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The Times, 1824-10-15T00:00:00

We liave been informed by a gentleman who is just re- turned from the neighbourhood of Banbury, that the aCcount of a fatal accident front a baUoon, as copied from a letter which appeared In the Ox6ord Journal into our secmnd page, is altogether a fabrica- flon.- IVolverhamnpton Clronkicle. The journeyien. leather-dressers its Worcester have struckfor wages: theneastersresolve toresist them. At the period of Sir Joshua Reynolds's visit to Rome, it wa2s a custom with the English painters there to mleet in the evenings for conversation, and frequently to make little exccursions together in the coantry. On one of" thoseoccasions, on a sammer afternoon, when thte seson wvas particularly hot, the whole company threw 6if' their coats, as being an incumbrance to them, except one, named Atley, who aloie showed great relhctancet follow t tis general cx. ample: this seemed very unaccountable to his companions, when some jokes mSade on his sihgularity at last obliged him to take his coat offalso. The mystery was theii imnmediately explained ; for it appeased that the hinder part of his waistcoat wzs made, by way of thriftiness, out of one ef his own pictvres, and thua displayed a trentendous waterfall on his back, to the great diversion of his com- panionso Qn Satturday mornLing, the 9th inst., a melancholy oc- eurrence took place at the barracks at Chicbester. A Captain M'Iver, of thc 98th Regiment of Foot, put a period to his existence, by cutting hl4 throat with arazor. A jusy assembled on Sunday, when it appeared that he had once before attenpted self.de- fitruction, by throwing himself overboard dur.ng a passage from Thdia. A verdict of Inanity was returned by the jury, and the body was interred with miilitary honours on the Tucsday follcwing, -Briglstoi Gazette. A young woman, who, we understand, is a servant in a famiily in Dorset-gardens, Brighton, in descending the steps on the north end of the Chain Pier, slipped and fell into the sea, en Satur. day last, azd, oingular as it nray appear, floated near 400 feet fronm the Pier. As soOn as possible a boat was lowered to her assistance; when it reached her, a wave struck the boat, and it passed right over her, but, fort4nately, one of the men, at the moment she was sinking, succeeded In laying hold of her clothes with a boat-hook. She was then taken into the boat, and afterwards conveyed to the Reading- roon. She was at this time in a state of total insensibility, but pro- per means being adopted, antimation was restored. We understand sbe is quite recovered from the Indisposition occasioncil by thie acci. dent._lrightoa Gaxette. A youtng married womgn at Hastings, in a state of preg- nancy, received a shock from the sudden and incautious exb3bition of a tortoise by an Italian boy. a few weeks ago, which eventually caus,d abortion, and terminited her existence on Thursday last.- Susscz paper. A young lady, named Gougl,i No. 81, Charlotte-street, Portland-place, was adusting her dress preparatory to leaving home to join a party when, by some accident, her clothec caught tire and in anl instant she was enveloped in flames. Her scicauns alarmed dte neighbourbood, sind an eiderly female residing in the aame house =,rocetied tothe apartmesAt from whonce they issued, where ahe dis- covered the young lady, but her timidity prevented her from asbrd- ing auy assistance herselt, and ahe caled ia, souie neighboars who succeeded in extinKtuishing the flames, bat not before the unfortu- Tnate $i6r was in a state of insensibility, and burnt all over In a most horrible manner. One of her fingers was burnt to. cinder, and ber bi ast and shoiaders bore the most appalling appearance. AMedival aid was called in, and every zkill adopted to relieve her, but she ex- pired ir. the most exerrciating agony shortly after the accident. On- MondaLy eveuing a most cruel antd daring robbery was comtnltbcd upon a poor Irishmravn, who was cturning homewartd froms tlle harv4*t, He was attacked on the road, about a mile and a balf frooi Uhiaburgh, by four of his countrymen, who plundered himt bf his whole stock oP' money, amounting to 31. 2s, his coat, Fwals;eost, necliWerchief, and two shirts; they then tied hiis hanrds behind bit back with a rope, iand secured him to the wheel of. a caYt stzndln? by the rodl.side, sad there left hint. In this miiserable stcte th poor rnan remained fron seven in the evening until five the ni^tnxornlng, when he was o)bserved by sonie pausengers and h luated...4dlhberg1s .DaJer,