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# Disasters on the English Coast. Reports of disasters to shipping by the recent heavy gales are beginning to come in. The bark Gorden Lorentezen, from Doboy for Dublin, arrived at St. Michaels, damaged. The bark Arvid, at Queenstown to-day from Baltimore is much damaged. Barks H. D. Brook-man, from New York, and Annie Worrall from Baltimore, at Liverpool, sustained considerable injury by the heavy gale. The ship Isles of the South, from San francisco, and the bark Duc Fatelli Colcago, from Galway, collided off Holyhead and both were damaged. # A Mob Attacks a Member of the New Brunswick Legislature. ST. JOHN, N. B., Jan. 26.-Yesterday at Caraquette, Gloucester county, about 100 French-men with guns and sticks, assembled to attack the residence of Hon. Robert Young, a member of the New Brunswick Legislature, obnoxious to them on account of his action in reference to the government school act. Young had his premises barricaded and armed inside. The mob after consultation retreated, threatening to return to day. The ring-leaders and eight others of the mob were arrested this morning. # MINOR TELEGRAMS. The Spanish have fired on a British vessel loaded with cable off the coast of Biscay. The Erie Railroad earnings last year were $18,598,000, and the expenses $18,584,000. No dividend was paid. Senator Britton was reseated in the Massachusetts Senate yesterday. The Senate has confirmed James A. Hall Collector at Waldoboro, Me. Mr. Hawkins has declined a seat on the bench of the English court of common pleas, and it will be tendered to Henry Colton. The English government has adopted a system of torpedoes for the defence of the harbors of Bermuda and Halifax. The Carlists have left the provinces of Biscay and Guipascoa and moved into Navarre, taking with them all their material of war. The army of the North has assumed the offensive against the Carlists. The small pox is raging all over the island of Cuba. Greenpoint harbor, Long Island, is closed by ice. The bark Marion, Dillion, from Hull for the United States, came in collision with the Livinia. The latter sunk and the former was slightly damaged. The crew of the Livinia were saved. The Hartford Courant insists upon the truth of its statement that Postmaster Sperry of New Haven, one of the directors of the defunct American National Life and Trust Company, was also one of the building committee that contracted with a firm of builders of which he is a member, to superintend the erection of the company's building at a commission of 10 per cent., which netted about $24,000. Charles G. Hager & Son, bankers of Watertown, New York, suspended yesterday morning. This, with the failure of George F. Paddock & Co., bankers, last week, created great excitement. The Kellogg opera troupe made the only successful opening of the season at the New York Academy of Music, Monday night. The express train up over the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, which left Concord at 9 o'clock Monday night, got stuck in a snow drift at Fogg's station, near Ashland, and remained until yesterday morning. An express freight train going up ran into the rear of the passenger train, but did no especial damage. A petition is circulating in Lowell for the reappointment of Conductor Blood, recently discharged from the B. & M. road on account of antipathy to the management on the gate matter. Episcopalian clergymen are holding a convention at Concord, N. H. Internal revenue receipts yesterday were $162,112. Pittsburg merchants have organized a Chamber of Commerce.
