... WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS ?— Mr M. Ennor writes thus to the Mining Journal :-There is nothing strange or mysterious in these occurrences, for as the mines get deep such large spaces are opened that there is a waut of a sufficient current of air to keep pace with them. Large and deep mines will continue to ex- plode, until men will not be found to work in them. If the tide once ...

... TYDEE PF-THESDA BAPTIST CAPEL --On evening, t e 25.h ul> the Rev. !j. D Eiarirds, the muoh ret- peeted minister of the abo»t-n aued chapel d;- ivtred It most telling address on th- ! ...

... TUESDAY—Before J. M. HERBERT, Esq., Judge. There was a good deal of business before the court to-day, but the cases were hardly any of them of a nature calculated to interest the public, the vast majority being claims for beer scores. rril- lei 0 nf tho lUb 10 Adjourned causes 5 Be-isjued 1 New 266 Judgment Summonses 5 Total 277 Struck off 64 Total 213 Alsopp v. Jeffries, This is for pa/e ale, ...

... HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY. At the Newcastle assizes on Saturday, before Lord Chief Justice Bovill, Mr. Donaldson, mining engineer, brought an action against the Blyth and Tyne Rail- way Company, to recover compensation for injuries which he sustained by a collision which took place near the Backworth railway station, at the junction of the Morpeth and Tynemouth branches, and ...

... Further correspondence appeared in the London journals on Monday morning between the Bishop of Salisbury and his recalcitrant clergy on the subject of his lordship's recent charge. The Bishop, having re- ceived an indignant protest against the doctrines asserted by him, replies that, having asked for a patient and dutiful consideration of his views, he did not expect that they would have been ...

... An inquiry has been held in London by Dr. Lan- kester at University College Hospital, relative to the death of Florence Lennox, aged nine, while under the influence of chloroform, administered for the purpose of performing an operation on the eye for the cure of squinting. Sarah Lennox, widow of a gardener, of Burling-on-tlie-IIill, Okeham, Rutlandshire, identified the body of her daughter, ...

... It will be seen from our Parliamentary intelligence that the Government have decided to recommend her Majesty to commute the sentence upon Burke, the Fenian, whose execution was fixed for last Wednesday, the 29th. Public feeling was being strongly manifested in favour of this step not only in Ireland, but in Lon- don and the provinces. A large annual gathering of Quakers from all parts of the ...

... RITUALISM. The following reply from his Grace the Archbishop of York has been received in answer to a memorial, adopted and numerously signed at a public meeting recently held at Birkenhead, by lay members of the Church of England, to protest against the practices and innovations of the Ritualists :— (Copy.) Bishopthorpe, York, May 15. Gentlemen,—I have to thank you sincerely for the memo- ...

... A letter from Faenza, dated 27th August, states that the robberies, violence, and assassinations were daily on the increase. On the 24th, between Faenza and Forli, more than twelve highway robberies took place on the same day above thirty persons were also robbed of all they had between Faenza and Brisigheila. The authorities asked for a reinforcement of gendarmerie, but none were sent and the ...

... Some statistics which have lately been published of bush ran,'ing in New South Wales during the last few years show to what an extent this institution has grown in that colony. Since the month of June, 1864, a period of three years, eleven members of the police have been shot dead by bushrangers, and sixteen wounded by firearms in attempts to capture them. Fifteen other persons have also been ...

... The Lords Justices have before them a case of great im- portance to the charitable institutions in London. By seve- ral wills and codicils made in the French language in 1855 and 1856, Lord Henry Seymour gave all his residuary estate, amounting to upwards of £100,OUO. to les hospices de Paris et Lmdres. The Master of the Rolls decided in 1865 that the true meaning of the word hospices was ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Raphael, which sailed in the end of August from Nagasaki for Shanghai, has not since been heard of. Since the closing of the Paris Exhibition the receipts of the theatres most frequented in the French capital have fallen about 6,000 francs nightly to _,500 francs. The Pope is about to bestow a special mark of honour on the Pontificals and French who ...