three repetitions, it was supposed that the vessel making
them had got off. It was afterwards surmised that the
steamer was filled too rapidly with water to fire off more
signals. There was a tremendous sea running at the
time, which tore away great pieces of the vessel. From
the state of the weather, no boat could reach the wreck
till Monday, when a few articles were brought away from
it, but nothing of material importance; and soon after, the
wreck was almost washed away. The vessel was between
400 and 500 tons burden, and was commanded by Captain
John Batty, of Cork, who had been above 20 years in the
service of the Company. The passengers who left Cork
were 144 adults and 23 children; those from Plymouth,
14 adults; and the crew consisted of 24 men and one boy;
so that 206 lives were lost.—During the following week
several distressing scenes took place in the Company's
office in Leadenhall Street, and at their wharf in Lower
East Smithfleld, by relatives of the unhappy sufferers,
inquiring after their probable fate.—Many bodies were
picked up by the wreckers, who flocked round the vicinity
of the Tongue Sands, and, having stripped them, they
were re-committed to the deep. Naked bodies of men
and women were passed in the Channel by different
ships which arrived in the river. Two or three vessels
were seized, having property concealed on board
evidently, plundered from the wreck of the Royal
Adelaide. A subscription has been opened at several
banking-houses in the City for the relief of the families
of the sufferers.

Among other disasters, a Liverpool ship, called the
Teresa Jane, bound to Maranham, with a cargo valued
at £30,000, was wrecked on the Copeland Isles, near
Belfast. The master and seven men perished, but a
part of the vessel having remained on the rocks on
which she struck, the rest of the crew, eight in number,
were saved.

The Emma, bound from Dundee to Montreal, was
also wrecked on the morning of the 1st. At daybreak,
amidst the fury of the gale, the ship was discovered
adrift, off St. Margaret's, Orkneys. Those on board
managed to make sail on her, and she stood to the
eastward; then tacked and stood to the north, when she
drove and struck on the point of the rocks with terrible
force. It was utterly impossible to render any assistance
to the crew from the shore. They took to the
rigging, and their cries and gestures for help were truly
heart-rending. Their sufferings were of but short
duration; for within half-an-hour the masts were carried
away, and with it the unfortunate men, every one of
whom perished. The hull of the ship was shortly broken
up into a thousand pieces.

The Howard, of nearly a 1000 tons burden, was lost
near Liverpool, having struck on a ledge of sand-banks
at the mouth of the Ribble. The crew were seen at
daybreak on Sunday morning (31st of March) clinging
to the rigging, and were brought ashore by the Southport
life-boat. One of them, John Smith, died; the rest
recovered, though quite exhausted.

Along the Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Northumbrian
coasts, there were innumerable casualties. Between
thirty and forty coasting-vessels were driven ashore, and
the bulk of them became wrecks. There were similar
disasters on the Welsh coast. Nearly all the vessels
in Beaumaris Harbour were driven ashore, and more or
less injured. The smack Brothers, of Liverpool, was
wrecked near Penmon, and Captain Barnet, the master,
his wife, and one of the men, were drowned. The
bodies were on the beach, the captain and his wife
clasped in each other's arms.

On the 5th a pilot-boat brought into Cowes the master
of the Lincoln, sailing from Boston for California. He
had reached the latitude of 4° N. and longitude 25° W.,
and when at 10:30 p.m. of March 2, during a heavy
shower of rain, and without any menacing appearance
in the air, the ship was Struck with Lightning, which
shivered the mainmast, and darted into the hold. On
opening the scuttle, volumes of smoke were emitted, and
finding it impossible to extinguish the fire, the crew
endeavoured to stifle it by closing every aperture. In
this state they remained for nearly four days, with the
fire burning in the hold, when they were relieved from
their perilous situation by the providential appearance
of the Maria Christina, and taken on board. Previous
to leaving the ill-fated brig, the hatches were opened,
when the flames burst forth, and in thirty minutes
afterwards the mainmast fell over the side. The unfortunate
crew were most kindly treated by Captain Voss, the
master of the Maria Christina, who did everything in
his power for their relief.

Two deaths on the Railway have to be recorded. On
the 2nd, as the up-train on the South Western Railway
was proceeding from Windsor to London, at forty miles
per hour, the engine-driver perceived to his horror a man
lying on the rails, who made no attempt to get off until
the train had approached within a few yards of him, when
he threw himself down on the permanent way. The whistle
was sounded, brakes promptly applied, and the engine
escaped striking him, but the steps of the first carriage
dashed his brains out. His left leg and arm were also
severed from the body. As soon as possible the train was
brought to a stand-still, but it is needless to state that
life was totally extinct. The unfortunate man was a
farmer's servant who resided at Datchet, and had
married only a few months ago one of the station clerk's
servants. Some thought his object was suicide, whilst
his friends believe that he was only crossing the line to
get to his own home, when, hearing the sound of the
whistle, he became paralysed with fear, and unable to
move.

On the 5th another tragedy occurred on the Eastern
Counties Railway. Mr. Wiiliam Newall, manager of
the Norfolk division, in company with some other
gentlemen, left the Norwich terminus for the purpose of
inspecting a bridge, near the Haddiscoe station. Having
viewed it, the engine returned to the Reedsham swing-
bridge, where a goods train was waiting on the line,
about eighty yards distant, for the engine to pass. The
unfortunate gentleman, recollecting that he had not
telegraphed their approach from Haddiscoe to Reedham,
and thinking the goods train was in motion, dreaded a
collision, and jumped off. His boot caught the ledge
of the car, and before there was a possibility of arresting
his fate the engine travelled over him. The body was
found doubled up, and a macintosh which he wore had
been pulled over his head.

A Miss Downie met, on the 4th, with an
Extraordinary Death at Traquair-on-the-Tweed. She
had suffered, since childhood, from severe pains in
the head and deafness; her health had been gradually
declining for the last three years, and in August last
she was seized with most painful inflammation in the
left ear, accompanied by occasional bleedings also from
the ear. On the 20th of March an ordinary-sized
metallic pin was extracted from the left ear, which
was enveloped in a firm substance with numerous fibres
attached to it; several hard bodies, in shape resembling
the grains of buck-wheat, but of various colours, were
also taken out of the right ear. The poor girl endured
the most intense pain, which she bore with Christian
fortitude till death terminated her sufferings. It is
believed the pin must have lodged in the head for
nearly twenty years, as she never recollected of having
put one in her ear, but she had a distinct remembrance
of having, when a child, had a pin in her mouth, which
she thought she had swallowed.

An Explosion of Fire-damp occurred on the 12th in a
coal-mine at Marsden. It has not been ascertained how
the accident originated, as all the persons on the spot,
five in number, were killed; their bodies were found by
persons attracted from another part of the mine by the
explosion. It probably arose, as usual, from carelessness.
Each collier carries a safety lamp, but some of
them are in the habit of taking off the top to light their
pipes or for other purposes; and the lamp of one of
these men was found near his dead body with the top
taken off.

A Waterspout, a phenomenon seldom seen in these
latitudes, happened on the 13th in the Bristol Channel.
As the Fanny and Jane brig from London to Bristol
was proceeding up channel, she had her masts, bowsprit,
and everything above deck carried away by a waterspout.
She was taken in tow by the Alert of Bridport, and
brought into Bristol Harbour. Vessels distant from the
brig at the time of the occurrence only half a mile
escaped uninjured.