... 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 ...

... NAVAL PROMOTION.—By a strange coincidence the death of Rear-Admiral Thomas Harvey will promote his brother, Captain Henry Harvey, to flag rank on the retired list. ...

... A CARRYING COMPANY FINED.—The Leeds and Liverpool Carrying Company have been fined in the full penalty of £ 10 and costs, for illegally placing more than 6,0001b. of gunpowder on one of their flats at Liverpool. ...

... A MILITARY MURDERER.—It will be remembered that early in February last a private belonging to the 14th Regiment of Foot, stationei at Tilbury Fort, having gone to his quarters in a somewhat intoxicated state, was ordered to bed by Sergeant Gibson. He appeared to be aggrieved by this, and as soon as the lights were put out he seized his rifle, called out Gibson, look out; I am going to shoot ...

... At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, Eliza- beth, otherwise, Rebecca Fox, a well-dressed young woman, was charged with bigamy. The prisoner was first married to Mark Fox, a butcher, at Colcheter, on the 21st of June, 1855, her maiden name being Mallett. In February, 1862, she was again married to Joseph Andrew Moore, a sergeant in the Royal Artillery, at St. Peter's Roman Catholic ...

... The death of Mr. Copeland, alderman of the city of London, is announced. Deasy is at present living in New York, and has lately been making Fenian addresses in various parts 0.# tho oQU ntrv The British Mediterranean squadron, under the command of Lord Paget, will leave Malta on the 18th instant, accompanied by the Swedish corvette Geple for a cruise off the coast of Syria and the Levant' The ...

... The Marquis of Salisbury, whose death was an- nounced on Monday, was the only son of James, first Marquis of Salisbury, by his wife, Lady Mary Emily Hill, second daughter of Wills, the first Marquis of Downshire. He was born April 17th, 1791, conse- quently had he lived a few days longer he would have attained his 77th year. He succeeded to the family honours on the death of his father, June ...

... A shocking affair occurred at New Holland, on the Lincolnshire side of the Humber, on Friday night. About nine o'clock, a watchman on board the Man- chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Com- pany's steamer Magna Charta saw some one struggling in the water alongside the railway pontoon, and drift- ing downward, it being ebb-tide. He alarmed the crew, who thereupon steamed towards the ...

... « ST. JOHN'S. The Easter Monday vestry meeting was held in the vestry of St John's on Monday the Vicar presiding. There were also present Messrs. W. Wood and J. H. Gaskell, churchwardens J. Bird, P. Bird, J. E. Williams, M. Grover, W. Alexander, T. H. Stephens, E. Whiflen, P. Davies, P. Joy, R. Evans, J. West, J. H. Thomas, and the Rev. T. Prothero. The notice convening the meeting was read. ...

... FOREIGN Mi-S(JEL.L.AH I,_ A bill has passed the Iowa Senate, allowing women to practise as attorneys. In Onipee, New Hampshire, there it a printing- oftice in which all the labour is performed by the pro- prietress and her daughter. At the last state concert given at the Tuileries, Madlle. Patti told the Empress that she was engaged to marry the Marquis de Caux. The Orchestra be- lieves that ...

... Lord Boyne has presented thirty acres of land on each bank of the river Weor as a public park for Wil- lingtou. .A second vacancy occurs among the naval aides-de- camp to the Queen by the death of Captain Henry Caldwell. C.B. The Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court at Richmond has found a new indictment for treason against Jefferson Davis, which covers fifty pages of manuscript, and ...

... PlEES.—The Secretary of the Sun Fire Insurance Office stated to the Commons' select committee of last session, on tires, that carelessness in using lucifer matches causes in that office a loss of £ 10,0^)0 a year. Surely statements of this kind should induce the Fire Offices and the public to do everything in their power to encourage the sale of Bryant and May's Patent Safety Matches, WHICH ...