Star.
London, England, 1821-02-28 00:00:00

oas ERVA ?lONS.

Green must be considered u a man anxious to shew his cou-
rage, and to win if possible; but he was too slow for Hudson.
Green was severely punished, and lost a great deal of deed.—
Hudson was always with him, and finished the rounds not only
in his favour, but the throws were all in bis favour.

Tn the forenoon of Wednesday last, a fine young bull got
away from the butchers in the shambles at Lancaster, where it
had beep brought to be slaughtered. It ran down Market-
street, followed by a number of butchers; at the lower end It
tossed a man and a child, the former being much injured ; it
then proceeded down St. Nicholas-street, and at Stonewell it
tossed another child, which was much hurt and lacerated ; it
then proceeded into the Friarge, where it was attacked by two
dogs, which were tossed up into the air as soon as they ap-
ptoashtd, win both disabled. The bull then walked very lA-
surely up St. Nicholas-street, and proceeded slowly down Cheap-
side, up Church-street, down the New Road. It next passed
down a street leading to the river Lune, near Brockbank's ship.
yard. The bull, finding he could not escape by this street, and
seeing the crir.vd of people, made a start back again towards
them, when twenty or thirty, im their baste to escape, fell one
over another; the bull, however, passed over them without doing
mischief, and proceeded into the ship-yard, the walls and neigh-
bouring houses being thronged with spectators. Here another
bull-dog was turned out to hun, which seized him by the nose,
but was quickly thrown off, aid whirled into the air : this situa-
tion affording an opportunity of approaching him, two sports-
Men took their posts in a shed, and after three shots, succeeded
in bringing him down, after be had reigned completely master
of the town upwards of two hours.
Saturday se nnight, a Mrs. Gibb, her husband,
with another man -belonging to Ayr, drank two gills
of whisky together, and were soon after affected with
severe vomiting, and Mrs. Gibb expired after an ill-
ness of little more than seven hours. On her body
being opened, the stomach was found to have evi-k
dent marks of 'inflammation, and in one or two cases
was much corroded, but whether this v. as caused by
the act id nature of the spirits, of by some deleteriou,
ingredient mixed with it, it is impossible to say.
Saturday se'nuight, a poor man of the name of
Morrison, drayman, at Stirling, having been affected
with some kind of swelling about the joint of the left
arm, was applying a solution of sugar of lead to the
part. At night the vessel containing the solution was
placed by his bedside, and beside it a similar vessel
containing water gruel for his drink. In the course
of the night the unfortunate man drank the solution
of sugar of lead instead of the water gruel, and died
on the Monday following.
Saturday sc'nnight, the servant of a farmer in the
neighbourhood of Peebles having had occasion for
some spirit of tar, placed the bottle which contained
it in a cupboard. The mistress of the house being
unwell the next day, was persuaded by her husband
to take a little spirits, which he brought from the
,lace where the spirit of tar was deposited. This
eing observed by one of the children of the farmer,
a girl of about ten years of age, she, when alone, went
to the cupboard, and mistaking the bottle which con-
tained the spirit of tar for the one she saw used by
her mother, swallowed a quantity of it, and notwith-
standin medical assistance was procured, the child
lin in agony till Saturday last, when she died.
family, consisting of four persons, a man and
wife, and their son and daughter, who resided its
Lawson's Wynd, foot of Sheriff Brae, Leith, were ob-
served by the neighbours to be later than usual in
opening their door on Friday morning; it was broken
open, and discovered that all except the old woman
..were lifeless, andihrin a very weak state. The me-
lancholy catastrophe is supposed to have arisen from
injurious smoke, theyent having little or no draught,
and the windows and doors haying been closely shot.

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