Northern Times. — 1859-09-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday morning, at an early hour, a determined act of self-destruCtion was ----'tted by Thomas Golding, aged fifty-nine years, . 21, George-street West, ferry-road; Poplar, he following circumstances :—lt appears that ceased was a ropemaker, and was a good workman, in the service of a large firm at Poplar, but. for the last week he had given war to excessive drinking of ardent spirits, whereby he had distressed his home, which was entirely broken up, and nearly everything he possesSed taken away. One of the lodgers having occasion to go into the kitchen, discovered the deceaf el suspended by a rope to a beam. He was cut down, but  red: The deef his landlord for  whic  THE LABOURER AND HIS HOLIDAY,  Harvest Homes are at present the order of the day. Baron Hambro, who does the amiable and popular thing to as gnat an extent as any proprietor around, leads the way in our own immediate vicinity. The rejoicings at Milton Abbas were rather different from those of the Harvest Home. It is a' holiday which retains the popular form of horticultural allotment competitions, carries them out to an extent almost unprecedented within its area of operations, and at the same time superadds-the  baronial entertainment (as we may in this case term it) and rural sports and rejoicings as "in the olden time." The amountlof garden produce raised and eithibited, we had  almost said, under difficulties, but allotments which, required :the woods tube cut open for their due ventilation, is almost fabulous—it took two first-class gardeners and a nurseryman to 'adjudge the prizes. The prizes themselves appear to have been. most appropriate. Mighty was the man Who carried off the steel fork—rheing -the first allotment prize in;, each of the several parishes of Milton Abbas, Stickland, and Hilton ; likewise great and worthy were they who 'gained the second prize spades ; -though, singular to relate, the hoe which formed the  all events upon new  third prize wain more instances than one achieved by a. woman, and that woman *a widow.; and as if to prove that something more than empty praise was: merited even by the-less successful competitors, it is .scarcely possible to repress a smile at the numbers who atlfilton Abbas were "commended and rewarded with a picture to each."• The 'East Brent celebration was, however, of a broader and more generic caste, stamped, we might almost say, with features of nationality, for indeed it may be safely regarded as the model modern English HarVest Home, in connection with which the name of Archdeacon Denison will Undoubtedly he henceforth handed down to posterity. Mr. Kinglake, a gentleman who takes a leading interest in these East Brent gatherings, neverfails to invite out presence at theM, and we are bound to take• especial notice of their auspicious success. The-sanction bestowed upon them by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells (Lord Auckland), and his preaching the occasional sermon, as well as participating in the teatable services' by handing about the cake, in 'themselYes conferred distinction on this celebration at East, Brent. But the great attractions ware. pro; vide& bY the indefatigable zeal of the \Teri. Archdeacon and: Mrs. Denison ; More especially as regarded the beautiful and lavish decorations and inscriptions that rendered the , occasion memorable. One mournful feature,- however, here saluted us ; we could not help thinking of the Lady Georgiana 'Wolfe' as of some dead personage of old romance, as 'we : saw her well-remembered banner— • ,  May God psur out his benison - . • On Archdeacon Denison. hung over an empty stall—since "the place.thatknew her, knows her no more." But the banners and,processiens to and from church, through a village smothered iddecorations, processions again of joints and dishes, of ladies and servants, plum puddings, " and delicious sweetmeats," really reminded us of the days of " Queen Hoo Hall.; " but then the procession of speeches, from Sir William illiles's to the close, recalled us back to the stirrin,g times in which we live, and only served to convinceus of Vac fine effect with which Archdeacon Denison has borrowed a lea from an illuminated missal of past life to embellish a page of our own. The beautiful speech of the .tord Bishop of Bath and Wells will not pass unheeded; his exposition of the mutual dependence of class upon class, which is the very moral of meetingS such as these, andhis advocacy of temperance, both in language and in liquor, do him infinite honour even in the pastoral office to Which they are so becoming. The archdeacon's respoise, to o, was hearty. and wholesome--his love of East Br