There has been a good deal of disturbance at Ramsgate,
in conse- quence of the enforcement by the Magistrates of a local act, which prohibits fish and vegetables from being hawked about for sale. On Monday, nine persons, convicted of this offence, were fined each a shilling, and sentenced to terms of imprisonment, varying from eight to sixteen days. While the Magistrates were in session, the prisoners being confined in the same building, a great number of persons, chiefly women and fishermen, assembled ; and when it was attempted to take off the prisoners in a fish-van, they forced their way into the house, smashing the doors and windows, beating the policemen, and releasing the prisoners, who ran oft'. The mob then paraded the streets, hooting before the Commissioners' houses, and abusing the owners in gross language. On Tuesday, the prisoners who had got off were recaptured and conveyed to Sandwich Gaol. The Ramsgate mob became exas- perated ; and to the number of seven or eight hundred marched through the streets yelling at the Commissioners' houses. Meeting with no re- sistance, they smashed the windows and shutters of three houses. About twelve o'clock, the Coast Gwod were called out, and dispersed the rioters. A Jew, who owns a fiathgssmack, is said to be the principal instigator of these disorders,. • Z..
The Coroner's Jury which satin the corpses of the persons killed by the explosion in the St. Hilda Colliery, near South Shields, returned thus verdict —" Accidental death, with a special recommendation from the Jury that the practice of working coal-mines with candles be abandoned, and lamps be adopted in their stead, as, front the evidence taken at this inquest, it evidently appears that the explosion has been caused by the incaution of one of the men going with a lighted candle into what is termed the tenth board of the mine, which had been foul."
By a fire at Collumpton in Devonshire, on Sunday, one hundred and thirty-two houses and cottages were destroyed. One life only was lost.
On Sunday night, a very heavy hail-storm did much damage to con- servatories and skylights in different parts of the South of England, especially in Surry and Sussex. In Brighton, 5,000 panes of glass were broken ; and upwards of 3,000 panes in Lord Arden's green- houses in Surry. The hail was of an unusually large size ; some pieces being of an irregular shape and measuring flair or five inches in circumference. On the same evening, there was a good deal of light- ning and thunder.
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