INQUEST AT PARKHURST PRISON.—On Tuesday, Mr. F. Blake, coroner, held an inquest on view of the body of John Harding, aged 17, who died on the previous day at the prison infirmary. The deceased entered the prison on the 22nd of November, 1860, being under sentence of twelve months’ imprisonment, for housebreaking at Petersfield. He was sent to Parkhurst immediately on conviction, and therefore his term of imprisonment had expired more than a month before his death, but being so ill and having no proper home, the prison authorities, in mercy, took care of him till his wants were at an end. He appeared to be in good health when he first entered the prison, but this appearance of florid health, it seems, is not unusually seen in persons of very fair complexion like the deceased shortly before the development of the disease.—Mr. Dabbs, the prison surgeon, said, the deceased entered the infirmary on the 20th of July, and appeared from the symptoms to be labouring under consumption. Deceased said his mother died of this disease and he believed that he should die of it. It advanced with unusual rapidity though he received every requisite attention, and terminated in death on Monday, at 4 a.m. On dissection he found the left lobe of the lungs entirely destroyed, being the seat of immense abscesses. The upper portion of the right lung was also diseased, and there was considerable effusion in the pericardium, which was a consequence of the obstruction of the circulation. Deceased possessed an excellent disposition, was one of the best boys they ever had, and a favourite of the officers.—It is said that the deceased was highly intelligent and that he calmly met his death with pious resignation.