... DISASTROUS COAL-PIT ACCIDENT AT DINAS COLLIERY.-LOSS OF TWELVE LIVES. One of those melancholy catastrophes so frequently the concomitant of mining operations in the collierics of South Wales, attended on this occasion, lee regret to say, with the loss of twelve lives, took place on Monday morning, at the linas Colliery, the property of Walter Coffin, Esq. On Saturday night, it appears, on the ...

... - InELAND.. we RECALL Op LoRD DE GrEa.-We believe that wve may now announ ce the recall of Lord de Grey as a measure already resolved upon by the Cabinet; and not likely to be deferred beyond the month of April, or May, next.- Weekly Chronicle. REPEAI, AssociATION.-Tlhe Repeal Association met on Monday, Dr. Minurphy in the chair. The proceedings were brief, and the repeal rent for the week was ...

... ?? isdotal C-aton4ountil. A meeting of the council was held on Monday, for the transaction of the ?? business necessary to be des- patched at the commencement of the newf year. The MIAYOR having taken the chair, the house first pro- ceeded to the annual ELECTION OF OFFICERIS. On the petition of Mr. John Harford, to be elected deputy- treasurer, 'Mr. FRIFFr asked his usual question, viz., if ...

... LANCASTERI2A SCHOOLS, REDCROSS-STREET, I - BRISTOL.I These schools, which had been closed for some time for repairs, were re-opened on Monday last, when a public meeting of an interesting character was held in the evening. EDWARD THOMIAS, Esq., having been called to the chair, commenced the business of the evening by some appropriate remarks on the importance of education, and the desirable- ...

... ?oreign and Domestic Intelligence. INDIA AND CHINA. The Indian mail has arrived, with letters and papers from Bombay, to Dec. 1. The principal'-items relate to the prevalence of great sickness in the two newly-acquired possessions of Sinde in India, and of Hong-Kong in China. Peace prevails throughout British India, although the preparations for war were busy throughout the north-western ...

... o G TL E rounEXGN XXTELLIGENCE. UNITED STATES AND CANADA. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Evening.-About eight o'clock this morning the fine steamer Acadia reached the Mersey in a few hours less than eleven days from Halifax. The news by this arrival, extending over seven days, possesses no striking feature, if we except the doings in sanada, where Sir Charles Metcalfe has experienced the 4 hostility of ...

... We have to record another case of self-destruction by the swallowing of this deadly poison. The deceased in the pre- sent case was a lone woman, Mrs. Mary Taylor, about 62 years of age. She was housekeeper to a Mr. Austin, a surgeon, who resided, up to the time of his death, on the t Broad-plain, St. Philip's, and kept a dispensary tlere. Since the death of Mr. Austin the deceased had kept on ...

... SATURDAY, JAvUARY 6, 1844. Wee have just entered upon another year of Conserva- tive government. What if may bring forth remains to be seen; bat all men -will hope that it may prove as un- like as possible the two which have preceded it. Dating from Sir Robert Peers accession to office, and judging of the future by the past, truly may they exclaim- We backward turn our e'e On prospects ...

... SATURDAY, JAvrArY 6, 1844. Ox Monday last our local legislators commenced thle year with a remarkably long talk. A strong stream of eloquence,-varied by ripples, eddies, and currents,-set in at twelve o'clock at noon, and continued to flow till five! after which the loquacious senators went home to dinner, each orator doubtless experiencing * That sort of secret satisfaction, Men feel when ...

... I BY WILLIAM BUSFIELD FRRAUND, ESQ., 1.P. Some make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout. Some hold the one, and some the other, But howsoe'er they make a pother; The di Toerence was so small, his brain Outweighed his rage but half a grain; What made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, ceall'd a fool. A short while ago Punch favoured its admirers (all the r world) with ...

... a1iSC Em LANEOUS. b We learn from the Bolton Free Press, that Mr. Feargus O'Connor, who prints the Northern Star by a steam machine, delivered a lecture at Wigan, on Tfuesday week, on the evils of machinery I A LITTLE MISTAKE.-A country editor, in speaking of a a steam*boat, says, She had twelve birilks in her ladies' cabin. a Oh, life of me I (exclaimed an old lady, on reading the ...

... To the Sditor of The Bristol Mercury. SIR,-In your last paper you state that The prisoners in the gaol and bridewell were plentifully regaled with a good dinner, through the liberality of his Worship the Mayor and the High Sheriff, on Christmas day. After the grant of 7001. for his year's services, so prodigally voted-in addition to 1091. for a carriage-by the towrn-council, I think it is ...