... On Sunday morning, a hostile meeting took place on Wimbledon Common, between Mr G., a gentleman residing at Hampton, and a military officer. The cause of meeting arose from some expressions made ase of by the former at the late Middlesex election, derogatory to the gallant captain's character. The seconds having measured the ground, the hostile parties took up their position, at twelve paces, ...

... HATTON GARDEN. Isabella Watson was charged with assaulting her sister, Ellen Watson, and threatening her life.-A creature in the garb of man, who at the station-house bad given the name of Bill Chapman, was placed by her side, and complained of for being a common cheat and impostor, and creating a disturbance. It ap- peared that the two Watsons got drunk and foiught ?? Magistrate said, that as ...

... - A dreadful hurricane took place in the town of Marsala (in Sicily, and its environs) on the 16th December, the'night of the lnnar eclipse. The hurricane thrice abated and again resumed its fury. At day-break the inhabitants found the roofs and the streets covered-not with hail, but with stones of the sle of a walnut, of a spherical or spheroidal form, yellowish colour, and extraordinary ...

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH-FED. 9. THE KING ON THE PROSECUTION OF O'GORMAN MAHON V. WIGLEY, GENT.-TThe Attorney-General stated the case. It was an indictment for peijury, brought by Mr O'Gorman Mahon, formerly M.P. for the county of Clare, against an attorney named Wigley, residing in Essex street, near the Temple. The perjury was alleged to have been committed by the defendant in an answer which ...

... LORD DARNLEY.-We regret to state that, on Wednesday, whilst Lord Darnley was engaged in givingdirections to some workmen employed in felling timber in Cobhlam park, he took up an axe with the intention of lopping a branch, when unfortunately he struck his fbot, cut off one toe, and nearly severed another. Had not his Lordship's boot been thick, the accident might have been fatal. An express ...

... MAINSION HOUSE. The Lord Mayor having read the statement which appeared in the Observer newspaper, relative to a female who has for some time performed the arduous dirties of a seaman, and whose sex was accidentally discovered, directed M'Lean, an inspector of the city police, to make inquiry into the circumstances, in order that if the girl required assistance, it might be rendered to her ...

... __ __ __ , 17- COURT OF KING'S BENCfH-FEfl . 1 KIGv GAN4T N4D. OTHEUs.-The Attorney. CONSPIRACY.-THE KING V- SERG 5ducted the prosecution; and General, Mr Adoiphuls, and Mr C- PilillPs, ' Serjeant; and Mr Kelly and Sir J. Campbell and MIr Watson adppearedv~e or _t awas an indictment against Mr Clarkaun for Mr Caid~well and Mher -fe~lsely to charge the prosecutor, Mr the defendants for ...

... LADY SARAH RAMSsAy.-On Tuesday morning, as Lady Sarah Ramsay L driven by a gentleman was crossing Regent street, near ?? street, I was coming along at very quick speed. Her ad hecated wied and confused as the vehicle approacbe ?? d ahe ant str tek her tl recede or go forward, until the entd ofoe gofnd hfts tremendous forcetimlye the left shoulder, knocking hewith diately underneath the horse's ...

... MANSION HOUSE. On Wednesday John Dixon, the driver of the hackney coach No. 1007, was summoned before the Lord Mayor for having obstructed the King's highway. -The street keeper said that the coachman annoyed the whole street, and had been endured a long time on account of the uncommonly polite manner in which he received the threats and censures ofthe inhabitants. At last he became such a ...

... OFFENCES., ACCIDENTS, &c. DESTRUJCTIVE FIRE.-With the exception of the destruction of the late Houses of Parliament, a more extensive loss of property has sot taken place than the awful conflagration on Tuesday morning, about one o'clock, in Mar- shall street, Golden square. There is every reason to believe that the fre commenced in the timber-yard of Messrs Taprell and Holland, and a strong ...

... .MANSION HOUSE. On Saturday a Frenchmann, named Colliard, whose pocket had been picked. f a handketrhief ai few days go, chariged a fellow, named Brown7, with attempt- ing to steal his hafdkerchie The prosecutor, d lau~hing, jolly-lookin msan, ?? Lor, I vas going. down Loribar street, Friday veek, and I felt tug tug, and ven I turned abdht to see vat it vas I saw i teerh little garqon run avay ...

... WORSHIP STREET. Two females of respectable appearance, named Sarah Smith and Rebecca Ryan, the first a married women, and the other her unmarried sister, are in custody at this office, charged under very extraordinary circumstances with picking the pockets of several persons in Shoreditch Church last Sunday after- noon. It appeared from the evidence given before Mr Broughton, the sitting ...