... the shying of the horse at the glare of a smith's forge a little beyond the Drygate Toll. While we deplore this melancholy casualty, we must say, that, had the conditions of the Turnpike Act been rigidly enforced, as they ought to have been, this accident ...

... Seaton ship, since arrived at the above port. The total loss of the above vessels, with their cargoes, is calculated to amount to £40,000. Destruction of Three Ships by Icebergs.—Jitters have been received announcing the following losses : —The ship Ann ...

... Then again, why should there not be an ' Emigration Service' and Secretary, with adjuncts, with funds, forces, idle navy-ships, and ever-increasing apparatus ; fine, an effective system of emigration, so that, at length, before our twenty years of respite ...

... receive. The progress of the ship, which was three- strongly built, and of 300 tons burden, was ?*tched with the most intense interest. The vessel and steamer were soon about mile out in the sea, as J*** as might be to the Old Ship Tavern. Farther to S West ...

... Government: —If the Government will anchor a line-of-battle ship at the back of the Goodwin Sands, out of the ship-track, so that no harm may happen to passing vessels, will, from on board another ship, destroy her at a distance of five miles. lam willing to ...

... ashore with the other five, but they refused to abandon the ship, which now lies almost keel up the strand. She was tons burthen. The bodies of tbe ill-fated men are not found. Another fatal casualty occurred at Clogher, about seven miles from Drogheda. A ...

... individual in all respects qualified to fill his place. Fatal Casualty.—On Monday last, between twelve and one o'clock, a lad about fifteen years age, employed on board the Admiral steam-ship as a deck steward, named Alexander Martin, lost his life at the ...

... forwarded the grain to Greenock by railway, a distance nearly equal to that between Edinburgh and Dumfries; and from Greenock he shipped it to Liverpool, and thence again to Galloway— vie whole land and water carriage costing him only and consequently saving ...

... Kong the robberies were on the increase ; and such is the audacity and skill of these pre-eminent thieves, that almost every ship in the harbour has discovered the loss of her deep sea leaf chains, stoppers, &c, without the smallest clue to detection. London ...

... Although much property is destroyed, no life has been lost. Loss of Two Emigrant Ships.—The last accounts from St. John's, Newfoundland, mention the loss of two emigrant ships, the Rosebank, from Belfast, and the Rhydal, from Aberstwith, which occurred in ...

... other vessel ever attained unto before her; and completed the whole series of magnetic observations left unfinished by H.M. ships Terror and Erebus. The Pagoda very nearly reached the magnetic pole ; but the quantity of compact ice and icebergs which she ...

... of the revenue, and the non-payment of the troops, were expected to lead to serious results. erßy the arrival of the steam-ship Thames, we learn House of Assembly, Jamaica, was opened by on the 21st ult., a speech in which he con- Vsjyjßated the colony ...