Two drunken privates of the second battalion of- Scotch Fusileer
Guards were taken into custody on Saturday night, in the village of Acton, for drawing their bayonets and stabbing at the peaceable inha- bitants. They resisted the Police, and wounded several of them slightly, before they were secured. [These outrages are again becom- ing common ; but still soldiers are allowed to wear their side-arms. What are the lives and limbs of civilians when compared with the " honour" of a tipsy Guardsman ?1 On Saturday week, the farm buildings of Mr. J. S. Gould, of North Curry, were maliciously fired by some person unknown, and totally destroyed. A great quantity of wheat, two calves, poultry, and a
dog, were consumed ; fortunately, the dwelling-house escaped. A large reward is to be offered for the discovery of the incendiary. Sherborne Journal.
A young man, named Mitchell, who had interfered in the protection of a female whom two youths were insulting in the neighbourhood of Martlock last week, was stabbed with it knife by one of the offenders, named Bishop, and died from the wound on Saturday.—Sherborno Journal.
Early on Sunday morning, a party of five young men hired a boat at Liverpool, in which they set off to visit the floating light. A dispute arose as to whether they should proceed further or turn back ; a scuffle followed ; the boat was upset, and four of the young men were drowned. We understand the boat was the same from which so many persons were lost not long since, returning from a pugilistic en- counter on the Cheshire side.—Liverpool Courier.
On Saturday, a man, whose name is not known, was taken ill, and died after a few hours' illness, at a lodging-house in Coventry. His body was opened, and a stocking-needle found in his heart, on which was a wound that looked like a flea-bite. The surgeons were satisfied, from internal appearances, that the needle had entered through the ribs.
There is a serious dispute between the proprietors of the public and private piers at Gravesend, in which each charges the other with en- dangering public safety, and interfering in tine navigation.—Kent Herald.
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