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 professional gentlemen to recover the two men who first descended; but though the one had been only fifteen minutes and the other only ten, in the vat, yet every attempt to revive them proved ineffectual.

Some time ago a singular occurrence took place with the Edinburgh mail-coach. A gentleman having a gun-case, had persuaded the servants of the coach to place it behind the coachman’s seat to prevent its rubbing. They had not proceeded far from Newark, where the passengers dine, when one of the outsides, who sat on the roof, smoking his pipe, the embers fell on the gun-case, which was wrapped in a mat, containing under it three pounds of gunpowder, in separate parcels, one of which exploded, and blew the man from off the roof, and the driver, and another on the box, precipitately into the road. The guard, with praise-worthy exertions, stopped the horses, and proceeded to cut away the gun-case, being told by the passengers there was more powder; when another pound blew up, and, on getting it off to the ground, the third exploded; fortunately no other injury was sustained, than the coachman spraining his ancle, and the guard burning his hand. The rule with mail-coaches is, not to