News in Brief
The Times, 1824-08-25T00:00:00

F.%TAL. DuEL..-Mr. Coultiard, *who latcly fouglit a (luel in Oxfordshirc, died on Mond(lay under the operation of cXtracting the ball whiichi was lodged in his shoulder on that infortunate c. caison. On Mon(lay last, A-r. Marsh, butler to the Duke of Rox- burgh,c at Pleurs, shot a swallow perfectly an(I purely white. This beautiful bird appeared to be an object ot great dislike to the other swallows, as it was observed to be pursued and pecked at whenever it venturel to conic near any of its tribe.-Scott paper. Mr. Fraser, of Lovat, bagged 67 brace of grouse on the 12th, on his lands in Stratherricl. Hc had betted that he would kill 150 brace on that day, and he wor. the bet with great apppzent ease. _Scola paper. Conisi(lerable ouantities of game have been sent South with the coiches hits week, but We hear that upon the whole the sport is rather interior to that of last season. Several fine fat bucks have accompanied the packages of smaller game.-Pertt CGourier. IVo arc sorry toi learn that the apple and pear-trees in thiis nechhourThood were greatly despoiled of thcir fruit by the high w-nd on Wc.lncsday. In the neighbourhiond of Claines its effects were almost those of a hurricane, rending off the arnis of large trees, and cartying them. a considerable distance.-Woreestcr HeraZd. After a suinptuous dinner given by Mr. Jellard, of Oak- hill cottage, a few days ago, a dessert of the finest flavoured steam- fruit wit served up, from which a black grape was selected, which measured 4.J by 4&, and weighed 4 drachms and 3 grains !-Bath J,talsnal. At the Assizes for Cork, on the 19tli istant, Jlfichael Dor,pz was sentenced to transportation for life, for thc forcible a.b- duetton and violation of Ellen Smith. A correspon(lent writes, " that an Orkney man has lately defacedl two of the old moss-tcovered columns in the interior of St.Alaggnus's Cathedral at Kirkwall. He hba cut offaslice from the 1urve of each, to the extent of several feet, and has inducte(d a flat andt smart marble slal) in the sides of the columns, on which he has chosen to record the virtues of 8somc defunct relativsa.".Edinhurgh, paper. At the church of Droie, Perthshire, on Snn(lay evening ast (L'tth hist.), jnst as the sacramental service of the day vwas con. eluding, an aceideuit occutred whichl gave very serious alarm. and nearly proyed fatal to the hearers. One of tile joists of the east gal- lery cracked and partially gave way, when the people underneath and above were thrown into a state of indescribable perturbation; and in thc hurry and confttsion to escape sufferedi no smrall iniurv some of them in their persons, others in the destruction of their clothes.-Gla.rgow Chronicle. Tlhe Oxford races la.ct week were attentled by the mtost daring gang of pickpockets ever known. They are said to have gone to Oxfcord, to the number of bet ween So atid 40, in a caravan, with change of dress, &c.; and that all their Proceedings were arranged methodically. Some were fashionably diessed, approaching to dan- dyism; somec as respectable farmlers; *and others deigned to ,Ut on liveries. Mtany iies-onslost their pocket-books, watches, and money - and even poor poople were robbed of the little they had. Their plan in dtrawving pOeKCtS was tO cut the ceat right throughi, and drawv Cite blook OUr, pinioning the arms of the person by pressing against A- woman named Pearce, committel oni a charge of pass- ing counterfecit money, escaped out of a room in Woolwich Work- house on Xunday night. She had been comTitte4l by the Magistrates of Woolwichl on the above charge, and previous to her being 8ent to gaol, she was locked up in a room in the parish workhouse, and *ie- priveri of all her clothes, except her chentire, in case of an attempt to cscape. In tbte course ef Tuiesday night, she, however, contrived to get out of her confinement by dropping from the window of the room in which she was shut up, to the ground, a height of nearly 30 feet. She had not gained her liberty in the usual way, by tying the bed clothes together, but it appears had juorped out of the window. She has not been heard of since. Onl ivetinestfay mornitig a young man in Bridgeton, feeling ratherunwell before going to work, his Awite desired hirn to take a glass of whisky from a bottle that stood in the press. UnrFor. tunately, he tnistook the bottle, and poured out a glass from one that was in the same press which contained corrosive sublimate, used for sc,irbutic complaints. lio then mixed sugar with the liquid, and before he was aware, had swallowed the deadly contents. lie immec diately becanmc unwel, and cried to his wife that he was poisoned. She ran and smrocmmred someweet milk, the tlrinking ofwhkih enabIle hhtn to discharge part nf the poisonous contrnts off the stomacl. Sur- gicalaid was also called in, and emetics nztl other means being used, he, though sdill wcak, is now in a fair way of rccovery.-Glasgow Jotrnal. A boy, twelve years of agr, fell into a well 76 feet elcep, in Chesterfeld place, on Friday afternoon. He had attempted to hold-slargebucIret, whicih a man had just drawn up, against the wailt-tarb ar,til the othercould leave the winch to take charge of It. The weig?mt of the bucket drsgged him into the well, and into which buckqkh in his fall, he must have pitzhed, as, upon applicatlon to the oinch, he was brought hack in if, In rescutng hin from the lattr he n4rrowly escaped the descent a second timre. No bones werc brokep, but the scalp had een torn front the head, and wa rhb%nging over his eyes antd face, He is dolng well.;-HBrghloi; Journal.