ACCIDENT AT SEA.-On Wedne...
The Times, 1824-10-04T00:00:00

ACCIDENT ATI SIKA.-On Wedn~sday evening the Mountai7eer steaner left Liverpool on her veyage to Dublin * about eleven o'clock at night, when offthe Skerries, her stetm working very p0 werfully, she run against a brig, or wm run foul of by that vessen Thc concussioni, au mright be supposed, wras dreadful, both the brilt's masts were sprung. aid the paddle and gunwbale of the Mlfounsgtaineer were completely carried away. Fortunately, in this territ'yin state, the night beingvery dark, ne timle was lost, and the wind being$ favourable for siverpool, the Mountaineer hoisted her sails and reached that port this morning. Her passengers were trnsferred to8and have sailed in theSt. George. We have not heard what is becore of the brig-prebably put into Holyhead-. Chester Chrornicle. SuIclDE.-(Ftrom the Etoile of Thursdlay.)-DrioN, SepL f .-A terrific scene has occurred hare. An inhabitant of Alarseiilea presented himself in thc afternooa to the Diaor of the 14th light Infantry, his relation, and in great agitation de:anded fromn that officer to see hbi nephew, a sol(ier in litireginient then on duty. The conversation occurred after an invitation to dinner * the stranger grew warm; and the Alajor. seeing- him take a pistol from bis pocket, Pointed his own sword towards hir bteast., which was warded off. The AMajor now seized the amoasin by the collar, and struggled with him for some time. Alarmed by the nolse, the servant cried for help, upon which two sawyers entered, and separated the two combatants, while theIMajor ecgeaped dovw 6tairs. The assassin fired at the former. but fortueately the ball passed in between the arm and the body without iijury.. The assassin was about to be secured, when he blew his brains out. On Wednesday, a Joiner, o( tihe tiaxne of John Edgar, *vhilc putting a board into one of tbe gable windowst in the garret of a house at present erecting in St. lichael's-stroet, misaed his footing, and he fell a dept.h of no less than four storiea into the ceIlar. As none of the flooring had been laid, hl deacended without apparenitly touching any thing, till, on reaching the lowest flat, he was seen to come in contact with the joists; when his bodyapparently doubling; he dropped through between them into the cellar. He wa4 immc-_ diately taken up almost lifeless by hhs fellow-workmen, and removed to an adjoining houise. On mcd,tal aid being procured, it wAe found that several of his ribs were disoined ifrom tihe spine, and that the Spine itself wls broken in two difterent places. At first, little hope was entettained of his surviving the iecident, but the case bas since assumedl a more favo rable appearance, and he Is likely to recover. He is a tniddle-aged man, is marriedn, ad has severa children.- Distrfries Courier. On Wednesday week, an inquest was held at Gonle, by Mlr. Shipley, of Selby, coroner, on view of the body of Eliza- beth Pollock,-whose deathi was occasiened by being struck and kick. ed by Johu (Ooodwin, of Goole, labourer, over thc rigqht kklney which broutght on premature labour, she being four months advanced hi pregnancy. - Verdict-_.lanslaughter. The said John Goodwij was committed under the Coroner's warrant to York Castle, to take his trial at the next assizes.-Doncaster Sa_ette. CAAtu N iY.-George III. once said to SirJ. Irwin, a fa- mousbon-vivant, " Theytell me, Sir John, you love aglass of wine." " Those. Sire," answered he, "who have so reported me to yoar Majesty, do me great injustice they should have saia, a bottle." LlaeRAUrT'r.-The City Council of Albany, on the peti. tion of Anson Spooner, who lost his eya-sight by the bursting of a cannon on the 4th of July, granted him permissIon to ask chlarity for tem days ! CHILD-STEALING.--It is singul3q enough th.at ten years ago, this most heinous offence.wAM runl. able nly as a mnisdleuea. nor, if the child had been Atolen, but not drkprued of it cldohes. Where it had been stolen, for the sake of its clothes, it was the same species of felony as if the clottes had been stolen without the child. In the year 1814, however, it was eiacted by 54Gco. IIL. c. 101, thait "any persofi taking, leadiffg, or decoying 'awsv.asty, child. under the age of ten years, with intent to deprive of tihe pOSseS ion of such child the parents orany other person'baving the lawful care or charge of suSh child, or with intent to steal any thing about it,~ shall be deemed'guilty offelonyi and -lial4e to the punishmeut in. flictet upon persons.6niicted.of grnls.tft rCen7," that is, fine or whip ing and nnprisonnent, Qriransrtatsbn. .Mr. Alfred Clhurchill, of 'atievia, Vnilet States, has in. vented a nee' screw, whi^u i9 ,tuiis silokeh of in the American pa. ners :_" The screw.is coitie and zneshtes with admirable rru. lariti with the cogs placed in a ciroular wheel, whhich is moved with ese and rapidity with the application of small power. To ehow its immense strength, it is only necessaty to tatntion that the thread of the screwv in itsevolution preases.at all times upen four of the cogs of a wheel containing eleoen cogs and may be so constructed, if necessary, as to encirele five.elevertis 'of a cirtle." The same ir. Churchill is gaid to haie invented a new and ingenious hy- drunlic model: "its power for raising bids fair to escecl any recedirg principl', where the height required should not exceed the alf otf the diameter of the wleet used in lifting and discharging the water."-Ra~th Hlerald. [Advertisernent.J-.iAZARD and Co. Are the contractors for the present popular l,otterg. The scheme, to be dravwu To-mor- row, contAsna four prizes of 20,00l., and 34 other capitals, all to be tIraw on. that day, when thinimensetsun of 209 DlO^ vwill be di?ttibutcd to the pabhiin a fiew hours: there are ti:o blnks,.evey iirmberr being entutled tod. Hazard and Co. sold threi twenty thousar.ds last Lottery~, and all thte t shates at their old.e,Abliah ed officses. Royal ccueange-gate;5 Co^nhlu; and 324, Oxfbrd, stre4c?p end ouf'geZgeestreett fs4an ~VCO! hove to IIn aU the