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.fnoiaer Iragedy.-The New Haven Cou- rier states that Mr. J ohn Stannard, wealthy and respectable farmer of Westbroek, on the Connecticut river,) man of 50 years of age, with wife and two children, was deliberate ly shot, while at the supper table, by his own son.

 The family were thus occupied, when A. pheus Stannard, About 24 years of age, went into his chamber somewhat abruptly, and, as subsequently appeared, loaded his gum John, the younger son, expressed some ap- prehensions to the father, and said that he was fearful Alpheus was about to do some thing wrong, perhaps shoot some one When he came down stairs with the gun in his hand, John left the room. The father rose from the table and approached him, with some exclamation of surprise, apparently for the purpose of seizing the weapon.

 Aiphsus immediately leyelled the musket, and shot his father directly ill the breast. the ball passing through, and coming out of his back. He lived until midnight, when he ex- pred in excruciating agony. The son seem ed quite unconscious of the tragedy in which he had been engaged, and although he has never been suspected of insanity, yet in this murderous act he has exhibited such evi- deaces of it, that we understand lie is to be sent immediately to the Retreat, at Hartford