In 23 years more than a milliou of ponu? lation has been added to the city oi London, without including the suburban towns swal lowed' up in the course of the city's expan sion on all sides. In the same time 250,000 houses of all kinds have been built, and the beats of the police have been extended 1130 > miles. 80,000 policemen ar.e now employed regularly — a standing army more effective and better paid than any equal number since the days of the Praetorians of Rome ; and these are, r ou extraordinary occasions, as sisted by the guards and household regiments > of the Queen. : ■ ■ "■ '■ The Bruce Herald reports a case of suicide • at Port Molyneux, committed by a man i named John Duff, formerly of Dunedin. On ' Saturday afternoon last, while several of the i Chinamen employed on the drainage works i upon Mr Telford's property were in search of firewood in the bush just across the bridge - otfer the Piierua; in close proximity to Port 1 Molyneux, they were surprised to observe 1 the body of, a iman hanging i n a dense portion 1

of the bush. They at once came to the Alexander Hoiel, and reported the discovery, when Captain Patefson, of Tuapeka, and another man, led. by the Chinamen, at once made for the locality. The Chinamen spoke bad English; and were indistinctly under stood, consequently the Europeans were lei to believe that a man was dying in a creek, and thought there might be some chance of saving life, but on reaching the spot, a ghastly spectacle presented itself. On the branch of a tree, about seven feet from the ground, hung the remains. of a mm. The suicide had spun a piece of flax iuto the form of a rope, about two feet long, and of no great thick ness, with which he had done the deed. His feet were just touching the ground. His body was much decomposed, no flesh being visible, and the clothes deceased had worn were loosely covering a mere skeleton. An inquest was held on Monday, but the result is not published. The deceased was a boot maker, and formerly lived in the North-East Valley, Dunedin, wheie he possesses, or at I one time did possess, considerable property. 