News in Brief
Extract of a letter, dated D)emerara, geC. 8 :-" Ge- neral D'Urban's son, the (Govern,nent Secretary, -was drowned' a week ago, wbile bathing irn the E&equebo, atid was buried herc on thie 6:h. . He ha.i gone to gce the distribution of presents; &c., to the Indians, and, tempted to cool himself by. Tc clearnes;j and freshness of the water near the falls, high up the river, he got out of his depth, and not being a swimnmrer; perishied." . A melancholy spectacle was presented on.Tuesday in the lane or passage between 12road-street and the square: a wretch. edlooking man, in the agoniea of death, lying on some straw in a car, attended by two Roman Cathollc cler ymen, who, on hearing of.his being there, promptly repaired to adinmister the lat -ltes of religion to the dying creature. After- lying in this state for .somne time, exposed to the gaze of the passing crowds, he was at Iength- removed to an unoccupied house in the square, where he soon ceased to breathe. We understand that lie had been brought into town in the nmorning, by a humane countryman, vho eound him lying on the zoad aide, "tOUt four niles west of this city, neatly insensible aiparently froml bungcr and covK Frcmi's Jrour,tza