... DREADFUL FIRE AT SOUTH HETTON COLLIERY. On Saturday last, about seven o'clock in the evening, the No. 1, Engine House, of South Hetton Colliery, the property of Col. Braddyll, was d'9 covered to be on fire. It appears to have originate in a closet containing hemp for the use ot t e engines, and was first discovered by the brakeman. At that time there' were two men down the shatt of the pit, ...

... There has been another trial, and another con- viction, of some fellow who has been what is called dispensing Morison's pills, and in the evidence adduced upon the trial, it was proved—such is the wonderful gullibility of the English, that people are found who, in spite of the deaths of various miserable victims, are induced to take forty, fifty, sixty-nay, a hundred of these detestable ...

... RAILWAY MEMORANDA. In America about 3,0:)0 miles of canal have been cll,)!-ii neted i,l Canada, 200; in Great Britain, 2.77 J; in France, 2,250. Iu American railroads, completed and in progress, the extent is about equal to the agurpegate of its canal communication. Vast as this extent is, we believe, that the railroad specu- lations in America genera'ly yield a profit. The Ontario Messenger ...

... PARfSH OF SWANSEA. A meeting of the rate payers, for the ejecting of officers, took place on Thursday, according to annual custom. The Rev. Doctor HEWSON in the Chair. Reference having been made to the parish accounts, rendered by the Guardian, and as to t ie expenditure of the last year, a little discussion took place between Messrs. R uttl-r, Walters, and Walker, as to the management ...

... Cow BRIDGE, 5th APHIL, 1836. Before JOHV NICIIOLL, ESQ.; D.C.L. M.P. Chairman. Tne MOST NOBLE the MARQUIS of BUTE. J. B Bruce, Esq. Robert Knight, Clerk. T. W. Booker, E,q. J. N. Mers. gsq. J. W. B nnett, Esq. T B. Rous, Ksq. Thomas Edmoudcs, Esq. It. Savours, Esq. Entwisle, Esq. T. Stacy. Clerk. Richard Franklyn, Esq. G Thomas, C'erk. Howell Gwyu, Esq, Llewellyn 1 raherne. Esq. Richard Hill, ...

... Lord Elphinstone has been appointed Gover- nor of Madras. His Lordship is a young Governor, and possesses many striking requisites for the high office. His Lordship is universally popular he-re, and is in manner and disposition eminently calcula- fed to conciliate all classes of the people over whom he is to be set. He is a Whig, it is true; but that we look upon to be rather his misfortune ...

... CALAMITOUS FIRE AT BURLINGTON AR- CADE AND GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PRO- PERTY. A fire broke out on Saturday night last, about ten o clock, in the house of Mr Absalom, tailor, which has been attended, as far as regards property, ivith the most disasterous consequences. The county engine was almost directly on the spot, and ot,hers quickly followed, by which time the house Mr Absalom was burning ...

... tmjirnal jparltameitt. HOUSE OF COMMONS—MONDAY. The House sat this day for the first time since the holy days. Several petitions having been presented on various subjects, Mr ROBINSON gave notice that he would move a new clause in the Stamps Bill, subjecting real pro- perty to the same probate duty as personal property. The Marqtiis of CH A N DOS gave notice of a motion on Agricultural ...

... At a most numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Bristol, attended by all the respectable per- -on-oftbat city, which was held on the 2d inst. 'be following resolutions were agreed to: — William Fripp, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair, It was unanimously resolved, '1. 1 hat it is due to Thomas Daniel, Esq. one of the most eminent and respected of our fellow, citizens, that an affectionate address ...

... SIR JAMES GRAHAM. Sir James Graham has been called upon by, we will not say a hole and corner, but a coal hole meeting of his Constituents, to resign—or, jn plain language, 23 dirty Radicals, out of a Constituency of 4,500 respectable persons, have sent an address, desiring the Hon. Baronet, as he has forfeited his hustings pledges, to restore his seat into their unwashed hands. The ...

... ittonmouttt01uvc. The Duke of Northumberland Ins presented the munificent sum of £100, and the Duchess of Northumberland £50. in aid of the fund now raising for tile purpose of erecting a monument in Durham Cathedral, in honour of the late lamented. liis'iop of Durham.—Newcastle Journal. NEWPORT. On Saturday the 20'h ult. the Lord Bishop of Landaff was in the neighbourhood of Newport looking ...

... SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATIONS.-No. 133. GEN. i. v. 20.— And God said, let the waters bring- forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and rowl. The fish are called moving (in the Hebrew, creeping) creatures, because their bellies touch the-water, as creeping things do the earth. Both fishes and foiols were made out of the ivaters; tillt is, out of such matter as was mixed with the ...