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Ws park , in King's county , the other clay , was struck by a falling tree , and seriously injured . According to fche latesb accounts from Parsonstown , his lordship was " progressing favourably . " Pongwern Casfcle , the seat of Lord ifosfcyn , was discovered to be on fire in the course of Friday night . Every effort was made to extinguish the flames , but the stately pile was nearly consumed , ancl with ifc some splendid pictures , and some valuable antiquarian records . The agitation among colliers for

an advance of wages continues to spread . The men employed at the Oaks colliery—one of the largest eolleries in South Yorkshire—have " struck" for an increase of 10 per cent . The masters firmly decline to accede to this demand , and the members of the district Colliery Proprietors' Association are said to hold to the opinion that , if the Oaks miners persist in refusing to return to their work , a lock out will be unavoidable . News has been received afc Lloyd's of the Golden Agea

, vessel belonging to tho Black Ball line of clipper ships , having gone ashore in the neighbourhood of Dtrigeness , in the snowstorm of Friday last . The crew were saved , but ifc is feared fche vessel will go to pieces on the beach . Intelligence has been received of the abandonment at sea of the ship John Linn , which was on her voyage home from Madras to Liverpool , with a cargo valued at £ 150 , 000 . It is hoped the vessel may yet be recovered , as the cargo was of a nature to keep her afloat .

A shocking affair has occurred near Shipston-ou-Stour , in Warwickshire . Ifc seems that on Thursday night a labourer , named Clifton , was challenged by a gamekeeper as he was crossing some fields . He declined to turn back as ordered , and a scuffle took place . The gamekeeper , after some time , got away from his opponent , and , raising his gun , shot him dead . The gamekeeper has been committed on the capital charge . A shocking murder was committed afc Liverpool on Friday night . Two men ,

one a sailor , another of no settled occupation , bore each other a grudge , on account of a dissolute woman , with whom fchey were both acquainted . They met on Friday night and had a quarrel , when the sailor was stabbed in several places by the other man and he died almost immediately . Tho murderer is in custody . A railway accident of a ra'dier serious nature took place on Saturday night afc a place called Chorlton , near Kidderminster . The engine of a goods train broke down on the line . It was understood that the guard of the train went

back to deposit fog signals ; bat if he did fchey were unheeded , for an express train coming up soon afterwards dashed right into the middle of the goods carriages . Tlie passengers were severely shaken and cut , and so were the railway servants on tbe train , but no lives were lost . Tbe property destroyed was considerable . Tho coroner's inquiry into a reccifc accident on the Gothland incline of the North-Eastern Railway , by which two passengers were killed , has resulted in a special verdict , by which the

company is censured . On this part of the North-Eastern Railway the trains are worked by a wire rope ; and evidence was given to show that the rope had . been overworn , and that to this circumstance the calamity was due . The verdict of tho jury was ono accidental death , bub , it was added , that the rope was " insufficient for the pewposes ofthe incline . " . An old gentlemen of the name of Ilankin died on the 26 th of last November . He had lodged in the house of a Mrs . Read , who

buried him on fcheSSfch , and this and other circumstances having excited suspicion the body was exhumed , when it was found that he had been buried almost in a nude state , though his own relations hacl provided grave-clothes for him . Ifc was also admitted by Mrs . Jtead , in evidence , that she and her children had about £ 100 given to them by the deceased prior to his death , though she told the relatives that the deceased had no money . The contents ofthe deceased man's stomach wore

subjected to scientific analysis , but no trace of poison was discovered . The jury , therefore , returned a verdict of death from natural causes , expressing afc the same time their dissatisfaction with the conduct of Mrs . Read . Tlie five Elowery Land pirates left for execution were hanged at Netvgafce on Monday . A spectacle so horrible , and , happily , so rare , as fche simultaneous execution of five convicts , drew together , as might have been expected , an enormous mob of the vilest of the population

of London . Marcelliiio and Los Santos , two of the seven originally sentenced to death were reprieved . Two seamen , named Quinsey and M'Murdoch , arc in custody at Liverpool on a charge of piracy , whilst on a voyage from Matamoras to New York . They were apprehended in Liverpool under a warrant issued by Sir George Grey , in pursuance of the provisions of the extradition treaty . A large deputation of working men had an interview with Lord Palmerston , on the subject of throwing open the public museums and picture

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galleries after one o'clock on Sunday . The noble lord said he was personally in favour of granting the boon sought by the deputation , but the state of public opinion on the subject was such that he could hold out no promise that the Government would take fche matter up . He thought , however , that eventually their object would be attained . FOREIGN IOTELEIGEKCE . —Fighting has taken place between the Danes and Prussians near Duppel . With the view of making

an attack on that place the Prussians erected a bridge in order to pass over to the Braager peninsula . To frustrate this project a Danish iron-clad was dispatched to Egensund to destroy fche bridge . The Prussian batteries opened fire upon her , and after an hour's engagement the iron-clad retired . An official dispatch has been received at Copenhagen from Duppel , stating that on Thursday morning a large force of Ausfcro-Prussians attacked the whole line of Danish outpostsand after several

, hours' fighting succeeded in driving the Danes . to their entrenchments . The Danes , however , shortly after reoccupied all their former positions . Intelligence has also reached Copenhagen thafc the Germans have entered Jutland . The Austrian Government is said to have ordered a squadron of twelve vessels , including the two-decker Kaiser , to proceed from the Adriatic to the British Channel and North Sea for the purpose of protecting German merchantmen against fche Danish cruisers .

AITEEICA . —The Australasian arrived at Queensfcown , and has intelligence thafc the Federal prisoners of war confined at Richmond had laid a plot for a rising . They had contrived to concert measures with the Federal authorities , and General Butler had despached across the York River three brigades of infantry , four regiments of cavalry , and twelve guns , to aid them and favour their escape . Tins corps advanced to Bottom's Bridge , within a feu- miles of Richmond , but then retreated ,

as its advance and the prisoners' conspiracy seem to have been simultaneously discovered in Richmond . The plot and the approach of the Federal troops had naturally caused a panic in the Confederate capital ; and the Richmond journals asserted thafc the prisoners hacl conspired not only to release themselves and destroy the public buildings , but to assassinate President Davis . A strong body of Federals hacl crossed the Rapidan for the purpose of making a reeonnaisance , but had speedily

encountered the Confederates . Some severe skirmishing ensued , and after the Federals had lost about 200 or 300 men , they retired across the Rapidan . Southern reports stated thafc a Federal corps had crossed the Big Black River on the 5 fch inst ., and that Mobile was about to be attacked by 30 , 000 Federals . By fche arrival of the America we have news down to the 12 fch inst ., ancl we thus learn , among other matters , that General Sherman's whole force crossed tbe Black River with an eye to

a junction wifch a cavalry and infantry force—it is supposed to flank Johnston and Hardee in Alabama and Georgia ; that Admiral Porter is fitting out a formidable fleet on the Mississippi ; that the Halifax Admiralty Court has restored the Chesapeake and her cargo ; that a large steamer—ifc is nofe stated of what nation—has been fired on and sunk by the Federals in Charleston Harbour ; and that the Conscription Bill has passed Congress , including the compulsory drafting of

slaves , with compensation to their owners . IS - . —The intelligence brought by the Bombay mail is satisfactory . Tho new Viceroy , Sir John Lawrence , hacl received a hearty welcome afc Calcutta , and his appointment had given general satisfaction . The last of the rebel chiefs on the north-west frontier had made his submission , and peace now prevails throughout the British . Eastern dominions . The Alabama was cruising off Bombay , ancl hacl made several captures .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

BKO . GEORGE 31 . TWEDDELE . —We have given the necessary directions . He will hear from us in a few days . H . H . ( Jersey ) . —We did not receive the communication you allude to . BRO . BIEGEE , M . D . —We cannot publish anything which took place afc a lodge , without a proper introduction . We will return the speech if wished . J . J . ( Swansea ) . —In our opinion honorary members in no way

differ as regards privileges from ordinary members . If they do , the honour is gone . T . B . D . —Pastors' lectures have never been in print . We wish we could say tho same for other Masonic lectures .