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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 227, 23 December 1859, Page 3

On the Ist of October the great bell of \Vestmihster sounded for the last time, and while in the act of striking Big Ben became dumb for ever. At the,present moment the hell is even more hopelessly cracked than its ill-fated predecessor, aiid like him, too, must be broken up and re-cast. Re-casting is a word which is soon said ; but such a deal is to be done before Ben's mutilated fragments find their way to the melting-pot and still more before the renovated mass is, again restored to its.lofty dwelling, that at least a twelvemonth must elapse before the voice of the great bell can be heard booming oyer the metropolis. The tone of the bell was really fine; but it was never heard to perfect advantage in consequence of some vice in the mode in which it was hung. The Aurora Borealig was visible in London in August last.' An owj has just died at Arundel Castle, aged. lOOCyears: she had been blind for 20 years. ' The village of Willingham, in Cambridgeshire, has been visited by a fire, causing damage estimated at £10,000. The punishment of flogging has been reported; tq Bontewhat frecmeqtly lately iv tun house, of cbrreo tion, CQldb&th-flelds.' One prisoner had:, three tyien inflicted upon him. for baviug, thrown * -cell tjofat One of, the oncers. " Captain Dfayton of the Rayal Artillery, apnapnfefajwork to piqvq that *»v Great Britain ha* sud vfiU bo a^ifcyWiJ.% ths ix/M*