The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-19 00:00:00

AN ENGLISH LADY DROWNEY) IN LOCHAWE.-

On Saturday the inhabitants of this sequestered
district bordering on the lower end of Lochawe were startled
with rumours of a young lao4 having been drowned while
bathing in the loch. Or, inquiry the painful tale was found
to be too true. 'l' he 'unfortunate lady was Miss Grove, the
daughter of an mr.inent member of the English bar of that
name, who, with her mother and some other members of the
family, had come a short time ago from the south to spend
a few weeks in the Highlands. The occurrence was rendered
all the more distressing by the painful catastrophe having
been witnessed from the shore by the poor girl's mcther and
sister. From the fact cf Miss Greve being able to swim, it
is supp .sed that cramp or some attack of a like nature must
have been the cause of the melancholy accident. Miss
Grove was 20 years of age, and was about to be married.
FALL FROM HUN STANTON CLIFFS.—A terrible
accident occurred at Hunstanton, St. Edmund's,
yesterday morning about 2 o'clock. William Oldfield, a
photographer, having fallen asleep or the top of the cliffs,
about 200 yards to the eastward of the Lighthouse, rolled
over and fell to the rocks below, about 65 feet. The only
marvel is that he was not killed instantaneously. At about
7 o'clock he was found among the rocks by a Mr Milne, and
an alarm being given, assistance was speedily procured from
the Co ►stguard station, and he was removed to the town.
Though very badly injured, he was still alive, but it was
deemed necessary to send him to the West Norfolk and
Lynn Hospital by the 10.30 train.

A letter from Toulon of the 12th published in the
,Ilessenger the Midi says that the stage coach which
arrived there that morning from St. Tropez was forced to
travel all night through fire. All the forests to the right
and left of the road from Mede to llyeres were burning
over an extent of 12 miles, At the hill of Grateloup, where
the passengers found it necessary t.) alight and walk in
order to relieve the horses, they were forced to traverse a
complete tutnace, and the fir cones which fell under the
horses' feet and on the travellers rendered their position ex-
tremely dangerous. But there was no time for reflection,
for they were cJnapelled to quicken their pace in order to
avoid being roasted alive. The following evening the
horizon was more clear. The fire was stilt burning, but it
was further off, and it wan driven to cards the sea by the
mistral, which was blowing with terrific violence. The
last accounts state that the fire in the forest of Reyest
was extinguished by the troops sent from Toulon for that
purpose.

An ingenious " ealkerlator," in Jefferson county,
New York, has been " footing " up some of the losses
of the war; andlthe result of one section of his calculations
amounts to these fac!s:—That enough men have already
been slain to encircle the entire state of New York, if their
dead b ,dies were laid in one continuous line ; that if they
were placed i❑ coffins and corded, they would count 39,0,0
cords; that if laid in a wall 25ft thick, and 301 t high, it
would be over a mile in length; that if piled on a ten-acre
lot, they would be nearly 200 ft high; that if laid upon the
ground, they would cover every foot of soil in Jefferson
county ; and, finally, that 75,000 tons of human blood have
bosh spilt fn Dixie's Land—enough to turn every spindle in
Lowell. Nay, if the tears were added to the flood, it would
turn the machinery of the entire continent; and the un-
availing sighs would fill every ocean sail.

A NEPHEW SUED BY ma UNCLE FOR FUNERAL
ExPENSES —A case of an unusual and rather extraordinary
character came under the notice of the judge of the Man-
chester County Court, on Tuesday, in which the plaintiff,
Thos. Wilkinson, a shuttle maker, residing in Tibe-street,
sued his nephew, Joseph Robinson, engine driver, Hyde-
road, to recover .£2 10s, a third share of the expenses con-
nected with the burial of the plaintiff's brother, who died
insolvent. Mr Hodgson appeared for the plaintiff, who
deposed that on the night of the funeral, on the sth of Feb-
ruary, an agreement was entered into between the plaintiff,
another brother, and the defendant to divide the expenses.
The brother paid his share, and the defendant promised to
do the same ; but on being applied to he said he had consulted
his wile, who was of opinion that the twu brothers were the
parties liable to pay, and that the nephew ought not to be
called on. The defendant, on being sworn, denied that he
had ever made the promise alleged ; but his Honour
thought the balance of testimony lay on the other side, and
gave judgment for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OP A MAN AND WOMAN.—
On 'Tuesday evening great excitement prevailed
throughout the city of Worcester by the discovery of two
bodies—a man and a woman—in the river Severn, close
under the bridge. The deceased, a bargeman named Wm.
Crumpton, and a woman, Ann Sharp, both apparently
between thirty and forty years of age, have for some time
past been living t ,getner as man and wife. They were
missed in the morning, but no fear as to their fate was en-
tertained by their friends till the middle of the day, when
information was given to the police, and the river was
!Searched by some watermen, who succeeded in find.
ing two bodies under the first arch of the bridge. They
were lying in comparatively shallow water together, and had
been dead some hours. The bodies were removed to the
Bridge Inn, where they await an inquest. There seems to
be no suggestion of any foul play; it is most probable that
the man, who was drunk, fell overboard, and that the
woman, who had been drinking, fell over with him in trying
to save him.

CURIOUS NAUTICAL EVENT,—An extraordinary
freak of wind and tide occurred at Whitehaven last
week. About 4 p.m. Captain Dodd, of the brig Astrea, was
hauling over the south side of the harbour to the North
hu ries, when the vessel, making a sudden lurch, broke her
ropes, knocked her bowsprit holds out, and was carried out
of the harbour in the face of a gale of wind right
in, Captain Dodd and his crew, perfectly astounded,
astounded, imagined that then, was nothing for it but a
nolens voices voyage ; but they had scarcely made up their
minds upon this point when the brig, as suddenly as before,
took a turn and ran in on the beach by the buoys. The tide
was continually flowing and ebbing during the time in which
the Astrea was going through this marvellous performance,
and the gale that was blowing seems to have partaken very
much of the character of a whirlwind. Whatever it may be
called, it was a whirlwind practically to the Astrea, which
was carried out of the harbour us already described, with-
out the slightest signal, and as unceremoniously and in de-
spite of all control, turned and carried back in the direction
indicated. Two of the hoppers were carried out of the hat,
bour in the same manner and at the same time.—Citinber-
land Pacquct.

DIVoIiCE AND RE•MARRIAGE.—The marriage re-
turns for 1862, which have just been issued, distill.
guish the marriage of 28 divorced persons in the year. Ten
of these marriages took place in London. Fifteen divorced
men married spinsters, and two divorced men married
widows; nine divorced women were married to bachelors,
and two divorced women to widowers. There was also
another instance, occurring at Birmingham, where a man
and woman, once husband and wife, but divorced, were re-
married. The number of divorced persons is increasing,
and hence these marriages of divorced persons ;ncrease ; the
number repJrt,d in 1862 was abut three times as many as
in any previous year.

KNOWN THIEVES AT LARGE.--It appears from
a recently issued blue book that last year there were in
England and Wales at large 5,995 known thieves under 16
.years of age, and 28,261 above that age.