... IFRIGi TFUL COLLIEBR Y EXPLOSION A 7 1 OLDRAM. SEVENTEEN PERSONS KILLED. Another of those frightfully destructive occurrences oc curred on Friday afternoon, at Oldham, near Manchester at the Bent Grange Colliery, a mine that has acquired. ar unfortunate notoriety from the circumstance that an ex. plosion occurred within its workings in October, 1850, which destroyed the lives of sixteen men ...

... LFROM OUR OWN OOBkSEJPONDENT.I DUBLIN, SATURnAY. CLARE ELECTION.-DEFEAT OF COLONEL VANDE. LEUR.-After a most vigorous contest, the. Clare election closed yesterday evening, by the return of the former members, Mr. C. 0. Brien and Sir John F. Fitzgerald. As I apprised you by tele- graph yesterday, Colonel Vandeleur had a small majority over both on the first day; but on the second he lost his ...

... THE, NEWP INDIA BILL.-THEE NOSags I INA TED DIRECTORS. To THE EDITOR OF Tin, MORNING CHRONICLE. B1tt-Among the questions which will probably be dis- cussed this evening, in connection with the new India Bill, is that which relates to the nomination of a cer- tain uilniber (in the first instance a sixth, subsequently and permanently a third) of the new Board of Directors, the number of which ?? ...

... TVS MORNING CHRONICLE OFFICE, 3ionday, 1 p.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS.. [FROM OUA OWN CORRExSPONDENT.] PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. I this morning sent you a telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, yesterday,. according to which a fall of i per cent. had been produced in the Austrian funds, in consequence of a report current in that city that the Government had despatched two regi- sments to reinforce the ...

... MORNVlyG CHRONICLE OFFICE, Satarday, 12, Noon. EXPRESS, PROM. PARIS. LFROM OUR OWN COtRRESPONDL.] PARIS, FRIDAY EVBNINE. The hopes entertained of the maintenance of Deace are rapidly diminishing. Hitherto people have imagined that the Czar would ultimately give way when he found that all Europe disapproved of, his policy and was determined to resist it ; but it is now evident that the object ...

... THE COMMITTEE ON DOCKYARD APPOINTALNTjS AND PROMOTIONS. Yesterday, on the re-assembling of the committee, Lord Seymour (chairman) Lord Hotham, Sir B. Hall, Sir F. Davie, and Mr. Beckett, The Chairman, in reply to Hon. Mr. Talbot-who repeated he statement contained in the letter we published yesterday, hate, unless the committee were perfectly satisfied that Lord )erby brought no undue ...

... THE NA V Y. APPOINTMENTS. Assistant-Burgeon-Charles Harper (1860), recently serving in the Phaeton, 50, to the Hogue, 60, steam guard ship, at Devonport. Master's-Assistant-John Richards, to the Banshee steam packet, at Portsmouth. WOOL WICEI, MAY 3. The Melampus, 42-gun frigate, was towed from Woolwich to Sheerness to-day by the Monkey steam vessel. The Me- lampus has on board the machinery ...

... CAlMP D'HELFA UT. *To THi 1EDITOR OF TIr MilORNING CHRONICLE. Sll-The graphic description given by you of our brave fel- lows at the camp of Chobhiam, caused by the heavy rain on Sunday the 19th, induced nne on the 21st to visit the Camp d'Eelfaut, as ot Sunday and Monday the French soldiers experienced similar weather. A comparison between the two camp3s is scarcely possible, as the huts at ...

... - [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. It will be seen by the subjoined account of the proceedings at the Bourse to-day that the panic of yesterday has calmed down almost as suddenly as it arose, and that the speculators have to a certain extent recovered their presence of mind. It is im- possible to give any better ground for the change than this-that the good people of ...

... EAMIGIRA 7ION. The letters from the chief agents of emigration at Toronto, Montreal, and other towns in Upper and Canada, report favourably of tile emigrationa procead L!,ec those quarters, and of the increased demand Wikll ll throughout the country for labourers. AtI Xkt emigration officers have bad innumerable applic ?? (lie farmers for hands to assist in securing the harvet froos ...

... PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Bisbop of Norwich has instituted the Rev. S. HE. Lee Warner, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Houghton-le-Dale, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. J. D. Crafts, MLA. His lordship has licensed the Rev. H. Jones, M.A., of St.' John's College, Cambridge, to the incumbency of Shelley, Suffolk, on the nomination of the trustees of ...

... CANADA. The following aopies of the addresses to her Ma- jesty of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, en the subject of the constitution of the former house, have been printed - by order of the House of commons .- No. 1. TO THRa qVEN'S MOST RUXCLLXNT MAJESTY. Most Gracious Sovereign-We, your Mejesty' smtost ?? and loyal subjects, the Legislative Couacil ofJCanada,' in provincial ...