A hostile encounter took place at Pads on Monday mowing,
in the Bois de Boulogne, between Major Andrews and Lieutenant Barker, Loth in his Majesty's service. The meeting arose out of a discussion on 'intim: y tactics. After three exchanges of shots, the Major was mortally wounded in the breast. A stray ball struck the arm of M. Gumboyne, Mr. Barker's second.
The Frankfort papers mention the death of' his Royal Highness Duke William of Bavaria, on the 9th January, at Bainburg, in the &oh year of his age. The widow of Mina has been created a Countess, with a pension amounting to the pay of a Spanish Lieutenant-General. [We wish she may get the cash.] Mina died of a cancer in the stomach.
Letters from Naples mention the anticipated eruption of Mount Vesuvius, as volumes of smoke were daily pouring from the crater.
The Post-office and Patent-office at Washington were destroyed by fire on the 2211 of December. All the models and papers in the Patent-office were burnt ; but the books and papers of the Post- office were saved. Nothing is certainly known of the origin of the fire.
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