... THE (Continued from Fourth Page.) On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Payne, coroner for the city of London and Southwark, and a jury of 18 of r the neighbouring inhabitants held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the bodies, which lay there, of William Cooper and Henry Nash, who were killed in v the accident. They were both about 17 years of age, a aol the sons of poor parents. The Coroner, in ...

... DREADFUL CkATSTROPHE AT THE VICTORIA THEATRE. |IFTUEN KILLED AND NUMEROUS PERSONS INJURED. t One of those terrible events which occasionally I strike the public mind with a thrill of horror, oc- curred yesterday afteriioon at the Victoria Theatre, i in the Waterloo Road, involving the death of no less than fifteen young men, whose ages varied from sixteen to twenty-four years, and serious ...

... How often do we see really useful and practicable schemes frustrated, or left to languish in abeyance, ,through the obstinacy or self-interest of those who should be the leading promoters and strenuous ad- vocates of the same. As public journalists, it would not be seemly for us to enter the arena of discussion, or join issue with any particular class, having for its object the elevation of ...

... ljoirrICULTURE. TFromn lhll's ?? MeeSSgei, December °27.) The south-westerly xvinds have agrin rirevailecl, aniI the I result has been a considerable fall of r'ain and a higher temperature. This will for a time suspend ground-work operetions, especially on hcavy retentive soils; and at presenlt there is ever prospect of a damnp mild Christmas. At this period of the year the duties of the ...

... A coPY of the following circular has been addressed to each board of guardians in Ireland:- Agricultural Statistics' Office, 5, ?? Strect. Dublin, 13th Dccember. GEXTLEMEN-r take tih liblelty of Cn1CIosing copies of returns showing the estinateed avcrnge pro- duce by the EEnglish and ats7o by the Lrish acre nt the various crops growni in 1858, within each electoral di- vision of the Union of-- ...

... . gjnvl? ?, E~oI susrcAThmn«tm;GE~No& -The Lord Bishop -e Of lManchester, at the Diocesan 1AOistry, on, Tuesday last, C (uly licensed the Roev.'Jeb'nn 'Griedale ?? stspenduary-= ...

... ltl WILLETT'S SPEECH AT THE INQUIRY. ^ilW?r Edition we gave an epitome of Mr. s addressed before the Inspector, but as there Plbl]0^ P°*pts in it which will bear extending, we ^is week in an enlarged form. fose t a(- the close of the case for the defence, ,° and spoke for upwards of an hour. He 0f „ e1.ad been most unfairly placed by the board Stan/I'lllans a ^se position. He had no right to ...

... At the Mansion-house on Thursday, Lieutenant Francis Higginson, who lately made several applications to the sitting magistrate at Guildhall with reference to some money which he said was wrongfully withheld from him by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, appeared before Sir R. W. Carden, in discharge of his bail, for having com- mitted an assault upon Mr. Alderman Salomons, the magistrate who ...

... Forwards and backvvards—'tween pillar and post, Was a saying of which we could formerly boast; But now that old saying is gone to the ground, Since pillar and post both in one can be found. Merthyr, Dec., 1858. SCALLOP. ...

... At the Mansion-house on Thursday, Lieutenant Francis Higginson, who lately made several applications to the sitting magistrate at Guildhall with reference to some money which he said was wrongfully withheld from him by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, appeared before Sir R. W. Garden, in discharge of his bail, for having com- mitted an assault upon Mr. Alderman Salomons, the magistrate who ...

... Letters from New Zealand mention a valuable discovery of coal in the neighbourhood of Auckland. Of 238 theatres which exist in France, only 131 belong f to the corporations of the towns in which they are. A weekly English newsaper, to be called the Levant Herald, is about to be pubihed in Constantinople. A landslip of 30,000 cubic metres has completely buried s the Luxembourg line of railway. ...

... ASTLEY-STREET SCHOOL TEA PARTY.-On Christmas day the annual meeting of this school took place, when above 300 sat down to tea. After tea the Rev. D. Herbert was called to the chair, and after having made a few re- marks in which he alluded to this being the first tea party in connection with his place of worship that he had had the pleasure of presiding over, he called upon the secre- tary to ...