Mrs. Sloane has been apprehended and brought to
London. The statement that she had left this country
immediately after the examination of Mr. Sloane, turns
out to have been correct. Since the finding of the true
bill by the Grand Jury against Mr. Sloane, the police
have been indefatigable in their exertions to trace her
whereabouts. In consequence of the reports that she
was residing at Boulogne, two superior officers of that
force proceeded to that port, where, however, they did
not succeed in finding her; but they learnt that she had
left for England. They immediately returned to this
country; and on the morning of the 28th, early
information reached the Lord Mayor that they had succeeded
in the object of their search, and had apprehended her.
It appears that, on the police officers arriving at
Boulogne, they ascertained that Mrs. Sloane was
actually residing there, and in consequence of the
representations made to the French authorities, an order
was issued that she should quit France by the next
packet sailing for Folkstone. The police officers also
returned in the same packet, and on their arrival at
Folkstone, took her into custody, and brought her to
London. She was immediately conveyed to Westminster-hall,
and introduced into the judge's room,
when Mr. Justice Erle attended for the purpose of
taking the surrender and signing the order of committal.
On her being introduced to the Judge, she was unable
to stand, and was accommodated with a chair. The
necessary evidence having been given, Mr. Justice Erle
asked the prisoner if she was prepared with bail? she
feebly said she was not. The Judge then signed the
order of committal, and she was conveyed to Newgate.
She was dressed in an old black silk bonnet and thick
black veil, the lower part of her face being covered;
she also wore an old and faded black silk cloak; and
altogether her appearance was most pitiable.

John Moules, a young man, was charged on the 27th,
at the Clerkenwell police-court, with having committed
a Murderous Assault upon police-constable Hayes. The
prosecutor was in so weak a condition and in such pain
that he was allowed a seat while he gave his evidence.
It appeared that on last Sunday night week, about 12
o'clock, the policeman was on duty in College Street,
St. Pancras, when he found the prisoner in a state
of intoxication, and was good-naturedly assisting
him towards his place of abode, when he suddenly
turned upon him and gave him a tremendous kick in
the belly. He fell down and became insensible. A
gentleman who witnessed the outrage stopped the
prisoner, and gave him into the custody of an officer,
who took him to the station-house, while the prosecutor
was carried away for medical assistance. Mr. Smelly,
a surgeon, said he was called upon to attend the injured
officer, whom he found ir. considerable pain and injured
severely on the abdomen. His life was then in great
danger, but he had now materially recovered, but was
unable to perform his duty. The prisoner said nothing
in his defence, and was fully committed for trial.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER.

I here have been Disastrous Floods in Cumberland.
On New Year's night, a violent gale from the south
west was accompanied with heavy rain. The effect was
that the waters of Ullswater Lake (augmented by the
downpouring upon the mountain range amid which it is
situate) were forced into the channel of the Eamont and
thence into the Eden. The Caldew and Petteril also rose
far beyond their wonted volume; the latter, in particular,
so much overflowed its wonted bounds, that the fields,
right and left, and the high road to Warwick on the
eastern side of the Petteril Bridge, were laid under
water, in some places several feet in depth, cutting off all
communication with the city on that side except on
horseback, or in carriages, carts, or other high-wheeled
vehicles. All the low and level grounds bordering the
Eden for miles, both above and below Carlisle Bridge,
were covered with a body of water which had the
appearance of a vast lake. When the tide of the Solway
began to retire, the flood also began to fall. Many
sheep and cattle were lost; more would have perished
had they not been taken off from elevated spots, to
which they had found their way, by persons in boats.

On Christmas night, a Dreadful Occurrence took
place near Kilrush, in the county of Limerick. Bridget
Haugh dressed herself in man's clothes, and, having
blackened her face, went to her father-in-law's house to
have some diversion. Her brother-in-law was taking
care of the house, as his father was not at home; he had
a loaded gun in his hand, and when he saw, as he
thought, the man blackened, he presented his gun at
his sister-in-law and fired, and lodged the contents of it
between her shoulders. She died at once. There was
an inquest held on her body, and the verdict returned
was manslaughter against Michael Haugh, her brother-
in-law.

A Canoe with nineteen naked Savages was picked up
on the 7th of September, by the Jeremiah Garnett,
Captain Daly, on her voyage from Shanghai to Liverpool.
They had, thirteen days before, been blown out
to sea from the islands of St. David's, which lie off New
Guinea. One of the poor wretches died the same
evening. Captain Daly landed the others at St. David's
from whence they had been driven.

An accident happened on the North Western Railway
on the 4th. Near the Boxmoor station an express-train
ran into a goods-train, which had drawn up on account
of the lameness of its engine. The driver and guard of
the express-train saw the goods-train when nearly a
thousand yards from it; but their pace was great—
thirty-five miles an hour, and the rails were slippery
from a shower that had just fallen; so they could not
do more than slacken their rate to about eight miles an
hour at the moment of coming in contact with the
standing carriages. The driver and the stoker of the
express-train leaped off their engine at the instant of
collision: the first escaped without material hurt, but
the second entangled his foot, fell on the road, and was
taken up insensible; he revived under the application
of stimulants, but has been dangerously bruised. Twelve
or fourteen passengers were injured, some of them
severely; one lady lost her teeth.

In the course of erecting some large granaries at the
King's Cross terminus of the same Railway, an iron
girder was lifted by shears to the top of a column that is
to form one of the supporters of the roof. At the
moment the girder was at its greatest height, the shears
slipped, a gye-rope gave way under the vibratory strain,
and the ponderous mass fell into a canal, carrying
everything with it in its course. James Kendal, carpenter,
was killed on the spot, and Green has since died in the
University Hospital. A coroner's inquest on the body
of Kendal found that the cause of death was accidental.

Several disasters at Sea took place in the channel
during the heavy gale on the night of the 8th. A
schooner was wrecked on the Nass Sands, and every
soul on board perished: the name is unknown. The
brig Hazard, from Messina, drove ashore. The sloop
Anna Maria, from Bulla, foundered in the gale; the
crew were saved.

Two fatal accidents have taken place on the Eastern
Counties Railway. On Wednesday the 8th, a special
train was engaged by a son of Professor Haviland of
Cambridge, to hasten him to the side of his father's
deathbed. The train started from Shoreditch at 5.50 A.M.,
at such a distance after the Hertford luggage-train as
that it would overtake it somewhere about the Ponder's
End station. At 5.55 the electric telegraph was put in
motion to clear the line in front of the special-train;
and after nine minutes of calling the Tottenham Road
station sent its answer of obedience. But ten minutes
of similar calling on the Ponder's End station proved
vain; and at 6.14 the message was passed onwards
direct to the Waltham station. It appears that the
collision must have occurred in this ten minutes during
which the attention of Ponder's End station was vainly
solicited. Vincent Lodwick was the night-inspector at
the Ponder's End station: his duties were "to attend to
the telegraph, the gates of the level crossing, the signals,
the trains and their shunting." Within the quarter of
an hour after six o'clock, three ordinary trains, and
the special train, arrived at Ponder's End. Two of
these accomplished "shuntings." While one of the