... The. Colliery Strike in Durham.—This strike continues without any indications of drawing to a close. The evictions also continue, and forty-five more families have been ejected from their homes at Oakenshaw. A meeting of the men on strike was held at Willington, but beyond the discussion of their grievance nothing was done. Fatal Accident on the South Eastern Railway.-A bill-sticker, named ...

... Under this title, Mr. Sydney Hodges, Secretary of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, writes to the Times the following account of a horrible circumstance just brought to light in a village near Falmouth :— For some years past rumours have been current that the brother of a mason named Porter, living in comfortable circumstances, had been kept for many years in close confinement in a small ...

... DEATH FROM BURNING.—The poor old woman, Da vis, whose accident we recorded last week, died on Thursday last, from the injuries she sustained. VOLUNTEER SUPPER.-On Monday, Major King, for- merly Captain of the 6th Monmouthshire, entertained the members of the corps at supper, at the King's Head Hotel. There was a numerous company, above 75, and the evening was most pleasantly spent. CHRISTMAS ...

... At the Needham-market Petty Sessions, last week, the Rev. George Drury, rector of Claydon, was sum- moned before Sir G. Broke-Middleton, Bart.; Revs. J. E. S. Schreiber, M. Simpson, andF. Steward, the sitting magistrates, for having assaulted Abraham Watkin, labourer, one of his parishioners. A cross-summons had been taken out against Watkin, charging him with having assaulted Mr. Drury, and a ...

... At the Liverpool Assizes, Frank Lynch, twenty- five, was charged with having stabbed Charles Carlisle, on board the American ship Webster, on the 4th November last, with intent to murder him a,nd there was also another count in the indict- ment, charging him with having sta,bbed Carlisle with intent to do grievous bodily hMm. Thomas Connor, twenty-six, Allen M'Donald, twenty-eight, James Kelly ...

... VERY »HARD CASE, AND ITS RE- SPONSIBILITIES. A local contemporary gives the following account of a parent's reproach to his children:—Mr. John Hutchinson, the well-known Sunderland shipbuilder of Lechmere-house, who recently gave £ 300 to the Polish national fund, and is distinguished for his munificence to local charities, has resolved to build a group of almshouses for decayed, members of ...

... EXERCISE OF ENGLISH AUTHORITY IN CHINA. The Ohina, Mail is of opinion that the aspect of affairs indicates a crisis to be approaching in that vast empire. It says:—In our last'issue we stated that nothing had transpired as to tha convention, at Pekin, of Mr. Lay, General Brown, and Captain Osbome. The objects of that convention were generally, and we believe correctly, supposed to be the ...

... Brother Ignatius has lately been lecturing at Brighton, where he has appeared dressed. in a long kind of woollen dressing-gown reaching to the feet, and wearing carpet slippers. On Saturday night, the. 8.30 express train from. Peterborough ran into a coal train .near -the Hunting- don-station. The passengers in the express were severely shaken. and much alarmed, hut. sustained no. bodily ...

... THE WAE IN AMERICA. By tie arrival of the Asia, New York papers &ave reached us up to the 24th of November, and Boston and Halifax to the 25th and 26th. Great Federal Victory at Chattanooga. The details we receive confirm the victory of the Federals at Chattanooga. The Washington Biar of the 24th ult. publishes the following :— The reconnaissance in force by General Thomas has been completed ...

... London Produce Market. MINCING-LANE, DEC. 7.-Su,mr: Although prices have come down 4s per cwt. from the highest point, yet scarcely anv business doing, and it is difficult to give accurate ouot'tt'ons Stock remains in excess of last year, and consumption has rn-«_ menced to tall off. Much dnlness also in the refilled Suear tra^T with reduced prices, brown lumps having been sold at Vx a large ...

... TRELLECK. PETTY SESSIONS, TUESDAY, before Captain TYLER, and S. C. BOSA;NQUET, Esq. ADJOURNED ASSAULT CASE.—Isaac Bevan, the Plough Inn, appeared to answer a charge preferred against him by Cecilia Martin, of assaulting her at the Plough inn, on the 6th of October. Complainant repeated her former state- ment, to the effect that she went to the house in question in search of her son, who had ...

... Joshua Daniels, aged sixty-four, and described as a confectioner, was indicted, at the Middlesex Sessions, on Thursday, before the Assistant Judge, for having stolen a quantity of furniture, the property of Louis Nathan, under the following circumstances :— The prosecutor is a poor man, with four children, living in Dinah's-court, Petticoat-lane, and gained a scanty living for his family by ...