ALARMING FIRE.-(Extract o...
ALA R I NG FIRE.-(Extract of a private letter, Liverpool, May L.)-" Abouthalfpast 9 o'clock last night, the ship Dorset was discovered to be on fire in thc P-rince's Dock. Immediately assistance I wIas rendered, and by great exertions the flames were kept under, and thevessel, assoon as the tidc allowed, was taken out of the Dock into the contiguous basin, and there scuttled; but from the nature of the cargo (cotton) she would not sink. The flames burst nut again about halt-past four this morning, and were not extin- guished without much injurv to the vesseL She is now full of wa- ter, and the cargo will receive considerable injury. This accident might have beenjattended with the most ruinous effects, had it not happened at so early an hour, and property to an iimmense amount would, no doubt, have faUen a sacrifice. This is the only instance of a fire on board of a ship in the Liverpool docks since the year 1765."' It was MIr. WVebster, and not' Mr. Mercer, wbo undertook ilMr. Harley's pa-t of Pompey, in AMeaszurefor M1reasure, on Satur- day evening. A woman of the name of Catsely, aged 73, who has for several years been a pauper of the parish of St. Themias, near this city, died on Wednesday last (28th ult.) lVhen on her death-bed, she informed the woman who attended her as nurse, that she had a concealed treasure of gold, silver, and bank-notes, amounting to be- tween three and four tun rei pounds! and Rctuallv crawled on her hands and knees to show where it was hidden. Previonslv to her death, a relative. who had beeen informed of the drcumstance, came and took possession of the hoard.-ExeterGazcttc. ACCIDENT.-On Saturday evening last, as Lord Cran- stoun was riding in IIyde Park on a spirited horie, the animal took fright and ran away with him. After running a considerable dis- tance, his Lordship was thrown, and unfortunately fell upon his head, wbich was dreadfully fractured. He was immediately taken up antd carried to St. George's Hspital (Hyde Park-comer),Vvhcuee he was subsequently-rernoved home. hils Lordship if~ considered by the profcssionsgetIemen in atttndancc nmuch better thsncould have been expected afte7 the rerious injuty he suswtned.