Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1877-03-10 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

TWENTY-SIX SHEEP KILLED BY A Titairr.—On Friday morning, the 6.80 train from Elgin, while proceeding down the steep incline not far from Rothes, ran into a number of sheep which had wandered on to the railway, and killed and mangled 26 of them. The engine-driver observed the sheep, but he was too near them to atop in time to save them. The great cafe of Venioe--Florian's, on the piazza of St. Mark—has never been olosed,, night or day, for one hundred and fifty years. i• ".........ewr sun ruzs.—Sore Throats,  JiLJ .t, , ' rn the House of Commons on Monday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to Mr. McLaren, said he ?id not see, l.'s way _torestoring, even to the 1. mited extent of sending blue-books by Membqrs, the privileges of Franking to Members Of the House. In reply to a question, Mr. Cross deened to lay the report 'before the House under rh* the sentence of the convicted murderer Treadaway- lad been co nmu ed, as such a cottfgriiits contrary to the usual practise; and Mr. Hardy explained the circumstances under which Captain Napier had been promoted.. Sir Chas. Legard drew attention to the remarks of Lord Coleridge, in seii'.encing three poachers at Durham, when, in re:asing the costs of the prosecution, be was reported to have said that " as the law protected the acausemente of the rich they must pay for , its enforcement. Mr. Cross disclaimed, on behalf of the Government, any jprindietion in the matter, read a letter from -Lord Coleridge defending his remarks, and stating, in conclukon "I do not consider that I am accountable for my acts to any member of the House of Commons." Sir Charles gave notice that at idle earliest opportunity he should again call attention to the subject and move a resolution. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that Captain Tyler had not accepted the Chairmanship of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, and would not be permitted ,to hold that office and retain his present appomtment as Inspector of Railways under the Board of Trade. The House then went into Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates. .• of Lords on Tuesday night, notic.e.. that r  lOTtrie  LCSS 4).Erirpffirl • • Eatlywo Thowalag isorsiag. an explosion of fire‘ damp tbolel pleat; -.lA.l'..epeter New Pit'," tear Swansea, worked iht 'll6;landore (Scimen's) Steel Company, by which praptibl7 twenty men lost the' lives. The number of tan who went down on Thursday -morning is not craw:day ,mown, the iovirthan beini *hong the 1-" led. About seven o'clo3k a terrible explosion was heard allover the district, and $3l ()miming party which•immediately• went down foundlhat the disaster had occurred in the great slant, where the naafi had been much damaged, and all the men 'working there had succunibed to theatick.desap. Sixteen bodies were brought up, and conveyed 410 the:-cottagss, most o thein being those of rriarrle4 men. Theiexplorers • laboured unceasingly to recover the bodies 0/six others who were(believed to be in the pit,' but rif to Thursday-evenA unsuccessfully, he men in the other worleuge escaped un'iurt. The pit is a comparatively new one, having been worked for about five years on'imaad(ialie explosion caused greater consternation asnu as the distsict has for many years 144 Arse fire-damp. The cause of the calamity iii_not known, as-those whose duty it wasi,o,examinertlisi Workings 'n the marring are dead, but thertiiiii. Tfotal.'mWrhyrobabillty inlhe -.amour that the - flannel fair at Llasigaiellach on Tnesdny and Wednesday had affected the sobiietiPillaiiii iltlePPeor fellows who lost their 11:ites. "or is only fifty but some of the vidil '''nglimaeatend to a great dlstanoe underground. Every nee was afforded by the managers of neiglibilittr% mines. .:71ii" titligs of Forest Fa& is a Scene of desolation. •  ALARMING Wilidifii,