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A Frightful Mining Catastrophe Has Taken Place In...

colliery, disused for some time in consequence of a strike, was entered again by the miners-202 in number—last Monday. A shaft more than 300 feet deep caught fire at the bottom,......

The Approaching Church Congress, Which Takes Place During...

week of October, at Liverpool, ought to produce two or three discussions of the highest possible interest. One, which should certainly, if adequately discussed, go far towards......

Nothing Can Be Worse Than The Accounts From New Zealand,

both military and political. The last telegram, dated Adelaide, August 12, says that the rebellion is spreading, and great alarm prevails. The more detailed news received from......

M. De Montalembert, Who Is Supposed To Be Near His

end, has written a letter expressing the warmest sympathy with that memorial by the Treves Catholics against the supposed objects of the great (Ecumenical Council, the drift of......

There Has Been A Fresh Exposure This Week Of One

of the most shameful, because one of the most wanton, of our cruelties. A passenger in a Rotterdam and London steamboat gives a most horrible account of the cruelty inflicted on......

Mr. Bright, We Suppose, Never Expected To Be Asked To

defend free trade, twenty years and more after it had been successfully tried. But the fact is so. A few weak-kneed people in Lan- cashire have fallen into Protectionist......

The Only Scene Of Critical Change In Politics—of...

which. are likely to result in new political affinities— is at present Ireland. There, as we indicated last week, and have shown at length this week, the Roman Catholic Bishops......