A Panic-stricken Village

Passengere on the deck of a large pltusure steamboat, running tlirough the Nstrrows of New York liarbor, several years ago, wcro amazcd and greatly alarmed by neeiDg a large cannon-bail pass over the boat. The ball was from a cannon in Fort Hamilton, which the ginners had supposed was aimed at a target nowhere near the boat. The resdents of the qixiet village oí Minton, in Englaud, have also liad un experience of bombard inent in time of peace. At midday, a 1(5 pound shell feil in the middle of tlie main streefc, and plowed up the turf a long distauce. Another shell soon feil into a garden near by, and athird, entering the roof of a hum, utterly dernolished the building. The frig itened yillagers fled from their homes to the open country. It was soou ascertoined that the lioyal Horse Artilleiy were pricticÍDg gunnery upon a lofty eminence some two miles distant, and that the gunners had put their targets in a line vith the village. A mounted messenger iuformed the officer in command of tho village oatastrophe, and the flring ceased.