CALAMITIES AT BRIGHTON.
THE Brighton gaieties have closed with gravities. In the course of a single week we have accounts of casualties, killed and wounded, for a campaign,—one lady poisoned, one dropped dead from her horse, one run away with unhurt, one run away with and killed. The equestrian mishaps are referable to the temper of horses after a frost, when they have been out of work, and are ready to jump out of their skins on being again in exercise. These are things not considered by horsewomen, whose common case it is to ride, as Othello loved, "not wisely, but too well ;" that is to say, they' have more skill than judgment, are better ftaught than experienced, consequently more conli dent than is always suitable to circumstances. At Brighton it is gaite a discovery reserved for the end of the sea/son, that people can manage to kill themselves. They roll down the cliff, and.walk up again* and tumble about in all sorts of ways without damaft so as almost to create an opinion that death does not make any flay at the sea-side. As to being run over, it is thought so little of as never to be avoided, and sometimes apparently to be coveted. The children under nursery-maids are generally seen walking in the roads, and the townspeople by no chance move out of the, way of carriages and horses.
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