and fisherman, was removing his effects from the Island
of Skerries to Whalsey, where he was to reside in future.
Three of his sons (very promising young men) took a
boat laden with household stuff, and embarked for
Whalsey. When about halfway across, their tiny bark
was overtaken by a sudden squall, which swamped the
boat, drowning the three young men while in sight of
their home.

A gentleman has been Killed through Somnambulism.
Mr. Francis Bailey, residing in Victoria Road,
Kensington, who was in the habit of walking in his sleep,
opened his bed room window, got out, and fell a depth
of from twenty to thirty feet. He was picked up by a
police constable in a state of insensibility, and taken to
St. George's Hospital. Every attention was paid him,
but he expired shortly after his admission.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER.

SEVERAL  Fatal Railway Accidents have occurred this
month. On the 6th inst., Mr. Summerhays, station-
master at Guildford, was superintending the work of
shunting a coal-train on to a siding, and while thus
engaged stood upon the narrow space between the up
and down lines. The view of the pointsman was
obstructed by a break van standing on the line, but,
hearing a noise, he said to Mr. Summerhays, "I think
the express is coming." The deceased replied, "Is it?"
and moved, but the engine was upon him. The buffer
struck his back, knocking him on the line, and the
whole of the train passed over him, cutting him in two.
He had held the appointment of station-master at
Guildford for about twelve months, and had by his
conduct gained the esteem of the inhabitants. He has left
a wife and seven children.——A fatal accident occurred
the same afternoon on the North Woolwich Railway.
Near the Barking-road station a pathway communicating
with Messrs. Mare's factory crosses the railway, and
here two children were knocked down by a train. The
elder child, between seven and eight years of age, had
her head smashed to pieces, and the body was shockingly
mutilated. The younger was carried on the line for
upwards of fifty yards, and although dreadfully injured,
was taken up alive. No hope, however, is entertained
of its recovery. This makes the fifth or sixth accident
which has happened at this spot.——A signal-man
named Finch, in the employ of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company, has been killed outside
the New Bailey station, Salford. Watching a passenger
train proceeding in one direction, he did not perceive
an engine approaching in another, when he was knocked
down by the buffer, and then dragged by the fire-box
about a dozen yards to a hollow place where it left him,
the wheels on one side passing over his feet and also
over one arm. He died very soon afterwards.

An inquest has been held on the body of John Bingham,
an engine-driver who was Killed on the Croydon
and Wimbledon Railway. A number of railway
servants, and Lieutenant-Colonel Yolland, an Inspector
of Railways under the Board of Trade, were examined.
No one could account specifically for the accident;
but it appeared most probable that the driver was going
faster than is prudent on a new line, that his engine
began to oscillate at a slight curve, and that this caused
the driving-wheel to strike a rail in a weak part; the
rail broke, half of it twined round the wheel, and the
train was thrown off' the line. The time-table fixed the
speed of trains high, but drivers had been instructed not
to attend to the table for a period, but to run "steadily
and cautiously." This, like all new lines, required a
good deal of repairing as soon as traffic began: between
Mitcham and Wimbledon the rails were very shaky.
Colonel Yolland had ordered a postponement of the
opening of the line twice; but on account of want
of signals and of a siding, not because the permanent
way was bad. He thought the speed at the time of the
disaster—twenty-seven miles an hour—too great; on
a new line it ought not to exceed twenty miles. The
Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death;" and
recommended that until the road had become more
consolidated the maximum speed should be only twenty
miles an hour.

Mr. John Tremenhere Johns, son of the Vicar of
Crowan, Cornwall, a commoner of Pembroke College,
Oxford, has been Drowned in the Isis. He and two
other collegians were rowing in "outriggers" or
"canoes"—dangerous boats, very liable to upset: in
trying to turn his boat after some "larking" with one
of his friends, Mr. Johns's boat upset, and he was
plunged into deep water. No one was near who could
swim, and an hour elapsed before the body was got out.
A Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death;" and recommended to the University authorities
some further precautionary measures for the rescue of
persons who fall into the water, and for the early
application of means of resuscitation to those apparently
drowned, by having the house boat moveable instead
of moored in the river.

During the Fog on the 15th and 16th inst. several
fatal accidents took place in London. A man on board
a lighter on the Thames, named Barrow, got fogbound
near Deptford, and thinking that he was at the side of
a raft of logs, stepped forward from his vessel, fell into
the river, and was drowned. A man named Griffin
missed his way, owing to the thickness of the fog, and
fell a distance of nearly twenty feet into one of the dry
docks of the New Surrey Canal, and was so fearfully hurt
that he was taken to the hospital, where he remains
without the least chance of recovery. A woman named
Woney was also knocked down by a town cart. She
was taken to the hospital, and died a few minutes after
her admission. There were several fatal accidents in
the docks. In the East India Dock, at Blackwall, two
lives were lost. The first happened to a dock labourer,
who missed his way, and walked off the North Quay
into the water. The second accident befel a young
man, fourth mate of the ship King Lear, loading at the
east quay of the import dock for Bombay; he solicited
the assistance of a custom-house officer named Ryan,
to find his ship, when they both fell into the lock which
connects the basin with the dock. The dockmaster and
his foreman, who were near the spot at the time, groping
their way through the dock, on hearing the splash
hastened with the life-lines, and succeeded in rescuing
the custom-house officer, but the mate of the ship was
drowned. In the West India Docks on Thursday
evening two seamen perished in endeavouring to get on
board their ships. In the London Dock a custom-house
officer named Connor lost his life by walking off the
Brandy Quay into the water. Two railway accidents
also occurred. One happened to a passenger train on
the South Western Railway which was proceeding from
Woking to London, when between Wimbledon and
Kingston, owing to the fog, the engine driver was
unable to see that a luggage train was on the line. The
consequence was that the two trains came into collision,
and two or three carriages were broken, but fortunately
neither the passengers, guards, nor engine-drivers
received any injury beyond being severely shaken by the
concussion. Another accident also took place yesterday
morning on the same line, to a plate-layer, who was
at work. A great many robberies took place during
the fog. Men, women, and children were waylaid by
the thieves and robbed with impunity, it being impossible
for any police officer, even if stationed within ten
or twelve yards, to see the thieves.

A Gallant Deed has been done by a young Cambridge
undergraduate. On the 5th inst., a party of students
went down the river to Ely, and, there being a flood
and strong current, it was late when they reached the
locks on their return, eight miles from Cambridge. A
young man named Clarke (being short-sighted, and it
being dusk) stepped into the lock, and being unable to
swim, sank several times before any one was able to
assist him. At length an undergraduate of Sidney
College, named Ellis, came up, and hearing from the
cries, &c, what had occurred, although unable to see
from the darkness, he plunged at once into the lock,
though encumbered with his clothes and two heavy
coats. Being an expert swimmer, after a severe
struggle, and when nearly exhausted, he succeeded in
dragging his almost lifeless companion to shore. Mr.
Ellis is a native of Merionethshire, and is said to be as