... MISCELLAN OITS. Ono of the Marine Insurance Compasuies is said to have netted about £60,000. by takicg war risks during the late short period of excitement arising out of the case of the Trent. We hear that a company is being formed, one of the objects of which is to make arrangements for the recep- tion of foreign exenrsionists to this country during the Exhibition time. Mr. Layard, and ...

... BILSTON. STEALING COAL-At the Petty Sessions, yesterday, Bridget Burns, of this town, was committed to prison for twenty-one (lays, for stealing coal, on Thursday last, the ?? of fessis. Sparro$, coual pruirictOrs, of BiltuOit. WOLVERHAMIPTON. THE CASE OF STEALING WEARING APPAREBL-At the Police Cocut, yesterday, William Jones, who stated that he was a glove maker, of Worcester, was brought up ...

... MR.. ROEBUTJCK, M.P., ON POPULAR EDUCATION. (From otr Reporter.) SALISBurzY, Friday. Least evening, Tvr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., delivered anl ad- dress upon ?? Populatr Education in the Assembly Roosin of this city to the members of the Literary and Scientific Institution. Mr. Marsh, M.P., occupied the chair; and amnongst those present were the Right Rev, the Bishop of Salisbury, Archideacon ...

... DISTRICTNEWS. BROSELEBY. NIGHT POACHING.-Late on Friday night, or early on the morning of Saturday, as one of Lord Forester's keepers and two watchers were out near the-ash cappice, they eja- countered a gang Of poachere,' about seventeen in nuoeb Te, in the lane leading fro~mth~b bttosmsof the, Belt IHel The numbers were too formidable for the keepers and watchegs to encounter, but some ...

... A LOCAL MEMORIAL TO THE LATE : PRINCE CONSORT. M-EETING YESTERDAY. Yesterday, at noon, a meeting of gentlemen desirous of aiding in the erection of &-memorial to his late Royal High. ness the Prince, Consort, convented by the Mayor, was held in thle comnmittee roomn of the Town falal. His Worship the Mayor (Mr. H. Mhanton) presided, and among the gentlemen p esent were Sir John Rateliff, the ...

... Colonel Eugene O'Reilly, one of his companions in mtms in 1848, now an officer in the Turkish service, has written a letter to Mr. Smithl O'Brien, in which lie says: i I tell you iliinly, then, that you should not have written that letter to Mr. Seward, in the first instance, because you owe your life, your liberty, and the posses- sion of independent means to the clemency of that Government ...

... A deputation from the departments of 'the House anl the Vosges waited lately ol the Prince Imperial to offer him bonijons and comifits, for which those departmniets are famous. The persons who brought the offering were exceedingly well received by the prince, and they ven- tured to ask what they should say respecting the sweet- meats to the parties represented. Tell them, said the prince, ...

... FIGHTFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. .1 - FIVE MEN KILLED AND TWO HUNDRED BURIED ALIVE.' NEWCASTLE, Friday Nighti One of the most alarming colliery accidents that has cc curred in this country for several years past took place yesterday morning, at New Hartley. Oolliery. - Hartley now pit is situate close totho Hartley Junction of the Blyth and Tyne Railway, and on the western side of the line; It ...

... ENFIELD SMALL ARJMS.-In anticipation of large de. iands being made on the Government Small Anis Factory At Enfield, the whole of the wvorkmen employed in that establishment were on several occasions during the last few weeks kept at, work the whole night. It was folnd that the existing gasnrraisgements were not of a nature to admit of a sufficient supply being kept up during the whole night. ...

... of to-miorrow will contain, in addition to tlhe usllil news of the week:- Gossip ro ParfS. National Education, Letterin Neo Yok.7 (Scevenithl Article). First Article on Adultelr- Local 117otes and Qaerbe'is. ation. Alspects of the Amnericacn Question. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Will contain the 31st Chapter of Redwood Trevor, and Joslha Vernal's Recollections of a Tradesmntan. _ __ The ...

... WEST MIDLAND RAILWAY MEETINGl. Yesterday afternoon an extraordinaly meeting of th? directors and shareholders of the above line was held in tiii Guildhall, Worcester, for the purpose of considlering anl determining with reference to certain heads of arrringe ment which have been provisionally made between the directors of the South Wales Railway Company and the directors of the Great Western ...

... N)oNTEMPORARY OPIIOmN. _i R. ADrU'xLY'ls COLONIAL POLICY.-ESatu-day Rel'ith w.]-A ?? has appeared from the pe of Mr. Adderley, ill the form of a letter to his political cilitcf, urging upon England the duty of not defending her colonies. Perhaps the time he has chosen for the discussion of this thesis is not strictly opportune. 'At a nanieent when every military and naval department has been ...