... Yesterday, a conference of delegates, represent- ing the different colliery districts of the United Kingdom in which branches of the Amalgamated Association of Miners have been established, was opened in the Public Hall, tinder the chairmanship of the president, Air. Thomas Halliday, of Farn- worth. There were twelve delegates present from the Wigan district, seven from Farnworth and Kersley, ...

... SUIPER-REGULATION PRICE!S. Ta-:- proposal of Mr. Cardwell to absorb the com- missions of the superabunclant ensigns and pay the lieutenants for the loss of their regulation money seemed at first sight to many a fair and equitable adjustment of a difficulty ; and the Secretary of WN ar himself was clearly under the impression that in doing this he was acting generously towairds the subalterns ...

... IlE ONEIDA AND THE' BOMBAY. WE lN the news came fiomn America that the captain of the o'ombay, after running down the Oneida, had calmly pursued his course, leaving the crew of the sinking ship to perish, wc at once expressed a conti- dent belief that the story would prove to be untrue. Indignation at the Britisher is a favourite pastime in the United States; and that an American ship of war ...

... SPAI N. SAN SEiMASTIAN, J1ia;v,/h 4. I havc a good piece of news to givc )'ou to-day. An im]provement-a real ?? ghlim- crnu in the dark space of futurity. As yet it is vagfuc alid indistinct, but I havc no doubt that ere 1Ig itwill assume a tangible shape. This imiprove- mnent is no less than the total reorganization of thc Spanish police. WVC are no longer to see satires of policemen, but ...