... THE BURG COLLIERY EXPLOSION. The opinion that the unfortunate miners in the Bury Colliery in Saxony were all immediately killed by the explosion proves incorrect. In the note book of the miner Bahr the following entry has been found:— This is the last place where we have taken refuge I have given up all hope, because the ventilation in the Sc^engottes fchfift and the Hoflnungs shaft has been ...

... Mr Harris, the station-master at Pontypool- road station, met with a sad accident on Tues- day morning last, by which his foot was taken off. Mr Harris had taken advantage of an ear- ly train to accompany some friends off as far as Penpergwm station, about three miles this side of Abergavenny, intending to get back in time for the first up passenger train from Newport. A goods train being due ...

... PROPOSED PEACE WITH MoRocco.-Negotiations i:V»r peace with RY >»JT of (writes a Spanish rrespondent). It is said that immediately after tne C; oture of Tetuan, which place is not expected to make serious resistance, as it is armed only with old cannon, ad as the Moors are suffering from sickness and famine treaty of peace will be signed at Tangiers; ana wiac, t le basis of it will be an ...

... Iflrattllsntras Jinf Trigmtt. AN OFFENCE NOT KNOWN TO T sis- pension has been presented to tl nburgh High Court of Justiciary for a prisoner, n,h ahe ground thit the offence of which he was found guilty—viz., at- tempting to pick pockets—is not an offence known -,o the law. The Lord Justice Clerk has granted a war- rant for his interim liberation, on his finding bail for 21. sterling. THE ...

... HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. PRESSURE OF THE RATES.—A table, intended to exhibit the great decree with which the rates press upof. farmers a-, compared with other clashes of per- sons in agricultural districts, is given in the current number of the Chamber of Aflriculture Journal. Re- turns were obtained from sixteen persons, thirteen of whom wi re farmers, one a purgeon, one a general dealer, ...

... THE DREADFUL CASE OF A MAN BEING KILLED BY PASSING THROUGH THE MACHINERY. We recorded last week the fact that a man was killed in the Blaer afon Forge in the shock- iJlg IlIallllcr above indicated. His name was Benjamin Ross, a roller, aged 47, and the par- ticulars of the unfortunate occurrence will ap- pear from the evidence given below. The inquest was Held on Thursday, at the Rising Sun ...

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... An inqUsthaB been held at Baddesley-Engor, a village in orth W arwickshire, to inquire into the circumstances con- nected with the death of a woman, only twenty-three years of age, named Harriet Atkins. The evidence went to show that the husband of the deceased, Michael Atkins, is a miner and lives at Laduesley-Ensor, a village some three miles from Atheratone. On the night of Friday last the ...

... AN AGRARIAN MURDER. An agrarian murder of the worst type was com- mitted at Ballymahon, Countv Longford, on Friday evening. A respectable farmer, named Andrew Waters, who held 400 acres of land under the Hon. King Harman, recently resolved to emigrate to Australia, a.nd obtained permission from Mr. Har- man to dispose of the goodwill of his farm. He was about to complete an agreement with a, ...

... Jpsttllmtttars$rttl%race. INNOCENCE.—There is a story about Dick, a darkey in Kentucky, who was a notorious thief, so vicious in this respect, that all the thefts in the neigh- bourhood were charged to him. On one occasion, Mr. Jones, a neighbour of Dick's master called, and said that Dick must be sold out of that part of the country, for he had stolen all his (Mr. Jones's) turkeys. Dick's ...

... PROCLAMATION of the KING of ITALY. The following proclamation of King Victor Emma- nuel to the Italian people was issued in Florence on October 17th Italians Bands of volunteers, excited and seduced by a party without my authorization or that of my Government, have violated the frontier of the State. The respect equally due by all citizens to the laws and international stipulations sanctioned ...

... ^°nday ni&ht, Mr. Young, who is to command the Livingstone search expedition, reported that the steel boat is finished, and that he will leave England in the mail steamer on the 8th of this month for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he will proceed to the mouth of the ZambesL There the boat will be put together, and the party will go up the river to the Murchison Falls. Here the boat will be ...