Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

We have been favored by Mr. Latrobe with a particular account of the accident at the capitol on Monday. Its length with the lateness of the hour, at which it was received, and the interesting foreign news, compel us to defer its publication till our next, excepting the beginning of it which follows :

On Monday the Vault of the Court Room in the North Wing of the Capitol fell down. Several workmen, under the direction of Mr. John Lenthall, the clerk of the works. were under the vault, lowering down that part of the centre which still stood under it just before it fell. A loud crack gave notice of their danger, and all of them escaped out of the windows, or under the adjoining vaults, excepting Mr. JOHN LENTHALL, who to judge from the place in which his body was found, wanted only a single step to have secured his retreat also. But being under that part of the arch, the centre of which had been removed on Friday ; he was suddenly buried under many tons of bricks, and must have been instantaneously deprived of sensation and life.

As all the butments of this vault are standing, without the smallest failure, it is not easy satisfactorily to account for the sudden falling of the work, Nst. Intelligencer.