SWING AGAIN.—At Barkston near Grantham, on Saturday night last, a
waggon-hovel belonging to ir. Thomas Lee, of that place, was mali- ciously set on fire and entirely destroyed, together with several imples ments of husbandry. SETTLING THE QUESTION.—An inquest was held on Thursday at St. George's Hospital, before Mr. Higgs, on the body of Thomas Will- mot, an Out-Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, who died from the effects
of an injury received in an encounter with a man named Charles Gibbs, at St. Alban's. It appeared that the deceased and Gibbs were drinking together at a public-house, when the Reform Bill came under discussion. An altercation ensued as to the good likely to arise from the measure in the event of its being carried. After a stormy debate, neither party being willing to give way, they agreed to fight it out ; and, in the third round, the deceased received a tremendous blow on the head, which de- prived him of his senses. On the following day, he was brought to London, and admitted into the Hospital ; where he died of erysipelas produced by the blow.
SUICIDE.—On Saturday night, James Flockhart, a journeyman cutler, threw himself over the North Bridge at Edinburgh. A fortnight before,
he had made a similar attempt, but was saved by some gentlemen pass- ing, a boy having caught hold of his coat and given the alarm. In this second attempt he was more successful; and, having gone over at the highest part of the bridge, it is unnecessary to say that he was killed on the spot.
AFFAIR OP HONOUR.—On Saturday morning last, L. Dillon' Esq., of Grenville, in the county of Galway, and — Nathan junior, Esq., of
Thornhill, county Roscommon, went out into a field near Ballinasloe,
for the purpose of shooting at each other, by way of satisfaction, in settlement of a dispute which had taken place between them on the previous night. Somehow or other, just as they were about to shoot,. the police came up and took one of the seconds into custody; whereupon the two principals and the remaining second betook themselves to flight ; and having found another friend and another field, they fired twice and missed, or, as the Connaught Journal expresses it, "they each exchanged a case of pistols, happily without effect," and then the dispute was amicably arranged.—Morning Chronicle. FLATS AND SHARPS.—OR the 13th, a rencontre of rather a serious nature occurred in Castle Place, Belfast. Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson and Captain Ravenscroft, both of the 64th Regiment, had some time previously had a misunderstanding ; the result of which was' that Cap-
tain Ravenscroft sold his commission, and immediately after sent a hostile message to Colonel Dickson, which that gentleman declined to- accept. Captain Ravenscroft, on Wednesday evening, caused placards to be put up in several places, stating the circumstance, and applying the usual epithets. On Thursday, the parties met in the street ; when Captain Ravenscroft, who had a stick in his hand, went up to Colonel Dickson, and told him to consider himself horsewhipped. A set-to was the consequence ; in the course of which Colonel Dickson drew his sword, and wounded his opponent in the arm and also in the back, but not dangerously. The Magistrates interfered, and bound both parties. under recognizances.
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