The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-30 00:00:00

ALARMING SCENE.

Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, an infu-
riated ox broke away from its drovers in Smithfield,
and ran at full speed down Holborn, tossing several
persons in its way, until it came to the top of Drury-
lane, down which it turned and ran into Little Rus-
sell-street, where all efforts to get it to move one way
or the other failed. It cleared the streets in a twink-
ling, and all the shopkeepers tried to put up their shut-
ters as speedily as possible, in doing which they in-
curred some danger, the animal having run at them se-
veral times. A drayman, with a team of three horses,
being more foolhardy than others, mounted the leading
horse, and proceeded down the street, when the ox
ran at him, dismounted him, and severely gored the
horse. The next who suffered was a drover, who
thought to throw a rope over the animal's head, when
he caught him upon his horns and pitched him several
feet into the air, caught him coming down, and again
pitched him heels over head upon the pavement. By a
miracle the man escaped without any fatal injury,
and was removed to the King's College Hospital.
After running through Clare Market—were it not
for the loss suffered by the poor women having stand.
ings there, the sight might be called ludicrous. He
proceeded into Fleet-street, through Bell-yard, where
he knocked down several persons, one of whom, a girl
six years of age, was said to have been seriously in-
jured, and owing to the narrowness of the passage de-
stroyed several windows on each side. He was at length
secured opposite St. Dunstan's Church, after the
thoroughfare had been blocked up for half an hour
with omnibuses and cabs, none of which dared to
come within several hundred yards of where the
furious animal stood. No person was seriously in-
jured, save the child in Bell-yard, but a valuable
horse was so dreadfully gored that it Was found neces-
sary to kill it.

QUEEN'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—Great preparations
are making for the reception of her Majesty in the
North. We understand instructions have been received
by Mr. Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street, Southwark,
to dispatch _Royal Standards to Granton Pier and Dal-
keith Palace ; to Scone Palace, where the Kings of
Scotland were formerly crowned, and. to Drummond
Castle he has sent some elegant awnings.
Flags are also
in requisition to ware on the towers of %mouth Castle,
Kenmore.—Globe.

There died lately, says a German paper, in the
village of Felsoe Foeroek, in Transylvania, a farm'.
named Turebesi, in the 135th year of his age. He alivays
enjoyed good health, and worked in the field until just
before his death.

GERMAN RAILWAYS.—The following are thelengths
of some of the German lines :--Magd,burg to Berlin,
123 miles ; Magdeburg, Halle, and Leipsic, 723, has a
branc:l to Coethen ; Berlin and Potsdam, 19 ; Berlin
and Stettin, open 274, total length 80 Irides ; Hamburgh
and Bergedorf, 9 ; Dusseldorf and Elber‘'eld, 20 ; Aix-
la-Chapelle and Cologne, 50 ; Breslau and Oppeln ;
Mannheim and Heidelberg, 15 ; Brunswick and Halber-
stadt, 311,

The fete at 13erny, which is only one stage from
Paris, was saddened on Monday by a lamentable acci-
dent. A. diligence drove up to the post house, and,
having changed horses, the driver mounted his box, and,
in his ea&ern,,ss to start again, set his horses off at full
gallop before he fastened the apron in front. By a
sullen jerk he was thrown down, the wheels passed over
his head, and crushed it so severely that he died instan-
taneously.

An account from Korb, in Wurtemberg, in the
Swabian Mercury, states that, on account of want of food
for their cattle, the farmers of that country are obliged
to sell them at a great reduction, accepting 30 and even
25 florins for a beast which three months ago they had
purchaSed at 70 or 80 florins. The oldest man of the
country cannot recollect a time when there was so com-
plete atlearth of oats, barley, potatoes, and forage of all
kinds.