Dart and Rogers, merchants, of Liverpool, failed on Bth January ; liabilities, £IOO,OOO. Henry George lectured at. St. James’ Hall, London, on 9ch January, on “Progress and Poveity.” Mr Henry Labouchere, M.P., presided. Messrs Michael Davitt and Henry Broadhurst, M.P., and the Rev. Stuart Head lam were on the platform. In the course of the lecture, Mr George said the struggle for equal rights in land must come in England, and was sure to come in America, It is said the Duke of Argylo intend* to write a reply to George’s book, “ Progress and Poverty,” Austin’s lace factory. Long Baton, near Nottingham, was burned on the Bth inst; loss £IOO,OOO. Coney Island, a great pleasure resort of the middle classes of New York, was almost com pletely inundated in a terrific gale on January 9. Nearly a million dollars’ worth of pro perty was swept away, A railway accident occurred at Toronto by the collision of a passenger car with a freight traiu. Tnirty persons were killed. The ac cident occurred in rounding a sharp curve. The boiler of the engine exploded and the bteani scalded the mangled and men. A fire then broke out, completing the sicken ing work of destruction. An Orangemen’s procession in Newfound land resulted ia a riot. Throe men were killed and several injured. The convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame, Ballevllle, Illinois, was burned on the night of January 6. Five nuns jumped from a fifth-storey window, and were killed. When the ruins had sufficiently cooled, volunteers commenced to bring out the bodies, A terrible sight was revealed. At times the searchers found two or three charred masses hu Idled close together, seemingly seeking protection against the flames. The deaths numbered twenty-seven, of which twenty«two were pupils and five sisters. The Superior’s body seemed to be the centre of a ghastly circle of black remains. The convent was patronised by Roman Catholic pupils from all parts of the country. The steamship City of Columbus, trading between Savannah and Boston, was wrecked on a reef off Gay Head, near New Bedford. More than a hundred lives were lost. The disaster occurred through the pilot fastening the wheel and going to the stack to warm him self. When he returned the ship bad veered and was amongst the rocks. IRISH AFFAIRS. Mr John Daley, M.P. for Cork, has sud denly resigned. 