Vrouiurial.
In compliance with a suggestion contained in a letter from the Lord Chief Baron, a committee is in course of formation for the purpose of collecting a fund for the erection, in Trinity College, Cambridge, of a statue of the late Lord Macaulay.
Three thousand pounds have been collected chiefly from men of letters and their friends, in aid of the memorial church of George Herbert, the poet, at Bemerton. About 1000/. are still needed to complete the work.
The Hallam subscription has reached 1000/. The time has therefore come when the form of memorial may be considered.
A sand cave: at Reigate fell in on Wednesday. Several cottages 'stood above it, and parts of them fell into the chasm. Ten cottages hang over the void. No one was injured, but several were taken from the windows, the staircases having disappeared.
Two children were playing on the Cwnbargoed Railway, one of the lines used to convey minerals. A train of trucks approached without alarming them. Mary Ellis, a young woman, saw their danger, and screamed an alarm. They did not move. The girl then dashed to the rescue, but falling on the rails was knocked over, and so severely hurt that she soon died. The two children were killed.
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