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said Major Mason was anotlier, 

 wht)se clothes were torii by the 

 shuck, but wlio was otherwise 

 iiiiinjured. The third was an in- 

 fant, two nioatlis old, and the lit- 

 tle innocent was discovered at the 

 bottom of the vessel in a profound 

 sleep, after the renr.jval of the 

 dieadful wreck. At this moment 

 the Coi'oner's iniinest is sittiii<i,', 

 aiiil we have only lime to subjoin 

 the names of the dead : James 



Squires of Gorleston ; Mar- 



cou, a linen-diaper; liutler, 



of Pockthoipej W'm. Nicholson, 

 the steeriujan of the boat; Mrs. 

 iSiuith, wiU) lived near the Norfolk 

 and Norwich hospital ; Eliza Ste- 

 phens, of Vainiouth ; a man un- 

 known, in a sailor's dress, from 

 Lynn, apparently between :")0 

 and <J0, with his legs torn olf; 

 a young woman, name unknown, 

 ■who stated that she hatl been to 

 Hingham for relief. The infant 

 was her ciiiUl ! 



The following statement, given 

 in the same paper, shews the 

 causes which must have produced 

 the accident : — 



The boiler is a cylindrical vessel, 

 lying fore and aft the vessel, 

 about S feet long, ;md 4 feet in 

 diameter, made of wrought iron, 

 excepting one end, which lay to- 

 wards the stem of the vessel, and 

 iti of cast iron. 



In consequence of the stress of 

 steam being greater than the 

 boiler was capable <»f sustaining, 

 the cast iron j)art oi' the boiler 

 gave way, and flew in a direction 

 towards the stem of the vessel ; on 

 wliich taking ]ilace, a stress im- 

 mediately falls on the boiler itself, 

 to throw it out of its sitvuition, the 

 strt-sR depending on tlie magnitude 

 ot iht^ orifice occamaicd by ilie 



fracture, and consccjnently it was 

 thrown in an hori/oncal direction, 

 out of the stern of the vessel, 

 sweeping all before it in its pas- 

 sage, to a distance of about tifteeu 

 yards ; al the same time that the 

 concussion of the air and steam 

 completely unroofed the vessel 

 from one end to the other. 



11. Lausanne. — Tiie annual 

 meeting of the General IJenevoleut 

 Society will take place at Zurich 

 on the'2'-2d and "iad instaiU. Never 

 since its institution have theie been 

 sucli uutltiplied and urgent culls 

 for its. assistance. In se\eral of 

 the eastern cantons of Switzerland 

 want is at its heigiit ; and scar- 

 city, joined with unwholesome- 

 ness of foi>d, has caused a great 

 number of deaths. Measuies for 

 restiaining the exportation of coru 

 and pot<itoes from one cantoii ti» 

 anothei" have b^'Ccmie gt-neral : and 

 governments, wliich were for a 

 long time averse to recognize prin- 

 ciples contrary to a free comnitrce, 

 stipulated in the fetieral act, have 

 been forced to follow that example 

 set them by others, of which they 

 had disapproved. The govei'u- 

 meat of Zurich io in such circum- 

 stances as to be obliged to refuse 

 to ilieir neigi\l)ours of St. Ciall, 

 Thurgovia. Glaris, and Zug, thi? 

 exportation of potatoes. It Wi»» 

 permitted till now, bulseveral part, 

 of the canton ha\ e not a sufficient 

 su])ply tor planting their tieltls. 



The friglitful state to which the 

 canton of (ilaris isrechiced, which 

 only lately displayed industry, 

 comfort, and happiness, is descii bed 

 in the work of the Minister Heer. 

 At the present time no labouring 

 j)erson, however industrious, can 

 earn more than four kreutzcrs a 

 day. It is frij^hti'ui to see with 



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