News in Brief
An illegal still, and tvvo hogshends of' wash in a state of fermentation, were tieizedon Ftiday in Chester. In theneig,hbourhood of S:annington. near MIorpeth, a fetv days ago, a' hawk made a dart amnongst a brood of young chickens, to take his tithe; but the heni seized him befare he couEl escape with Iis prey, and kept himi down until a boy ran to the spot aud captured hbui.- Colirle Jozertial. EXPLOSION or FIREx-DAMl'.,-OflC of thiose melatncholy accjdents occasioned by the explosion of ficc.damp occurred at the Old Church Pit Colliery, near Swansca, on Wednesday Jast, wherc~. by fourmen lost their lives, eighteen have been dreadruUy corclhed and Itcerated, and four htave reeived eotpound fractures - It ap- pcars that the colliets received strict orders fromn the agent not to ap proach a certain part of the pit; hut, disregardintg tb.ese in~uiCticns, the fPtaI result was8 aS above de,e4bed.