Bristol. Nine persons were ascending the shaft of the
Deep Pit, at Kingswood, and they had arrived in safety
as far as "the stage," where the men usually get out of
the bucket. Just at this juncture, to the dismay of the
engineer Stone, who was superintending the hauling up
of the men, the bolt of the reversing handle broke off.
Being aware of the consequences that would follow, he
laid hold of the eccentric and endeavoured to lift them;
and, finding he could not effect this by himself, he
called out to a man to come to his assistance; but before
the rods could be lifted, the accident happened. Stephen
Newman sprang out, but jumped short, and, falling
down the shaft, a depth of 147 fathoms, was dashed in
pieces. Another man and a lad jumped out with safety;
but the others were drawn up over the "shiver-wheel,"
and were thrown, together with the heavy iron bucket,
weighing about three and a half hundred-weight, to the
ground, a distance of twenty-five feet. All were seriously
hurt, and it was necessary to amputate the leg of one of
them. An inquest was held on Newman's body, at
which it appeared that the accident had arisen from the
negligence of Stone, the engineer. The evidence showed
that he was at the mouth of the shaft when he ought
to have been attending the steam engine; he went into
the engine-house only just before the bucket arrived at
the surface. Notice had been given that a "journey"
of men was coming up, and he should have stood by the
engine. But it appeared that the men did not always
come up after notice had been sent. The evidence as
to the speed with which the men ascended was rather
contradictory; but no alarm was felt till the bucket rose
beyond its proper height. Stone when at the shaft had
asked another man if he thought it was a journey of
men coming up?—a question which implied that he did
not consider the notice given was a sufficient proof that
men were really coming up. The case against Stone
rested on the fact that he was absent from his engine
till the men had almost reached the surface; that the
pin must have received a very violent blow to break it;
and that it was highly probable from his neglecting to
check speed as the bucket ascended, and his having gone
to the engine-house only as the men came to the surface,
he had made so violent an effort to stop the engine that
the pin snapped. The jury gave a verdict of
"Manslaughter against Stone."

A poor man named John Carson Died of Hydrophobia,
on the 9th, at Banbridge, near Newry. His hand was
slightly bit on the 23rd of June by a stray dog which he
had found and brought home, and which died two
days afterwards. The wound healed in a few days,
without giving him any uneasiness of mind, and he
continued in the enjoyment of good health up to Sep. 4,
when he passed a very restless night. On the morning
of the 6th, medical aid was called in, but in vain. On
that and the two following days he was quite sensible,
and talked seriously about his death with different
clergymen who visited him. He changed, became
slightly delirious, muttered unconnected sentences, in
dread of everything, and thought the different people
around him were conspiring to destroy him. When
visited by the medical men he said "they were a parcel
of murdering villains, and that they had killed him, for
which he would have revenge by day or by night." He
was now secured, but so slightly, that he broke loose,
seized a stick, and had no difficulty in clearing the
house, as all fled before him. No one dared subsequently
to enter, until a police-constable voluntarily came
forward, entered and seized him, and was the main hand
in properly securing him, while he attempted to bite
the people about him. He continued in this until six
o'clock on the morning of the 9th, when he, by degrees,
became insensible, and, between nine and ten o'clock,
death put an end to his sufferings. During the whole
time his dread of fluids was excessive, and even bringing
a handkerchief near his face brought on the spasms,
which prevented an attempt to relieve him by the
inhalation of chloroform.

A Fatal Accident happened on the 8th, in the village
of Ballyclare, in Antrim. A gentleman was delivering
a lecture on Electro-biology to a crowded assemblage,
in a large loft in an old paper-mill, when the floor gave
way, and the persons present were precipitated to the
floor below. Three persons, one of them Mr. Robert
How, mill-owner of Ballynure, were killed on the
spot, and fifty or sixty were injured, many of them
dangerously.

A Singular Accident has occurred on the Forth and
Clyde canal. A heavily-laden scow, proceeding from
Glasgow down the canal, came in collision with a
schooner, and was capsized. The men on board got to
land, but in the cabin were a woman and child; the
boat had been turned completely over, and the water
did not enter the cabin; for half an hour the woman's
screams were heard. The men hastened to cut a hole
in the bottom of the boat; but their well-meant zeal
was fatal: no sooner was a hole made, than the air
escaped from the cabin, and the water rushing in from
below to supply its place, both mother and child
perished.

At Strontian, eight persons, who had been attending
the Gaelic service in the Free Kirk, attempted to cross
a ferry in a small punt; it sank, twenty-five yards from
the further shore, and four women and a man were
Drowned. The three other passsengers were rescued by
a boat which put off to their aid.

Mrs. Johnson, a widow of the great age of ninety-one,
has been killed at Walworth by Falling from a Window
while wandering about the upper part of a house at
night in her sleep. She was under the care of a nurse,
who was not aware that she had left her bed till roused
by a young man who saw her fall upon the pavement.

The Oriental Company's steamer Pacha was Lost in
the Straits of Malacca, on the night of the 21st of July.
On her voyage from Singapore to Penang, the Pacha met
her consort, the steam-ship Erin. The two ships sighted
each other in the night; and the lights of each were
first seen by the other at a distance of 9 miles. From some
unexplained fatality, the vessels during all that distance
continued to bear down on each other, and ultimately
came into collision. The Pacha sank almost instantly,
and sixteen persons were drowned. Among the lost
were Dr. Briscoe, surgeon of the Fifty-ninth regiment,
a French gentleman named Hardouin, and two Chinese
passengers; the rest were petty officers and seamen of
the crew. A letter from a passenger on board the Pacha
gives the following particulars of the catastrophe:—
"The Erin cut right into the middle of the Pacha. I
heard the captain, Miller, sing out, 'Starboard, hard a
starboard,' and I knew there was something wrong
directly. I jumped up, put on my trousers, and ran on
deck; but before I could get up the companion the Erin
was right into the starboard side, and the Pacha's
foremast went directly. I ran forward and was coming aft
again, when the first engineer told me the forehold was
full of water and the ship gradually settling down,
which she was. We ran aft to the quarter boats, and
the people were lowering them down. I went to the
companion for a tomahawk to cut them away. The
people were crowding into them, so I got one of the life-
buoys and put it on, and just then the Pacha gave a
plunge, and went down head foremost. I had only time
to jump and clear the rail and boats' davits. The Pacha
in going down sucked me under a considerable distance.
It was certainly an awful moment to hear and see the
waters gurgling and darkening over head; but thank
God, in a short time I rose and found myself among a
heap of spars and I cannot tell what of the wreck. The
scene around was a fearful one. The Erin was a short
distance off, with the forepart of her nearly gone; and
to hear the poor fellows around me crying out for
somebody to come and save them was heart-rending. The
Erin immediately lowered down her boats and picked
up fifteen ot us that were floating about—the remainder
were got up the bows of the Erin. It is certainly
miraculous how so many were saved, as it was only four
minutes from the time of the collision taking place to
the time of the Pacha's sinking, and the Erin nearly as
bad. When we got on board she was going fast down
by the head; however, they got a sail round the bows of
the vessel, and after being there for three hours, we
went on to Singapore, where we arrived on the 22nd, at
2.30 p.m., and next morning there was 7 feet of water in
the engine-room, all the opium in the forehold ruined,
and a great deal in the after one. There is not one of us
that has saved a rag of clothes. I had nothing on but a
shirt and trousers."