Wednesday morning, a female child about five years old, being left alone in he house of her father at Neath, set her clothes on fire, and was dangerously burnt; she ran into the street enveloped inflames, and the first person that observed her tearing off the burning garments, saved her from immediate death. We are sorry to state, that the only son of the Rev. John JONES, Rector of Killie-Ayron, Cardiganshire, a promising youth of 14, was unhappily drowned last week while bathing in the river Towy, near Carmarthen. The son also of Mr BARRAR, painter of Monmouth, a boy about seven years old, amusing himself with gathering flowers on the bank of a fish-pond at that place, fell into the water, and no assistance being near, he unfortunately perished. On Thursday morning, as the brig Merchant Taylor, of St Ives, Edward JOHN, master, was sailing from Newport to Plymouth, laden with coals, she ran foul of the Caroline, Cork trader and stove in two of her waist planks, which occasioned the total loss of the Merchant Taylor; the captain and crew having only time to save themselves on the bowsprit of the Caroline, before she went down. We are sorry to say, the property was all the captain's, and not a sixpence insured. Lyn Nunn Brisbane Australia