A very melancholy suicide took place at Cambridge last Saturday.
The Rev. Arthur Holmes, of Clare College, the Dean, and one of the Senior Fellows of the College, cut his throat in a fit of extreme depression, no doubt due to an overtaxed mind and brain, on that day. He had been complaining for some months of overwork, aud had been sent to Ventnor for change and relaxation, by which he seemed to profit greatly, but on resuming work the bad symptoms returned. Apparently, the strain of a heavy examination was the last straw which broke his reason. He had sent twice on the Saturday morning for medical advice, but before the second messenger returned with the doctor he had taken the fatal step. Mr. Holmes was a fine scholar, and is one of the most costly of the victims of the high-pressure system. His melancholy death should be a warning as well as a grief to Cambridge.
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