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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2879, 8 May 1878, Page 2

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(The Times, Maech 15),

Another meeting in favour of peace was to have been held on Sunday in Hyde Park under the auspices of the Hon. Auberon Herbert and Mr J3radkiu»h, but all attempts at speech-making were useless, owing to the irruption of hostile crowds. The deaths have been announced of Admiral Sir C. Eden. Sir W. Gibson

Craig, fornie.ly M.P for Edinburgh and lately Lord Clerk .Register of Scotland, and of Sir James Carter, late Chief Justice of New Brunswick. Two dreadful expiosic.is in coal-mines have occurred—oje on Friday at Kilsyth, near Glasgow, where 16 Jives were lost, and the other at Unity Brook Colliery, near Bolton, causing the death of 41 men and boys. , A barge laden with lead, moored to the Admiralty Pier, Woolwich, sank during i Friday night, and two men who were j sleeping on board were drowned. j Two men were suffocated by foul air in : a beer vat at a Manchester brewery. |i Harry Jiowles, son of a farmer, was i convicted at the 1 Oxford Assizes, of the [wilful murder of Mary Allen, a young women to whom he was engaged. Evidence was given tending to prove insanity, and the jury recommended the prisoner to mercy; A steam boiler exploded at a blanket factory at Dewabury on Wednesday, killing two persons »nd saverely injuring four others.

(The Times, makoh 22.)

The Liberal " Five Hundred" of Greenwich have appealed to Mr Gladstone to reconsider his determination not to offer himself for re-elefctffin by that constituency, and that gentleman' has consented to receive a deputation tomorrow.

Mr W. S. GoreLangton has been returned M.P. for Mid-Somerset, and Mr Philip Miles M.P. lor East Somerset, no opposition being .offered in either instance.

Mr Johnson, M.P., has been appointed an Inspector of Fisheries in Ireland, thereby vacating his seat for Belfast.

The Earl of Ravensworth died suddenly on Tuesday, aged 81-.' He is succeeded by his son, Lord Eslington, whose elevation to the peerage causes a vacancy in the representation of South Northumberland. '

The Earl of Hardwicke, Master of the Buck hound?, was thrown while hunting on Tuesday, and received severe, but it is hoped not dangerous, injuries.

The Rev. J. H. Dodwell was tried on Friday for shooting at the Master of the Rolls. The jury were of opinion that the pistol was not loaded with ball, and that the accused was insane..

St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in London and other English towns by the Irish population. In Dublin a demonstration was made in commemoration of Robert Emmett, but the assemblage was not great. There was some ricibg at Derry and at Portadown, but without any very serious results.. Extensive purchases of horses £;r trrny purposes have been made, and ;~o continuing. Four privates in the Fasilier Guards, stationed at Aldershot, have been committed for trir.l upon a charge of highway robbery.

Eight ladies, donors of £5Cf) each, have, under a new regulation, been admitted as Governors of Christ's Hospital. Two lads were killed by an explosion in a coal pit near Aberdare. A meeting was held at Edinburgh on Monday to protest 'against the re-estab-lish men t of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland, as an infringement of the Queen's prerogative and contrary to the terms of the Unions . . -■;,

The London stonemasons' strike is at an end, the Union authorising its,members to accept work at the former rate of wages. ' "-