The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-04-29 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. —On leaving the theatre I chartered a cab to the Prater, for which the driver, by the way, had the impudence to charge me twelve shillings, on the ground that Easter came but once a year (55y4 a Berlin correspondent). On coming back I was witness to a very sad scene. In the mid 4 of the laughing, joking crowd returning home across the Ampern Bridge, a w.ll•dressed young man suddenly leaped on to the balustrade and hurled himself into the canal, with a wild cry of defiant a_ony which will ring in my ears for many a day. A boat was lowered from a steamer ling close at hand, hut the suicide had die. appeared beneath the waters long ere any aimintance could be rendered him. What can have induced him to select so open a spot for his dread purpose remains a mystery ; perhaps he wished to read the spectators a moral lesson, and prove to them by example to what awful lengths a life of recklessness may lead.  A reverend member of the Free Chorch Synod of GI vgow aril Ayr Informs the compogton of the daily pram that at la then., tv y .0 al..end the whole 24 hours of the abbath In rest, and other exerentes.  A telegraphic diepaich from St. Petertburgh states that the breaking up of the ice on the Neva is shortly tapected. The frozen surface had began to crack, and according to cnstom. C•f11001.1 were fired to warn the inhabits...4,s be op m tmir gourd. at the •Ittne time novices were tent to a I the Chambers of Commerce, informing them that the navigation wmid be resumed In ate w days.  Paris was startled on Monday by the perpetration of a daring and atrocious act. In the afterwean of that day, a man went to the Russian Embassy, and, having obtained admission, Immediately stabbed the Secretary of the GeoMtn, inflicting not less than live wounds. The murderer, who tried to escape, wee arrested, but not till he had wounded two penontatoncerned in his capture  SLAVERY IS DEAD! lhe Ulster Observer ha q the following:—  A coroner's inquest was hdd in London, on Tuesday, by Dr. Lankester, on the body of the young woman who was found on Saturday in the New Rwer. It will be remembered that a young man who was found by the police with his clothes all wet, and who said he had had a tussle in the river witn some one, is now in custo,y on the charge of murdering her, but the evidence, or rallivr gossip, taken before the cororc r pointed to suicide arising out of a quarrel she had had with her boy sweetheart.  The American Republic has had to pass through Its first great trial, not a• feirmidah a a one as the team of many which Germany, France, Spain, and England have had to endure for ilietr liner les, but It hen passiil through it with ready step, and determined purpose, a. d has secured the object for which It embarked id it. The issue involved in the contest has been decided for ever. Slavery la dead ! dead In America, and dead all the world over. It was a great curse and a great crime. It required a terrible expiation, and a thousand battle-fields have offered to heaven a thousand holocausts In atonement for outraged humanity. So long as slavery flourished under its flag, the very name of the Aiberc au Republic was an anomaly ; now that it has been wiped away the name is truthful, and symliolises a glorious reality. There is a great future, as far as human calculaton can iletermiue, in store for the regenerated and purified West. Tie people have proved their greatness and their virtue. Their tenacity, their resolution, their courage have been tried, and have been found sterling. Their magi animity, their generosity, their sympathy with suffering, wid, we have no doubt, be equal), proved. Already words of clemency and forgiveness, of brotherhood and aff ct lon, have passed from the net minus North to the defeated Soitth. May this auspicious beginning of concord be the foundation of unanimity in wntiment and action, which will make the Republic of America in the future what it has been In the past—the bulwark of popular liberty, the hope and home of the suffering poor of all nations I  The Parisians are now iso thoroughly bitten and smitten with the mania for racing that they have resolved to enjoy the excitement every Sunday throughout the summer near Farb. Steeplechasing will form part of the attraction.  There is to be a grand review of the Volunteers in Hyde-park, London, about the 20th of May. The Liverpool magistrates have resolved that they will not In future grant a theatrics' lfeer ea unless they have before them, from the chief co astable, a favourable report on the means of earwig provided in the building, with special reference to alarms of tire. A very doubtful rumour comes from Paris that the French Government has made overtures to ours for a defensive treaty as regard. Canada and Mexico.  The Mount Ararat Mud states that a boy named Fullerton was rooting among some old dlmtings, when he came upon two Doggett., one of which was sold for 73e1. The Duke of Cambridge will accompany the Prince of Wales in hi s trip to Rohn° to open the International Exhibition It is arraidrad that a grand review will take place during the stay of the Royal visitors.