dropped his pistol, and went down gently. He at first was not conscious of the extent of his danger, and said rather calmly, he hoped the wound would not prove serious. The surgeons, however, on examining it, pronounced it fatal; and he expired in less than an hour. Mr. Bric was a native of Tralee. In 1819, he came to England, and attached himself, in quality of reporter, to one of the London daily journals. On his return to Dublin in 1824, he was called to the bar, and almost immediately took a leading part in the agitation of the Roman Catholic question. BETWEEN M. GOULARD AND M. CAIRE. February 21, 1827. The following duel took place near Paris. A student of pharmacy, named Goulard, while playing at billiards, quarreled with a young medical student of the name of 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 Caire absolutely refused. The seconds measured the ground, and the first shot having been won by Goulard, he fired, and Caire fell down dead. Goulard did not appear during the prosecution; 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. BETWEEN THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE EARL OF WINCHILSEA. March 21, 1829. In consequence of the part which the Duke of Wellington took, as Minister of the country, in bringing in the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, the Earl of Winchilsea, who was strongly opposed to the measure, addressed a letter, on the 14th of March, to the Secretary of the Committee for establishing the King’s College, London, which contained the following passage:—