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those two old friends were immediately found lifeless.

This is a brief relation of this horrid business. I have seen the bodies, the place, &c. this afternoon, and, after every examination of the circumstances, have no doubt Lieutenant Fleming first murdered his friend, partly by a sword, and lastly by a pistol-shot, and then murdered himself.

Captain Miller received, on the 9th inst. a very pressing letter from Lieutenant Fleming, entreating him to go down, stating, he could not live long, and wished much to see his old friend before he died. Captain Miller therefore left town on Friday, to perform the last act of humanity, as he thought, to one whose views through life he had always promoted.

21.—Mr Waithman.—On Tuesday, 15th, a most respectable meeting took place at the New London Tavern, consisting of the friends and admirers of the political principles and conduct of Mr Waithman (among whom were the Hon. Mr Bennet, Mr Brougham, and several other distinguished characters) for the purpose of presenting to that gentleman a piece of plate, purchased by public subscription, as a mark of the respect in which he was held for his conduct as a public man. An elegant dinner was prepared, Mr Favell in the chair.

Spring Guns.—Among the causes tried at the Warwick Assizes, was one to recover a compensation in damages for injury sustained by a little boy, of the name of Jay, who was, in August last, severely wounded by the discharge of a spring-gun, set in a garden near Birmingham, belonging to a Mr Whitefield. The facts, as they appeared in evidence, were briefly these:—On the 7th August, between six and seven in the evening, the boy in question, who is about 13 years of age, accompanied by a younger brotjer, went into a field adjoining the garden of the defendant, in search of a stick, for the purpose of making a standard for a kite. With this intention they went to the hedge which skirted the defendant's garden, and while one of the lads was in the act of cutting a stick, he received the contents of a spring-gun in the lower part of his body. He was taken to the hospital, where he remained for many weeks in a most dangerous state, but afterwards recovered. The gun had been loaded with small pebbles, seventeen of which had been extracted, and seven yet remained within him. The learned Judge, in addressing the jury, observed, that the right to defend property in this way was questioned by the most eminent lawyers of the present day. He was, however, of opinion in this case, that the plaintiff had a right to recover; and farther, that if the plaintiff had even broken into the defendant's garden, the action would lie. "Surely," said the Judge. "the law never intended to give any man the right of shooting another for so trivial a trespass as that alleged to have been committed by the poor unfortunate plaintiff in this case."—Verdict for plaintiff, damages £120.

Sentences at Lancashire Assizes.—Death, 48.—Fourteen years' transportation, 8.—Seven years' ditto, 2.—Imprisoned two years, 6.—Ditto one year, 3.—Ditto six months, 1.—Ditto three months, 1.—Ditto one month, 1.—Ditto one week, 1.—Admitted evidence, 5.—Acquitted, 28.—No bills against 13.—Indictments removed, 9.—Total, 126. The number of prisoners condemned is more than ever remembered at one Assize; and, what is very remarkable, the convictions for minor offences do not amount to half the number, viz. 23.

24.—Mr Wright.—Last week Mr John Wright, who has of late delivered lectures, and held meetings for worship on Unitarian principles, in the Long Room, Marble Street, Liverpool (a place which has been frequently occupied by different denominations of Christians during the last twenty years), was summoned, on three informations, to appear before the magistrates, on the charge of holding meetings for worship in a place not duly registered. Mr Wright attended at the town-hall on Saturday last, at the appointed time, when the Mayor (John Wright, Esq.) and Alderman Nicholson took their places as the city magistrates; they were afterwards joined by Alderman Sir W. Barton. After much discussion, Mr Wright was liberated on bail.

We understand the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York have elected Drs Brewster and Home, and Professor Jameson, of this city, honorary members of their society. Their diplomas were delivered by K. D. Allison, surgeon, Leith, who likewise has brought a fine copy of Professors Hossack and Francis' Medical and Philosophical Register from these gentlemen for the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh.—Edin. Paper.

Strawberries sold in Covent-Garden market, on Saturday the 19th, at half-a-crown the "Alderman's Thumb" pottle; middle-sized asparagus at 20s. the hundred; and pea gooseberries at 5s. the pint pottle.

26.—On Friday the 18th, two gentlemen appeared, by appointment, before the Magistrates of London, in General Quarter Sessions, at the Sessions' Hall, in the Old Bailey, as members and officers of the Academical Society held in Chancery Lane, and produced the books of regulations, list of members, &c. together with a petition for a license. The Magistrates present were, the Lord Mayor, with Aldermen Sir John Perring, Sir William Domville, and Joshua Jonathan Smith. Their petition, which was duly presented and read, prayed for a license "for the investigation and discussion of philosophical, literary, historical, and political subjects, as heretofore," at the rooms of the society. Some question arising upon the word political, a long discussion took place, which terminated in the license being refused.

28.—Col. G. Harris.—The superb sword