... MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. On the 22nd inst., Mr. Whitmaish, coroner for North Wilts, held an inquiry at the Queen's Hotel, Swindon, respecting the death of Mr. Neat Corp Hard- ing, a solicitor, of Warminster, and son of an inde- pendent gentleman residing in that town. From the evidence taken tacts of a very painful character were disclosed. The deceased was a finely built young man, 27 years of age ...

... TEA DUTIES.—During the seven days following the announcement of Mr. Lowe's arrangements for the new financial year, no less than £ 200,U0U was received at the London Custom House as duty on tea. This large amount was collected on 45,000 entries. THE BELGIAN TKOFMANN.—The Journal de Lieqe states that the King ot the Belgians has commuted the capital sentence pronounced against Dessous-ie- ...

... THE LATE MR. PBABODY.—The following telegram has been received at the Admiralty The Monarch, with the remains of Mr. Peabody, arrived at Madeira on the 30th of December. ...

... At an early hour on Saturday morning a very unpro. voked attack was made upon the house of Isaac Betts, a non-union miner, living at the Manor, and employed by Mr. Huntsman. The first attack was made shortly after 4 o'clock, when some stones were thrown at the door uLtil it gave way, and then some women who were in the house were pelted with sods. The party made off, and when the door had been ...

... SCHOOL CHILDREN. The grand treat of the day is the maintenance of a custom that prevails all over England of taking the children belonging to our Sabbath schools to some rural district of the town, where the day is spent by them in cricket and other out-door amusements. Should the weather permit gipsy encampments are made on the field, and after a day's play, tea and I coffee, buns, &c., are ...

... THE BOAT ACCIDENT AT HASTINGS. Particulars of the sad boat accident which occurred at Hastings ou Monday afternoon have been received. The pleasure yacht Royal Albert, known as one of the fastest and best managed boats belonging to this favourite watering place, was out with a party of four teen persons. She was about a mile from the short, and was returning from her cruise, when she was sud- ...

... Mr. E. J. Reed, the late Chief-constructor of the Navy, has a letter of two columns' length in the Times of Mon- day, the subject which he discusses being the condition and effectiveness of our ironclad navy, as compared with the armour-plated vessels possessed and being constructed by foreign Powers. After alluding to the Devastation—as amended—in anything but com- mendatory terms, Mr. Reed ...

... The Rev. J. Bee Wright, the prosecutor in the Sunday trading cases, has been assaulted at his own hall door, by a plasterer named Bywood. The man was fined £1. THE CORPORATION OF LONDON AND PRINCE ARTHUR.—Mr. Robert Taylor, a prominent member of the Court of Common Council, has given notice of his in- tention to propose at its meeting on Thursday next that his Royal Highness Prince Arthur ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The weekly meeting of this Board was presided over on Saturday by Mr. E. W. David. There wore also present the Rev. H. J. Thomas Aldermen Pride and Alexander; Dr. Paine Messrs. R. Cory, P. Bird, J. Evans, Eli Evans, J. Thomas, W. J. V. Huntley, C. French, T. Williams, E. Davies, J. Bassett, J. M. Akers, F. Wride, W. Williams, M. Morgan, R. Bartlett, J. Huckwell, T. ...

... VOICES OUT OF THE PAST.—People say that voices travel on through space,—they travel on through life, and across time,—is it not so ? Years have passed since they may have been uttered, but do we hear them again and again, and answer back longing in the past 7—From, Old Kensington, in the Cornhill Madmw for July. NEGOTIATING BY TELEGRAPH.—The inclined to think that our diplomatists are too ...

... J aiqjtt Jlijius. PONTYPRIDD. ODD FELLOWS' FESTIVAL.—On Monday about 120 embers and friends of the Independent Order of dd Fellows, Manchester Union, Fraternity Lodge, 8at down to a substantial and capital dinner in the odge-room adjoining the Butchers' Arms, Ponty- Pridd. After ample justice had been done to the generous fare placed before them, the members, with a large accession of friends, ...

... A man who passes through life without marrying is like a fair mansion that the builder has left unfinished. The half that is completed runs to decay from neglect, or becomes at best but a sorry tenement, wanting the addition of that which makes the whole useful. He that makes way to self-will hinders self-enjoy- ment. Beauty is a rock on which many a man makes ship- wreck, while in search of ...