The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-23 00:00:00

FALL OF A GRINDING MILL.

SIIEFFIELD, SATURDAY.-ThiS morning, about
half-past nine o'clock, the establishment of Messrs.
Walters and Co., of Globe Works, Sheffield, was
thrown into great confusion and alarm by the sudden
fall of a great part of their grinding mill. The build-
ing i 4 three stories high, and the part which fell con-
, sists of three rooms, measuring about 50 feet by 24.
On the ground-floor the heavy grinding was con-
ducted ; on the first floor the grinding of a lighter
character, and on the top floor the light grinding and
the buffing. The first floor rested upon four very flat
brick arches. Each arch sprung from a strong cast-
iron beam, which crossed the room, and was sup-
ported in the centre by a metal pillar. A number of
workmen were engaged at the time on each floor of
the building. The men on the ground-floor observed
a falling of dust from one of the arches, immediately
followed by a crack and a gradual settling down of
the brickwork. The men on the first floor also heard

the crack, and perceived a sinking of the floor be-
neath them. Both these sets of men rushed to the
other end of the place, and escaped unhurt. The
men on the top floor also heard a noise, but not suppos-
ing it to be anything unusual, took no notice till they
found the floor sinking and the windows breaking from
the giving way of the outer wall. Several of them
escaped to one end of the building and slided down
the chain of the crane to the ground. But before the
others could escape two of the arches supporting the
first floor broke in, pulling inward the outer wall from
the floor to the roof, and the floor of the top story.
Several of the men in the top room were involved in
the ruins. They were quickly extricated and con-
vey e.I to the infirmary. It was found that one of
them, named John Heathcote, had sustained a com-
pound fracture of the left leg; another, named
Crownshaw, had received a severe concussion
of the brain and nervous system, besides various
bruises. Two others suffered from contusions of a
slighter character. With regard to the cause of the
accident, it would appear that the grinding stones and
troughs on the first floor were of considerable weight,
and that water from The troughs kept the brickwork
of the arches almost constantly in a moist state. It
is supposed that the brickwork first gave way, which
throwing the weight obliquely upon one of the iron
beams, caused it to snap off close to the wall, thus
bringing down the arch on each side of it. Happily
the engine of the mill was stopped as soon as the ac--
cident occurred, or the damage must have been much
more extensive.

THE CATASTROPHE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.—Four of the bodies of the nine unfortunate men
who were killed on Thursday morning by being run over by
a train were interrred in the burial-ground in the parish of
Shentonfield, on Saturday, that being the parish in which the
shocking catastrophe occurred. 'lhe place in which the
bodies of the men were interred is about a mile and a half
from Brentwood, from which place a number of persons at-
tended the funeral. The coffins were followed by a great
many persons, including the men who had worked with the
decased on the Eastern Counties line. The other five bodies
were previously carried away to the various places where the
relatives of the unfortunate men resided, by whom they will
be interred. Two only out of the nine were married men.
The one has left a widow and five children, and the other a
widow and two children. For the families of the two mar-
ried men it is understood that a subscription will be forthwith
raised, which it is not doubted will be beaded by the direc-
tors of the Eastern Counties Company. It is a remarkable
fact that though there were several other men employed
along with the nine who met their death none of them were
injured.

CHEAP RAILWAY EXCUBSIONS.—These trips,
which have afforded an opportunity to upwards of 1,500,000
persons to visit different parts of the country at most mode-
derate charges during the fine season, are now drawing to a
close. Yesterday morning.excursEn trains started from the
Great :Western terminus, Paddington, for Windsor, Reading,
Oxford, Bath, Bristol, and Clifton. By the South-Eastern,
from London-bridge, to Gravesend, -Margate, Ramsgate,
Dover, Folkstone, Tunbridie, Brighton, Hastings, Ports-
mouth, Guildford, Reigate, Epsom, Croydon, &c. On Satur-
day morning a special train, filled with passengers, started
for Paris via Folkstone and Calais, and to return on Wednes-
day evening—this is the last for the season. By the South-
Western to Portsmouth, Southampton, the Isle of Wight,
and Salisbury; and by the Eastern Counties to Cambridge.
The trains were well filled. These cheap excursions have
not only been a great recreation to the public, but an excel-
lent return to the different railway companies.

GRAPES.—Mr. J. Cubbon, gardener to G. A.
Woods, Esq., of Balladoole, Isle of• Man, last week gathered
from a vine which had been planted but two years a single
bunch of grapes weighing seven pounds.
PLYMOUTH, ,SATURDAY.—Miss Polling, daughter
of the late Captain Dolling, R.N., and sister of Lieutenant
Dolling, R.N., now commanding the Nautilus, naval appren-
tices brig, in the Sound, was on a visit to Mr. J. E. Elwor-
thy, of Bovisand. Yesterday afternoon the young lady went
to the beach, which is near the Sound and Breakwater, for
the purpose of bathing a favoui ite little dog, and was absent
about four hours. Mr. and Mrs. Elworthy, on being in-
formed that the dog had returned without its mistress, be-
came alarmed, and on sending to the beach at Bovisand, the
lifeless body of the u fortunate. lady was found floating near
the rocks, frcm which it is supposed she must have slipped in
reaching to catch the dog. It need not be said that it has
caused the most poignant distress to Mr. and Mrs. Elwortby
and her bereaved relatives.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—By far the Best Account of
the Four Days of the Doncaster appeared in Bell's Life in
London of September 22, in which journal races were given
to the extent of nearly Eix folio columns, inclUding an En-
graving r.nd description of the Cap.—The early publication
and country edition of Bell's Life commences at four o'clock
Saturday mornings, in time for all the Saturday morning
early post and railways. The average weekly sale of Bell's
Life act* 29,000, the pno 64 Or forty (21i9 celtuahe.

THE SEA SERPENT CAUGHT.
The Corh Examiner contains the following ac-
count of the capture of the sea serpent at Youghal,
which has been furnished to that journal by Mr.
William Linehan of the drainage works :—"This
mighty monster has been at length secured. How
it will be inquired ? By what human or earthly
means could such an animal, wonderful for its size
and the velocity of its movements, and endowed too
with the extraordinary power of paralyzing all about
it by its electric vibrations, be taken from the mighty
deep ? For the last three years a work of great
magnitude has been carried on here, under the drain-
age Commissioners, which had for its object the re-
covering a large tract of land from the encroachments
of the sea. Hundreds of men, of horses and donkeys,
hive been employed there raising from both ends an
immense mound which was to meet, and be united at the
centre, for the total exclusion of the waters. Latterly
this has been drawing to a narrow channel, and the
rush of waters through it at each tide was really ter-
rific. Boats going up the river have been whirled
into it with a violence that defied all the exertions of
the rowers. On Saturday lait all was in readiness for
the final closing of the gap—planks, piles, boats, and
rafts, laden with heavy stones. As Mr. Larkin, the
superintending engineer, was standing on the extreme
mound, ordering the men, a mighty animal was seen
moving up the harbour, its head about ten feet erect
above the surface of the water, and its flaming eyes
turning quickly directions. It was the famous
sea serpent. On reaching that point of the channel
opposite the works (it was then nearly high tide) the
animal seemed to feel and to like the rolling current,
and it glided in on its surface through the gap with a
majesty which no words can adequately describe. The
men working there were, for some seconds, struck
dumb with amazement, and those at the extreme points
near the water felt the quick influence of an electric
shock as the animal glided by. Come boys,' said the
engineer, after recovering his presence of mind, ' let us
push on the work, and the lad is secured.' Night
and day, and even Sunday, did they labour incessantly
at filling up the gap, while the monster was perform-
ing strange evolutions in the still water inside. Then
was the large sluice opened to let out the confined
lake; and gradually were left bare the scaly sides of
the serpent. On Monday morning the animal was
dead on the dry slab, and the men of the works car-
ried it off in pieces to Mr. Verling's establishment,
where it is at this moment being converted into oil.
And thus the great sea serpent is no more. Should
any one doubt the truth of the above statement, let
him but visit this place, and he can convince himself.
He will find the gap closed • the immense strand per-
fectly dry; and that part of where the serpent died
still bearing the deep marks of the monster's last fear.
ful struggles."

SERPENS REDIVIrUS.
Tempus erat, when Captain lilquEoa
Sic quidew dixit crossing the "say,"
Vidit seri entem monstrous of size,
Caput ferentem, with huge goggle eyes,
Ocalos volvit, and, trembling with fcar,
Membra resolvit of all who were near;
Nam erat thus, strange to be told,
Viribus nista, and fierce to behold.
Turn dixit Owenius, 'ewes but a seal,
Ad quad M'Qubazus indignant did feel;
Iratus mire, tna: it should bo said

Se sic nescire, what shape wai its head;
VidisEe dixit, a thing like a mane
Oculoupe infixit, to know it again,
" Non est ita stupidus," so did ho say,
Veritatis est cupidus, not of display."

Sed tempus recessit, and this was all over,
Cum illi succoseit another gay rover,
Cui nomen ost Travers, so signed to his letter,
the, quoque, palavers not very much better;
Nam quum navigaret, in his own cutter,
Portentum apparel, which made them all flutter.
Est hcrridus moguls the which they behold,
Maud dubio sanguis within them ran cold.
Triginta pedes, his head was upraised,
Et corporis sedes in secret was !Awed;
Viderunt et caudam with glass's assistance,
(Capiebat alaudam at half a mile's distance.)
bed hocee postremum they never confessed,
Innate modestia this much repressed.
Sic serpens manebat, so says this same joker,
Et sett) ferebaf, as stiff as a poker,
Tergum fricabat against the old lighthouse,
Et se liberabat of scaly detritus:
Sic Travers vidit; of course we believe him,
Si aliquis ridet in arms he'd receive him.
Sod mire fuerunt, and strange to behold,
Qrm post acciderunt, as we have been told.
Nam anguis interritus let them approach him,
Nec unquam est veritss danger could touch him.
Sed Travers crudells, the story doth any,
Venit utpote fells to seize on his prey;
Nam semel paravit-for shooting the snake,
Et certe speravit a capture he'd make;
Tune plumb° percussit, thinking he bath him,
At serpens exailuit full thirty fathom;
Exsiluit mare, with pain and affright,
Et conatus abnare, as fast as he might;
Neque ilk semi; no ! nothing so rash,
Terrors aunt muti, he'd make such a splash,
bed mine edict unt, the place to inspect,
Et rquamas viderunt, the which they collect.
Quicunque non credat, or doubtfully rails
Ad locum accedat, they'll show him the scales.
Quae, sole trocres, they brought to the shore,
Et causa est es—they couldn't get more.
lime tabula mire, is .fravers's tale,
De face dire, he saw in bia sail,
Et ipsum implore, to pardon what's wrong,
Et veniam oro, for being so long.
T. C. D.
Literary Gazttte.

C. 0.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION.
CAMBRIDGE, SEPT. 21.—The Master of Clare Hall
(Dr. Webb) has signified to Mr. Cowling's committee
his disapproval of the manner in which Mr. Wigram's
name has been brought before the University, and his
entire approval of the proceedings of Mr. Cowling's
friends from the beginning. His name, with that of
Mr. J. C. Heath, fellow of Trinity Hall, has been
added to the list of Mr. Cowling's committee. Mr.
Rowland's B.D. fellow of Queen's College, has been
added to Mr. Wigram's committee. The following
is a copy of a letter the Master of Clare Hall has this
day addressed to the Master of St. John's College :
" Litlington, near Royston, Sept. 21, 1850.
"My dear Sir,—l am very sorry there is now a
probability of a contest fur the representation of the
University, and that persons who entertain similar
opinions could contend, not in defence of high princi-
ples, but rather from local and collegiate feelings. I
have good reason to believe the statement of Mr. At-
lay to be accurate, from what I beard from indivi-
duals, and what took place at a meeting at Jesus Col-
lege, at which I was present. I also feel, from not
seeing any address from Mr. Wigram, that it has not
been Mr. Wigram's wish to come forward, but that
he has been brought forward by his friends in col-
lege, and others who have no friendly feeling towards
St. John's College. With respect to both
Mr. Wigram and Mr. Cowling, I have a high
opinion of them as lawyers and men of right prin-
ciples, but I have had more opportunities of judging
of Mr. Cowling, from his having long been one of
the counsel for the University, and having seen his
diligence and intelligence upon difficult points on
which he has been consulted by the University. As
Mr. Wigram can scarcely be said to be in the field, I
do hope that he may be induced not to come forward,
and that we may not have a contest, but that persons
who have similar views with myself may come for-
ward and declare themselves. I should, therefore, be
glad if you would add my name to Mr. Cowling's
committee and you are at liberty to make whatever
use you think advisable of this communication.
" I aim, my dear Sir, yours very truly, •
" WILLIAM WEBB.
" The Rev. the Master of St. John's, Chairman
of Mr. Cowling's Committee."

Co URT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, SEPT. 19.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert walked out this morning.
In the afternoon her Majesty drove in an open car-
riage with the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice,
and the Prince of Wales.
The dinner party this evening will include her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene
Highness the Prince of Leiningen, Lady Augusta
Bruce, Baroness Speth, Lord James Murray, and Sir
Edwin Landseer.

Her Majesty did not go out this morning,.SEPT 20.
owing
to the unfavourable state of the weather.
In the afternoon her Majesty drove in the open
carriage ; his Royal Highness Prince Albert went
out shooting.

His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen ar-
rived at the Euston-square terminus of the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway on Saturday
morning, from Absrgeldie, the residence of her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, and was received by
Sir George Couper, who conducted his Serene High-
ness to Clan ace House, St. James's.

In the afternoon the Prince, attended by Sir
George Couper, proceeded to the London-bridge ter-
minus, and took his departure lay the South-Eastern
Railway for Dover, en route to the continent.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo.
nial office from the Governor of Sierra Leone and the
Gambia.

Idleness teavels very kisurely, and poverty won
overtakes her.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPII.--Mr. Brett, in a
letter to a contemporary, says—" Your correspondent allades
to the fragile nature of the submarine line from Dover to
Cape Grisnez. Much having been said upon this subject, I
would beg to state that it was intended more as an experi-
mental line than for a permanent line. And I should here
state that it was not covered according to the plans, or pro-
cess, as originally proposed by me, in which gutta•pereha
formed only one of several coverings for insulating and pro-
tecting each wire, several of which are to be combined in a
large cable of sufficient strength and durability to reaiat the
dug cf a OA luiclut"

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Mining Journal.)
There has been a very general demand for shares
during the week. Holders of most of the leading
mines appear to reserve them for higher prices; but
there have been considerable transactions done in
many of the secondary adventures, which have gene-
' rally maintained former quotations, whilst in some
an advance has taken place. The copper market has
continued extremely active; and, from the large
number of orders on hand, makers refuse to take more.
Speller also continues very firm. The directors of the
Devon Great Consols, at their weekly board meeting,
held yesterday, declared a dividend of 6,1441. or 61.
per share, out of profits arising from sales of copper
ores sampled in May and June. After payment of
the dividend, there will remain in hand a balance of
20,0661. 12s. 5d., consisting of cash, ore bills not at ma-
turity, and Exchequer-bills, applicable to the general
purposes of the company. At a meeting of the director
of Tmcroft, held on Thursday, a dividend of 10s. 6d.
per share was declared, being 7i per cent. upon the
paid-up capital of the company. At a meeting of
Wheal Margaret adventurers, held at Hslsetown, on
the 13th inst., the accounts to the end of June were
submitted, showing—after payment of dividend of
91. per share, ',Goa—a balance of 1221. At the
Wheal Buller meeting, held on Tuesday, the accounts
fur July and August were presented, showing—after
payment of dividend of 201 per share, 2,560/.—a
balance in favour of adventurers of 5781. At the
Butallack meeting, held on Tuesday, the accounts for
April, May, and Juno were passed, showing—after..
the payment of dividend of 51. per share, 500/.--21
balance in favour of adventurers, 431. At the Tre-
vhkey and Barrier meeting, the accounts of Trevis-
key for June and July showed a profit of 1,8011. for
the two months ; a dividend of 151. per share was de-
clared, carrying to credit of next account 41, with
ore bills not yet at maturity. At Barrier there is
but little doing. The mine is looking well, especially
in the 236 and 248 fm. levels ; 505 tons of ore were
sampled on the 10th instant, and about 500 tons may
be calculated on for September and October. At
Alfred Consols meeting, a dividend of U. per share
was declared, as advised in our last. Since we
have received the statement of accounts, by
whichlwe find a balance of 277/. 19s. 6d. is carried to
credit of next account. At the Wellington Mines
meeting the profits on the months of May and
June are shown at 1941. 13s, 11d., which, added
to the balance from last account, allowed a dividend
of 11. par share, carrying to credit of next account
271. 6s. sd. At George and Charlotte account meet-
ing the statement showed a balanee of 241. in favour
of the company. Very little has been done since
1847. At the Bryn-Arian meeting, it appeared that
the requisite machinery had been erected, and a pro-
fitable mine was anticipated ; a call of ss. per share
was made. At South Plain Wood meeting the ac-
counts showed a balance in favour of the mine of
404/. ; but as it was liable for August and September
cost, a call of 105. per share was made. At the Wheal
May meeting it appeared the balance remaining in
hand was 211.; while the amount remaining unpaid
for labour and merchants' bills was 1721. At the
Lamherooe meeting the accounts presented showed—
liabilities, 5761 ; assets, 4731. ; leaving balance
against the mine of 1921. At the Exmoor Wheal
Eliza meeting the captain, after detailing the work-
ings already carried out, recommended, froth the na-
ture of the indications, that operations be continued,
for which purpose the unappropriated shares are to be
issued.

In foreign mines there have been transactions in
St. John del Rey, Copiapo, United Mexican, Cobre,
Imperial Brazilian, Linares, and N'orth British Aus-
tralasian. The Imperial Brazilian letters are to the
12th of July, simply advising the gold returns from
the 13th June to the 12th July, from Gongo Soco,
amounting to 201 b. Ooz. 6dwt., and from Bananal,
Gib. soz. sdwt.—making a total of 261 b. soz. 1 ldwt.
A remittance of about 6,4001. of gold dust has been
received. A petition to the Imperial Government, for
reducing the duty to 5 per cent, has passed the
Chamber of Deputies. The National Brazilian ad-
vices are to the 13th of July, furnishing the produce
—from Cocaes, from 15th June to 13th July, mks.
5 1 5 50; from Cuiaba, from 18th June to 6th July,
mks. 4 70 6; total mks. 10 0 5 56. The stopes at
Cuiaba are represented as looking promising. The
St. John del Rey dispatches are to the Bth of July.
The produce for May is given at 22,484 oits , leaving
a profit of 3,4171., whilst that of the following month
(June) appears to be 20,750 oits., with a profit of
2,231/. only. The falling off of the returns is explained
by the manager to be in consequence of a ♦ariety of
untoward accidents during the month of June, and
further adds that "it is nearly two years since I had
to report so low a rate of profit. It is now occasioned
partly by the falling off in the produce, partly by the
high amount of costs, which affects us every second
month in the charges from Rio for export duty,
commissions, &c., on shipments of gold, and partly
by advanced rate of exchange." From Linares the
monthly report of Captain Curry has been received
to the 7th inst. The monthly returns was esti-
mated at 90 tons, and the produce is now found to be
on an average about 1011 tons a month. The old
workings east and west of San Antonio winze have
been discovered productive, where the load is esti-
mated to yield from three to four tons per fathom.
The engine works well, and other operations are pro-
gressing very satisfactorily. The quantity of lead
weighed in stock during the week was 31 tons 14
cwt., whilst the total amount in store at the mines,
Seville and Malaga, is about 273 tons. Advices
have been received by the directors of the Barossa
Range Mining Company, dated March 12. The re-
port states that Lyndoch Valley Mines had been
worked by three pares of men, some of whom made
good wages ; 52 tons of ord had been shipped, per
John Bartlett, some days previous to date.
T F--

_HE RINCESS'S THEATRE.—The tragic and
comic lessees, Messrs. Charles Kean and Robert Keeley, will
be first in the dramatic field for the winter campaign. On
Saturday a meeting of the company took place, to assign the
various parts before the opening night, fixed for the nth
inst. : Mr. and Mrs. Kean were present. The other ladies
and gentlemen were—Messrs. Robert Keeley, Alfred Wigan,
Ryder, Addison, Wynn, C. Fisher, Lloyd, Bolton, George
Cooke, Meadows, Harley, Flexmore, Coimaek, Edmunds,
and George Ellis (stage manager); Mrs. Keeley, Mdlle.
Auriol, Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Murray, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss
Summers, Miss Cushnie, Miss Phillips, and Mrs. Charles
Kean, &c. The interior of the theatre has been re-decorated
will considerable care and taste. Iler Majesty's box is
preparing in a style of peculiar elegance ; the private entrance
for the royal visitors is in Castle-street, formerly the stage
door. The performers for the future will pass through a
house in the adjoining court, next to the theatre. Messrs.
Gordon and Lloyd have prepared a new set of scenes for
Hamlet, which will be the first Shaksperian production. A
new farce was rehearsed for the opening night.
GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH.--Lord Lyttelton
has addressed a letter to the Spectator, in which the Noble
Lord rays he agrees with nearly all the remarks of that jour-
nal upon his letter respecting the Church ; but he is of
opinion that a church legislature should be composed of laity
as well as clergy. " There ought," he says, " probably to
be a difference between the composition of the legislative and
judicial organs of the Church, if she become possessed of self-
govenimeut," but he does not wish to indicate the type of
such a legislature or scheme of government without further
discussion and inquiry. " I am disposed," the Noble Lord
concludes, "to think that the constitution .of the American
Church might furnish a good general model."
DISTRESSING CASs OP TRIPLE BIRTH.—The wife
of a poor man, named Eagles, a coachman, residing in Cum-
berland-mews North, Bryanstone-square, presented her hus-
band on Friday evening last with three boys, all strong and
healthy. We are sorry to say that the father, baying. been
out of employment for the last fourteen weeks,vfitha tawny
of three young children previously and a sick wife, is unable
to procure them the necessaries of life.

TEE SNAKE CHAEMER.—Among the passengers
by the Indus which left Southampton on Friday with the
Indian mail was the young African snake-charmer, whose
daring feats with snakes and serpents in the Zoological Gar-
dens have excited so much attention for the last few months.
His hone is at Grand Cairo. He stated that he should re-
turn to England in a short time with more snakes, scorpions.
and othet wild animals. He has learnt to make himself to-
lerably understood in English since he has been here,
although when he arrived he could scarcely speak a word of
the language.
ACCIDENT ON BOARD A STEAM-BOAT.—On Satur-
day morning a most distressing accident took place on board
the Lady Seale steam-boat, at present lying off Cotton's-
wharf, 'rooley-street, Southwark, whereby a man named
William Brown, aged thirty, one of the crew, received such
frightful and complicated it-juries that he cannot possibly
recover. The Lady Seale is a screw steamer, and had arrived
at an early hour with a large cargo from Guernsey, making
fast alongside Cotton's-wharf, when the crew and others
engaged commenced unshipping the goods, The unfortunate
man and another were ordered to make some alteration in
the mainmast, and whilst sitting on an oar whichlad been
placed for a seat, the vessel gave a sudden lurch, when
Brown slipped, and fell a depth of fifty feet on to the deck,
when he received such fearful injuries in the head, back.
arms, &c., that it was deemed necessary to convey him to
Guy's Hospital, where he was taken without loss of time.
Mr. Edward Cock, the house-surgeon, examined the poor
fellow, and rendered every aid, but gave no hopes of his
recovery.

The make of the soul is as much seen in leisure as
in business.—Eliza Cook's Jsurnal.

DEATU Or AN lir rroromstus.—One of the
largest sea cows ever killed in this country was shot by
Lieutenant Macpherson, 91st Regiment, on the banks of the
Kieskamma, not far from the coast, on the 22d ult. Mr.
Macpherson and Staff Assistant-Surgeon Barclay bad gone
on the excursion chiefly with the view of encountering one
of these unwieldy animals, and after various endeavours to
kill one in the liver, the animal destroyed was tracked by
Mr. M., with the assistance of a Kafir, for some distance in
the bush on the right bank of the stream, until at length
he was descried reclining in a dry ravine. Approaching the
spot stealthily, when within about a dozen yards of hint. Mr.
M. fired, 'edging a rifle ball behind the ear. This staggered.
the huge creature for the moment, during which his assailant
had time to reload, his second ball penetrating the head above
the eye. A third shot was fired with like success, by Mhich
time Doctor Barclay, guided by the report of the piece,
reached the spot. At this moment the wounded animal,
suddenly routing himself, made a charge upon his assailant,
who only escaped by pitching head-foremost into the ravine.
Despite of his severe wounds, the sea cow made his way,
bleeding profusely, through the thick bush, and into the
river, where, after some time, he wes discovered and dragged
ashore quite dead. The carcase is estimated to weigh 5,00
pounds tisp jaws when expanded are, at their extremities,
four feet apart.—Graham's Town Journal (Cape of Good
Hope)._

-