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In the English Channel, 82; U 

 of ihe line. 



2. An alligator was shot through 

 the head at Ghazepoore by an offi- 

 cer of the 67th regiment, which 

 was 29 feet in length and seven in 

 circumference. In the stomach 

 were found several half digested 

 human limbs, the heads of two 

 children, and more than twenty 

 stones — probably swallowed in 

 order to assist digestion. 



A melancholy accident happened 

 lately at Bergen, in Norway. In 

 consequence of the heavy rains, an 

 enormous stone was detached from 

 the mountain, and falling upon 

 some buildings, crushed 49 per- 

 sons to death. 



A silk weaver, named John 

 Urssulak, died late^y at Lemburg, 

 in Prussia, at the age of 116 years. 

 He had had six wives. The last, 

 who survives him, brought him a 

 son twelve months ago. He was 

 extremely healthy and active, and 

 walked six miles the day before 

 his death. 



3. For some time past, Oster- 

 ley-park, the residence of the earl 

 of Jersey, and its neighbourhood 

 about Brentford, have been infest- 

 ed with numerous poachers. On 

 Wednesday night, between eleven 

 aad twelve, George Wood, the 

 gamekeeper, wiih three men, 

 went in pursuit of poachers; and 

 when they came to a field close 

 under a wood belonging to the 

 noble earl, they heard a noise, 

 which, they had no doubt was 

 the report of an air gun. They 

 made towards the part whence the 

 report came, and heard four more 

 similar reports. When they came 

 near the spot, they heard the break- 

 ing of bushes, and a large dog 

 bark; who flew at them, and en- 



deavoured to seize them ; but 

 they kept him off, and ran forward 

 towards the bushes, where they 

 observed a man going from them 

 and running away. The}' ran after 

 him, and coming near him, he 

 turned about and presented a gun 

 at them : however, they pursued 

 him courageously, when the man 

 turned his gun and endeavoured to 

 knock the gamekeeper down with 

 the but-end of it ; but failing in 

 that, he set off again. The game- 

 keeper followed closely, and he 

 threw his gun into the bushes : 

 the gamekeeper at length seized 

 him by the collar, when a man of 

 the name of John Goodfellow, 

 rushed from a cover, and struck 

 the gamekeeper a violent blow 

 with an iron instrument ; he re- 

 peated the blow, which knocked 

 the gamekeeper down before he 

 could recover himself, and enabled 

 the man whom he had secured, 

 and who had the gun, to escape. 

 At this juncture Shepherd and 

 Fletcher, two of the men who 

 were out with the gamekeeper to 

 assist him, came up and secured 

 Goodfellow. A light was then 

 procured, and the iron instrument 

 proved to be an air-pump belong- 

 ing to an air-gun, which was 

 thrown into the bushes by the man 

 who escaped. The air-pump was 

 found about a yard oft" the spot 

 where the gamekeeper received 

 the blows. On the same spot was 

 found a bag, containing leaden bul- 

 lets, and another containing a hare 

 and a pheasant, which appeared to 

 have been killed by bullets. The 

 air-gun was found in the bushes 

 where the man threw it when he 

 was pursued. Goodfellow was 

 conveyed to the public office, 

 Bowstrcct, on Thursday after- 

 noon, 



