... JrUxiixL. SUICIDE OF A MARRIED W OMAN.- The wife of Wil- liam Langley, a collier, committed suicide, by banging herself to the bedpost, on Tuesday, the 24th ult. She was found and cut down by her eldest son, who imme- diately sent for a doctor. When Mr. Moore, assistant to Dr. Davies, arrived, he pronounced her to be dead. The cause of the act is not known, unless it is owing to her husband ...

... THE COAL ANDIRON TRADES.—We cannot record any briskness in the iron trade of the district, and the orders to band are below what has been expected. Some rail. ways are not so fhr buyers to any large amount, but must ere long increasa greatly their stocks of rails which at present are very lew. Foreign orders are also dull. The pig iron and tinpltte trades are steady, the latter is firm, and ...

... CORPORATION AND BOARD OF HEALTH.—The ad- journed meeting of the Board of Health and Town Council was held at the Town-hall on Friday, the Mayor in the chair. The adjourned meeting of the Council was held for the purpose of meeting Mr. Williams and Mr. Freeling, surveyor and architect of the Post-office department, to discuss and decide on the plans for the new Post-office proposed to be ...

... GENERAL NEWS. Madame Parepa Rosa, apparently, is winning golden opinions in more forms than one during ber American tour. Some of the oritioisms of her performances are trulv droll; as, for instance, one from the New York Daily Tribune, where the writer, sneaking of her ap pearance as Zerlinain Fra Diavolo, says, it might be supposed she would be rather a full pattern. For the Chaucer ...

... In May will appear the Of anew ...

... In a recent interesting lecture to the Social Science Associa- tion Dr. Letheby. analyst to the ca-p-ration of the City of London mentioned that water is put into milk, lard or dripping into butter, chicory into coffee, and black tea is 'faced with black lead;' the green is also'ajot up' with mineral0, powdered gypsum, and Prussian blue. Hence the public have a great desire to purchase ...

... THE DIVISION ON MR. GLADSTONE'S MOTION. The Times says :—Mr. Disraeli will not die easy. Nobody can be surprised at this, since intobody expected he would suffer himself to be snuffed out by a single adverse division. Early on Friday night he warned the House of Commons of the coarse he intended to pursue, and his stieech at the olose of the debate breathed the frankest spirit of defiance. The ...

... It requires upwards of 2,000 policemen to keep ordet in New York. Two men, named Jones and Scott, have been sen- tenced to six months' hard labour at Manchester for stealing 401bs. of quicksilver. The Post-offioe department, having now to carry offioial correspondence without charging the postage to the several Government offices, have given an es- timalA of the qnantitv for the vear. ...

... At an early hour on Sunday morning a woman named Charlotte Macready, a native of Glasgow, 35 years of age, was found murdered in a room in a baok yard in Thomas street, Barnsley. It appears that the deceased had cohabited for four or five years with Harrison, a stonemason, and rented a miserable hovel, the only furniture being a bedstead, on which was some straw, a chair, table, and a stool. ...

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... On Tuesday evening some considera.ble excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Bute-street, by a rumour that a Mr. Cohu, a photographer of that street, had committed suicide. Mr. Cohu was a highly respectable person, and had been an inhabitant of Bute-road for some years. Latterly he had mani- fested signs of insanity, and acting on medical advice, a certificate had been obtained to ...

... 'INTERESTING TO LADIES.—At this season of the year the important process of bleaching and dressing Laces and Linens tor Spring and Summer wear commences; we would therefore particularly call the attention of our fair readers to the GLEN- FIELD STARCH, an article of primary importance in the getting up of these articles. The GLENFIELD STARCH is specially manufactured for family use, and such is ...