The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-25 00:00:00

Mr. Lushington's Election -

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The Ladies' Plate of 50/.
Mr. Coleman's Fortune Teller - 1 1
Mr. Brown's illarksman - . 2 2

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few days ago,
at Swalwell, a man set his bull dog upon an ass, when the ass
immediately took the doh up in his mouth and dragged him to
the river Derwent, into which he put him over head, and lying
down upon him, kept him down there till he was drowned
Yesterday morning, one of the Sydenham
stages passing the Mansion-house, overturned, owing to one of
the fore-wh‘eels coming off. There were six outside passengers,
one of whom, Mr. GRAHAM, of Bridge-street, had the misfor-
tune to have his ankle-bone broken. lie was taken into the
Marshal's room, and had every attention paid to him previous
to his being removed to his residence ; fortunately none of the
other passengers sustained any serious injury.
The following revolting instance of heartless
imposition, practised on the parents of the lad M‘Kay, occurred.
on Monday last. An old woman who hawks rags and earthen-
ware about the country, having heard of the escape of the
criminals from the jail, repaired to the house of M‘Kay's
father and mother, and told them that she had met their son,
who was one of the fugitives, a few miles beyond Dalkeith, in
a very miserable condition, and that she had bestowed upon
him all the money and victuals she had in her possession at
the time. The poor people, much affected at the story, and
grateful for-her kindness, gave her a share of their dinner, and
thankfully restored her the small sum of money, which,
through her pretended benevolence, she said s!le had parted
with. An hour had scarcely elapsed after she had taken her
leave, when they received a message from their profligate son,
requesting an interview, in a house in the Grassmarket, and
in which he had remained from the time of his escape to the
night that he surrendered himself at the gaol.—( Caledonian
MeiTury.)
DISTREssI NG CIRCUMSTANCE.—Yesterday even•
ing Mr. JAMES A LSFORD, a highly respectable
tradesman and tuhabitant of Brown-street, Port-
man-square, in a moment of madness, nearly ef-
fected his destruction in the following dreadful
manner :—lle had been confined to his room
some days with a complaint in his head, which
produced a delirium of the most serious kind,
and when it was thought he was composed for the
night, the nurse and Mr. Brown sat down near
the bed, and in a moment he sprang from the
bed and jumped through the window into the
street, and fell upon his head. He was imme-
diately, raised up and taken into the house; and
in addition to the many bruises occasioned by
the fall, his right shoulder is dislocated, and his
skull fractured so dreadfully, that 'his death is ,
momentarily expected. -
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last,
EDWARD GOSLING, Esq., of No. 2, Brunswick-
square, was amusing himself by gathering
mulberries from a tree, in the garden of his
country residence, attended by his footman,
when the branch of the tree upon which Mr.
Gosling was standing gave way,,,and the unfortu-
nate Gentleman was precipitated to the ground,
and on the footman running to his aid, he found his
master quite insensible, and his right leg dread-
fully fractured. Surgical aid- was instantly ob-
tained, but a mortification quickly ensued which
terminated 14, existence; and, he died last night',