... Muca has been said of the exhaustion of the coal-fields: but how ?? will our iron mines last when ten tons of steel are used every week in Birming- ham for the one item of steel pens 2 The Resources, Products, &c. &c., of Birmingham, a series of reports collected by the Local Industries Committee for last year's British Association. and now edited by Mr. Timmins, gives a number of startling ...

... Bj~~LGIU-M A letter from Brussels of Ootober 1Mth sayst'llisrl .this nmorning, tired ss they must have been by iworkc$. .the preceding day or 4ay. the Eqgllsh .vluntoers ?? about 900 trong.in thO Pisoa dQ..Musee. .Prs a yet earlier hour, the jingle of spurs aeula.of bra had eahoed through the large hotels,^a the sound of- rol- ing drums and martial murn hm: filled thektreeta witv;ut. ?? ...

... BEYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. UDALT, 'OTOB3R 21, S6Ba SUNDAY'S ED)ITION. HOW -NGLA13M TREATS HER WORKERS AND IZVrXTOBHL I One of the very worst consequences of class govern- mant is that the rewards and punishments which it bestows are not determined by the real merits 4f.the recipients. F6vouritism, not merit, settles the honour or pension to be conferred upon the claimant. Thus the fourteenth or ...

... LAoUR AND WAGN THN ALTAMc TANDE OUTRAGE AT 8N31PsLD.-A general meeting of the London Working Mli's Aseola. flon was held on Tuesday night, at the Brougbam Hall, Flsot;6treet, atwhlqh the folowing resolution was pases& .- That th London Working Men's Association, com. posed toa large extent of members of trade socieths, hereby records it8 ?? at the dastardly outrage which ba recently taken ...

... HOTLAKE 'RAILWAY.-The adjourned meeting of shareholders in thin line, held at the company's offices Jackson-chambers, yesterday, at noon, Mr. ?? Poole in the chair, was further adjourned until Tuesday, the 13th proximo. Mr. Arthur Lloyd, the most comical of comic singers, given his second comic concertthis evening (Wednesday), at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson- ?? and on Friday evening he will ...

... LOOAL NEWS. T h e G arctfc n otific s t h a t 'th e fo llo w in g p la c e s Id The Gazette nloetifiesetbadsothF l z h ~d ha've been duly registered forteelmi~t~lo mhe marriages therein -Fairfield Presbyterian Church, West Derby; Richmond Chapel, lBverton. m- A proposal for the erection of a new pier, suit- In- able to the requirements and development of 11 Southport, Is now being seriously ...

... CYMDEITaASFA DEFYNO(G. IFlydref 4ydd, 5cd, e'r 6ed. LJ.WYD-PARCL. T. PIIILI1PS, D. D., 11ENFFORDD 01 DTIxA y tro cyntaf i'r Gymdeithasfa Chwarterol gael Y ei chyllnal yu y lie hwn, ond aid y tro waf mae'n m deb) gol. Mae Trefeastell o fewn llai na phedair j, milldir o ffordd i hen gartref y Gymideithasfa, a daw a, Defynog bellach i w cihymneryd yu ei thro fel y p, lleoedd ereill yn y sir sydd ...

... AFTER the number of times at which the cholera seemed to have been decreasing in our Union and parish, it has not yet left us. It seems to cling to some localities with great reluctance, as if it wished not to leave them without leav- ing traces behind it which would be long remembered. In the week ending the 13th inst there were a large number of cases of diarrhoea in the Union, and the ...

... A TEiiEIBLE lfHIGHT AIN D A VERY HARROW ESCAPE. We have been told a story this week which we know to be true, and which is so remarkable that we feel bound to give it in extenso to our readers, with the one exception, that the names of the parties concerned, and of the house in which the affair occurred, must be suppressed. We may, however, mention that the house is one which has a double ...

... A PORPOISE SHOT IN THE RIVER.—On Friday, a large porpoise was observed in the river between the town and railway bridges. Several volunteers were on the spot with rifles during the day, and essayed their skill at the flitting target presented by the ever-rising and moving black carcase of the porpoise, but without effect, until a shet fired by Mr. Nash, son of Mr. Nash, basket- maker, ...

... A SEWAGE CoN&RESs.—A cosgress and conference oa the subject of sewage of tawns, with a view of arriving at a satisfactory solution of the question, will be held in the Royal Pump Room, Leamington, on the 25th and 26th inst., under the presideney of Lord Leigh. ...

... AN OLD MAID'S REMARKS UPON OLD BACHELORS. The following singnlar letter was recently addressed to the editor of Public 'Theta' for introducing the subject ot 'Early Marriages,' for it is decidedly a question that squires ventilating, and till to-day the bachelor* bave had it all their own way, therefore I rejoice at the appeal- ance of the admirable letter from, A. Justly-indignant English ...