The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-16 00:00:00

CHESTER RACE BALL.

DUEL AT CHALK FARM.—Yesterday after-
noon, at three o'clock, a- meeting took place in the neighbour..
hood of Chalk Farm, between Mr. T. SMITH and - CLE-
MENT, Esqrs. owing to a dispute which has lately been the
subject of conversation ih the fashionable world. The fernier
gentleman was attended by-Col. SMITH, and the latter by A.
G. BLENNEamassETT; Esq. The Gentlemen, by appoint.
ment, appeared on the groUrid precisely at the above hour, and
were merely accompanied by two surgical Gentlemen and some
friends, and with so much honOurable secrecy was the business
conducted, that the Gentlemen were assembled in a field to the
right of the farm-house without attracting any observatiOh. The
seconds of each Gentlenisn hail some conversation, and used
every effort to affect a reconciliation ; but all mediation was de-
clined, and they took their ground at twelve paces, and by a
signal given -(the dropping of a handkerchief) they-fired, but
without effect; Mr. &filth's bullet p-aiSing doge to his act-
versary's neck... The seconds again interfered, and for several
minutes endeavoured to bring abOut ah amicable arrangement,
but all interposition was refused, and the .gentlemen having re-
tAined their ground, the signal was given, and Mr. Smith's
Pistoimissed fire. The seconds advanced on the insumt. and
the antagonists appearing-satisfied, shook hands and left tht
ground. Thus ended this unpleasant affair. • • -

On Tuesday evening two. Coroners' Inquests
•
were held in the committee-room of St. Bartholomew's nospititt,
before T. StiEr.Tox •Esq. The first wag on the body of• John
Leary, who •eaine•br; his death under the following circurn.:
Stances :—lt appeared that the deceased (a lad about twelve
years of age) was riding behind a hackney.coach, when the
coachman Whipped him off, and• in endeavouring to get- • away,
he was knoCked down by the, horses of the carriage of John
Tabor, Esq. of Finsbury-square, • which was passing at the
time ; the deceased, raised himself for a moment on knee,s,
while under the horses' legs, and exclaimed '4 God help me I'
when he received a kick on the temple from the off hone, which •
stunned him. lie was immediately picked up by sonic Tenons
present, and conveyed to the above hospital, witc:.-e• be expir-,
ed on the following day. No: blame • whatever isattributable
coachman, who did al lin, his power to pre yen t the accident.
The Jury returned a verdict of" Accidental Death." Deodand .
on the horse ss. The father of the deceased applied to the COT)-
'air for the expedces burial, when he was infokined
there was no doubt but that 31r. Taber defray them; if.
applied to. The other was on the body of Jilhn Hann. The
deceased had:been sent to .11Ir. Butler's, the chytnist, in Cheap.
side, with some haMpers, and wag dragging••them- across the
warehouse, when (being a stranger te the place) he fell -down :a,
trap-door into the cellar, and in endeavouring to save himself he
caught hold of a cask of ginger, weighing upwards
which he dragged after him, and it fell upon him anttbroke
veral of his ribs, and otherwise so severely injured him disci
he died in the above hospital the following day. The Juiy.
returned a verdict of Accidental Death," with -a deodand On,
the ginger of 10/. The Coroner said the -verdict was a very
proper one. • The dangerous and improper practice of. leav-,
ing trap-doors in warehouses open, could hot' be too strongly .
censurable, and he hoped the verdict oldie Jury would teach Mr.
Butler to be more cautious for the future. It ig a reiviarldble
eireunistance,, that while Air. Birch, the -house-surgeon, waa
attending to give evidence in the first case, he was called-outle
attend a lad who had been tun over in a similar manner, and a
woman. who bad been bitten by a mad dog, both of whona,were
brought into.the ito pitrl while the jury were sitting. •-•

ALACRITY AND HUMANITY.-011 Sunday,
6th instant, William Hudson, the son of:111r. Richard Hudson,
late harbour-masterat &Oderland, jumped into the river Weir., ,
mitt saved the son of mr. spirit-merchlint, th 6 same
place, from being drowned. Tins -is• the sixth-person this en-,
terprising young man has -saVed in &similar way, ;although• he,
is ottly in the 19th year of his age. If properly approaches,
no doubt the Humane Society [vu. is it not the Royal Society ?
would confer some mark of honour upon him.