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Extract of a Letter from . NORWAY , Sept . 7 . YOU think , no doubt , the Norwegians are a tame , half frozen , passive kind cf beings . If you knew them as well as I , you would be of a contrary opinion . Mr .. , one of the Ampmen ( something like your Lords Lieutenant of counties ) lately evinced a disposition that did not please the people . A number ol them assembled , marched to his house in a very peaceable manner , bearing a coffinwith this inscription on the plate : — " Here lies the bodof who

, y , was buried alive for his injustice to the inhabitants of . ' * He was shewn the inscription , and as he did not wish at the time to accept of the favour , he promised to redress what he had done amiss ; which he did . This affair having come to the ears of the Crown Prince , his Highness enquired into it , found the people had just cause of complaint , and , in order to take away the effect , immediatelv removed the cause .

SEPT . 26 . About four o'clock in the afternoon the new Iron Bridge over the river Team , at Stamford , in Worcestershire , suddenly gave way , completely across the centre of the arch , and the whole of this elegant structure was instantly immersed in the flood . In the fall , the bars were all disjointed , and some of them , which struck againt the abutments , were shivered into many pieces . At the moment of the crash , which was instantaneous , a man and boy were upon fhe bridge ; the former with great presence of mind leaped into the river , and swam

safe to shore ; and it is a circumstance truly surprising , that , though the boy went down with the fragments , he was also extricated unhurt . The bridge had been made passable , and only wanted the finishing of the side-rails towards its completion ; but no carriages had yet passed over it . The people employed had not left their work above an hour , and were at an adjoining public-house , receiving their wages , when the alarm was given . The span of this bridge was about ninety feet ; and the misfortune is generally imputed to the slightness of the iron workwhich was several tons lihter than the celebrated bridge at

Coie-, g fcrookDale . The mason-work remains uninjured . OCT . 2 . As Marquis Townsend was " shooting at Packsfield , near Rainham , at- , tended by his gamekeeper , Charles White , the Marquis having got over a hedge , White was delivering the gun to him through the hedge , when unfortunately it went off , and the contents lodged in White ' s thigh , who died on Sunday afternoon , though every possible assistance was administered . The Marquis has made a very liberal provision for the family of the gamekeeper .

DISCOVER-- ; OF A GOLD MINE . . ' Tlublm , Oct . 11 . I sit down with pleasure , and under the influence of a good deal of agreeable surprise , to give you some information upon which you may positively rely , touching a subject which has here excited much conversation , and which , near as we are to the source of the fact ( 38 miles ) , has been very generally treated as a fable , or an imposture . I was , myself , one of the most obdurate of the unbelievers ; but convinced by sight and touch , supported by anauthority I cannot in the most distant sense doubt , it would be ridiculous to

persevere in my infidelity . You have no doubt read in some of our newspapers , an account of a Gold Mine discovered in the Wicklow mountains , and of considerable quantities of gold found there being sold in Dublin by the country people . The news writers , in dearth of intelligence , are sometimes , you know , obliged to delve a little in the mines of fancy , and create a few wonders , to stay the insatiable appetite of public curiosity . But this , I assure you , is not the case with the gold mine in question ; for it is a positive fact ; and the account I ive

g you is not from vague report , but from the lips of a very particular frier . d of mine ,, a goldsmith and jeweller of this city , who has been the whole of the last week at the mine , from whence he returned late last night , and from which he has brought a sample of this precious metal , six ounces weight , and for . Which he positively paid , in the state it came from the earth , without smelting or refining , 4 I . sterling per ounce ; such is the extraordinary purity and fineness of the gold , and so well are ihe country people whp . find it acquainted ¦ with its value , This-specimen lies ,,