Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1871-03-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England)

CHILD MURDER AND THE LAW OF BASTARDY.—Baron Pigott, charging the Grand Jury at Devon Assizes on Thursday morning, commented on the large number of casts of child murder and concealment of birth in the clUendar. He thought they must consider whether some alteration should not be made in the punishment awarded, and also whether there should not be some alteration in the law of bastardy.  SUICIDE OF MR MORODA CAROBA AND me- Wire.— Mr Moroba Canoba, lately a judge of the Small Cause Court, and till yesterday acting as a pleader, whose eccentricities frequently brought him prominently before the public, committed suicide last night, by jumping into a well in the compound of his bungalow in Gowala Tank-read. The young widow whom ha married scarcely a year ago also sacrificed her life along with him. Their bodies were discovered in the well this morning clinging together. It is well known that Mr Moroba was lately in pecuniary difficulties, and it is supposed that it was this which induced him to do away with himself .—Bombay Gazette, Feb. 19. REVIEW OF THE CORE Tathz.—The week Commenced unusually fine, and farmers found full employment in seeding the ground. About the middle, however, there came a frost of five degrees, followed by a storm, with fluctuations, and a return to mild temperature. There has thus been little impediment lately to field work, while the verdure of the meadows steadily increases, and the growing wheat has been making fair progress. It has, however, been damp hitherto for March, and the samples brought to market are still below millers' requirements. Ocen, pation in the field having already lessened supplies at several markets, the tendeucy has continued upwards, and on the average another shilling has been gained in values; still Loudon closed with dulluess, the prospect of a speedy opening of the Baltic and other ports having its effect upon the late advance. After our free country delivaries, however, there is more talk of the thinness of our stack-yards than is customary at this period of the year, ar.d accounts from France still justify the expectation of a farther rise before long. Even from the south and places not invaded, the want of forage and general effect of last year's drought in the corn, followed by a winter of unusual severity, is bitterly complained of, nearle all the autumn-sown corn, and a portion of the wheat having been destroyed by the intense frost. Prices have accordingly been rising, and we find this is the case in Belgium, liollaud, and Germany. The opening of the Baltic, therefore, is not likely to bring very heavy supplies to Great Britain, there being so many competitors this season, and if the tuainvaded portions of France are strong in their complaints, how will the wants of those which have been trampled down by hostile armies be met? But against any immediate and hcavy rise financial difficulties cannot be overlooked, for the wealth as well as the cereal produce of France has been fearfully sacrificed in the war, and time alone, under the most favourable cit.cemstances, can restore a state of prosperity.— I/ark-lane Exiirest.