entirely suspended; the damage done amounts to
many thousand pounds.—At Liverpool, great damage
was done to the shipping, even in the docks. A
fine ship, the Providence, which left the port on
Sunday for the coast of Africa, struck on the Burbo
Bank, at the mouth of the Mersey. As soon as the
accident was known, the Magazine life-boat was taken
by a steam-tug to the locality, and managed to rescue
thirteen persons; but the first and second mate, and
twenty-one of the crew perished. The Arcturus, from
Ibrail, struck on Crosby Point, and became a total wreck;
the pilot and first mate were drowned. The Aurora,
from Cardiff, was also lost, near Holyhead; but her
people escaped.—Two vessels were lost on the sands off
Yarmouth, within sight of a fishing-lugger, which
could render no assistance. One ship was dashed to
pieces; the other struck the sands, got off again, and
then foundered: every soul perished. From the size of
the vessels, it is calculated that twenty men must have
been drowned.—Many wrecks and minor casualties are
reported from Wales, but without loss of life.

On the 8th, about noon, a Boat was Lost belonging to
the Dolphin, revenue-cutter, containing five men, one a
custom-house officer, and four rowers. When leaving a
brig they had boarded opposite Woolwich Dockyard, they
cast off at the moment the Sylph, Woolwich Company's
steam-packet, was approaching; and before the boat
could get out of the way and the steamer eased, it was
cut in two, and the whole of the men went under the
wheel of the steamer. Four of the men were saved;
but one, named Manning, was drowned, and another
severely hurt. There was no blame attached to the
Sylph, as her captain and crew did all in their power to
avert the accident.

On the 8th, an Explosion occurred at the powder-
mills of Messrs. Hall, near Faversham. Providentially
the workmen were not in the mill at the time; and the
damage was confined to the destruction of the building
in which the explosion took place.

A little boy of seven years old was literally Cut to
Pieces at Newton, near Mabgate, in Yorkshire, on the
9th. He was the son of Smith Deuce, a brick-maker,
and had gone into the brick-shed where his father
worked. The clay in this yard is worked by machinery,
being put into an aperture filled with clay-knives, and
the whole set in motion by steam-power. The engine on
this occasion was at work, and the poor child accidentally
fell in amongst the knives, and was instantly killed.

A Destructive Fire broke out on the evening of the
19th, on the premises of Mr. Bennington, a painter and
glazier, in Grange Road, Bermondsey, in consequence
of Mr. Bennington having let a lighted candle fall into
some liquid varnish which he was preparing. Several
engines were speedily on the spot, but owing to the
want of water they were comparatively useless, and Mr.
Bennington's premises, his furniture, stock in trade,
were totally consumed. He was not insured, and his
family, who a few hours previously were in comparatively
affluent circumstances, have been reduced to a state of
utter destitution.

On the 19th, Mr. Longfield, a druggist in Leeds, was
nearly killed by the Imprudent use of Naphtha; while
pouring this substance from a large into a smaller vessel,
it ignited at a lamp which he had placed on the floor
near the vessel. In a moment he was enveloped in
flames, and was so dreadfully burned that for some time
it was doubted whether he would recover.

On the evening of the 23rd a young man was Killed
at the terminus of the London and South-Western
Railway, Waterloo Road. A number of men were
engaged at the usual hour making ready the train for
Southampton, when Thomas Martin, one of the
company's porters, made an attempt to cross through a
vacancy between a number of carriages. Unfortunately
at that instant six or seven men, who did not perceive
that Martin was crossing the rails, pushed a number of
carriages forward with such violence as to force the
poor fellow against the buffers of the carriages. He was
speedily extricated, and removed to St. Thomas's
Hospital, where he died soon after his admission.

On the night of the 23rd, a bailiff named Andy was
Shot Dead at Newtown, in Tipperary. He went to serve
in order from the Tipperary Bank on Luby, a farmer
who, on seeing him enter, deliberately laid hold of his
gun, and advancing to within two or three yards of him
fired, and literally tore open the belly and side of the
unfortunate man. It is needless to say he died
instantaneously. The poor man had sent his wife to America
last summer, and expected to join her as soon as she
would be able to send him a remittance.

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL
PROGRESS.

One of the letters on "Labour and the Poor," recently
published in the Morning Chronicle, contains some
Remarkable Omnibus Statistics. The total number of
omnibuses traversing the streets of London is about
3000, paying duty (including mileage) , averaging £9 per
month each, or £324,000 per annum. The number of
conductors and drivers is about 700, paying annually 5s.
each for their licenses, or £1750 collectively. The
receipts of each vehicle vary from £2 to £4 per day;
estimating the whole 3000 at £3, it follows that the
entire sum expended annually in omnibus hire by the
people of London amounts to no less than £3,285,000.
The average journey, as regards length, of each omnibus,
is six miles, and that distance is, in some cases, travelled
twelve times a day by each omnibus. Taking the
average as between forty-five and fifty miles a day travelled
by each omnibus, and computing the omnibuses running
daily at 3000, we find "a travel" of upwards of 140,000
miles daily, or a yearly " travel" of more than fifty
millions of miles. On each of its journeys, an omnibus
carries on the average fifteen persons. Nearly all are
licensed to carry twenty-two (thirteen inside and nine
out), and that number perhaps is sometimes exceeded,
while fifteen is a fair computation; for as every omnibus
has now the fares of 3d. and 6d., there are two sets of
passengers, and the number of fifteen through the whole
distance on each journey of the omnibus, is (as has been
said,) a fair computation, for sometimes the vehicle is
almost empty, as a set-off to its being crammed at other
times. This computation shows the daily "travel,"
reckoning ten journeys a day, of 450,000 passengers.
Thus we might be led to believe that about one-fourth
of the entire population of the metropolis and its suburbs
—men, women, and children; the inmates of hospitals,
gaols, and workhouses; paupers, peers, and their families
all included—were daily travelling in omnibuses. But
it must be borne in mind that as most omnibus travellers
use that convenient mode of conveyance at least twice a
day, we may compute the number of individuals at
225,000, or, allowing three journeys as an average daily
travel, at 150,000. The extent of individual travel
performed by some of the omnibus drivers is enormous.
One man stated that he had driven "his bus" 72 miles
(12 stages of six miles) every day for six years, with the
exception of twelve miles less every second Sunday, so
that this man had driven in six years, 179,568 miles.

An Experimental School for Juvenile Delinquents has
been formed at Aberdeen by Mr. Watson, the sheriff.
A preliminary meeting was held on the evening of the
7th, in the soup-kitchen in Loch Street, which has been
appropriated for the school. About thirty young thieves
were present. A plentiful supply of coffee and rolls was
provided; and they appeared greatly delighted with
their treat. The sheriff urged the boys to come back
next morning at eight, to be fed, taught, and amused all
day, and get home in the evening at seven. They would
have (he said) a little work to do, they would get
abundance of food, useful instruction, and plenty of play.
The school would be open for two months, and by that
time, he hoped employment would be got for the big
boys, and the younger might be transferred to one of
the Juvenile Industrial Schools. On his appealing to
them whether they wished to live honestly or not,
vehement responses of "Yes, yes," were returned. In
answer to their previous statement, that their parents
required them to do something to help them, the sheriff
said that nothing was more necessary than that their
parents should get food, but if they came to the school
and gave sufficient evidence of their need, they would
get it, or the boys might take it home to them at night.
This promise drew forth joyous expressions. The boys