neighbourhood, and about noon they succeeded in
striking one. Two boats had gone after the whales—
the larboard and the starboard, the former commanded
by the first mate, and the latter by Captain Deblois.
The whale which they had struck was harpooned by the
larboard boat. After running some time, the whale
turned upon the boat, and, rushing at it with tremendous
violence, lifted open its enormous jaws, and taking
the boat in, actually crushed it into fragments as small
as a common sized chair! Captain Deblois immediately
struck for the scene of the disaster with the
starboard boat, and succeeded, against all expectation,
in rescuing the whole of the crew of the demolished boat,
nine in number! There were now eighteen men in trie
starboard boat, consisting of the captain, the first mate,
and the crews of both boats. The disaster had been
witnessed from the ship, and the waist-boat was called
into readiness and sent to their relief. As soon as
the waist-boat arrived the crews were divided, and it
was determined to pursue the same whale, and make
another attack upon him. Accordingly they separated,
and proceeded at some distance from each other, as is
usual on such occasions, after the whale. In a short
time, they came up to him, the waist-boat being in
advance. As soon as the whale perceived the movement,
he turned his course suddenly, and, making a
tremendous dash at this boat, seized it with his jaws,
and crushed it into atoms, allowing the men barely
time to escape by throwing themselves into the sea,
from which they were rescued with difficulty. Captain
Deblois, then ordered the boat to put for the ship as
speedily as possible, and they all got on board in safety.
After reaching the ship, it was determined to pursue
the whale. In a short time, the ship overtook him,
and a lance was thrown into his head. The ship passed
on by him, and immediately after they discovered that
the whale was making for the ship. As he came up
near her they hauled on the wind and suffered the
monster to pass her. After he had fairly passed they
kept off to overtake and attack him again. When the
ship had readied within about fifty rods of him they
discovered that the whale had settled down deep below
the surface of the water, and as it was near sunset they
resolved to give up the pursuit. Captain Deblois was
at this time standing on the larboard bow, when he
discovered the whale rushing towards the ship at the
rate of fifteen knots. In an instant the monster struck
her with tremendous violence, shaking her from stem
to stern. Captain Deblois immediately descended into
the forecastle, and there, to his horror, discovered
that the monster had struck the ship about two feet
from the keel, abreast the foremast, knocking a great
hole entirely through her bottom, through which the
water roared and rushed in impetuously. Springing
to the deck he ordered the mate to cut away the
anchors and get the cables overboard to keep the ship
from sinking as she had a large quantity of pig-iron on
board. In doing this, the mate succeeded in relieving
only one anchor and cable clear, the other having been
fastened around the foremast. The ship was then
sinking very rapidly. The captain went into the cabin,
where he found three feet of water; he, however,
succeeded in procuring a chronometer, sextant, and
chart. Reaching the decks, he ordered the boats to
be cleared away, and to get water and provisions, as
the ship was heeling over. He again descended to the
cabin, but the water was rushing in so rapidly that he
could procure nothing. He then came upon deck,
ordered all hands into the boats, and was the last himself
to leave the ship, which he did by throwing himself
into the sea, and swimming to the nearest boat.
The ship was on her beam ends, her topgallant yards
under water. They then pushed off some distance from
the ship, expecting her to sink in a very short time.
Upon an examination of the stores they had been able
to save, he discovered that they had only twelve quarts
of water, and not a mouthful of provisions of any kind.
The boats contained eleven men each, were leaky, and
night coming on, they were obliged to bale them all
night to keep them from sinking. Next morning at
daybreak, they returned to the ship, from which they
were able to obtain some bread and water; they then
left her in a sinking condition. Two days afterwards
they providentially fell in with the ship "Nantucket,"
of Massachusets, whose commander, captain Gibbs,
took them on board, and treated them with the
greatest hospitality. The "Nantucket" arrived at
Paita on the 15th September, where she landed Captain
Deblois and his men. Captain Deblois was kindly
entertained at Paita by Captain Bathurst, an English
gentleman, residing there, and subsequently took passage
on board the schooner "Providence," for New
Bedford, where he arrived on the 12th October.

An inquest was held on the 21st on the body of
Henry Grady, Accidentally Killed on the 18th. He was
a coke-raker in the service of the London Gas Company,
Vauxhall, and was employed in the discharging of coals
into the premises by means of trucks, which were pushed
along a tramway from the waterside, when one of the
vehicles by some means was forced over the iron stage at
the end, and before he could get out of the way the
truck, weighing nearly a ton, fell upon him, and crushed
him to death. The accident was caused by the iron
break giving way at the end of the stage.

A Shocking Accident occurred on the 17th, at
Carnarvon. In a cottage built under the town wall, there
was an aged woman, the wife of John Jones, a blacksmith,
working in Mr. Smith's quarry, and seven of her
children, including a married daughter, and her child,
who had come to visit their parents. In a moment a
portion of the scraping at the summit of the wall,
measuring about ten yards long and three feet deep,
and weighing about eight tons, fell on the roof, and
crushed it in at a stroke. One of the children who was
on the threshold was thrown at a distance from the
house. The old woman and the other children, with
the exception of the married daughter and her child,
were speedily rescued from their perilous situation with
a few bruises. The others remained, however, under
the rubbish until about five o'clock, notwithstanding all
the exertions made to recover them, and when found
she was bent down in a sitting posture with the child in
her lap, and the lives of both extinct. The rain, it is
supposed, by moistening the earth and destroying the
adhesive power of the mortar, caused the stones to
unloose.

A Collision took place on the evening of Saturday,
the 22nd, on the London and North-Western Railway,
at Weedon, by which nearly all the passengers in the
4 o'clock up train from Rugby were more or less injured.
The 4 o'clock train from Rugby due in London at half
past 7, started from Rugby at its proper time, arriving
in due course at the Weedon Station, at twenty-five
minutes after 4. It was still daylight, and all the proper
stopping signals were on at the station. At the Weedon
Station there are no sidings, and the passenger train,
in which was Captain Huish, the general manager,
and Mr. Bruyeres, the chief superintendent, meeting
with a coal train at the station, had to wait on the
main up line until the coal train had been shunted
on to the down line, to allow the passenger train to
reach the platform of the Weedon Station and then
pass on. The passenger train had reached the platform,
and was discharging and receiving passengers,
and the coal train was still shunting across just up above
on to the down line, when an engine and cattle train of
thirteen heavily laden carriages, dashed into the
passenger train, breaking several of the nearest carriages,
and also dashing the passenger train forward into the
coal train, which had not yet entirely got across on to
the down line, with such violence, as to knock several
of the coal trucks completely over. A gentleman,
named Currie, of Warrington, was taken out of a second-
class carriage apparently lifeless, and was reported as
dead, having sustained some frightful lacerations and
injuries to the head. A second, in almost as bad a condition,
was taken from the same carriage, and proved to
be the servant of Colonel Sir Douglas Pennant, also a
passenger. Mr. Cleaton, of Islington, was also taken
out insensible, with several severe cuts about the head
and face; and Mrs. Gower, of Oxford Street, was very
much shook and injured. Most of the other passengers
sulered more or less from wounds and contusions.
Capt. Huish was himself very severely injured about
the head and face, as was also Mr. Bruyeres, whose
escape from death was truly miraculous. On the Rugby