Winchester Gazette

Instability of human affairs.--On the 3d of August, Lord Londonderry gave a magnificent entertainment at his seat in the country. The same paper which describes the feast, announced, on the 13th of the same month, that his Lordship had the day before committed suicide by cutting his throat.

The National Gazette is disposed to question the accuracy of the verdict of the Coroner's Inquest in the case of the Marquis of Londonderry, who recently died by his own hand in England. The reasoning of the Gazette appears to us to be stronger against the credit generally due to such verdicts, than it is against the verdict in the particular case before us. We copy the concluding remarks of the Gazette for the sake of the moral they convey:

Nat. Int.

"Without analyzing the testimony further, we will add that we can readily imagine motives connected with his (Lord Londonderry's) domestic and public life, which may have instigated him to the resolution of quitting the world at once--a resolution likely to be strengthened by the effects of his Parliamentary labors on his health and spirits. The dress of the world may have become to him "stale, weary, and unprofitable" he may have wanted that strength of moral character, the religious principle, which is alone adequate to support the mind & heart under circumstances of peculiar difficulty. apprehension, or modification:

"Just Heaven, man's fortitude to prove,
Permits through life at large to rove
The tribes of hellborn woe:
Yet the same power that wisely sends
Life's fiercest ills, indulgent lends,
Religion's golden shield to break the embattled foe."

We cannot believe that the end of the Marquis of Londonderry would have been such as it was had he been a man of pious conscience--of religious nerve--had he sufficiently cultivated "the dread of something after death.' And, with regard to Coroner's inquests, very little reliance has been placed upon them at any time in England.-- Witness, the following sentences of the dialogue between the Grave diggers in Hamlet, who were discussing the Case of a lady that had drowned herself

2d Clown. Will you ha' the truth of it? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out of Christian burial.

1st Clown. Why, there thou say'st: --and the more pity; that great folks should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than your even Christian."