One of the female domestics at Holland House is said
to have died of cholera, to the no small alarm of the establishment.
A Mr. Haseltine, a wine-merchant, formely connected with Guern- sey, stabbed himself to the heart, in the Castle and Falcon Inn, Aldersgate Street, on Wednesday. He first plunged a knife into his left side ; and on its being wrested-from hinr, he Struckhimself re- peatedly with a fork, which he held in his left land.
Mr. J. Barnett, of St. Thomas Apostle, lately a commercial tra- veller, committed suicide on Tuesday, by swallowing prussic acid.
A young woman, named Mary Ham, was on Tuesday morning taken up by a watchman : from her movements, he believed she intended to drown herself off the steps of Blackfriars Bridge. It appeared that she had five young children, and her husband had gone to the United States, having promised to send for her as soon as he could save money for her passage, which he had not yet been able to do.
As Mr. J. Rolfe of Southampton Place, Camberwell, was return- ing home on Thursday night about nine o'clock, he was attacked by three men near his own door, who knocked him down, and robbed him of his watch and seals.
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