The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-03-06 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

GMBILAL ADIUTANT COUNT LORIS MELIKOFF. Was able, by catching his spur under the sent. to St. Petersburg, February, 1880. steady himself, and then mcceeded in getting his ;eft hand under the head of the Princess, raising and supporting it. The bleeding froze the ear was se profuse that the whole sleeve was saturated. The Prmeess'a hand at this time was under Mrs Langham's head. In tins position, in darkness and perfect silence, the sleigh was dragged for some tour hundred yards, when the horses gradually slackened their pace-so much so that Mr. Fagot and a groom, jeurpmg from a sleigh containing the suite when the overturned vehicle was passing it, managed to run in front and catch the horses' heads. The upper door was then opened, and the occupants extracted with some difficulty. Excepting immediately after the blow the Prhacees was- perfectly sensible during the w hole time, and nothing could exceed the courage shown both by her Royal highness end by 51... Longhorn under the most trying circumstances. An empty sleigh was at once procured, and on arrival at th, Government House the Princess walked uptairs with support. The promptitude, decision, and energy shown by Me. Begot and the groom are deserving of the highest praise. It was through their quickness of actiou that more serious consequences were averted. -GALLANT CONDUCT BY A CAPTAIN  The captain of her Majesty's ship Invincible, tho Hon. E. N Fremantle, has once again distinguished himself by saving the life of one of his mew during the passageof that ship from Alexander to Aboukir Bay, The Invincible was steaming along st about six knots, when the cry •• man overboard! rang through her The man was observed to seize hold of the head-line, and an a consequence he was dragged completely under water for several seconds, till, almost suffocated and becoming. unconscious he lost his hold, and floated astern a mere lifeless mass, his head being under the water. The captain, at the time on the bridge, saw that a moment's delay would be fatal to the drowning man, and, having given his necessary orders, overboard he sprang, just as he stood, cap, coat, boots, etc., and he Was not a moment too soon, for, after straining every nerve, when he reached the Nl>ot where the man was last seen his rescuer found him already some distance under water. Having brought him to the surface, heavily weighted as he was, lie felt much exhausted, and had some difficulty ! in keeping the man's head above water, till Sub. Lieutenant Moore and Cunningham, blacksmith's mate, jumped overboard to the assistance of both, and the boats arriving all were brought safely on board. Captain Freemantle already possessee the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for jurnping overboard oil the poop of the Lord Wardea, in 17, in Plymouth Sound and saving the life of a boy who had fallen fr.m aloft Paired Serried Gager*  An arnbulene• class be. been started amongst the railway erny?syre at Rugby A seem of real three feet thick has bean found at the Hempstead sinkmo  A moporial to epic Notttrigh•s• Castle Museum ma Sundays has been rejectei! by • majority of eight wate• in the Town Conn,il. '  Three peroono s.ritenveri to loath oat the mint Lineolnotare Assi.vo for the murder of George Holt If Spilling bare reepited and montencod to penal *latitude for lift.  A reception in honour of M. de lgasept nu s N.M. bola by the Nen. York Oeographical So,iety. Another death has occurred at Cardiff omeeumut on the erplosion on board the steamer Columbine. The Electrician anderstande that Dr. Lyon Pkl. kir has adopted the Jabloakaff system for whjal.V lighting his town madmenA aate early in March hasbeen &sad upon fort*. marriage of tadv Ilary Hamilton sister of the Duke of laareilts,t9 GT* lotteries.