CALAMITOUS ACCIDENT.-On S...
The Times, 1824-12-31T00:00:00

. CALAMITOUS AcciDEIN.r.-Oa Saturday, five persons went into a boat at Woed.quay, for the purpose of recavering a hat which had been blown into the river. [n consequence of the vio- lence of the wind, and the agitation of the water, the boAt, having bein carried for some dictance down the river, was at length overset and, afflicting to felate, two young men, of the names of Porter and Keaxrney; were drowned. The aged father of the latter, in attempt- Mg to save his child, had nearly shared hic fate, and the effect, altbough not immediate, will probably still prove fatal. 1H a threw himself into the watert and, although a good swimmer, was nearl7 exhansted, when a rope was thrown to him. ile seized it, but it snapped, and he was new sinihing when, fortunately, another rope was procured, and, by its means, he was drawn along the wall, with hishead above the water, to a flight of steps at Essex-bridge where he wra taken up nearly lifeless. lie s%iil remains corifined to his bedt, and hic death is hourly expected to wind np this melancholy ca- tastrophe. The body of Kearnes was taken up in tihe courss of the day, and carried to the General Dispensary in Fleei-street; that of Porter has not yet been recovered. This young man bore an excel. lent character, andlhad been the meanR of preserying many lives from a rhte similar to that which awaited himself.-Dzubbin paper. During thie last assizes at Lewves, a gentleman asked Mr. Sergeant Onslow what was meant by an alibi r` ." It's a lie by which many a rogue escapes hanging," replied the Sergeant. The following tnay operate as a caution to persoits having made their wills:-Iecentlyalady diedatKennington possessed ofeon- siderable property, leaving the same to her nephews and nieces, with this exception_Slie bequeathed to the nieces some City Bonda,.but the7 not being stated correctly as to the name of them, the nephews insisted on their being put to the residue, which they considered doing Jusice to their sistera by sharing thte amount generally. lAdvertisement.1-N.OVELTY AND VARIETY FOIAL THE NEw YrAn..-Wr. MARtsITALL, anxious to please his best triends (the Public), has just published 13 different de3criptions of Pocket- Books and Altnanacks for 182.5, cm6bining some fine specimens of egravings from the first artists.elegance of finish-novelty in the enmbellishments,..which, from the extraordinary inoreased salec annualy, fully testify that M1arshall's Publications stanid pre-emi. nently at the heatl af the pocket-book trade. The Ladies' Pocket. Books eontain elegant engravings of tbhe Parisian Mddes, pro- cured expressly from Paris; Eght Views of' Neblenten'a'Sieats - Four Pages of original engraved Mtusi; * and a variety of interceting infortnadon, price 2s. 6d. cacti may be had with an Almanack. The Sovereign contains 12 beantiful Engravings, including a fine Portrait of the Duke of York, Views of Cities In Great Brita,in, 51onumenis of the Dakes. of Kent ana Bedford, Earl Mansfield, Shakspeare, and other. distinguished Perssns; the Lists of Mlemi- bers of both Honsea of Parliament, with their town residences; Baronets of England ; the INavy and Army; tGreat Officers of State; ForeigtnAsnbassadors; Ortlers of Knighthoad; ''own and Counitry Bankers, &dc., price 's. 6d., elegantly bourid, gilt edges; maybe had with an Al manack. Commercial Pocket.Book.withalfine engraving of the new London-bridge, contains 215 8ve pages of tise- ful informnation to gentlemen, merchants, and tradesrnen, on a scale calculated for the desk. or pocsket,-;ricc ts.; may be had with an Al5nanack. Mlarshall's ether publications are tte Itoyal Cobourg Cabinet, Ladics' Fashionable iepository, Elegant Pocket Souvenir, Pocket Engagement Atlas, Alisgionary Pocket Book, Gentlenan's Pocket Bsok, New Polite Repoaitory, (at one'halt' less in price than the Ol epssitory), Cabinet of Fashllon, Uniriue Ali-nanack and Historia. Almanack. Marshall's Family Ledger, adapted for keeping an accurate diurnal account of nil the expenses of a domestik establishnsent during the Jear, pdice only 29. Mlarshall's ANew Pocket Beek contins nLs select Views, 'sts 'of.Banikers, Public Funds, &c., price oary is. lid.; the gilt4edge edition;J, The whole published by W. Mlars hall, I, M'Nborn.bnrs, corner of Middle. row. SoWd by all the counltry booksellers. N.B. Resolcat to ordar lMaxhalls superior gilt-edge Pocket-.Books and Al naeak the original inveaiter on an~ olegasgt maid itpqvoed princiole.