At this time, as all hope of getting the fire under was past, a simultaneous rush was made to the door, which unfortunately had, contrary to custom, been locked by the girl on her return from snuffing the candle; and owing to the excitement consequent on their situation, now that they were literally roasting alive, joined to the sense of suffocation at this time experienced, it was some time before any one of them could lay his haud on the key-but this done the poor fellow, in his maddened eagerness to turn it, pulled it out of the lock and let it fall, thus protracting their sufferings, and rendering their situations still more perilous. But, as God would have it (a few seconds, or at most a very few minutes more, and all would have been over with them), the key was found, the door unlocked, and as many as could, rushed out, but some of them had to return to drag out the remainder of the sufferers, who, having been overpowered by the flame and smoke, had fallen down. All got out, but so dreadfully burnt, chiefly about the head and limbs, as to present the most harrowing spectacle of human suffering that can be well conceived, the faces of most of them presenting one mass of broiled flesh, having a cinder-like appearance. The owner, on getting out, cast himself on the ground, and rolled into a small stream of water which runs from the mill; and having thus extinguished the flames in which he was enveloped, though fearfully burnt, he struggled to reach that part of the dam where the water is let on to the mill, and contrived to turn it off the wheel, which facilitated the efforts now made to stay the progress of the fire in

the mill, which, after some time, was completely subdued, but not before considerable damage had been done to the roof and the interior works. The sufferers were conveyed as soon as possible to their respective homes, where immediate medical aid was rendered by Mr. J. Rankin, surgeon, R.N. One of the poor girls, aged 17, died the second day after in great agony; the sufferings of her sister, who had just reached her 15th year the night of the calamity, were prolonged, but she also was released from them by death.

RELIO OF MURAT.-A Russian journal mentions the following historical fact:-There has been found amongst the property of Colonel Tchernozoubof, lately deceased, a gold repeating watch, on the case of which are engraved the words, "Joachim Murat, Captain of Cavalry." A seal attached to the watch bears the inscription, "Eleonora to Joachim-Forget me not." Tchernozoubof, in 1812, when a simple cossack, received this watch from the king of Naples himself, the eve of the battle of Borodino, on the following occasion:- Murat at the head of some squadrons of cavalry, was driving before him a cloud of cossacks on the road to Mojaisk. Carried away by his impetuosity, he found himself near a group within half pistol shot. The cossacks were about to fire at him, when Tchernozoubof, who had recognised him, exclaimed "Present arms! hurrah! long live the king of the brave!" The cossacks, astonished, obeyed his command. The king of Naples galloped up, and handed his watch to Tchernozoubof. The Hetman Platoff having been informed of this fact, conferred the rank of officer on the

the queen dowager." And her majesty doth strictly charge and command, that no edition of the common prayer be from henceforth printed, but with this amendment; and that in the mean time, till copies of such edition may be had, all parsons, vicars, and curates, within this realm, do (for the preventing of mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all such prayers in their church books, according to the foregoing directions; and for the better notice hereof, that this order be forthwith printed and published and sent to the several parishes, and that the right rev. the bishops do take care that obedience be paid to the same accordingly."

7. DESTRUCTION OF CAMBER WELL OLD CHURCH BY FIRE.-A few minutes before twelve o'clock a light was observed by a policeman on duty, in the gallery of this venerable structure; and, supposing from the flickering of the flame that thieves had broken in, he informed the clerk, who resides adjacent to the church, of his suspicions. The clerk lost no time in procuring the keys, and on opening the church-doors it was found that the gallery was on fire, near the organ. The flames, owing to the sudden opening of the door, spread with greater rapidity, and communicated to the organ, belfry, and the other portions of the fabric. The clerk then secured the books with the greatest difficulty, the smoke being so dense as to nearly stifle him.

The policeman raised an alarm, and roused up the inhabitants residing near the spot. The flames soon burst forth from the windows of the building, and presented a most beautiful appearance, the

whole of the interior being one mass of fire. The beautiful square tower, with a peal of eight bells; the church organ, the pews, and the whole interior, fell a prey to the devouring element. About two o'clock the peal of bells fell with a loud crash, and were soon after followed by the roof, and nothing was left standing but the bare walls of this immense edifice, which was capable of holding between 1,000 and 2,000 persons. The fire was allowed to burn out unchecked, for no water could be procured from any source to work the engines which speedily arrived from London.

9. ACCIDENT TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALbert. — About ten o'clock, as his royal highness prince Albert was skating on the spacious water in the grounds of Buckingham palace, his royal highness unfortunately passed over some rotten ice, which immediately broke under him, and he was immersed to the chin in water. The queen was a spectator of the accident, and was for a time greatly alarmed, but with great firmness, extricated his royal highness from his awkward predicament, with the only assistance of one of the ladies of the court.

10. CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.-The ceremony of christening her royal highness the princess Royal was performed in Buckingham palace with every state and solemnity befitting the occasion.

In front of, and a short distance from, the altar was placed the font, new for the occasion, very elegant in its form, and exquisitely finished. Its base is divided into three compartments, one bearing the arms of her royal highness the

princess royal, in a lozenge, with supporters, and surmounted by her royal highness's coronet, the others having the arms of her majesty and prince Albert embossed. Over the coat of arms are cherubs executed in full relief. The body of the font takes the form of the water-lily, and supports a large shell, the rim of which, on the inside, has small water lilies floating on the edge.

The font is of silver gilt, and the water which it contained, and which was used for the ceremony, was brought from the river Jordan. The font was placed on a handsome circular table of marble, having the royal arms executed in Mosaic at the top. The table itself stood on a small raised platform placed on a large carpet of crimson velvet extending to the seats reserved for the illustrious sponsors and visitors. The carpet was embroidered with gold at the angles, and had also a deep gold border. Candelabra on gilt pedestals were on either side of the altar, and within the alcove were two cut glass chandeliers; another chandelier of the largest size was hung in the middle of the room, and candelabra on pedestals richly carved and gilt lined the sides of the apartment. The seats for the company were of crimson satin damask and gold.

His grace the archbishop of Canterbury performed the ceremony of christening the princess royal, assisted by the archbishop of York, the bishop of London, the bishop of Norwich, and the dean of Carlisle. The duke of Wellington officiated as sponsor on the part of his serene highness the duke of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha. The other sponsors were her majesty the queen dowager, her royal

highness the duchess of Gloucester, her royal highness the duchess of Kent, his majesty the king of the Belgians, and his royal highness the duke of Sussex. The illustrious party were ranged round the altar, and the duke and prince George of Cambridge, and prince Edward of Saxe Weimar also occupied places in front. The mistress of the robes and the great officers of state were behind her

majesty and prince Albert.

When the archbishop of Canterbury came to that part of the ceremony for naming the princess, her royal highness was given into his hands by her nurse. Her majesty the queen dowager then named her royal highness

VICTORIA ADELAIDE

MARY LOUISA. After the baptism the princess was returned to her nurse.

The service being concluded, the party retired, and shortly afterwards the whole of the company who had witnessed or officiated at the ceremony, went to dinner, which was served in the picture gallery, the band of the royal regiment of horse guards, who were there in attendance, playing "God save the queen," as the different members of the royal family entered the gallery.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. -A frightful concussion took place at the Whitmore station, between the Manchester and Liverpool goods trains this morning, which was unhappily attended with the loss of the life of one individual and the destruction of a score or more fat pigs, in addition to the breaking to piecemeal of the waggons containing them. It appears that the up-luggage from Manchester and Liverpool is sometimes con

veyed in one train, but oftener by two. The trains arrive in Warrington about the same time, and there the business of sorting the waggons, so as for each to be left at the proper station on the line, takes place. One train is despatched as soon as it can be got ready, and, in pursuance of the regulations of the company, the other is detained an hour or more, so as to remove as far as possible the danger attending a collision. On the previous evening (Wednesday) the weather had changed from a dry frost to a heavy sleet, which covered the rails with ice of full an eighth of an inch in thickness. This rendered them exceedingly slippery, and much retarded the rate of travelling on the line. The Manchester train, which consisted of upwards of twenty waggons, propelled by the Wildfire engine, left Warrington at twenty minutes past eleven o'clock at night, and the Liverpool train, consisting of nearly fifty waggons, propelled by two engines, the Briareus and Charon, at half-past one on Thursday morning (10th). The Manchester train, owing to the state of the line, was much retarded in its progress, and did not reach this station until twentyseven minutes past four o'clock. The Liverpool train made much better speed, the obstructions caused by the ice on the rails being in some degree counteracted by the placing of two carriage loads of pigs and one luggage waggon loaded before the engines, and to this are attributed the fatal consequences that followed, it being generally believed that the luggage in front of the engines prevented the engineers from seeing the line before them, as they ought to have done. The Manchester train had

two signal lamps attached to the last waggon, and while standing at the station here an alarm was given, at somewhat about twenty minutes to five o'clock, that the Liverpool train was advancing at a rapid rate on the same line as that on which the Manchester train was standing. Samuel Judd, one of the men employed about the station, called out most lustily, and did all in his power towards intimating to the engine-men of both trains their extremely dangerous position. Whether the engineers of the Liverpool train saw the Manchester train or not is a matter of doubt, but certain it is their speed was not sufficiently slackened, and, aided by the descent of the line at this particular spot, they came with frightful force against the waggons of the Manchester train. Both engines were slightly damaged; the two pig waggons were smashed to atoms, and, with the pigs, strewed about the line in every direction. One of the pig-drivers, James Nester, from Telsh, county Roscommon, was found amongst the pigs with his face covered with blood, one thigh broken, and otherwise injured. He was conveyed with all possible care to the railway-office, and an express sent to Newcastle for medical assistance, but the poor fellow never spoke, and just about the time of the arrival of Mr. Tait, the surgeon, he breathed his last. The other driver was also injured, but not so much so as to prevent his being removed to the infirmary at Stafford. Twenty-five of the pigs were killed by the concussion. The luggage waggons were only slightly injured, and, strange to say, the engineers kept their places on the engines, and were not hurt.