CHRONICLE. 
ordered to be confined in the pri- 
son rooms at the head office, for 
further examination. 
19.—About five o’clock, as one 
of the regular smacks between 
Leith and London, called the 
Eclipse, Taylor, master, was com- 
ing from the former place, whence 
she sailed on the Friday preced- 
ing, she struck on a sand about 
three or four miles from Yar- 
mouth: such was the violence of 
the shock that the stern-post and 
rudder were almost immediately 
carried away. The situation of 
the passengers and crew was 
alarming, and _ notwithstanding 
their united efforts at the pump, 
and bailing with buckets, the wa- 
ter was rapidly gaining on their 
exertions. Death appeared ine- 
vitable, as from their distance 
from the shore, and the impossi- 
bility of making their state known, 
noreliefcould beexpected. Atthis 
critical juncture one of the pas- 
sengers, who had been in the navy, 
sent a lad to the mast-head with 
an ensign to hoist, with the union 
downwards, as their last resort. 
The vessel in the meantime swung 
off the sand into deep water, and 
they were now, if possible, more 
perilously situated than before. 
A pilot boat, providentially at- 
tracted by the ensign (it was 
a moon-light night), discover- 
ed the unfortunate sufferers, and 
by great exertions succeeded in 
rescuing them from a_ watery 
grave. The passengers consist- 
ed of twenty persons (six wo- 
men), with the crew, had not 
left the vessel any considerable 
time when she sunk gradually 
by the stern, and was shortly out 
of sight. The vessel was laden 
With great quantities of various 
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articles, besides the passengers’ 
luggage, nearly the whole of 
which was lost, At the time the 
vessel struck the master was in 
bed, and left the entire charge to 
the mate, and it seems he endea-= 
voured to pass within the sand 
when he ought to have kept on 
the outside. The vessel and cargo 
it is estimated were worth be- 
tween 5 and 6,000/. 
A melancholy event took place 
at Warwick, arising from the 
burning of coke in a confined 
room. The unfortunate victims 
were Mr. Newry, Mrs. Newry 
(his wife), and their son, about 
12 years old. The room had been 
recently repaired, and was damp, 
and to air it, they had, previous to 
going to bed, placed a pot of coke 
in one corner; there being no 
chimney, the family fella sacrifice 
to suffocation. 
Pedestrian Performance. 
The conclusion of one of the 
most extraordinary feats of this 
kind, by a man who appears to 
have made no particular prepara- 
tion for the task, is related in the 
following article: 
Rochester, Monday, Nov. 20.— 
This morning, five minutes be- 
fore five o’clock, Baker completed 
his 1,000 miles and one and three- 
quarters more, which he has per- 
formed in twenty days. In the 
course of last night’s labour, on 
his doing his 50th mile, at half- 
past ten o’clock, to the utter asto- 
nishment of even his confiden- 
tial friends, he began to show a 
determined resolution to accom- 
plish his undertaking before he 
left off, having then by him Dr, 
Newson, his medical attendant, 
who being fully aware of his con- 
stitution, readily agreed in his dee 
