The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

VESSICIA SPOKEN WITH.

Circassian ;schooner', from London for St. Helena, Nov. 28, lat
7.18 N, lon 17. V 16 W.
Lady Clarendon ,Liudish Alp', outward bound, Nov. 20, Ist
N. lon 24.20 W.
North Atlantic, from Liverpool for Calcutta, 127 days, Nov. 30.
Spray of the Ocean (ship„ hov. 21, lat SO 5, lon 124
St. Jean, from Loudon for Adelaide, 3.5 days, Sept. U.

A MELANCHOLY VOYAOL—The brig Mignonette,
Captain C. Selbery, of and for Loudon, fartvfour days from
Surinam, put into Plymouth Sound on ilkinday evening.
After her cargo of sugar was on board, fever and ague ap-
peared among the crew, but, as seven men emit ashore from
a Dutch merchant ship had all died in the hospital, it, was
determined to go to sea, hoping that change of air might
give relief. Robert Smith, of Whitby, able seaman, died
in December ; Robert Walker, of Leith, died December ;
and Peter Anderson, a Swede, the previous day, and was
buried at sea. AU the crew were severely afflicted except,
the master, Isaac Fisher; the carpenter ; Selbery,
seaman ; and Harry Hunt, boy. While they attended to
the ship the sick were without help. The following are at
the Sailors' Home, Plymouth :-Joseph Aver, sate, dan-
gerous ; James ',rite, steward ; Frederick lisy, semen ;
Nurveaki, seaman ; and John Mew, ho;. Near Fahnouth
the brig obtained two men from the ship John Howe, from
Moulmein. The Mignonette belongs to Messrs. Serutton
and CO. . . .

MINUULAR AND FATAL ACCIDINT.—An inquest
was held at the Crown Inn, Bridge-street, Banbury, on
Friday last, before T. Pain, Fag., borough coroner, upon
the body of Ann Halmos, aged 1 years, who came by her
death througl accidentally falling into a well the mune morn-
ing. Mrs. Wakelin, the principal witness, and with whom
the unfortunate girl had been living for about two mouth,,
said she ordered the deceased to light a fire in the kitchen
about rime o'clock in the morning, in doing whiab she would
have to pass through the coal-house. She had lit the fire,
and was about supplying it with fuel, when it appeared the
fluor gave way. Mrs. Wakelin sent her little
.girl for some
coals for the home fire, and she returned, saying that them
was a large hole in the kitchen floor, into which it ap-
peared the girl bad fallen, and which afterwards turned out
to bee well 17 feet deep. Mrs. Wakelin then went for
her husband—a distance of at least 150 yards—who was
soon on the spot, and succeeded in bringing her from the
bottom of the well but life was quite extinct. the deceased
having been under water, with a large portion of earth upon
her body, for nearly twenty minutes. It is a singular fact
that the parties had resided in the house for a period of five
years without knowing there was a well on the premises. A
verdict of "Accidently drowned" was returned.
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