A frightful explosion occurred in the Jarrow Colliery, near South
Shields, at tarci o'clock on Thursday morning. It happened in slow seam, where about ninety men and boys were at work; and it seems to be implied, (for the accounts skre indistinct) that all of them perished. Forty were killed by the " after" damp; 4,ut they appear to be included in the larger number. The pit's mouth was powded by men and women, wild with fear and grief.
A second edition of the Liverpool Mercury, published yesterday, reports that the sugar-warehouse of Messrs. Parry and Lightfoot, in Ellenborough Street, was destroyed by fire, on Thursday night. The flames also extended to another ware- house, leased by the same firm, in Wellington Street; which was greatly damaged. The aggregate loss is computed at 5,0001. or 6,0001.
At a Dublin Police-office, on Wednesday, a private soldier of the Sixty-seventh llegiment, now stationed at Portobello Barracks, was accused of being absent with- out leave. He was intoxicated at the time. He said that his name was Hill; that he was the son of a silversmith living near Temple Bar, in London; and that he was the long-sought murderer of Eliza Grimwood. Neat day, when sober, he ..adhored to this story. He was detained in custody.
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