Glasgow Courier. — 1853-11-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Tuesday by Mr. Herford, coroner of the city of Manchester, at the Royal Infirmary, touching the death of Joshua Rid. yard, comedian. Elisabeth Ridyard, wife of the deceased, stated that on Friday her husband ITU very unsettled. He had been drinking a good deal for the previous week or ten days, and had threatened several times to take his life. He had had delirium tremens from habits of incessant drinking. He had accompanied witness home from the theatre on Tuesday night, and about eleven o'clock went up to bed. He came down in a few minutes, and said, ' was I sincere in what I said about affection, and being the same if be continued drinking.' Witness replied that he must either renounce her or the drink, and on that he went into the back yard and shut the door. In a moment she heard him cry out 'I have done it.' Deceased had cut his throat. COLLISION AND Loss OF Lies—On Monday last several vessels put out to sea from Cardigan, amongst which were the smack Dometian Lass and the schooner Elinor and Jane. The smack had slipped her warp and anchor, and sent a boat with one man and a boy to recover the same. As the boat was returning, and near the smack, which was laying-to at the time, the schooner was bearing upon her, intending to pass her lee side, and did not observe the boat, which was under her bows until some one on board called out 'the boat is run over.' The boy jumped on the martingal stay, while the MID caught hold of the bows, and was safely hauled on deck. In the con• fusion the schooner's helm was put down, thereby bringing her into contact with the smack's bowsprit, which was carried away, as well as the schooner's stay on which the boy was holding. The poor lad was pitched into the sea, and sank before any assistance could be rendered.  The Nile has this year risen higher than it hes during_the last twenty years. Almost the entire valley of Egypt is one sheet of water, and travellers proceed to the Pyramids in boats, an excursion which, in ordinary times, occupies a three hours' ride from Ghizeh, the nearest point on the river. The damage done to the crops by this excess of water is very great, and very extensive tracts of land sown with Indian corn are covered with from three to fire feet of water, and the plants are consequently destroyed. The villages and towns are reduced to islets, and are only saved by the inhabitants raising embankments all round, which they watch day and night with the greatest anxiety. The Fellahs will severely feel the loss of their crops of Indian corn, as it forms their principal article of food during the winter, so that, owing to this deficiency and the demands for grain from Turkey, the Viceroy is not acting unwisely in limiting the exportation of corn. An intelligent and scientific American writer has recently undertaken to show that the moon has no influence over the tides ; and the results of the deep ocean soundings by a naval brig sent from that country to the latitude of the Azores, in a direct line from New .York, thence to the Azores, and thence to England, give some plausibility to his theory. He says that, as there are ranges of mountains on the floor of the ocean corresponding with those on the outer surface of the earth, all of which have been operated upon by hidden fires, eruptions, and other material convulsions, by means of which they have been perforated by vast caverns, extending towards the centre of the earth, we can discover, in those huge abysses of the oceanic globe, sources for the rise and fall of the tides. He thinks that through these internal caverns the waters of the ocean are regularly flowing, as the earth regularly revolves ; and that neither the moon, stars, sun, wind, nor clouds produce any effect whatever.  A %MEANT Lovett Sitor.—A melancholy affair occurred in this country about eight miles from the city, on the Bards own turnpike, on Saturday morning. A man named Christian G. Martin had been teaching school there, and engaged himself to Miss Emily Shaw, also a teacher, whose parents reside there. Martin had in fact obtained the marriage license. Afterwards he concluded not to marry her, and, to screen himself from the consequences, presented a paper to her for signature, in which she was charged with having exercised the grossest improprieties. She, of course, refused to sign it. Martin and a brother of Miss Shaw then got into a fight on the road. Shaw drew a pistol which Martin attempted to wrench from him, and it went off accidentally, the ball entering in front near the shoulder, and lodging in the back. Miss Shaw, unconscious that Martin was wounded, then jumped the fence, walked up to Martin, and shot him in the side. He died in about fifteen minutes, although it was thougnt that the first wound would have caused his death.—Louisville Journal.