The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-24

said sol went of, and wounded the poor
 wretch most dreadfulIy in the back and pos
 teriorS.
 The Duke of Buckingham and his
 friends closed the shooting season at Aving- ton with unparalleled success. On the
 last day were bagged, in one coppice alone, $50 pheasants, 109 hares, and 116 rabbits;
 which with thirteen previous days sport,
 made grand total of 1000 head !-475
 head in one copse !! This is the kind of
 butchery which makes 1t necessary to SUD-
 port the game laws. The system destroys
 the true character of sporting, as well as
 the character of the peasantry.
 Last summer Mary Marshall, young
 woman of good character, was wedding in
 field, along with some other women,
 when they found nest containing some
 eggs. As they did not suppose that there
 was any crime in taking the eggs of wild
 bird, they agreed to divide them, and as
 she happened to have basket with her,
 they were put into it, and carried home
 when their labour was over. The cir
 cumstances coming to the knowledge of the game-keeper, he laid an information against her, and the poor girl finding she had committed an offence against the game laws, and fearful of the consequences, left her home, and went to Noting ham, where she was taken into the service of Mr. Swanwick, of the Kings Head Tavern. Here her conduct was quite in accordance with her previous good character, and in this situation she might have remained, with credit to herself, and to the entire satisfaction of her employer. But justice, it seems, was not satisfied; no expiation had been made for the horrible crime of taking two or three eggs found in the field; and the place C. her retreat being discov- cred, she was dragged from her comforta- ble situation, and being taken before the Rev. MT. Lowe, of Birmingham, and the Rev. Mir. Beaumont, of East Bridgeford, this respectable young woman was by them committed for three months to the South we'll House of Correction.
 Siege of Missolonghi.-A history of the siege of Missolonghi has been publish ed at Paris by M. Auguste Fabre. It contains number of most interesting de- tails with respect to that memorable event. The bravery and self-devotion of the unfortunate Greeks are painted with mas terly pencil. It is we'll known, that after having been disappointed in all hopes of aid, feeling the ramparts crumbling under their feet, seeing their fathers, their wives and their children, perishing by famine, the garrison sent communication to the only corps which was able to give them any succor, that of karaiskaki, requesting it to attack the rear ofthe enemy on csr- tain day, and to annouce it's arrival by a general discharge of musketry, at which moment the garrison would make a sortie, and endeavor to cut their way through the besieging army. On the appointed day the population of Missolonghi was assem- bled. There remained three thousand soldiers, (including those, who, although sick or wounded, were capable of march ing with the assistance of their comrades) a thousand arifcers or other men unused to fighting, and above five thousand wo- men and children. The Grecian women who fancied themselves strong enough to brave the danger and fatigue of the sortie, dressed themselves in mems clothes, in or der that ifthey were unable to escape the enemy, they might be mIstahe, for soldiers aud put to death instantly. Many ofthem hung round their necks and round the necks of their children, as protecting ta- lisman, the revered relics of their ances- tors, and wore concealed daggers, with which either to strike the enemy, or to se- cure their not being taken alive. Those whose weakness forbade them to follow the troops, joined the desperately wounded, the sick, the aged, and the infants, and re- solved to bury themselves in the ruins of the town. It was terrible moment. AL most all the families of Missolonghi were divided into two parts those who remain ed in expectation of death, and those who were on the point of rushing forth to ven- geance and to new dangers. The hardest warriors were subdued to tears and the bravest hearts quailed at the approaching separation. All these preparations were, however, rendered abortive by the infa- nous treachery ofa Bulgarian soldier, who had deserted to Ibrahim, and disclosed the whole plan. The Turks suddenly attack ed the town and bathed themselves in Christian blood.
 The scene that followed was hideous "But one voice was heard among tt1e- des- vonoep g aavs M Eahro. To the