... NINETY-FIVE LIVES LOST. A dreadful explosion of fire-damp occurred on Saturday last at Haswell Colliery, which is situate in the very centre of the great Durham coal-field, about seven miles from the city of Durham, and nine from Sunderland. It is the pro- perty of Messrs Clark, Taylor, Plumer, and other wealthy coal-owners. It is 150 fathoms deep, and the workings are in the well-known Hutton ...

... I FRANCE. Sunday being the day appointed for the ceremony of placing the Morocco trophies in the church of the Inva- lides, the cccasion was celebrated by a grand review of the troops in garrison in Paris, and a military procession to the church where all the trophies taken by the French (with the serious exception of the 3,000 destroyed by Marshal Marmont before the entrance of the Allies in ...

... REGISTRATION. COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. - In the parish of St Dunstan in the West a most important advantage was achieved for the Liberal party by the success of an objec. tion to parties claiming for chambers in the Inner Tem- pie, similar to that which was established in the city revision before Mr Arnold. Mr Coppock said his objec- tion was, that Baron Alderson had no qualification in the parish ...

... I FINSBURY REGISTRATION.-Mr Moylan, the revising barrister, fined the overseers of St Luke's 60s. for improperly omitting the names of two claimants from the register. He said-, I am required to impose a fine upon the overseers for a wilful neglect of their duty. It appears that James Buckle has been for many years a resident in the parish, occupying a 101. house; and that he has been, ever ...

... REPEAL ASSOCIATION. At the usual weekly meeting the chair was taken by Counsellor Mackey. The Chairman briefly addressed the meeting, confining his observations to the registry, and congratulated the association on the success which tad attended its exertions. Dr Ndgle read a letter from Mr Henry Grattan, M. P., which accompanied a presentation of one hundred copies of the memoirs of his ...

... A CC I D E N T S. | ACCiDENT IN TIfE RivERt LEA.-An inquest has been held by Mr Baker, jun., os' the body of Anne Sayer, who was drowned in the above river, on Thursday week. Just previous to the commencement of the proceedings a brother oft-he unfortunate deceased was so much affected, that he fell down in strong convulsive fits, and was carried out of the room in a most distressing state. Mr ...

... I This influential bodv, after an apparent repose for a few weeks, caused by its undivided attention to the registries, commenced what may fitly be termed its winter campaign on Thursday evening, in the Free- trade Hall, - Manchester. The attendance was very large, the immense place being filled in every corner; the estimated numbers present being 4,500 persons. Mr G. Wilson, Chairman of the ...

... NOT A B I L I A. foE GREAT PITT ON THE EvE OF HIS PEERAGE.-It be doubted whether he would have been thus misled, ta ind had been in full health and vigour. But the ghis mn truth is, that lie bad for some time been in an unnatural ~5ts ~f excitement. No suspicion of this sort had yet got tatfea. His eloquence had never shone with more splen- 1a5sr than during the recent debates. But people ...

... INDIA. The Indian mail to the 27th of August .has arrived, brineing letters and papers from Bombay to that date. Thc inteltigen ce which they coimmunicate, though not of a striking nature, is of considerable interest. From Calcu ta it relates principally to the new and late Governors-General. Sir imnry Hardinge arrived there at eight o'clock in the eovnin, of the 23-d of July, and was ...

... LONDON, Saturday Morning, Oct. 19,1844. FOREIGN NEWS. The Paris papers of Thursday are, like their ante- cedents during eight or ten days, principally taken up with the late visit of Louis Philippe. There is not a line of French intelligence in the Debats of Thursday. The Madrid journals of the 11th state that, during the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on that day, seven commissioners were ...

... Great consternation has been excited in Limerick by the discovery that in three vessels in the harbour holes have been bored by some unknown person. The Limerick Re- porter savs:- The head pacificator, Mr Steele, who pro- ceeded on Tuesday (the 1st inst.) to inspect the works executed on the Lower Shannon, returned instantly from Tarbert, where he first heard of the outrage, and saw the ...

... . PASsNGERS' BAGGAGE.-MIuCh greater facilities will take place in the examination of passengers' baggage arriving from the Continent. Additional landing waiters and weighers are to be in attendance at the Custom house, and at all the wharfs where foreign steamers arrive ; and the regulation which formerly existed, that no baggage, subject to examination, should be landed until after the ...