society in July.

The Cambridge papers state that the Honourable and Reverend G. N. Gren- ville, who has been appointed to the Deanery of Windsor, has no intention of re- signing the Mastership of Magdalen College; since there is no law to prevent the two offices being held by one person, very short residence on the part of the Dean being required at Cambridge.

Mr. Colquhoun, the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyne, is to terminate his connexion with the constituency at the close of the present Parliament. It would appear from the following passage in his address, that Corn-law differences have had something to do with the formation of this resolution-

" If I have failed to carry out the concurrence of a large body among you in the resistance which I felt it right to offer to the repeal of the Corn-laws, I look forward to the time when, on this question also, our differences will cease; and when you will admit that I have not misled you when I warned you that the effect so confidently predicted of a large increase of trade and great benefit to the working classes from this measure will not be realized. This is a matter which, if the bill pass, experience will decide. That saber teacher will correct our judg- ment, and will, I suspect, prove that the errors are not all on our side, and that we were not far wrong who told you that much might be lost and that little could be gained by the change.* A number of resident gentlemen have formed themselves into a commit- tee at Monmouth for the purpose of securing the interests of Lord Gran- ville Somerset at the next election. The Monmouthshire Merlin says- " On Tuesday they canvassed the town, and a more respectable body of can- vassers we have never seen. The result of their canvass was most successful; more than two-thirds of the electors gave their unqualified and hearty promises of support. To the inhabitants of Monmouth it was a novel sight to witness the double wonder of a split in the county Conservative camp, and to realize the union of Reformers and Tories for a common political object. That Lord Granville Somerset is the popular candidrte, is apparent beyond dispute. A correspondent writes, that in consequence of gentlemen connected with the Tredeaar interest having in the course of their canvass for Mr. Octavius Morgan, M.P.., asked the second vote for Captain Somerset—the independent voters generally are deter- mined to meet the coalition at the hustings by giving plumpers for I,ord Granville Somerset."

The Goatacre labourers held another meeting on Wednesday, but under circumstances much more cheering than the former ones. Previously to commencing business, the labourers, with their wives and children to the number of about 150, were regaled with tea. It appeared from what was stated by Mr. Read and some of the women, that the statements of their privations made at former meetings had induced some charitable persons to send money and clothing to their relief. Votes of thanks were passed to these persons; also to Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues, for their Free-trade measure.

A church-rate for the purpose of enlarging and restoring the old church

of St. Nicholas, at Brighton, has been refused on a poll, by a large ma- jority—for the rate, 754; against, 1,328.

It has been stated in Birmingham this week, in quarters likely to be well-informed, that Government intend to erect the military station there into a grand central depot, and to remove to it the greater part of the troops now stationed at Weedon. The central position of Birmingham, communicating as it now does by railway with all the principal ports in England, has, it is thought, suggested the propriety and advantage of making it the seat of a central depot, inasmuch as at a moment's notice troops might thence be despatched, and landed in a few hours in any part of Scotland, England, or Ireland.—Aforning Chronicle.

Fifteen miles of the South Devon Railway, from Exeter to Teignmouth, were opened on Saturday. The line is to be worked by the atmospheric power; but the supply of engines not being yet sufficient for the whole distance completed, locomotives are to be used for the present. It is a broad gauge railway, joining the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The line, starting from Exeter, passes along some meadows, and follows the course of the Exe; giving magnificent views of the city of Exeter, the extensive estuary of the Exe, and the towns of Topsham, Lympstone and Exmouth in the distance. On the other side of the river, as you progress along the line, are seen Powderham Park and Castle, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire. After passing the Starcross station, the appearance of the line becomes still more romantic; for you are carried apparently through the sea, the line running close to the month of the Exe; it then runs into a very deep cutting through the Langstone which are seen towering upwards of one hundred feet above you. After passing Dawlish, you come to that portion of the line in the construction of which, running as it does close along the sea-beach, so many difficulties have been en- countered; and where in the most assailable part an immense buttress has been built to protect the line from irruptions of the sea. Having passed over the beach at Dawlish and through several tunnels, you arrive at Teignmouth, which is sufficiently well known as one of the most delightful watering-places upon the Western coast of England."

Mr. Joseph Sanders, of the firm of Messrs. Sanders and Claxton, corn- merchants, Liverpool, has written the following letter to the Times, dis- claiming the authorship of certain letters quoted in both Houses of Parlia- ment during the recent discussions on the Corn-laws, in support of Pro- tectionist dread of overwhelming importations of wheat from foreign parts. Mr. Sanders's letter is also of interest as containing his reasons for believing that the Corn-laws can no longer be upheld.

'" Sir—A statement made in your paper is shot to the uttermost parts of the earth with almost the rapidity of thought. The attempt, therefore, to overtake and contradict any misrepresentation which it contains, after a start of fifteen days, is not likely to succeed before its object has been accomplished. Neverthe- less, I must confide in your sense of justice, and beg of you to insert this missive, to relieve me from the charge of having expressed some of the most wild and un- fciunded opinions regarding the probable effects of the pending Corn Bill, and having thereby been guilty of treachery and duplicity. "After an absence of eight months I returned to England on Friday night;

and on Saturday a friend drew my attention to a statement made by Mr. Disraeli in the House of Commons on the 15th May, and to one made by Lord Brougham on the 25th.

"On that occasion, according to the report in The Times, Mr. Disraeli read a letter which he accused me of having written, after having given in, as he was pleased to say, my adhesion to the Government measure, and which he said Would astonish the right honourable gentleman.' Among other offers which he said I made, he asserts that this same Mr. Sanders then offers to enter into a contract to supply a million quarters of wheat at 18s. per quarter; and, if the measures-of the Government pass, he will undertake, at the end of this year, that that million of quarters shall be doubled and sent to England at reduced prices.' "My reply is, that I never made that offer—never wrote that letter; and I challenge Mr. Disraeli to produce it, with date, place, and signature. How he has been imposed upon, it is not for me to explain. I apprehend that, finding a tempt- ing weapon put within his grasp, he fired it hastily and incautiously, to feed fat an ancient grudge' against his quondam leader, without considering whether it might not burst in his hand. Mr. Disraeli will find that there are other gentle- men of my name who express opinions for which I am not responsible.

"My reply to Lord Brougham, who, for a time, assumed that I was the author of a letter read to the House of Lords by Lord Stanley, would have been equally decisive; but it has been rendered unnecessary by his Lordship having kindly assured me that Lord Stanley declared across the table that I was not the writer of the letter in question. I entertain no such extravagant opinions as it contains, and I should be very sorry to be called upon to defend them. "It is quite true that I have for a long period been a strenuous supporter of the Corn-laws; but a few years ago I stated before the Agricultural Committee, that 'from the course which legislation was taking, I thought it extremely doubtful whether any such laws whatever could be maintained much longer.' "I have defended them to the point of danger; and, after the last harvest, I felt convinced that the period had arrived when all restrictions on the import of food must cease. No honest and independent Minister of the Crown could go before Parliament and ask for a loan to support and employ a population on the verge of famine from the failure of their crops, and go on devising Poor-laws, building workhouses and prisons, and ask for Coercion Bills and an increase of the Army and Navy, with such a law staring him in the face. The time has come when something better than penal measures must be devised for the safety and peace of the body politic.

"'The territorial influence and consideration, so much to be prized in a monar- chy, can never be maintained by an obstinate retention of laws and privileges which public opinion has pronounced to be obsolete and dangerous; nor can they be lost by timely, just, and generous concession. If there ever was a Minister of the Crown who was justified by his conduct and the results of it, so far as free trade is concerned, in repeating thf words of Burke to the electors of Bristol, when they turned him out' for advocating a free trade with Ireland, Sir Robert

Peel is that man. Burke bravely obs ' :rved 'I have maintained your interests against your opinions with a constancy that became me.' "Notwithstanding all their forebodings, and the rancour with which they pur- sued him, the woollen trade of England became more prosperous than ever; the electors were forgotten; and Mr. Burke became a great man, and a light for all times.

"I am, Sir, your faithful servant, JOS. SANDARS. "Burlington Hotel, Tuesday, Jane 2."

• The strike at Liverpool seemed in a fair way of terminating last week ; but the masters were again doomed to be disappointed. On Thursday, some of the workmen waited upon Mr. Rushton, the Stipendiary Magis- trate; stating that the "declaration" was the only bar to an amicable arrangement with the employers, and requesting him to bring about a meeting between the two parties. Mr. Rushton consented-

" He immediately opened a communication," says the Times correspondent, "with some of the most eminent of the builders; and at an appointed hour the various parties met in the Magistrates' room at the Sessions-house. Mr. Rushton desired the workmen to keep nothing in the background; and in a few pithy words stating the distress and inconvenience which had resulted from the strike, advised all parties to enter into the conference with friendly feelings and to make such arrangements as would be conclusive, so that the trade of the town might again resume its usual and natural course. Mr. Holme, the builder, asked whether the persons then present were duly authorized by their respective societies to enter into such negotiations as would be final, and would be agreed to by the great body of the workmen. The deputations of workmen, comprising members from the masons, bricklayers, joiners, plasterers, and plumbers associations re- spectively rose and declared that they were duly authorized, and were prepared on behalf of their fellow workmen to enter into negotiations which should be con- clusive. On this assurance the negotiations proceeded. After some conversation, in which the masters argued that no club or society had a right to dictate to any man, or compel him to join such a society against his will; and that labour, like other commodities, should be perfectly free; and that they could not enter into contracts with security to themselves, or with advantage to the public, unless such a prin- ciple as the freedom of labour was fully recognized,—it was unanimously agreed as a base for subsequent negotiation, 'That a full and free disclaimer be made of the right of any man, or body of men, to interfere with the freedom of labour; and that all men may work for whomsoever they please, and on whatsoever terms they may think right.' Ihe masters then proposed, "that the connexion with the National and General Trades Union should be dissolved; they offering no opposition whatever to local associations, if the operatives deemed such to be necessary for the preservation of their own privileges.' The workmen present all declared, with the exception of the labourers, (generally known, we believe as hod-carriers,) that their respective trades did not belong to the National Trades Union; and, as this disclaimer was strongly made in the presence of Mr. Rushton of the Magistrate's clerk, and of the reporter, Mr. Rushton recommended the masters to withdraw the proposition; which they immediately. agreed to on the distinct disclaimer of the delegates; one of the masters observing, that the word of the representatives of the workmen was considered sufficient. It. was then agreed to on the part of the operatives, 'That no molestation be offered to those workmen who are now employed and have signed the declaration' (in number, we believe, nearly a thousand); 'and that the deputation of workmen here pre- sent agree most earnestly to impress upon the minds of their fellow workmen the propriety of abstaining from the use of any terms of reproach to those men who have already agreed to the masters' terms, and who are now employed.' "

Some discussion ensued with respect to the hour at which labour should commence at the beginning of each week ; but the subject was left for ne- gotiation between each employer and his people. The masters then agreed to withdraw the "declaration,' and the resolution was reduced to writing. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Rushton ; and the conference broke up, under the impression that the unpleasant differences were ended.

But in a few hours things had resumed their old posture- " On the very evening of the day on which the arrangements were amicably come to between the master builders and workmen, the clubs of the various trades met, and threw overboard all the resolutions which had been agreed upon; prin- cipally instigated, it is said, by the stone-masons. The resolutions were conse- quently not acted upon; and the next morning not one man returned to his work. An instruction was forwarded to Mr. Tomkinson, one of the oldest and most eminent of the master masons, and a gentleman who has been for many years en- gaged as a contractor for public works, that a diminution of working hours and an increase of wages were required on the part of the masons, and that unless he acceded to the demand the men would not resume their work. Mr. Tomkinson naturally indignant at such a breach of faith, refused to entertain the demand, and desired the workmen to meet him again in the presence of the Stipendiary Magi,strate, Mr. Rushton. They did so; and finally lowered their demand for in- creased wages to Is. per week additional; but stipulated that they should have half an hour at four o'clock every afternoon for 'recreation.' Mr. Tomkinson pro- mised an answer at six o'clock the same evening; and in the mean time summoned a meeting of masters to consult as to the most advisable steps to be pursued in this new and unlooked-for emergency." The employers resolved not to concede the new demands; but, as they had promised to withdraw the "declaration," they resolved to adhere to that premise." The bricklayers and plasterers seem to follow in the wake of the masons; the joiners, the plumbers, and some others, with more wisdom seem anxious for a settlement, and some of them have left the clubs and resumed their work. But the masons ate in demand for the various railway contracts, especially on the Holyhead, Carlisle, and East Lancashire lines; and many of them have found employment on those railways. The Liverpool Dock Trustees, the Birkenhead Dock Company, and the Liverpool and Bury and Grand Junction Railway Companies, also have been proceeding with their works, which are principally masonry; and, so long as there was no demand for increased wages those four large companies did not think it necessary to suspend their works. The course now pursued, however, by the masons, has altered the com- plexion of the whole strike; and the clubs must now soon come to issue with these large and formidable companies." The masons have since had a general meeting, and have come to the re- solution that they will work only nine hours a day, instead of ten hours and a half as heretofore.

At Manchester, things remain in states quo; except that it was expected the bricklayers would come to some satisfactory arrangement.

Every description of mechanics connected with shipbuilding at New- castle are extensively in demand; many old shipwrights who had long been passed over are now fully employed ; men are difficult to be found to supply the demand.—Newcastle Guardian.

Several tradesmen at Slough, Windsor, and Etont were " victimized " last week by a swindler, who exhibited much ingenuity in his roguery. On arriving from London, "Mr. Wyndham" put up at the Royal Hotel, Slough. He went to Messrs. Nevile and Company's bank at Windsor on Thursday, and opened an ac- count by paying iit a check for a large amount on a Gloucester bank; the bankers acceding to his request for a check-book, that he might draw upon them when the Gloucester draft should be honoured. Mr. Wyndham knew that the ban- kers would not ascertain this before Saturday morning; and meanwhile he set to work with the check-book. Ile got a check fur 10/. cashed by the keeper of the Royal Hotel; be obtained a suit of clothes from a tailor at Eton, paying with a check; and a jeweller of Windsor was duped by the same means to the value of 12/. On Friday night, Mr. Wyndham paid his hotel bill by another check, receiving change; stated that he should return on Monday for a more lengthened sojourn; and proceeded to London. On Saturday morning the fraud was discovered; the bankers having n ceived advicea that the check sent to Gloucester was worthless.

It has been sh ce found that "Mr. Wyndham" has played the same kind of trick with success at Oxford, Dover, Bath, and other towns, and even in London. He is a great adept in disguising himself.

The incautious conduct of the Windsor Bank in granting a blank check-book to an unknown person, on the strength of an order on a distant firm, has been se- verely animadverted on by the Times City correspondent. Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Company, of Birchin Lane, of which the Windsor bank is a branch, have forwarded strict injunctions to the clerks at Windsor, not to give a blank check-book to any persons for the future, unless they have actually cash to their credit, or unless they are introduced to the firm by really respectable and respon- sible correspondents. About a month ago' Wyndham, it appears, had obtained 121. 10s. from the Dover branch of the London and County Bank, on the strength of a draft on a Liverpool firm for 4121. 10s., which was of course dishonoured. The clerk who was duped was immediately discharged for his foolish conduct. Fifteen pickpockets were arrested near the grand stand at Chester races. Many of them belonged to London. Some of the thieves had been very mccess.sful, much property havimg bees found in their possession. The Coroner's inquiry into the poisoning in Norfolk has been resumed, in COB- sequence of the investigation ordered by Sir James Graham, at the instance of Mr. Wakley. It is said that the reason why no inquests were held when so many people died suddenly at Happisblirgh and the neighbourhood, was the opposition winch the Magistrates of the county had made to the expense of frequent inqui- ries of the kind: they passed a resolution that the Coroner "when requested to hold an inquest should require a certificate from a Magistrate, or a Minister, or a Churchwarden, Oversew, or Guardian of the perish, stating the neeeesity (in his opinion) of its being held.: and that the Coroner should deliver such certificates with his bill; and that in case such certificates should not be produced, the COFO- ner shall make strict inquiry as to the necessity of an inquiry. The present inqaest was held at the village of Dist Ruston, about three miles from Happisburgh. Three grandchildren of Jonathan Balls were buried here: they all died suddenly after visiting the old man. An inquest was held on one, Mttria Green, who died ten years since, and a verdict of "Natural death" was re- turned. In another ease, the body of a child which was buried at Igham was exhumed after it had been interred three weeks, and an inquest held; but a surgeon considered that the child had died of fever, no pest ',torten examination was made, and the verdict was Natural death." The bodies of the three children buried at East Ruston were disinterred On Monday morning and a chemical ex- amination took place. Mary Green, the mother of the children, deposed to their having died suddenly, either at her father's or after visiting him. Never sus- pected poison. She herself and a girl named Kerrison were very ill one day after breakfasting at old Belles: her mother "seemed moved" when she told her after- wards hew ill she had been. Other witnesses corroborated the statement of the sudden deaths of the children. It came out, too, that a daughter of Balls had died thirteen yesesago, after brutal ill-treatment by the father. The surgeons now announced that they had exantiried the remains of Maria Green, and had discovered poison. The inquest was then adjoarned till the following day. On Tuesday, the Jury assembled at Happieburgh to inquire into the deaths of Maria Lacey, the daughter of Balls, and Hannah Pegg's, his grandchild. Both the bodies were exhumed; but, having been buried for many years, little more than the skeletons were found. These were handed over to the medical men. Some witnesses were examined, They deposed to the sudden death of the child, and to the fact that Lacey had been ill-used by somebody before her death. Elizabeth Peggs, the mother of the child, was suspected of reservation in her tes- timony. The inquest as adjourned for a week. An inquest on the bodies of two men, who died in the hospital at Liver- pool from the effects of the collision of the Rambler and Sea Nymph, was com- menced on Saturday. Several of the passengers in the Rambler deposed to the identity of the bodies, and described the collision between the steamers; but their evidence was of no value in determining the cause of the disaster. Peter M'Farlane, second mate of the Rambler, said they had on board three hundred deck-passengers, one or two cabin-passengers, six hundred pigs, and fourteen oxen. The Rambler was very close to the Cheshire shore when the Sea Nymph was seen approaching. The helm was immediately ported, and in a few mo- ments it was placed " hard-a-port"; when the crash occurred three men were holding down the wheeL John Hunter, the chief mate, corroborated this. If both vessels had pursued the course they were in when witness first mw the light, they would have passed clear of each other. When the vessels struck, he got on board the Sea Nymph. He went to the captain on the gangway, and asked him for God's sake to stand by the other vessel, lest she should sink; and all the answer he received was, "Stand out of the way, Sir." The engines of the Rambler were stopped half a minute before the collision; there was no time to bulk them. The inquiry was resumed on Monday. William Daniels, the pilot of the Rambler, declared that had the Sea Nymph continued the course she was on, she would have gone ashore in half a minute if' she had not struck the Rambler. If she had ported her helm she would have avoided their ship. She was not upon her right course. Had she ported her helm half a minute before the collision, the ships would have passed within three or four lengths of each other. All the witnesses admitted that the Rambler was very close to the Cheshire shore. The evidence having closed on the part of the Rambler, that for the Sea Nymph begun. Samuel Easter, chief mate of that vessel, described the occurrence—" I saw alight passing round the Rock Lighthouse. It proved to be the Rambler's mast-head light. I reported the light to the captain, and asked him if he saw it. He said, 'I do; all right.' The light shot across front the Lighthouse at a tre- mendous rate. I did not hear the captain speak, for he was one hundred feet from me. The next thing I heard was the blowing off of the steam. The cap tam n was on the bridge between the paddle-boxes. In about a minute and a half after I had spoken to the captain, I observed the Rambler's starboard bow white light, and then I knew that it was a steamer. I then called out to the captain again, and told him that it was best to keep the helm hard-a-port. I did not hear him make any answer, nor do I know whether he heard me or not. I rather think he did not, the ;team was making such a noise. I then saw the Rambler's red light on her larboard bow. I could then see the fall length of the Rambler's hull, and that she was flying up to the Westward, with her helm hard-a-port. I could also notice our vessel's head, by the Rock light, going off to the Eastward; but we had lost a great deal of our way by this time. We were only going at the rate of three or four knots an hour. I sung out to the captain again, that it was impossible for the vessels to clear in the way they were going, for with both helms a-port they were running fairly into each other. The captain never answered; and in half a minute afterwards the collision took place. We struck her nearly stem on, on her larboard bow. We were entangled together about half a minute. I went down below, after we got clear of her, to see if we were making water any- where. I found the stem, the cut-water, and both bows gone. I came up again, and told the captain he had better run her ashore or into dock: he would not do that, but ran his bowsprit into the rigging of the Rambler aft. The captain of our vessel then calla.' out to know whether he could render assistance to the Rambler: bat whether any or what answer was made, I know not. We then put back to the Clarence Dock." Timothy Hagan, the second mate, said he steered the Sea Nymph on the night of the collision. About two or three minutes after hearing there was a vessel ahead, the captain ordered him to port: he did so, and con- tinued until the shies struck—between two and three minutes. The inquest terminated on Wednesday, with this verdict—" That John Roche came by his death from injuries received in the spine; but that when, where, and how received, there was no evidence to show: that Patrick Geogban met his death accidentally; and they laid a deodand of 2001. on the Sea Nymph."

A man has been committed for trial by the Worcester Magistrates for biting off smother man's ear. A squabble occurred in a beer-shop at Great Marlow, and a fight ensued between George Bough, the landlady's son, and Richard Burrow; both Sill on the floor, when Burrow took his opponent's ear into his mouth and bit it off by the roots ! Another fire, supposed to have been wilful, has taken place at Bottishatn, in Cambridgeshire. It occurred on the farm of Mr. Newman; and the property de- stroyed comprised a very extensive barn, cow-house, piggeries, and poultry-house, de fat calves, twenty store hogs a brace of greyhounds, some poultry, a large hay or clover stack, about forty quarters of thrashed barley, with various excellent agricultural implements. The dwelling-house and some stabling escaped, owing to the distance at which they were situated from the other buildings. The fire, however, extended to four cottages, the property of William Potter, 5 woodmen; and these were burnt. Manhole wad insured.

In passing under the Chilton] Hills the other day, our attention was pleasingly attracted to scores of biasing fires, composed of dried turf cat off the sides of the hills preparatory to its being brought under the influence of the plough, with $ view to its immediate cultivation. So little do our excellent farmers in this neighbourhood dread the affrighted bug,hear of free trade, that some of them, partieularly our esteemed townsman Mr. &unveil, are now adopting an expensive process to cultivate that part of Watlington Hill attached to his extensive feem almost to its summit.-73erka and Bucks Gazette.

On Saturday last, James Stubb, of Buglawton, near Congletoa, was somewhat surprised that one of the flags jest within the threshold of his door had been 5Q far displaced by some invisible agency, that it had become almost impossible to open or abut the door. To discover the hidden cause of this strange effect, the flag was removed; and underneath it was found a fine mushroom, measuring nearly half a yard in circumference. The flag which was thus pushed from its place by the upstart fungus was two feet long by eighteen inches wide, and two inches thick.—Macclesfield Courier. The manufacture of phosphorus has been recently introduced into Staffordshire. It being usual to work out the process in rather a private manner, a rumour reached the ear of the exciseman of the district, that some illicit work was going on at Willenhall. He paid a visit to the establishment, and was assured that there was no manufacture in peogreas in any respect liable to the excise. Not con- tent with this answer, the gauges insisted on inspecting the premises; and, in order to satisfy himself that there really was no deception privatised, he pat in the side- pocket of his coat a few of the phosphorus sticks, clear as amber, and without any emelt. He had not proceeded far when he found smoke issuing from his pocket, and almost immediately after a volume of flame. As this happened while he was marching down the street at Willenball, he was soon surrounded by a mob of peo- ple, and his coat wasliterally torn tapitices before the phosphorus could be putout. During the progress of one of the trains on the York and North Midland line, a few days ago, a very distressing event oeettrred at the Milford Junction station, owing to the ejection of a burning piece of coal from the chianney of the engine; which alighted upon au interesting girl, about eight years of age, one of the- waiters in the refreshmeet-rooree; and her clothes being set on fire, she was so dreadfully burned that death terminated her sufferings the same evening. Amidst all the wonderful improvements of the age connected with railway travelling, there appears to be a great defect in the prevention of accidents of this nature.—Leeds Mercury. Mr. George Gibbs, a Commoner of Exeter College, Oxford, has been drowned in the Isis, near Iffiey, while bathing with a friend. A fatal accident occurred on beard the Caledonia man-of-war of 120 gans, at Plymouth, on Sunday evening. "When lowering the maintopgallantmast at sunset, the lizard unfortunately gave way, and the mast fell on the deck and killed three persons. It appears that the topgallant-yards of this ship—fore main, and mizen—are usually sent down at sunset; but, in consequence of th; Admiralty order for examining her spars and rigging, instructions had been given on board to lower the topgallantma.sts, in addition to the yards, so as to be the more forward for commencing work the next day. At the time of the accident, the officers and most of the crew were on deck. The lizard, unfortunately, was not securely stopped; and when the man at the mast-head found it slipping from the mast-rope, he sang out, as usual, Stand from under!' From forty to fifty heeds, underneath, rushed forward out of danger. The sufferers, who were more aft, and not in a dangerous position, unhappily followed the others, and thus came right under the mast. In failing from the mast-head, the topgallantmast caught in the rigging, canted, and fell horizontally across the deck. Three persons were killed on the spot—Mr. C. P. Lamb, assistant-clerk, William Shirley, a marine' leaving a widow and five children, and Thomas B. Herbert, first-class boy. Charles Pomeroy, a boy, had his shoulder dieloeeted, and was otherwise severely injured."