... I THE C0OLLIRY .XPLOSION' ;YEAxBERNStr.!I I B - R i i i i Jz :. Y: ?? B4BWSLEY, MowA.x The adjourned inquest tan fifteen o.,the bodies recovered from the Oaks Colliery was resumed this morn- ing before Mr. T. Taylor, coroner for the Wakefield did. e trict, in the Barissley Court-house. Mr. Vernon Black- C burn, bar-ister appeared on behalf of the proprietors of a the colliery; *Dir. BKenyon ...

... I REUCTINSIN~THFlEITALTJTANjJU~.RVXY,~. ?? General Cugia, the Italian Minister of War, has addressed the following report to the King, under date 6th January, upon the reductions which the ministry propose to effect in the army: Sire,-Your Mcifesiyis aware that the Administration of War, in fixing the presumptive budget for 1866, was guided by the principle of the strictest economy, the ...

... The crowds who visited the Crystal Palace yes- i terday coulld hardly realise the fact that on theE previous day a great fire had destroyed a large and v-aluable p(rtiofl of the building unless they went up to the north end, and were permittedto peep r through the screen by the police. It will be re- E xllemlbered that this screen, or bed tick' as it was i contemptuously called, was loudly ...

... BANK OF ENGLAND VOLUNTEEBS. 're e; The presentation of prizes awarded by the Bank ng of England Rifle Association to the successful competitors et during the past year took place in the Bank Parlour on he the afternoon of the 2nd inst.; Captain J. P. CuRRiE, pre- a sident of the association and director of the Bank of Eng- he land, being inh e e chair; Mr. EL L. Holland, the gover- t nor of ...

... 4 ?? D'IEFENEB . ' - - , 7 ' 0i a )s j 1F THE DAY NMS. Ssn,-As it is very evident that at present the country will, neither adopt the conscription of Francee nor the Landwehr of Prussia, nor, in fact, any system of national defence that involves 'the absor~ption of a lage part of the population from the remunerative occupations of civil life for any considerable length of time, it becomes a ...

... THENOERTH S AFOSDS 1RE COLLIERY I The deposition of evidence in the case of the North Staffordshire Colliery Explos'on having been virtu- ally comnmpleted, we are enabled to arrive at a tolerably cor- rect judgment asi to the origin of the calamity-the existence of a dangerous accumulation of gas and the igni- tion of the deadly compound. It appears, then, that the explosion took place in what ...

... Mr. Walpole, Secretary of State for the H -c Department, was waited upon yesterday by a deputya of the Harveian Society of London, Dr. Tyler Smith, - sident, to procure some legislation by which the cnn. ; infanticide might be lessened. Dr. DRYSDALE read the recommendations of the cm. mittee, the principal of which ?? the registran of all births should be compulsory. That all still-711 ...

... |THE LANOASTZE ELECTION CoMMISSION. | LANCASTER, THUoStDAY. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the existence of bribery and corrupt practices at elections for this borougholosed, their investigation yesterday. Very little evidence in addition to that contained in our yester- day's parcel was given. ' George Storey, a painter and non-elector, said he received 51. from Mr. 'Isaac ...

... -MR. SEELY, M.P., AND HIS CONST-ITUENTS. I A public inec~tilig, convened by the Lincoln Liberal Association, was held on Wednesday evening ini the Theatre, to hear addresses fromt the city ucosbers. Mr, Heneage, MI'.1, wasB the first to snake his appearance on tho platform, Winl he was received with considerable cheering, aL few hisses )provoking another and more hearty round of app1limse. ...

... TBE SUNDAY QUESTION. Yesterday afternoon a conference, called together bythe council of the National Sunday League, was opened at St. Martin's-hall, to consider the grounds of differ- ence of those who advocate and those who oppose the opening of the national museums and educational institu- tions on Sunday. Among the clergymen and gentlemen who had been invited to attend ?? Ebury Bight Hon ...

... I , (FROM OUR OWN COBRBEsrONDENT.) t [A portion of the following appeared in our Evening I Edition of yesterday:] a PARIS, TUESDAY EVESING. c I remember telling you some weeks ago that the c Emperor, overuling the Board of Censorship, had a decided that M. Ponsard's new play Galiiee (the x English for which is Galileo) should be played at a the Thgdtre Frangais. I dare say that paragraphs 1 ...

... ''' !; C st xz, DRURY LANE, TInq EVENING, JOHN BULL. Mr. Phelps, Messrs. Svin- bourne, E Phelps, and Barrett: Me.lnniei 1I Vezin, Isabel Adln.s, & H.Vand2enhfifE- AfldUOiS NIP: OR, BARIE. QUIN AND THE GNOME KING OF TiJ E GIANT MOUNTAIN. HAYMARRET. TmIs EVENING, A LESSON FOR LIFE. Messrs. Sothern, Rogers, Clark, Comptoli, &c.; Mrs. CliMIpODsdale, Misses Hill, 'Wright, &c. -And THE SERIOUS FAMIL ...