The Press.
London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

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THE QUICKEST PASSAGE IN THE CHANNEL WKS
made last week by the Royal Mail packet Prince
Frederick William, which ran with the mails from
Dover to Calais, against tide, in one hour and twenty-
seven minutes, and returned next morning in one
hour and twenty.one minutes. On Saturday night
she proceeded to Ostend, and ran the seventy-three
statute miles in three hours and fifty minutes from
the time she was ordered to go on outside Dover Pier
to the time she was eased in Ostend Harbour,
averaging in this passage a speed of above nineteen
miles an hour. She landed her mails and fifty-seven
passengers at Ostend three hours and a half before
the mail train started.
A GREAT COURSING MATCH, extending over three
days (says the Carlisle Patriot), is to come off at
Brougham and Whinfell early in the ensuing month.
It is intended to match the dogs of England and
Ireland against those of Scotland, and, perhaps, a
better field for competition could not be selected.
The family at Brougham hall are taking great
interest in the matter. The stewards are to be Lord
Bective, Mr. W. Sharp (Hoddam Castle), Mr. A.
Graham (Limekilns), Captain Spencer, Mr. John
Hutchinson, and Mr. William Brougham.
A SINGULAR ACCIDENT occurred last week at the
Lakes. Among the numerous visitors to the district
was Dr. Day, the Professor of Medicine in the Uni-
versity of St. Andrew's, accompanied by a friend.
On Friday he alon3 made an ascent of Helvellyn
from Patterdale, and having made several previous
ascents of the mountain from the same place, he
went unaccompanied by a guide. He determined to
descend in the neighbourhood of the Greenside Lead
Mines, and took what appeared to be the best and
smoothest route, when suddenly the earth behind
him gave way, and in an instant he was precipitated
into a .tavern beneath. The suffocating feelings pro-
duced by the state of the air into which he had fallen
at once convinced him that he was in the tunnel
made to convey away the sulphurous gases from the
smelting works of the mines, and he felt that a
violent effort must be made to gain the opening
through which he had fallen, or that a speedy death
was inevitable. Happily he was just able to reach
the opening, and to keep his bead in the fresh air
above it ; and in this position he remained for some
hours, partially banging by one arm, as he found the
other was powerless, and calling at intervals for help.
As the evening approached, three gentlemen tourists
happily name that way and rescued him. The
doctor is still suffering severely from the effects of
his accident.
THE CORNISH FISHERMEN have been very success-
ful in their pilchard fishing during the past week, two
Gorran Haven seines shot off Hemmick having real-
ised about 800 hogsheads of fine fish, and several of
the drift boats having taken from 8,000 to 13,000
fish per boat. The mackerel fishery is also brisk on
the South Devon coast; many thousands of fine fish
having been captured during the past week, at Bud-
leigh Salterton, and along the intermediate coast to
Plymouth.
A WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE is about to be estab-
lished in Wolverhampton with the consent of the
trustees of the Grammar School, the premises lately
occupied by the second master, in St. John's-
street, having been taken for the purposes of the
proposed college.
GRAND FEsrmrrrEs took place in the beautiful
grounds of Blickling-hall, Norfolk, on Friday week,
in celebration of the marriage of the Marquis of
Lothian with the Lady Constance Talbot. About
1,000 persons were entertained at dinner, and the
day was passed in sports and amusements of the true
old English kind.
ADMIRAL HAWTAYNE met with a fatal accident on
Tuesday at Lowestoft. The gallant admiral was
walking on the south pier with a little girl and a
lady, her mother, and, the evening being very dark,
he fell over the side of the pier. The water was very
shallow, but the admiral sustained a concussion of
the brain, and died in about half an hour. The
accident was first discovered by the screams of the
little girl, who also fell off the pier with the admiral,
and whose cries attracted her mother to the spot.
The child was happily rescued.
COLONEL WILBRAHAM, C. 8., of Rode-hall, Chesire,
was presented by his tenants on Tuesday with a
superb sword of honour, and a copy of the Wellington
Despatches, as a mark of respect and admiration of
the gallant officer.