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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 206, 31 August 1871, Page 2

Abolition op Fairs. — An Act of Parliament has just been passed to amend the law relating to fairs io England and Wales. It recites that certain of the fairs held in England and Wales are unnecessary, and are the causes of grievous immorality and are very injurious to the inhabitants of the towns in which such fairs are held, and it is, therefore, expedient to make provisions to facilitate the abolition of such fairs, j The. Secretary --of State may* on representation of magistrates with the consent of the owner, order' fairs to be abolished,, notice of the representation and of jthe r oi;de^ qf , the. Secre'terjiof State .to be published in the newspapers. •>;; : ; A mieacu^oVs, and providential escape of some miners, is, -reported ; ,to/|have taken place recently, Vat, Old. -Packer's Point, Upper Sbotovexv 'It appe^ts l thit r; ,Th.|>toas and his two inate'tf were Working in their tunnel claim,. and had? driven into the hill a' distance of some forty fe'et. A't about twenty minutes to twelve o'clock they-found that- their 45an«llei •'were done, in consequence of which they knocked oft work and went to dinnen They had no sooner got out of the drive than they ■were surprised by the sadden fall of about 200 tons of earth, so that, by the mere aqcident of having no more candle, they were saved from a oertaia terrible death.

Sunday. — In our most secret thoughts, in the bosom of our families, and in the circle of our associates, let us uniformly call the Sabbath a delight. Let us not consider it, and let us not be thought to view it as a day of privations, but as a day of enjoyments. Let us not regard it, and let us not be thought to regard it as a day of dulness, marked in our recollections and anticipation by a melancholy blank^ but as a day of cheerfulness, enlivened by its own peculiar pleasures. Let not the aspect of seriousness degenerate. into._ repulsive austirity, or forbid the hope of the lighting up of the countenance by the smile of benignity. Let not the " sunshine of the soul '* be on that joyous day obscured by a darksome cloud; nor let it be possible ' for any to imagine that the Sabbath is ' hallowed by a sense of duty, without i? being welcomed as a day of gladness.— Bubder. ■. - .\ For remainder of news see fourth page.

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Rifles are being daily discovered in the cellars, churches, and catacombs in Paris. The Chinese Government are busily preparing for war. Forts are being erected, and guns imported. The British Anti-Tobacco Society. —The 18th annual meeting of this society was held on Monday evening at Exeterhall, Dr. C. Drysdale, of the Metropolitan Free Hospital, in the chair. — The report for the past year dwelt upon the ravages made by the useof tobacbo on the physical and mental constitutions, and affirmed that sufficient was known, of the " consulting-ropm " to justify ine" assertion that but for smoking, the applications of the male sex for medical advice would be like angles' visits — few - and far between. The inhalers of the fumes of tobacco were, daily sacrificing the inestimable blessingVof health, and manifesto^ by ttieirt conduct, thiat sensual ; gratification w:as .their . paramount "Hferobjeot. The, Society (hadjearned from Versailles that ; an; infusion of tobacco- was ; discovered in brandy at Fort /Issyt-; Jirid it l! was! added totthisfiad tlj^e; d&sg£ (^^%;^^n^ifafe^ ' Di? : f sKiw> iroidejßomeintetes^:. injg microscopical investigations on the bipod of the smoker, end oradd the'sentiment that t sraoking, retarded j.tha process a -;,^ - ■"'■.■ • '■ u