Glasgow Courier. — 1850-09-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LION BUNTING BY BOERS.  At an early hour on the following morning a young Boer rode up to the farm, and in-formed us that the party who had been lion. hunting on the preceding day had bagged two fine Ilona, a ma e and female. As the farm lay direct in my line of march I mounted Colesberg, and, directing my followers to follow me with the waggons, I rode hard for the farm to inspect the noble game. On toy rode thither I met a horse-waggon, drawn by eight horses, containing some of the party who had mustered for the battue. Arriving on the farm I found the lion and lioness laid out on the grass in front of the house, and the Boers' Hottentots busy skinning them. Both lions were riddled with balls, and their heads were shot all to pieces. This is generally the way in which the Boers serve their lions after they have killed them, fearing to approach, though dead, until they have expended a farther supply of ammunition. A Hottentot is then ordered to approach and throw a stone at him; and then the Boers ask him if he is dead, I and on the Hottentot replying "Like so, bass," he is ordered to pull him by the tail before the hunters sill venture to approch. My little Bushman informed me that he had often been out lionhunting during his captivity with the Boers. On one of these occasions a Boer, who had dismounted from his horse to fire, was dashed to the ground by the lion before he could regain his saddle. The brute, however, did not injure him, but merely stood over him lashing his tail, and growling at the rest of the party, who had galloped to a distance in the utmost consternation, and, instead of approaching within easy shot of the lion, to the rescue of their comrade, °Felled their fire upon him from a great distance, the consequence of which sportsmanlike proceeding was, that they missed the lion and shot their comrade dead an the spot. TI lion presently retreated, and none daring to follow him, he escaped.—Catiansing's Fire Years' Adventures is South Ail itxt.  Whale Fishery—Private letters, received on Monday morning from Davis' Straits, of date July 26, state that the Horn of this port had then four fish, 32 or 52 tons; Princess Charlotte, one fish, 8 tons; Advice and Alexander, clean. The Alexander was on the Cod Bank on the 26th, and expected to be in Kennesuik Bay in a few days. The Horn was north in the bay, and one of the letters states that it was expected she would be a full ehip.—Dundee Courier. Death in a Railway Carriage.—On Monday last, a startling and fatal accident occurred at the railway station at Masbro'. The express down-train arrived at half-past one o'clock, when one of the passengers in a first-class carriage was found to be quite dead. The unfortunate gentleman was I Mr. R. Heath, a retired tradesman, from Cookley, near Kidderminster. He was joined at Stourbridge that morning by his brother, and it was their intention to make a tour in Scotland. On alighting to change carriages, at Derby, deceased got into the wrong train, and on being made aware of his mistake he had run to get into the express train for the north. Shortly afterwards he complained to his brother that be felt very unwell, and he appeared to have great difficulty in breathltig. As the train approached Chesterfield he rapidly became worse, and his brother, who was greatly alarmed, endeavoured to signal the guard, but was unable to attract his attention. A few miles from Masbro' deceased became utterly unconscious. Immediately the train stopped he was removed from the carriage, and Dr. Robinson sent for, but life was extinct.—Sheffield Times. "Now, girls." said our friend Mrs. Bigelow to her daughters, the other day, "you must get husbands as soon as possible, or they'll all be murdered!" "Why so, ma?" "Why, I see by the papers that we've got a'most fifteen thousand post offices, and nearly all of 'ern despatches a mail each way every day—the Lord have mercy on us poor widows and orphans!" and the old lady stepped brisklyto the looking-glass to put on her new cap. An unlucky passenger, who sat next to an Irishwoman with a smoked ham under her arm, and whose coat retained •-n marks of contact, suggests to omnibus proprietors, that '-s and gentlemen with straw!, • babies, p  a nosegays, , parcels, baud-,