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Evening Post, Issue 260, 7 December 1865, Page 2

Another Alpine accident is reported # Two German students and a guide, had ascended the Gross venediger, and on their return, passing over a bridge formed by frozen snow across a crevasse, the ice broke, and one of the students was pre» cipitated to a depth of 100 feet, where he was jammed in by the breast and back. He shouted out that his arms were free. The guide, however, had nel^leeted to bring a rope witl) him. He called down to the sufferer that a rope must be fetched, and that he could not he back in less than eiyht hours. " I can't hold out so long," was the reply; "say good-by for me to my parents." A plad was thrown down in the hope of its imparting a little warmth,

but the sufferer was unable to use it, *" probably soon losing all power of motion. On the return of the other student with a rope, which he was not able to accomplish till the next awning, his friend was a corpse. He had been frozen to death. A terrible fire broke out at Constantinople on September 5, by which, no fewer than 2800 houses, public buildings, and places dedicated for Divine service, have been for the most part levelled with the ground. Over 22 500 persons had to rush out of their inhabitations, almost naked, to escape from the ravages ot the flames. It would appear that the conflagration commenced in a buiiding two stories high. From that part the flames spread with rapidity, igniting in succession whole rows of houses and stores on the north-west tide. The scene amongst tne poor people was pitiable in the extreme.