Frightful Accident on the Thames.
On the evening of Sept. 3, the steamer Princess Alice, returning from Gravesend to London, with eight hundred passengers on board, was run into, and sunk almost immediately. It is feared that the drowned will number six hundred; but so much confusion prevails, and the excitement is so great, that the exact number cannot be ascertained. The nation is completely stunned by the calamity. The dead are taken to Woolwich as fast as they are recovered, and are arranged in the public offices. On the morning of Sept. 4, every train from London brought down hundreds of people, and Woolwich was filled with an immense mob of weeping and excited men and women, who had come to identify their drowned friends. The bodies were generally not at all disfigured.