News in Brief
Yesterday being the morrow of the Ascension, no busi- ness was transacted inany of the courts oflaw. (See however, the Court of Chancery.) O II the law library of Sir Alan Chamnbre, sold during the last week, by Sotheby, there occurred three poetical tracts, a excessively rare-." The third part of the Countesse of Pembroke's Yvychurch," by Abram France, of which only one perfect copy is known; " S atson's Passionate Centurie of Love ;" and an edi- thon of Saun Daties' " First Fowre Bookes of the Civile lWares be- tweene the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke." These tracts, to- gether with some others of inferior value, were bound in one volume, and much esteemed by Sir Alan. who duiing his lifetime, though often solicited, could never be induced to Part with them. Wre be- leve they were all purchased by hlr. Heber. At owrpeth, on the 19th inst., ?obecrt .Milburn, wbo had been confined in the gaol for the mnurder of bis mother abost 16 months ago (and was proved insane at the Lent Assizes, of 123, and sentencee to be confined-forlife) p4tapeeiodtohisexistenceby cutting his thoat with a-razor, which he had taken out of the turn- key's room. FATAL Boxsei.-Tuesday evening a fight took place under Pile..hiI1, near this city, between two of the: workpeie at a coppersmitlh's who had previously quarrelled. After the coitestbhad. been conunue for some time, one of the men feU, and vas conveyed., home to his house in a'state of insensibility. Surgical aid was proq cured, but in vain, for this unfortunate victim of' the brutal practicezl of boxing died ini a few hours afttrwards. Verdietof the 4Wa=1Fg7At.e intvreto1