... CATAsTROPHE AT THE7 SHIRE- EaLL, CHELM FORD. .- I Le Abouttwee o'clock yesterday, a sad catastrophe, sc' > companied with the loss of one life and the ?? of y several other persons, occurred in this town, by the falling nof a part of the central stone staircase at the Shire. Hall, owing to' the heavy pressdre-of 'the crowds' ?? it, who were. 'edeavouridg to reach the Petty Session room to hear ...

... Rocal aittl pioallauratto Nzwo. ? ?? ?? ?? dnrHE WrIATuEa, FIZIDAY.-London, NV., frosty and line EdinburgltW., veryfine; Diublin,W., floe; Amsterdam, W., cold and cloudy; Cowes, N.,,loudy; Harwich, N.E, cloudy; South- amptol, N.W., fine; Portsmouth, N.W., fine; Plymouth, E,, fine and very cold; Liverpool, N., damp; IHolyhead, N., fine tand cold; I-lull, ?? foggy; York, N., cloudy; Glasgow, SE. ...

... WOODSTOCO. LECTUItE OX SCEO'ED Musto.-Oll Etriday tile 15tlh instant our ?? Sobool Room wge filled with a crowd of the inhabitants -anxious to hoar a lecture on the History of Sacred Musiic. The Rev. G. J. Brown was the lecturer and the church ohoir, with a few of tile school childrenl efficiently lcd by iJr. Essex, illustrated the several epochs in the history. Coiiminecing with an ...

... P. ROYAL BIOOICS hO l'NTAL.-ELiAtICTION OF A StlOioN -- A special eourt Of gover ors wacs coltvetted tit the boetrd rorot t t thte lo10iitai oil Tuealdty 11st, for tile JtLIrpose of tilng up ttle ?? itl the ?? cal staff Causeld by the resigntatioln of Mr. mal litee, of lonukit stroet as sUttrcgo1., Tiiie wiet tm toU tiididattes, 31 c. Vines of 1riats tcet ftid Mrl. .1oxhay, of LoLidon. The ...

... THE PEACE CONFErIENCES.-The cocnferences are to be opened on Monday next. A dinner of thirty covers Is ordered. In the evening there will be a grand r-unaion at the Foreign. office; 600 persons have been invited. ARRIVAL OF THE TURKISH PLENIPOTENTIARY. The steam-frigate Sane, which left Constantinople on the lath, arrived at Marseilles on Thursday, with Ali Paeba, the Turkish plenipotentiary ...

... This cause, which has for many years excited interest in Lancashire, owing to the great amount of property in- volved, and-the fact that upwards of 100 persons are in- terested in it, and have been paying for years to bring it to an issue, with the greatest confidence of success, came on for trial on Friday week. The only account of the proceedings we have been able to meet with is the follow- ...

... J; 4- J OUR RELATIONS WITH AMERICA,—On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. ROEBUCK moved that an address should be presented to the Crown, praying for the production of all the correspondence that had lately passed between the governments of England and America respecting the conduct of Mr. Crampton. The recent explanations given by Lord Palmerston respecting the apology offered ...

... TUESDAY, FEB. 19. ARBITRATION BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EM- PLOYED.—Mr. MACKINNON moved for the appointment of a select committee to consider the inconvenience now felt in the country from the want of equitable tribunals, by whose means any difference's between masters and operatives might be satisfactorily adjusted and also to ascertain whether the Conseils des Prud'hommes in France have answered ...

... THE COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS POLICE I BILL. ;H. Ott Wedtiesdsq at 12 o'elotk, a. large and ittflscnitial tor-t ?? cling cC' MaLIrota, an~i other civic anti munlicipai cu- be thlritics e of cii Lls and betoatrong tkrougliout th~ ki agolon, Nv. r~s hi ld .t ife r ert' Hoi-I, Pite, a Yar,'a'Vcitiloinster,J ced to protest agire int III bill ro:ctenily in trotduced in t,, thle thle House of Cominmens ...

... HE<H or LoND3-n.-rbe mortality of London IS much below the average ; but catarrhal affections prevaSl, and three deaths from influenza have been recorded. ,t036 deaths were registered in the week that ended on Saturday, or 115 less in number than the deaths in the previous vreek. Last week the births of 849 boys and 854 girls, in all 1,703 children, were registered in London. In the ten ...

... - I One hundred and ten tons of very excellent French,, gunpowder have just been wasted in sending all that remained of Fort Nicholas into the air, and the explosion has disclosed the interesting fact thats the fort was in a great measure a sham fort, carefully faced with cut stone towards the sea, nothing but soft rubble inside. Had our valorous Dundas mustered courage enough to try his hand ...

... ustal Ntwo. 1, ?? ?? -.1- - _ The new Hlelrew congregation of Hall, founded about sx ten months ego., haeelected therbio i eso a Chester, the Itev. lii. Seliillcr-Sziriessy, as their chifrbi The rev. gentleman will still remain attached to his duties in this town. TuE Ooorvxto- Conauecsy,-The petition from Mnhse in favour Of thle conimutalion of the senteuco passed upor', this criminal, was ...