g table, on Monday night,
in the vicinity of Piccadilly, Mr M--, who was an officer in the British
service at Brussels, and Mr B--n, a medical man, met, at three in the
morning, on Tuesday, in the King's Road. They fought at twelve paces.
Mr B--n was wounded on the back part of the hand, and the affair was
adjusted.'

July. 'A duel was fought yesterday morning, on Wimbledon Common, between
a Mr Arrowsmith and Lieut. Flynn, which ended in the former being
wounded in the thigh. The dispute which occasioned the meeting
originated in a gaming transaction.'

September. 'A duel was fought this morning on Hounslow Heath, between
Messrs Hillson and Marsden. The dispute arose in one of the stands at
Egham races. The latter was seriously wounded in the left side, and
conveyed away in a gig.'

November. 'A duel originating, over a dispute at play was fixed to
take place on Wimbledon Common, at daybreak, yesterday morning, but
information having been received that police officers were waiting, the
parties withdrew.'

GAMING DUEL AT PARIS, 1827.

A medical student, named Goulard, quarrelled at billiards with a
fellow-student named Caire. Their mutual friends, having in vain tried
every means of persuasion to prevent the consequences of the dispute,
accompanied the young men without the walls of Paris. Goulard seemed
disposed to submit to an arrangement, but Cairo obstinately refused.
The seconds measured the ground, and the first shot having been won by
Goulard, he fired, and Caire fell dead. Goulard did not appear during
the prosecution that followed; he continued absent on the day fixed
for judgment, and the court, conformably to the code of criminal
proceedings, pronounced on the charge without the intervention of a
jury. It acquitted Goulard of premeditation, but condemned him for
contumacy, to perpetual hard labour, and to be branded; and this in
spite of the fact that the advocate-general had demanded Goulard's
acquittal of the charge.

THE END OF A GAMESTER.

In 1788, a Scotch gentleman, named William Brodie, was tried and
convicted at Edinburgh, for stealing bank-notes and money, with
violence. This man, at the death of his father, twelve years before,
inherited a considerable estate in houses, in the city of Edinburgh,
together with L10,000 in money; but, by an unhappy connection and a
too great propensity to gaming, he was reduced to the desperation which
brought him at last to the scaffold. It is stated that his