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and a boy 12 years old, servants of 

 Mr. Northey, of Haselbury farm, 

 near Box, Gloucestershire, went to 

 a field to fetch two bulls and a 

 cow, to drive to a neighbouring 

 fair; one of the bulls being of a 

 very vicious disposition, and hav- 

 ing been provoked on the preced- 

 ing afternoon by some mischievous 

 boys, immediately made at the lad, 

 and gored him most dreadfully. 

 On the old man running to his as- 

 sistance, the bull instantly left the 

 first object of his attack, and set 

 furiously at the other, whom he also 

 gored, and threw to an amazing 

 height, and afterwards mangled his 

 head so shockingly, that no trace 

 of features remained, and the poor 

 sufferer expired before any rescue 

 could be afforded him. The en- 

 raged animal was then about to 

 renew his attack upon the boy, but 

 was prevented by the efforts of a 

 third person who had come to his 

 help, but who would most likely 

 have suffered severely for his 

 interposition, had he not escaped 

 hy ascending a wall ; whence he 

 defended the boy by throwing 

 stones at the bull until the timely 

 arrival of a fourth person, armed 

 with a gun, who shot the desperate 

 creature dead on the spot. Hopes 

 are entertained of the boy's reco- 

 very. — (Cheltenham Gazette.) 



29. It was reported, some time 

 ago, that the captain of the ship 

 Adventure, employed in the South 

 Sea Whale Fishery, while in the 

 act of striking a whale, was car- 

 ried overboard by the tackling, and 

 drowned, and that the ship was af- 

 terwards lost, off Cape Lopez, on 

 her passage home. The agents of 

 the ship in London, having heard 

 that some men, who were known 

 to be of the crew, had arrived at 



Liverpool, sent down to have them 

 examined relative to the loss of 

 the Adventure, in order to settle 

 with the underwriters. A few 

 days after this, a young man, 

 named Henry Mades, who was an 

 apprentice in the Adventure, made 

 his appearance in London, and 

 gave the following information to 

 Mrs. Keith, the captain's wife, re- 

 siding in Wapping: — That the 

 ship was returning home from the 

 South Seas (she was then near the 

 island of St. Thomas, a Portuguese 

 settlement), when the crew, who 

 were composed chiefly of Danes,mu- 

 tinied, and murdered captain Keith, 

 the mate and a cabin boy being 

 all the English then on board, ex- 

 cept the witness. They also mur- 

 dered two blacks, who were na- 

 tives of Cape Lopez. This ap- 

 pears to have been with a view to 

 possess themselves of the ship, and 

 to remove those who might after- 

 wards appear against them in evi- 

 dence. This communication to 

 the captain's widow was forwarded 

 by her yesterday to the magistrates 

 at Shadwell, who immediately sent 

 for the boy, Mades, in order to 

 examine him more particularly 

 upon these facts. He stated, that 

 he, as likewise the captain, were in 

 bed, when they heard a noise upon 

 deck. The captain ran up to see 

 what it was, and some time after 

 the boy followed him. He then 

 saw them in the act of throwing 

 the captain overboard, whom, it 

 appears, they had previously mur- 

 dered by knocking his brains out. 

 The first alarm was occasioned, as 

 the witness supposed, by their mur- 

 dering the mate and others, whom 

 they had by this time likewise 

 thrown overboard. The witness 

 was next threatened to be murder- 

 ed, 



