Star.
London, England, 1814-09-27 00:00:00

. LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 24.

Sunday, while,a number of boys were playing id a
field, in Pontefract-lane, near the residence cif HENRY
HALL, Esq. of Leeds, one of them, the name •f
ilGam'Benson, aboutuine years of age, was so un-
fortunate as to fall intoanair-pit, used for expelling the
noxions.air out of a coal mine at a few yards distance.
The pit, which is in the shape of an inverted cone,
gradually decreasing in width from a diameter of two
yards at the top to two feet at the bottom, is twtnty-
four yards deep, and communicates with the coal-
mine by an aperture of about one foot in diameter.—
Mr. William Thackray, a plumber and glazier, in
this place, who happened to be in a field near the pit,
at the time when the accident happened, humanely
volunteered his services to rescue the boy, whose voice
was distinctly heard, from his impending fate.—
flaying .placed himself in a bucket, he was lowered
into the pit by a number of the spectators, the rope
passing over the roller at the top of the pit. When he'
had descenied within about ten yards of the bottom,
it is supposed that he found the air in that situation
'too impure to sustain life, and called out to the per-
sons by, whom he was letdown, to draw him up
again. This duty they hastened to perform, but the
centre on which the roller turned happening unfortu-
nately to slip out of the socket, the rope tell to the
ground, a distance of about four feet, and the sud-,
denness of the jirk threw him out of the bucket, but
the hook catching his, shoe,.he remained suspended
in that situation for two or .three minutes, till at
length his shoe coming off, he was precipitated head-
long to the bottom of the pit. It now became more
necessary than before that some other person should
enter this fetal cavern, and a boy of the name of
James Naylor, about 16 years of age, ventured to
descend. On arriving at the bottom of the pit, which
he attained without any material impediment, lie
found the boy standing upriert, plunged to the
middle in mad, and apparently unconscious whether
'the welcome messenger was from this world or
another. Naylor's next object was to ascertain whether
Mr. Thackray still survived, but alas ! lie found that
this worthy man, the affectionate husband of a heart-
broken wife, and the kind father of four young chil-
dren, had fallen with his head into the aperture com-
municating between the two pits, and had, in that
situation, died by suffocation. With considerable
difficulty both the survivor and the deceased were got
out of the pit, and the former, who had no bones
broken, but whose head and face were shockingly
bruised, w•as taken to the General Infirmary, where
he is likely to recover.--Lech Mercury.

A shocking ace:dent happened on Monday s'en-
night, near the Gobowen Oswestry :—Robert Jones,
a tabourer, having gone down into a well for the pur-
pose of cleaning a, when he reached the bottom, the
brick-work gave way, and the unfortunate man was
buried under a mass of brick, timbers, and rubbish,
about seven yards dmp. In expectation that he was
suffocated, no active and continued endeavours vivre
made for the recovery of the corpse. The work,
therefore, of.getting the earth and rubbish out of the
well went on but slowly, until Wednesday, when some
experienced colliers came from Chirk, and worked till
night. On Thursday morning, about ten o'cicck,
they were astonished by the voice of the unhappy suf-
ferer, from the bottOrn cf the well, who distinctly
called for his master. Immediately the greatest ex-
ertions were made to get him taken out. At three in
the afternoon, they had so far cleared the well as to
be able to reach the man's face, and to administer,
under a surgeon's direction, a small quantity of warm.
water-gruel. But it was not until about three o'clock
on Friday, that they could clear all the rubbish from
about his bead ; nor until the poor man had expired
about half an hour ; so that twelve hours had elapsed
frcm the time they gave food to the unfortunate suf-
ferer before they could clear the rubbish from his head.
Saturday se'nnight, at Newcastle Linlyn, Canner-
thenshire, Mr. litstoe was shot through the body, in
a duel with Mr. B. of that place, and died almost
immediately. A Coroner's Jury returned a verdict
of Wilful Murder against some person or persons un-
known.

AoulcutTunz.—Mr. Chamberlain, an Englishman,
residing at Honfleur, in France, has made an impue.
tant discovery in agriculture by a kind of sulphuro.-
tnuriatic earth found on thecoast of Norm Andy, which
beside vegetative cinder, produces rarilla, &c. &c.
A notice has been published, by order of the notch
Government, and the Minister of the Interior, at
Paris, is preparing a grant to Mr. Cisamberlaia, of
all the land where this newly-discoveredearth is found.
Mr. Chamberlain has sent a cask a these cinders,
(cendres) to the earl of Hardwicke, kr the Board of
Agriculture in London, to make :tii experiment with
it. It is found to surpass the most sanguine expecta-
.tions of the French agriculturists.