An Affecting Incident

An excnange reúnes uie ioiiownjg ;ouoliing story of the sea, : On the ïonae-trip of one of our New York and Liverpool packets, she being crowded with emigrante, tliat awful scourge, the ship fever, broke out. The carpentér of she vessel, who was one of nature's nobleman, and had on board his little son, a lad of 12 summers, was one of the ürst victinis. His shipmates sadly inolosed the body in his hammock, and, iiaving read over the burial service, and atfcached to his feet a grindstone for the purpose of sinking it, committed it to the embrace of old ocean. The poor boy, ülled with grief at the loss of his natural protector, sprung overboard, and beí'ore he could be rescued lic was bevond the reaeh of all human aid. Ön the day following the buriul, a large shark was noticed in the wake of the ship, and, as it was almost oalm, the sailors asked permission to catch it, which was readily granted by the Captain. Having procured a hook and attached a chain and line, and baited it with pork, they cast it overboard, and soon had the exciting pleasure of hookiug the monster, and, with the aid of the windlass, they liauled the writhing mass on board. As it lay on the deck in its death struggles, the sailors heard a singular rumbling noise, which seemed to proceed from the dying captive. Taking a ship-ax they soon cut their way into the now-dead fish, and, to their great surprise, fouiid that it had swallowed the carpentér, grindstone and boy, and the former, who had only swooned, had rigged up the grindstone, and, with the assistance of the boy to turn it, "was grinding his jack-knife to cut his way out. "