SINGULAR DEAT11 OF A FOIE-MINTING CI.ERCVMAN.—The Reverend Mr. Price, Rector
of Lower Weedon, Northamptonshire, while hunt- ing on Tuesday with Mr. Osbaldiston's hounds, fell, on leaping a brook, his horse falling with him. He was not hurt ; but, enraged with the horse, to which he attributed the accident, he gave it a severe lashing. Soon after, he had, on following the dogs, to clear a fence; when the horse, taking the hint from his former mistake and punish- ment, leaped in high, that on its 'coming -to the ground, the reverend rider was thrown with violence against the pommel of the saddle, and hurt in a way which caused his death in six hours after.
An affair of honour took place in the neighbourhood of Barnstaple, on Friday afternoon, at four o'clock, between C. Roberts, Esq., and J. Sherard Clay, Esq., attorneys of Barnstaple. The parties fired to- gether at twelve paces distant,' When the shot of Mr. Roberts took
• effect, and passed. through the lower part of the left thigh of his op- ponent just above the knee, and fractured the bone. We understand the dispute originated respecting certain evidence given by Mr.- Clay in favour of Sir Colin Campbell, in a cause lately tried in London, and brought by Mr. Bremridge and Mr. Roberts against Sir Colin Camp- bell, to recover the money which they had expended in his behalf in his contest for the borough of Barnstaple in August 1839.— Western
Luminary. •
On Monday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, as a plumber named Tansley, of Barnet, was passing along the new road leading to Minims, he observed an individual stripped of all his clothes, even his shirt and trousers, lying in a hedge, with his hands tied together, and a rope so brought round the neck that he was almost strangled. When the Man had, sufficiently recovered to give an account of the . causes which had led to his being bound in such a manner, he said he was a merchant of Killarney; his name was Church ; and he was on his way to London, -for the purpose of purchasing some silk goods. He had travelled from Liverpool as 'far as Redburn with a gentleman's groom ; who left him there, taking with him some linen belonging to the Irish- man, which happened to be in the groom's saddlebags. . Soon after pasSing. the Green Man at Barnet, he overtook a cart in which were two men, Whom he had a short time before seen pass the Green Man. They offered him a seat, which he accepted. They had proceeded about half a mile,. when they met two men carrying .bundles. of. laths. The men in the cart called out, " Where have you been so long ?" To which the others replied, "Never mind; by-and-by we will tell you all about it." The two men in the cart then whispered to each other, and the one in the dark coat looked very serious at him. Thinking that something wrong was intended, he jumped out of the cart. The laths the two men were carrying were instantly thrown over the fence; and one of the men collared him, and said, " You rascal, deliver your mo- ney:" Church twice knocked . the man down who collared him, and then he ran away; but was soon overtaken mid knocked down in his turn. He thought they were about to murder him ; when a woman came up and said, " For God's Sake, do not kill the man." The man in the dark coat said, " You wh—' give us the cord you have in your pocket." She then produced a cord, with which his hands were tied, and fastened to his neck. • Some of them struck him several times on the head, and then threw him over the fence, rifled his pockets, and took from him forty sovereigns and a silver watch. They then tied him-to the fence; and there he remained from about half-past six o'clock
• until found the next morning.
On Monday last week, Mr. Pullen, farmer of Sutton Courtney, Ab- ingdon, was knocked down at Culham Moor, beaten with great severity, so as to endanger his life, and robbed of a canvas bag containing four sovereigns and some silver. A young man named Lay, about eighteen :years of age, has been apprehended for the robbery. . Mr. Pollen's can- vas purse, with two sovereigns and a half sovereign and 6s. 6d. in 'silver, was found in his possession. •
The smack King William, Captain Turner, on her voyage from Berivick to London,- was run foul of by a brig, a few days ago, near 'Yarmouth ; by which accident the mate of the smack lost his life.
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