any person vending fruit or other articles in the streets
after a certain time in the morning. On Sunday morning
the police, in enforcing the regulation, gave chace to
the poor woman, who was selling oranges. In
endeavouring to escape with her stock in trade, she attempted
to cross the New-road, when she was knocked down by a
cab horse. The wheel of the vehicle passed over her
head, causing such severe injuries that she died almost
instantly.

A Frightful Accident has taken place at Ravensdale
corn-mill, in Cumberland. Young Mr. Anthony Dawson
was left alone in the mill by his father at half-past three
o'clock in the morning. While in the act of placing the
belt upon one of the wheels to set more machinery
to work, he was caught by the axle, and wound up by
his clothes, and crushed in the most shocking manner.
Some idea may be formed of the sufferings of the
unfortunate man, and the awful pressure upon him, from the
fact that his body, thus entangled, stopped all the power
and machinery of the mill, and that he was held in that
painful position upwards of four hours. The accident
was not discovered till eight o'clock, when the sufferer
was released. Two surgeons were immediately in
attendance, but could render him no assistance, and he
only lingered until one o'clock. He was quite sensible
all the time, and gave a full account of the accident.

Shrivenham House, in Wilts, the property of Viscount
Barrington, has been completely Destroyed by a Fire,
which appears to have originated in the kitchen
chimney. The building burst into flames when the
doors were opened in the morning. The house was
occupied by Mr. Pole: part of the contents were saved.

A serious Railway Accident occurred on the night of
the 10th instant, on the branch of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, from New Holland to
the market town of Barton. A new engine was drawing
the 5 o'clock train, and had, with one stoppage, brought
it in safety the three and a half miles to Barton; but on
arriving there, the driver and guard were unable to
make their breaks act efficiently, and the engine went at
the rate of twelve or fourteen miles an hour through a
thick wall at the end of the line into the station house,
the internal fittings being completely smashed. Mr.
Taylor, the station master, was writing at his desk at the
time, and had a very narrow escape. Hearing the loud
shouts of the people outside, he ran out, and had not
been gone a second, when the buffers of the engine
smashed the counter he was sitting at into splinters.
The engine driver, Vince, and the stoker, saved
themselves by leaping on to the platform when they found
the train could not be stopped. The former went back
to New Holland, gave information of the accident, and
has not been heard of since. Several of the passengers
were injured. Mrs. Morley, of Hull, was most severely
cut and bruised about the legs, and several others are
now under medical treatment for the injuries received.
The train consisted of five carriages and a luggage van,
and it is singular that the persons who were riding in
the carriage immediately behind the engine, which was,
so to speak, "doubled up" by the concussion, escaped
without the slightest injury, while those who were hurt
were travelling in the last carriage of the train.

On the 15th inst., at the village of Renton, near
Dumbarton, Seven Children Perished in a Fire, which
destroyed two houses. About six o'clock in the evening
smoke was seen issuing from the window of a garret in
the front tenement occupied by a person named Loy, in
which his two sons with five other children had been
amusing themselves in the afternoon during his absence
at work at Dumbarton, where he is employed as a
labourer. The flames spread with such fearful rapidity
that in a few minutes the roof was beyond recovery, and
in a short time the fire had communicated with, and
taken effect upon, the thatch of the adjacent dwelling-
house. The villagers were ignorant of the imminent
danger of the occupants of the garret, for no attempt was
made to rescue them from the flames. There is too
much reason to fear, however, that the dense smoke
which filled the apartment had suffocated the ill-fated
children at an early period of the evening, and that
they were thus prevented from continuing their calls for
assistance. Several men attempted to effect an entrance,
first by the door and then by a window; but they were
baffled by the intensity of the heat. Almost
immediately afterwards the roof feel in with a tremendous
crash, burying the seven children. The origin of the
fire has not been discovered.

A boy ten years old Drowned Himself in Derby on
the 14th inst., from mortification at his mother having
discovered that he stole sixpence.

An explosion of Fire-damp took place on the evening
of the 23rd, in a colliery at Pemberton, near Wigan, by
which ten persons were killed, and six others so much
injured that their lives were despaired of. An inquest
on the bodies has commenced.

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL
PROGRESS.

A deputation from the Metropolitan Sanitary
Association—very numerous, and headed by the Bishop of
London—has been received by Lord Derby, and assured
by him, that, "short as the session would be, the government
was in hopes of doing something towards settling
the important question of Intramural Burial before the
separation of Parliament."

Very important discoveries of first-rate Iron-Stone
have been recently made in the oölite district, near
Thirsk, amongst which are the beds known as the
Cleveland and the Northampton. There is a great
variety of ores, the iron being found in combination with
the lime and sandstone as well as the clay of the geological
formation.

The first triennial visitation of the Queen's College at
Belfast was held on the 5th instant, by the visitors, the
Duke of Leinster, Lord Chancellor Brady, Judge Green,
the Bishop of Down and Connor, and Dr. Coulter,
moderator of the General Assembly, in the presence of
a great and distinguished company. The students were
eleven more than last year; and the matriculation-fees
were £1443; they had been £1320 last year, and £1242
the year before. The Duke of Leinster, on behalf of
the visitors, said that, everything they saw gave them
the highest gratification.

The seventh anniversary festival of the General
Theatrical Fund took place on the 5th instant, at the
London Tavern, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, who occupied
the chair, congratulated the meeting on the success
which had attended their efforts, and attributed that
success to the recognition of two principles, on which
every society which had for its object the benefit of the
professors of any art ought to be founded. The first of
these was the principle that every such society ought to
embrace the objects of a mutual benefit association; and
the second was, the recognition of the fact that art was
something imperishable and universal, and was not
confined to any particular buildings of brick and mortar in
which it might be exercised. The peculiar feature and
merit of the association the members and friends of
which he was addressing was, that they recognised these
principles, that they had nothing to do with associations
connected with certain buildings, endowed with exclusive
patents and privileges it was true, but from which
the drama had long gone forth. The General Theatrical
Fund was established not for the benefit of a professional
party, but for the professors of an art, and the society
must therefore endure because it had attached itself to
two things which would endure after the Pyramids were
dust—art and misfortune. Mr. Buckstone, the honorary
treasurer, adverted to the balance in hand, and
announced a prospective legacy from Mr. T. P. Cooke,
of £1000. Among the subscriptions announced were,
the Queen's annual donation of £100; Sir Edward B.
Lytton, £10; the Duke of Devonshire, £10 10s.; Earl
Fitzhardinge, £5 5s.; Dr. Hastings, £5 5s.; Mr.
Webster, £5 5s.; Mr. Montague, £5 5s.; Mr. Lumley, £5 5s.;
Mr. C. Kean, £5 5s.; Mr. Phelps, £5 5s.; Mrs. Theodore
Martin (late Miss H. Faucitt), £5 5s; Mr. Toole,
£3 3s.; Madame Celeste, £5 5s.; Mr. T. P. Cooke,
£3 3s., and a number of others, from members of the
profession.

The tercentenary commemoration of the founding of
King Edward's School at Birmingham was observed, on