FIGHT WITH A SHARK.

[Galignani Messenger.] A fearful shark adventure is reported from Passade, a small fishing village between Nice and Villaf ranchi. Two fishermen returned late in the evening with <i shark measuring 10ft in length in tow. The monster had been harpooned and lost considerable blood, which fact enabled them to draw it on shore easily and secure it in their hut, intending to take it for exhibition to Nice the next day. About 2 o'clock in the moi'ning a horrible noise arose from the hut, the unearthly howling of a dog and screeches of children predominating. The two fishermen hurriedly lit their lamps and hastened to the spot, when a terrible sight met their gaze. The monster, whose wounds were mortal, had so far recovered that he was seen flapping about > snapping at everything within reach. The dog, which had been left sleeping by the bed of the two children, who with their mother occupied the hut, had been nearly bitten in two. The mother herself, in trying to shield her infants, had her leg cut off below the knee. One of the men had seized a harpoon, and managed to strike the brute in the eye, but in the terrific bound that it gave the the lamps were knocked over and extintinguished, and a struggle of unprecented horror took place in the dark. The fishermen suddenly made for the door but was unable to open it. In the meantime a neighorboring fisherman had been drawn to the spot by hearing the fearful din. With his help the two children were first rescued throngh a small window above the door, after which this was broken down by the united efforts of the men. The shark was held by means of the table, the legs of which were already bitten through as so much straw, and directly the door was opened, it flapped its way outside and sought the sea. It was mastered in the end, however, through a harpoon thrust in the remaining eye. Dr Gabrielli was immediately sent for and amputated the stump from the mother's leg ; it is expected she will recover. The children luckily escaped unhurt.