... Last night there was a serious alarm at the Bowery Theatre. A part of the ceiling fell down. An alarm of fire was raised. The crowd rushed to the doors, and there got jammed. Several were nearly trampled to death. Had there been a fire, not a solitary person would have escaped. This applies to every theatre in New York city. If any one of our public places of amusement was to catch fire during ...

... A peculiarly tragic occurrence formed the subject of a coroner's inquest at Birmingham on Saturday evening last. The following are the particulars A few days ago a young man, named Thomas Stevenson, an only son of highly respectable parents residing at Market Harborough, was carried in a help- less state to his lodgings in Birmingham. He was there attended by a girl named oar ah Morton, with ...

... PIRACY THEN AND NOW! In a leader of the Times on the late trial for murder and piracy on the high seas, we find the following interesting observations:— Mr. Froude in the latest volume of his History of England has dedicated an entire chapter to the development of a proposition which will probably take the present generation by surprise. He tells us, and tells us truly, that the maritime ...

... On Tuesday the Times had a leader on a portion of the Registrar General's Report., on the subject of Poisoning, in which they remark To what extent the administration of poison causes death or disease in England is not even approximately known. Such is the disagreeable intimation with which the Medical Officer of the Privy Council intro- duces a section of his present Report. If we could be ...

... Sir,—May I beg the kindness of your inserting the following query in your valuable paper? In some of the letters in the papers during the dispute respecting the Welsh and English services in this parish, after the death of the late incumbent, the word monoglot English clergyman wne often used.- I should be very glad to have an explanation of it, and how it affected the dispute ?—Yours most ...

... TUESDAY.—Before Mr Commissioner Hill. RE W. H. SHEILARD, Pontypool, boot and shoe maker.—This was an adjourned last examination and order of discharge sitting. Mr Stone (instructed by Mr J. S. Trenerry,) appeared for the assignees, and Mr James Inskip for the bankrupt. Mr J. Inskip said the case was adjourned on the last occasion to enable the bankrupt to bring a witness to re- move the ...

... No man that ever lived has ever gone astern so fast as Major General M Clellan, There are very few Americans of any party now so poor as to do him reverence. All sorts of dodges are resorted to in order that his name may be kept before the people, and Dot be forgotten when it is time for the Democrats to nominate a candidate for the Presi- dency. Even Mrs. M'Clellan has to be dragged in. The ...

... ACTION AGAINST MR. WINDHaM, In the Court of Common Pleas an action has been brought by a Mr. Hewson against Mr. Windham, of FelYwigg Hall, Norfolk. The plaintiff claimed a balance of 4171. 183. Id., for seivices rendered and money spent in reference to getting up his suit in the Divorce Court against Mrs. Windham and Signor Giuglini. The plaintiff was a Scotch writer to the signet, but some ...

... HUMOURED EXCITEMENT AT COPENHAGEN. PARIS, Feb, 8. The Patrie'ol this evening publishes, under express reserve, report that a revolution has broken out at Copenhagen, d that the King of Sweden has been proclaimed in that city. The report also states that King Christian has embarked 'or England. La France of this evening says :— Great excitement la felt at Copenhagen among the mari- time ...

... MORE PRESENTS TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES. At Marlborough House, on Tuesday last, the JEWELLED NATIONAL TOKEN from South Wales to the Princess of Wales, was presented to her Royal High- ness the Princess of Wales by the Countess Dowager of Dunraven, accompanied by the Lady Llanover, Lady Frances Pratt, Lady Jane Walsh, and Mrs. Saunders Davie. The jewels consist of a badge in emeralds and ...

... Mrs. Bray, in her recent book, termed the The British Empire, has collected a vast amount of useful and enter- taining information, flere, for instance, is a curious para- graph on the area and population of the empire The area of the British Empire is 4369 729square miles its population (18G1) is 224,380,000. Hence our Queen reigns over nearly one-third of the land of the earth, and about a ...

... HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL, THE BLOWING UP OF A FEDERAL MONITOR BY A TORPEDO.—Some of the survivors of the Federal Monitor Tecumseh supply the New York papers with the followihg account of the blowing up of the vessel by a Confederate torpedo in Mobile harbour :— On the mornin of the 5th of August the signal was made by the flagship Ilartford to the whole fhetto advance on the rebel Fort ...