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The Kossuth agitation has been followed by a meeting at Newcastle- upon-Tyne, carrying out the principles propounded by the Hungarian to their practical issues. About two thousand persons assembled on Wed- nesday in the Nelson Street Lecture-Rooms; and the Mayor presided. The Chief speakers were Mr. George Crawshay, Mr. Charles Attwood, and Mr. Woreell, a Pole. The gist of the orations was, that the war has been shamefully mismanaged, and conducted without principle or aim ; that the Ministers, for having allied this country with Austria, are utterly un- deserving of confidence—especially Lord Aberdeen—and ought to be impeached ; that England ought to rely upon Poland, Hungary, Italy, Georgia, and Cire,assia, and not upon Austria ; and that Sebastopol ought to have long ago been taken, with less loss than that occasioned by the cholera. These views were embodied in a memorial to the Queen, and formally adopted by the meeting. Thanks *ere conveyed, in a resolu- tion, to Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Clanricarde, for their speeches in Par- liament. Before the memorial was carried, a gentleman named Eglinton proposed an amendment, derisively pushing the arguments of the speak- ers to an absurd conclusion. He proposed, "that in order to carry on the war in a more effective manner, her Majesty's Ministers send out orders to Sir Charles Napier to take Cronstadt ; but that as it could not be done without a loss of six line-of-battle ships, requiring five thousand men to man those vessels, we, the undersigned, offer ourselves to her Majesty." Of course the meeting was enraged at this proposal, and re- jected it with groans and hisses.

The opening of the St. George's Hall at Liverpool now stands fixed for Monday the 18th September. The hall will be opened by the Mayor and Town-Council ; and an inaugural ceremony will be succeeded by the performance of Handers " Messiah" : on each of the two following mornings an oratorio will be performed, and on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, there will be a miscellaneous concert. Sir Henry Bishop will officiate as conductor.

Oxford is at present favoured with a "model" Mayor—Mr. R. J.

piers; who wins golden opinions by giving promenade concerts in the Town-hall, with exhibitions of paintings, photographs, microscopes, et- cetera; and when he has assembled a thousand people for these intellec- tual enjoyments, he generously provides them with material " refresh- mente." One night he receives the townsfolk, on another he welcomes one thousand of the school-children, and gives them a eoncert. Some thing like a Mayor !

The members of the " Institutinal Association of Lancashire and Cheshire" had a numerous gathering at Worsley, the seat of the Earl of Ellesmere, on Saturday, Prince Albert's birthday. The Prince has mani- fested a substantial interest in the Association by presents of books, and his special approval of the rotatory library circulated in the rural dis- tricts by the Association. After visiting the "old Hall," Mr. Nasmyth's foundery, and other local "lions," the company danced on the terrace until dark. Unfortunately, Lord Ellesmere was kept from the festivity by illness; but Lady Ellesmere, Lord Brackley, and other members of the family, looked in upon the throng.

The decayed port of Harwich, formerly much used as a point of de- parture for different places on the Continent, has now a chance of re- viving its former prosperity. After eighteen years' suspense, it is at length connected with London by rail. The line was opened on Wednes- day ; when a monster excursion-party of the proprietors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company went from London, feasted on the pier at Harwich, heard complimentary speeches, and took trips on the sea. If steamers should be placed on the line, voyagers might reach Rotterdam or Antwerp in eight or nine hours from Shoreditch terminus.

The Corporation of Liverpool propose to extend their dock accommoda- tion, by the purchase of land on the North shore of the Mersey from the Earl of Derby and Mr. John Shaw Leigh. The expenditure required is estimated at 3,000,000/.

The Somerset Central Railway, from the Highbridge station of the Bristol and Exeter Railway to Glastonbury, has been opened for traffic.

A public meeting at Croydon has resolved that a company shall be formed for the erection of baths for the use of the people.

The prejudice against the Milbank convicts at Dorchester, raised by a fear of cholera, is gradually subsiding ; and as tradesmen have received some good orders from the prison, the Government decision begins to be looked on as a boon.

A singular action for damages has been tried at Liverpool Assizes. Mr. Steel, a shipowner, proposed to send out emigrants to Australia in the Mil- tiadea, as well as freight- he received so much cargo that the ship drew sixteen feet six inches without the passengers' provisions. Captain Schomberg, the Government emigration-officer, declared that this was too much lading, and refused to allow the vessel to depart. Part of the cargo had to be taken out, and Mr. Steel sustained a loss of 10481.: this he sought to recover from Captain Schomberg. The defendant pleaded "Not guilty by statute." Mr. Knowles contended that the defendant was perfectly justified in the course he had pursued by the 26th section of the act, which empowered him to ob- ject to whatever endangered the safety of the ship and passengers; and that there could be no doubt that by a ship drawing too much water the safety of both the passengers and ship was endangered. The Judge assented to this view, and ruled that the defendant was entitled to a verdict under that section. Verdict accordingly ; with leave reserved to the plaintiff to move to enter a verdict for him ; the damages to be assessed, if necessary, by Mr. Hall, one of the Jury. Ensign Strayer, of the Engineers, has been fined 51. by the Rochester Ma- gistrates, for striking a woman whom he accosted in the streets at night.

A majority of the Magistrates sitting in Petty-Sessions at Hampton have decided that persons visiting Hampton Court from a distance on Sunday are "bone fide travellers," and may be supplied by publicans with necessary refreshments.

Mr. Charles Cox Hughes, keeper of the Clarendon Hotel at Leamington, has been committed for trial on two charges of rape. One of the alleged victims was a girl of fifteen, the other only thirteen. Sarah Hancox, a woman with whom Hughes lived, was accused of conspiring to assist him in his crime : she has escaped.

Mr. Robert Pickworth, of Swallow, has gallantly beaten three burglars. He was roused in the night by the noise they made in the house; armed with a bill-hook, he encountered the robbers, who had bludgeons : he got the best of the conflict, striking one of the burglars a blow which rendered him insensible ; the others retreated, carrying off their wounded companion.

Mrs. Palmer, wife of a County Court clerk, her little boy, and two servants —a lad and a girl—have been drowned in the river Yare at Yarmouth. They had been out in a row-boat, which the lad pulled, and were returning to the town ; the wind was high, and the lad seems to have been unable to control the boat, so that it got into the middle of the stream instead of keep- ing near the banks. Two men were running down the stream in a" wherry" —sailing at the rate of ten miles an hour : they did not notice Mrs. Palmer's boat till close upon it, when they called out to the lad to unship his oar ; he did not—the wherry struck it—and from the shock and the people in the boat rising in alarm, the boat was upset. Mrs. Palmer was got out alive, but soon died ; the others perished in the water. The Coroner's Jury gave a verdict of "Accidentally drowned," and absolved the wherrymen from blame, —apparently considering that the boy was incompetent to the management of the boat.

A little boy has been drowned at Waterloo, near Liverpool, by the incau- tiousness of two nursery-maids : when the tide was out they took a number of children on a rather high sandbank ; the tide rose, and they were sur- rounded; the women managed to run through the water with some of the . children, but left two behind. A man went to their aid, and brought both to land ; but one was dead.

The iron steamer Minerva has been lost at night on her voyage from Li- verpool to Cork : she struck on the Skerries rock, and speedily went down. Seventy people got on board a mail-steamer which was passing, and it is hoped that the rest landed in boats.

A fifth man has died from the effects of the explosion at Lund Hill Col- liery.

An engine-man has been killed at Mogan in Cornwall by the explosion of a boiler : he had allowed the boiler to be exhausted, and then suddenly turned on a fresh supply of water.

Mr. Insull, a plasterer at Worcester has committed suicide by lying down on the railway near the city as a train approached: his head was taken off.

Mr. Joseph Nevin' station-master at Stockton, has been killed there : he attempted to get onto the foot-board of a train which was entering the sta- tion, but he fell, and the carriages passed over him.

On the South Devon Railway, near Dawlish, apparently on a decline, eight waggons of a luggage-train broke away ; a porter noticed the accident, and exhibited a red lamp ; the driver saw this, and stopped his amputated train ; presently the eight waggons ran into it; two were smashed, and the driver was much bruised.

An immense iron girder bridge on the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway, near Birmingham, fell down last week, directly after a bal. last-train had passed over it. No one was hurt. The line was about to be opened for traffic.

All Souls College, Oxford, has had an escape. A candle having been left burning in a servant's room, the wainscot caught fire, and some damage was done.