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grave. As we write, his reason has taken its fight, and ere the dawn of another Sabbath, he will probably have gone to that home whence no traveller returneth. His is a crooked history on the slavery question for these eight years, and yet it is very nearly that of New England.

The inquest in the case of young Miles was concluded yesterday. The Jury said that he came to his death at the hands of students in Yale College, to the Jury unknown; And took occasion to censure the students for refusing to testify. We believe that it is a principle of the 'lex non scripta' that one shall not be compelled to criminate himself. Every few years the College students have taken occasion to kill one or two of the 'town boys,' and then when called as witnesses, would peremptorily refuse to answer, upon the principle just stated. The State suddenly found out a short time ago that it was a solemn mockery to be thus baffled by the ones who by their own showing were knowing to and perhaps participators in cold blooded murders and other villainies. A law was then upon enacted empowering magistrates to coerce witnesses to answer any question which a jury might think essential to a full knowledge of the facts in the case before them. In this case of Miles, the Jury undertook to bring the students up to the mark, for refusing to testify as usual. It worked thus; a student would refuse to answer a question, the Jury and the Coroner would hand him over into Custody and he would immediately be released by a habeas corpus—most likely that'll be the last of it. And now the poor Jurymen censure the students because they won't testify. If this isn't disgraceful to Connecticut law, to the Connecticut Judiciary and to Justice itself, we know not what is entitled to that adjective. Behold Connecticut frustrated by a little handful of 'Sophs' and 'Fresh'.

The 'town boys' are terribly enraged, but have thus far been kept quiet by judicious and cool-headed leaders. They claim to be waiting to see what the course of the law will be.

The religious excitement which is sweeping the country has just commenced here among the colored people of course.

The Banks are paying specie; but that amounts to nothing when there is no demand for it, by any who can get it. Business is at a pretty low ebb, duller if possible than in Philadelphia, where ere this reaches you, we mean to the safely quartered, though not exactly in a mathematical sense.

NORMAL.