Mr. G. A. Folks, of Stamford Street, and Captain Corbyn,
of Brampton, fought a duel on Wednesday morning, on Putney Heath. The first fire was without effect ; on the second, Mr. Folks was sea nerdy wounded in the right urea. The parties bad quarrelled, it seems, about the Westminster election.
It is said that the wound of Mr. Harro Barring, who was hurt in a Joel last week at Humpstead, is not dangerous. Mr. Herring is not a Pole, but a Dane ; and was formerly an officer in Duke Constantine's Life Guards at Warsaw, not a Colonel in the Polish service. He subsequently joined the Poles in their lust insurrection : but is princi- pally known as a poet and novellist. He was one of the refugees ex- pelled from Switzerland, and hurried through France by Louis Philip's gendarmes to Calais, where he embarked for this country.
Mary Andrews, a nursemaid in the service of Mrs. Brown, of Gloucester Street, Dorset Square, was walking in the Regent's Park yesterday morning, with an infant, when she was run over by a cabriolet as she was crossing the road. The wheel passed over the young woman's head and fractured her skull, and the infant was severely injured from being trampled on by the horse. They were conveyed to the Marylebone Infirmary.
While the City of Canterbury Herne.bay steamer was going down the river on Sunday morning, a drunken waterman in his wherry, who WAS rowing in a contrary direction in Limehouse-reach, put himself in the way of the steamer, and after throwing down his sculls, placed his arms kimbo, and with an oath exclaimed "Go over me if you dare !" The steamer was within a few yards of him ; and bud it not been for the promptitude of Captain Large, the master of the steamer, who in- stantly ordered the engines to be stopped, mid reversed, th., vessel must have gone over the reckless blackguard and drowned him, cutting his boat to pieces. The fellow, as lw passed the City el Canterbury, set up a horse. laugh ut the trouble he had occasioned. [ This is only one of several instances of the same kind which have mem red during the week. There is not mach danger of a alderman beim; drowned, and It is profitable to be run down by a steam-boat.] Some steam-boat accidents have occurred on the Thames this week. On Monday afternoon, a coal-barge was swamped off Wappiag, by the swell of the Royal Victoria. The barge went down heed foremuzt, and the men jumped into a boat alongside. Another coal-barge was sunk, from a similar cause, on Tuesday ; and a skiff, with a lad in it, was upset : some watermen saved the boy front drowning.
A violent storm of hail, with lightning and thunder, visited parts of the metropolis on Sunday. A buy at Pentonville was killed by the lightning.
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