The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Susan, of Exeter, from Exmouth, Sept, 24, eigh
miles S.W. of Cape Trafalgar.
The Fanny, of Stockton, for Gibraltar, Oct. 10, in lat
48 N., long. 9 W.

The brig Amelia, same day.
The Mangola (American ship), from Ilavannah for Lon-
don, Sept. 14, in lat. 35 N., long. 71 W.
The ship Bremen, No. 133, steering W., Sept. 27, in lat.
45 N., long. 47 W.
The Daniel, from Amsterdam for Constantinople, Sept.
28, in lat. 43 N., long. 11 W.
The Joseph Pater, from Liverpool for San Francisco,
July 28, in lat 55 S., long. 52 W.

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON A CANAL—About half-past
6 o'clock on Saturday morning an embankment of the
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal, near the Pres-
tolee-locks, a few miles from Bolton, gave way, and
nearly 30 yards' length of earthwork was carried away.
The canal runs along the side of a hill at the point
where it burst, and about twenty yards below it is
the river Irwell. The rush of water through the
crevasse was on a grand scale for a time, and formed
as magnificent a waterfall as could be desired ; but
fortunately the channel of the river below was of ample
capacity to receive it, without any overflow resulting to
injure adjacent property, or place human life in danger.
Two empty coal boats were near, and were carried
through the opening into the river, but a boy having
charge of them had the presence of mind to leap out
upon one of the banks, and he probably thus saved his
life, as the boats were dashed to pieces. The late heavy
rains are supposed to have been the immediate cause of
the accident, but a subsidence of substrata, in conse-
quence of coal-workings underneath, is supposed to have
previously weakened the embankment. The canal is
the property of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Company, and the traffic is almost wholly one of coal.
They have employed a large body of mon to repair the
canal, and, as their railway runs nearly parallel with the
canal almost throughout its entire length, they have it
in their power to prevent much inconvenience to the
public through the accident,
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