... WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS ?— Mr M. Ennor writes thus to the Mining Journal :-There is nothing strange or mysterious in these occurrences, for as the mines get deep such large spaces are opened that there is a waut of a sufficient current of air to keep pace with them. Large and deep mines will continue to ex- plode, until men will not be found to work in them. If the tide once ...

... The bold and comprehensive scheme proposed by Mr. Thomas Fairbairn, for the foundation here of a permanent and free art gallery and museum on a grand scalers much talked about. The words art gallery, although per- baps the best that could have been selected, convey but a faint idea of the magnificent undertaking suggested. In the long letter which he addressed to the local papers, Mr. ...

... 'Tis sweet at dewy eve to rove When softly sighs the western breeze, And wandering 'mid the star-lit grove To take a pinch of snuff and sneeze. 'Tis sweet to see in daisied field The flocks and herds their pleasure take; But sweeter are the joys they yield In tender chop and juicy steak. 'Tis sweet to hear the murmurous sound That from the vocal woods doth rise, To mark the pigeons wheeling ...

... YOUNG MEN'S MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SO- CIETY IN EBANCE.—We have been gratified in perusing a small pamphlet which has been sent to us, containing a report of an acldresswhich was delivered to a young men's mutual improvement society at St. Pierres-les- Calais, in France, by Mr. John Robert Taylor, Hon. Sec. of the London Mechanics' Institution. The subject of the address was, The Rise and ...

... appointment* for tbe Wittb. Monday, 27th.Chepstow Fair. ...

... fit. A CABINET CopNCiL was held on Saturday. HER MAJESTY visited the Haymarket Theatre on Saturday. No alteration has, taken place in the Court arrange- ments for the ensuing month. It is expected that her Majesty will leave town on the 8th or 9th of March for Osborne, and will return to town a day or two before the day appointed for the first drawing-room in 1860, the 24th of March. THE first ...

... AMERICA AND THE GREAT EX- HIBITION. Thedetails of the arrangement, for the opening cere- mony of the Exhibition building have not been finally agreed upon. This much, however is certain, that neither Her Majesty, nor the Prince of Wales, and probably no member of the royal family will be present on the occa- sion. As much will, however, be done as possible to sive ectof to the ceremony. Her ...

... SIGNOR SCIALOJA has returned from Turin to Paris for the purpose of concluding the negotiations for a treaty of commerce between France and Italy. According to news received at Turin from Venice, the Archduke Henry will replace General Benedek during his absence. The Hungarian troops have been withdrawn from the frontier,.and are expected to be replaced by Croats and Bohemians. The railways ...

... RUSSIAN ATROCITIES IN POLAND. The following terrible incidents are extracted from the Cracow correspondent of a, morning contemporary Two or three days since a Polish lady and gentleman who had not been able to escape across the frontier, though living close on it, were massacred in poll blood with their daughter. I myself; travelled as far as the barrier with a proprietor who lives at ...

... Wljt ejoitrt, &t. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce, and Major Teesdale, arrived, on Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Ilardwicke, at Wimpole-hall, near Royston, from Cambridge. A small circle were invited to meet his Royal Highness, including the Duke of St. Albans, Mr. Adeane, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE AMERICAN QUARREL AS AFFECTING ENGLAND, —Both the American Confederations profess a strong desire for the sympathy, if not for tbe alliance, of England. Some leading politicians iu the North think that their object will be secured by the bluster which is so inseparable from all their political and diplomatic traditions, Mysterious vengeance is threatened against any ...

... Recent letters from Florence and Rome represent a very hostile feeling in the Italian populations towards the priests, or rather towards the clerical hierarchy, oil account of the injunctions of some of the bishops forbid- ding any' notice t& be taken in the churches of the grand national festival of June 2. Thursday last was one of the great festivals of the church—Corpus Domini day. The ...