be Vrobinces.
A numerous Anti-Defence meeting was held at Newcastle on Tuesday, under the presidency of the Mayor.
The inquest on Mr. Wa'Bingham. Hazen, at Dundry, terminated on Tuesday. Several witnesses added by their statements to the chain of circumstantial evi- dence implicating the nephews of the deceased as the assassins. The Jury re- turned a verdict of" Wilful murder" against them.
Three children having been left together in a room at Birmingham, a dispute arose about the division of some sweetmeats: Caroline Perry, a girl eight years old, said she would have the whole from Rosanna Morris, an older but weakly child, or she would burn her to ashes; and she did thrust her against the bars of the grate, with fatal effect. Such, before she died, was the story of the sufferer and her brother: but the Coroner's Jury ascribed the death of the child to her having "fallen into the fire while engaged in a struggle with Caroline Perry."
A fatal accident occurred on Sunday at the Birmingham station of the Midland &away, A. guard, who had not taken his place in time, attempted to get on to a carriage while the train was in motion: he slipped, fell under the wheels, and was horribly crushed.
An explosion of fire-damp in a coal-mine near Westbromwich has proved very fatal. Nearly thirty men descended in the morning to work; the explosion oc- curred soon after; six or seven of the colliers escaped into another pit, but the re- mainder suffered frightfully. As soon as it was practicable to descend the shaft, it was found that four men were dead; two more died next day; and others were not expected to recover.
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