heat. In
proof of this we give the following extracts from the Hull papers:

[Sidenote: A SAILOR DROWNED.]

A Sailor Drowned.--On Monday last, an inquest was held at the
Parliament-street Police-station by Mr. P. F. Thorney, the borough
coroner, on view of the body of Thomas Bates, who had been a seaman
on board the screw steamer 'Irwell.' On Saturday evening, about
eight o'clock, the deceased fell from the forecastle deck of the
above-named vessel into the Humber Dock lock pit. Mr. John
Ellerthorpe, the foreman at the gates, immediately jumped in after
him, and though both were taken out within five minutes, by the
dock gateman, Bates was pronounced to be dead by Mr. Lowther,
surgeon, who was summoned to the spot. A verdict of accidental
death was returned.--_Hull News, Feb. 14th, 1863._

Respecting this case our friend says, 'Mr. Bates spoke to me in the
water, and said, "I shall soon be all right," and I thought he would
too. The water was piercingly cold, and I went and changed my clothes,
and when I returned to see how the poor man was, Dr. Lowther had
pronounced him dead. I never felt such a sense of distress as I did at
that moment; I did my very best to save him; indeed, Mr. Lowther says,
"The man died in an apoplectic fit." It was deeply distressing to see
the poor widow, when her husband was pronounced dead; she was overcome
by the suddenness of the stroke, and Mr. Dale Brown kindly sent her home
in a cab. This man, and Ashly Taylor (aged 75 years), are the only
instances out of upwards of forty I have rescued, of death taking place
in consequence of their being in the water.'

A Man in the Humber Dock.--Yesterday a man, named George Taylor,
who is frequently employed in connection with the landing of fish,
&c., and who resides in the 'Trippett,' while in a fit fell into
the Humber Dock, at the South-west corner, near to where the
'Alster' steam vessel was lying. His fall was seen by some men who
were standing near at the time and they at once got some boat-hooks
to draw him out. Mr. Ellerthorpe, the foreman of the Humber Dock
Bridge, whose humanity and gallantry in saving people from
drowning, has won for him the title of the 'Hero of the Humber,'
was ready to plunge in after the poor fellow, had he not been
readily recovered by the hooks. On being got on shore, he was
brought into the Bridg