Last week an inquest was held by Dr. J.C. COLLINS, on the body of George WILLIAMS, a sailor who leaped from his vessel into Swansea river, intending to swim to the opposite side, but failed, and was drowned. Verdict, accidental death. On Wednesday se'nnight the Forest Chapel, near Coleford, an edifice raised a few years past through the pious exertions of the Rev. Peyler Mathew PROCTOR, Vicar of Newland, supported by numerous and liberal friends, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, who preached an admirable and highly-appropriate sermon on the occasion to a very numerous and attentive auditory, from Mathew xviii. V. 20. "For where two or three are met together in my name, there am I, in the midst of them." After divine service a liberal subscription was made for the benefit of the School connected with the Chapel. >From all parts of the country we hear of damage done by the late storms and floods of rain: nor has Wales been exempted from the calamity, severe losses having been sustained in Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire by the rivers overflowing, and carrying away or greatly injuring the crops of hay. It is a lamentable fact, that the hay harvest is in a very wretched state. Some little has been got in; but much that is down will be materially injured, if not totally destroyed. A great portion of the grass is, however, uncut, as the farmers put no confidence in fine and flattering mornings; and the doctrine of the moon and the weather glass are alike getting into disrepute. It has now rained, more or less every day, for nearly seventy successive days - mostly in the evenings, and frequently all night. The hay harvest will certainly be one of the latest that has happened for a number of years; and the bad colour of the grass indicates the want of those nutritious qualities peculiar to hay made in more favourable seasons. Lyn Nunn Brisbane Australia