Sir Charles Shaw has been appointed Commissioner of Police for
Manchester ; and Mr. Burgess, a barrister on the Midland Circuit, for Birmingham.
The Royal Adelaide steam-packet, bound to Dublin from London, into Portsmouth on Tuesday ; having on board the crew of the
:erot oner Gil Bias, which vessel she unfortunately ran down off Dover
-B Sunday night. She struck the schooner amidships. The crew, o consisting of none men and a black boy, were all saved, with the exception of the boy. The Captain was landed at Cowes. The Gil Bias was from the African coast, with a valuable cargo. She was found &masted, by some Ostend pilots, and taken into Ostend. On the night of the 28th ult., great destruction was committed by the
French fishermen getting amongst our herring-boats, (on the North- east coast) and cutting and carrying away not fewer than ten or nine- teen boats nets. A fleet of nets costs upwards of 60 guineas ; so that the poor fishermen whose nets are destroyed are ruined for the season. A French boat is about 40 tons, with from 14 to 16 men ; our boats, about 9 or 10 tons, with four, or at most, five men. We have a Go- vernment that will protect a foreigner, but a native may go and beg. I hope you will expose this in proper manner. There is no ship of war to afford protection to our fishing, although Government says there is one. if there be, she has not been in sight of this place for I think now five weeks.—Correspondent tlw Shipping and .'Mercantile Ga:cite On Sunday, at that part of the Severn called the Aust Passage, eleven persons lost their lives, by the upsetting of a boat. The follow- ing particulars of the melancholv accident are given in the papers- * The steam-boat which crosses wthe passage does not usually ply on Sun- day; consequently, those parties who wished to cross on Sundae lost were obliged to avail themselves of a small boat called the mail-boat, and et 'a passage- lost for carriages, lie. called the Little Western. The day having been throughout exceedingly boisterous, the wind blowing a complete gale, produced &very heavy sea on the Severn ; which, together with the tide which there runs with extreme rapidity, made it very dangerous for bunts to pass across. At about five minutes after three in the afternoon, the mail-boat proceeded from the Monmouthshire side ; and was followed in about ten minutes by the Little Western, having on board six passengers, live horses, and two ein•ring,es, besides her crew, consisting of the captain and four men : the sea was at that time running high, and the wind almost a complete hurricane. The vessel, however, although labouring much, continued to progress towards the destined show; until, when about half-way across, a sudden gust of wind called a land- squall, took her, carried her on her side ; and the horses, ns it is supposed, shifting, she was capsized, and in it few moments sloe filled with water and went down, every soul on board perishing with her."
The mail-boat, which had reached the beach on the English side, immediately put off again, in the imminent risk of being swamped, to save sonic of the little boat's passengers ; but none were rescued. The names of some of time persons drowned are mentioned-
Crawshay junior one of the large ironmasters of Merthyr ; Mr. Andrew Bland, brother of Mr. dand the coach-proprietor, of Bristol ; Mr. Williams, of fiedruth, Monmouthshire ; • Mr. Jones, of Woolen Norton, alonmouthshire ; a Mr. Jenkins, and Robert Harmer, servant to Captain Jenkins, R.N., who was proceeding with his master's carriage to Bristol to meet him ; Captain Whitehureh, the master of the boat ; William Whitchurch, his son, about seventeen years etf age ; and three men of the crew, seine of whom have left wives and families to deplore their loss."
By the upsetting of a boat of Herne Bay, on Saturday, two young
ladies, Miss Wade and Miss Fielder, and a Mr. Binks, were drowned. They were on their way from the Reculvers with a brother of Miss Wade, and Pressly, a boatman, when the fore-sheet broke adrift, and the boat was upset on her larboard side. A Herne Bay boatman came to their rescue, and all were taken out of the water; but only young Wade and Pressly survived.
The prison at Hastings, a town with a population of 15,000, is empty.
A fatal accident occurred on the Croydon Railway on Sunday night. A young woman went over to the railroad to see off some friends who were going to Croydon. After having seen the train start, she pro- ceeded to walk along the railroad herself; but had not gone many yards when the train from Croydon mime along, and one of the car- riages struck her on the forehead, and literally cut away the whole of the upper part of her head. She was found rolled up like a ball.
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