session of the starboard-boat for the purpose of getting ashore. They let go the fore-davit-fall, and at that moment some one cut away the stern-fall. The weight of persons in the quarter-boat (according to some accounts seven, by others eleven) caused her to upset, previous to her reaching the water, and several are supposed to be drowned. The horrible effects of the collision on board the Rambler are described by a writer who visited the wreck the following day.

"On going on board the Rambler, which we did by entering through the chasm made through her larboard side into the steerage, a most extraordinary sight presented itself. Part of the flooring of the quarter-deck was smashed through, and the remainder a confused mass of smashed tables, forms, boxes, &c. some floating in the water which had filled this part of the vessel. The scene on deck was still more horrifying; the whole, both fore and abaft the funnel, being covered with dead pigs, part crushed to death; while the rest appeared to have been stabbed; the whole mass saturated with the blood. The most awful sight, however, was the bows of the vessels, which were completely bedabbled with human blood, and strewed with crushed salmon, broken boxes, cordage, &c., and the fragments of the windlass. From this part of the vessel thirteen human beings had been extricated, some with broken arms, or dissevered legs, all dead, (others have since died in the hospital,) and so crushed as to be almost beyond recognition. One poor woman, with her infant child, was taken up from underneath the broken windlass, the iron spindle of which had fallen upon her head, and smashed it

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26. EPSOM RACES.-These sports commenced this day, and were attended throughout by every circumstance of sport and weather and company that could render the scene splendid and animated. On Tuesday, the stakes were of no great interest; but on Wednesday, "the Derby Day," the course was thronged by a most distinguished and numerous assemblage. Derby (193 subscribers) was won by Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First, ridden by S. Day; on Friday the Oaks were won by the same owner's Mendicant ridden by the same jockey. Such a coincidence has not occurred since 1815, when the Duke of Grafton won by Whisker and Minuet, Goodison riding both.

31. ACCIDENT ON H. M. S. CALEDONIA.-A fatal accident occurred on board the Caledonia man-of-war, of 120 guns, at Plymouth. When lowering the maintopgallant mast at sunset, the lizard unfortunately gave way, and the mast fell on the deck and killed three persons. At the time of the accident the officers and most of the crew were on deck. The lizard, unfortunately, was not securely stopped; and when the man at the mast-head found it slipping from the mast-rope, he sung out, as usual, Stand from under!" From forty to fifty hands, underneath, rushed forward out of danger. The sufferers, who were more aft, and not in a dangerous

position, unhappily followed the others, and thus came right under the falling mast.

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3. MURDER AND SUICIDE.-A

shocking occurrence took place in Widegate Street, Whitechapel. A man named John Toomy, by trade a jobbing tailor, lodged in the house No. 13 in the above street, with his wife, Mary Toomy, and three children. The eldest of these, a girl about thirteen years of age, went to the lodgings occupied by her parents about four o'clock in the afternoon. She knocked at the door, but receiving no answer, looked through the keyhole, and saw her father in a position which led her to believe he was in a fit. Having given the alarm, the door, which was locked, was burst open, and Toomy was found quite dead, suspended from the bedstead. A paper was found pinned to his coat, which contained a statement of the motives that induced the unhappy man to commit the act, viz., the dread of approaching starvation. About three quarters of an hour after the discovery of his dead body, in pushing the bedstead nearer the wall, the body of his wife was discovered on the floor under the bed. The poor woman was also quite dead, and from the appearances presented it was evident she had been inhumanly strangled; her hands were tied together, and were tightly and convulsively clasped; her legs were also bound with some shreds of old bed covering. An inquest was held on the bodies, when evidence was given of the great poverty of the family; and

it was stated that Toomy had been transported for robbing his employers, but that a part of his sentence had been remitted in consequence of his good behaviour, and he had returned to England about nine months before. Soon after his transportation his wife discovered that he had 1007. in the savings bank; upon application to the Secretary of State this sum had been paid over to her, and she had expended it in the support of herself and family during his absence. Upon Toomy's return he expected to find his wife in possession of this sum; and upon learning its disappearance, he conceived a violent hatred to his wife, and had frequently threatened her life. The Jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased, John Toomy, destroyed his wife and then himself, being at the time in a state of temporary insanity."

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"Italian Landscape," Claude, 1400 gs.; The Stubborn Ass," Berghem, 565 gs.; Morning Scene,' Cuyp, 1150 gs.; "Haarlem Wood," Hobbima, 700 gs.; "Bird's Eye View," De Koningh and Lingelbach, 1000l.; Portrait of " Catrina Hoogh," Rembrandt, 760 gs.; Eneas, with his father and son, visiting Helenus," Claude, 1200 Claude, 1200 gs.; The Cabaret, A. Van Ostade, 950 gs.; "The Farrier," K. du Jardin, 1350 gs.; "La Grande Kermesse," Teniers, 1200 gs. "Adoration of the Shepherds," Murillo, 2875 gs.; A Calm," Van der Veldt, 1680 gs.; "The Holy Family, with Elizabeth and St. John," Rubens, 2360 gs. The whole collection realized the large sum of 46,6037.

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5. VISIT OF IBRAHIM PASHA. The advent of this renowned chief, the most celebrated oriental general of this age, created no small degree of interest and curiosity. The sanguinary events of his campaigns against the Greeks, and the total frustration of his designs, and destruction of his fleet by the English and French squadron, at Navarino, and the fierce warfare in Syria in which he was again thwarted and his armies destroyed by the intervention of the English, were calculated to add a deep interest to that which would be felt by the visit of a Mohammedan prince of such exalted rank. His Highness had departed from Egypt partly to indulge his desire of knowledge by a tour through the principal Christian states, and partly for the recovery of his health by residence at the Italian baths, under the superintendence of European physicians; his constitution having been much injured, and his eyesight nearly lost by disease contracted during his Syrian

campaigns. His Highness having resided some time in Italy, had thence proceeded to France, where he had been received with distinguished consideration, and gratified by some splendid displays of military evolutions; he now added to his European experience a visit to his ancient and most formidable opponents. His Highness arrived. at Portsmouth in the French warsteamer, Gomer, accompanied by Soliman Pacha (Colonel Selves), the gallant defender of Acre, where he lost his leg, Ibrahim Bey, and a suite of officers and secretaries. His Highness remained in Portsmouth until Monday morning, visiting, in the interim, the Dockyard, Bakery, and the Victory ; and exhibited great feeling when introduced into the cock-pit, where the heroic Nelson, whom his great victory at the mouth of his own Nile rendered doubly interesting to him, expired. Arrived in London, the Pasha took up his residence at Mivart's Hotel, and was immediately visited by the Ministers, and by Prince Albert, who welcomed him in the name of Her Majesty, who had not yet sufficiently recovered from her accouchement to receive her illustrious visitor in person. Accompanied by officers of Her Majesty's Household the Pasha viewed the chief sights of London; and at the end of the week proceeded on a tour through the country, visiting Birmingham, Warwick, Manchester, Liverpool, Belfast, and returning to London Wednesday; and again commenced a round of sight-seeing, visiting. St. Paul's, the Houses of Parliament during their sittings, &c., &c. At length, on Tuesday the 11th, Her Majesty found herself sufficiently reco

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vered, and the affairs of the Ministry sufficiently settled, to admit of her receiving the illustrious visitor, who was received with that mixed dignity and cordiality which so distinguishes our youthful sovereign. The Pasha dined with Her Majesty in the evening. After being fêted by the Oriental Steam Navigation Company, the East India Company, and the most distinguished of the nobility, and undergone an herculean round of sight-seeing, the illustrious visitor departed for Portsmouth, whence he embarked on board Her Majesty's steamfrigate, Avenger, for Alexandria, highly pleased with his visit, and gratified by the manner in which he had been received by all classes. On the other hand, His Highness was exceedingly well liked for his frankness and bonhommie, and became exceedingly popular.

9. CONFLAGRATION OF ST. JOHN's, NEWFOUNDLAND.-A disastrous conflagration has laid nearly the whole of the flourishing city of St. John's in ashes. The fire broke out about half-past 8 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday the 9th June, in a cabinet maker's shop, in George Street, by what cause is unknown. The buildings of the city being, for the most part, of timber, the flames spread in every direction without control; and the peculiar merchandise of St. John's (oil, blubber, and other articles of a highly combustible nature) gave such fuel to the fire, that it is described that no sooner had a block of buildings caught than it was one mass of flames. The governor, Sir J. Harvey, was speedily at the spot, with the soldiers and artillerymen of the garrison; and under his directions several buildings were blown up,

with the purpose of making a break to stop the flames; in doing which some of the artillery were killed or hurt. These precautions were ineffectual, and the conflagration continued to spread until three-fourths of the city, comprising the whole business part of it, were laid in ashes. In addition to the buildings destroyed, some of the shipping lying near the wharfs were destroyed or injured. The extent of the district destroyed is two whole streets, each upwards of a mile long, together with the detached buildings and minor streets lying back from them. Among the public buildings destroyed are the Custom House, the Catholic Church, St. John's Cathedral Church, the Court House and Gaol, the Ordnance store, all the newspaper printing offices, the banks, the Legislative Hall, the Police and Post-offices, &c. By this calamity upwards of 12,000 people were rendered houseless, and were lodged in tents supplied from the army stores, and in huts hastily run up on the outskirts; and the loss of property is estimated at upwards of a million sterling.

HYDROPATHY.-An inquest was held in Eastcheap, (by adjournment from the previous Friday,) upon the body of Mr. Richard Dresser, an accountant, who died under the hydropathic treatment at Dr. Ellis's establishment, Sudbroke Park, near Petersham. The deceased voluntarily went to Sudbroke Park on the 22nd of last month, in the hope of being cured of rheumatism, with which he considered he was affected; and on the 26th he died. After his decease, Dr. Ellis stated to a cousin of Mr. Dresser's, that the patient had suffered from hepatitis; and had he known it he would not have ad

mitted him. Dr. Ellis examined the corpse, and wrote a diagnosis, in which also he declared the cause of death to have been "hepatitis of the sub-acute character, giving rise to suppuration, occasioning exudations of lymph, and a rapid extension of the disease to the adjoining viscera." Mrs. Dresser, widow of the deceased, described a visit she paid to her husband at Petersham, and the hydropathic treatment he experienced: to her it appeared very injurious. Mr. Dresser said he was kept very low in diet, which he had not been used to. After a bath, Mr. Dresser appeared dreadfully altered: one of the bathmen told her the patient's perspiration had stopped, and that was in his favour. Mr. James Hicks, a surgeon in the Old Kent Road, who had formerly attended deceased, made a post mortem examination of the body. Mr. Dresser had died of congestion"I consider the immediate cause of death to have been extreme congestion of the internal organs, the lungs and heart; which existed to such an extent as to produce all the effects of suffocation in not allowing air to get into the lungs. This congestion was likely to be produced by cold externally, whether by cold air or cold fluids to the body. Cold applications have the effect of repelling the blood from the surface of the body to the internal organs, from which in weak constitutions the system is unable to relieve itself. I have read the paper written by Dr. Ellis as to the cause of death. It does not contain at all the true cause of deceased's death; quite the contrary. There was not the least appearance of disease in the liver. There had evidently been congestion of the lungs when the wet

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clothes were applied; and if the water were cold it would produce death. In such cases there should be applications of hot flannels and stimulants, so as to restore circulation. There was no suppuration of any kind." The liver healthy but congested. Mr. Waterworth, Mr. Hicks's partner, agreed with him as to the cause of death, except that he did not consider the liver to be congested. Dr. Ellis's diagnosis. was quite erroneous. Deceased was a man of very feeble power as regarded the action of the heart. He did not think there was any reason for treating Mr. Dresser for diseased liver; and had such a disease existed, particularly with suppuration, putting him in a bath would peril his life.

Mr. Prendergast appeared for Dr. Ellis, but the coroner would not allow him to address the jury. The jury returned the following verdict: We have unanimously agreed, that Mr. Dresser's death resulted from the rash treatment he received under Dr. Ellis's care: we are unanimous in a verdict of manslaughter against Dr. Ellis.'"'

Dr. Ellis was thereon held to bail to take his trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court. The trial resulted in his acquittal.

DEATH OF THE POPE.-Intelligence was received from Paris, to which the news had been forwarded by telegraphic despatches, of the death of His Holiness Pope Gregory XVI. at Rome, on the 1st of June. An account of the life and pontificate of this Pontiff (Mauro Capellari) will be found in our Obituary.

ASCOT RACES.-The brilliant weather enjoyed throughout the whole of this summer has given unexampled splendour and attrac