SYDNEY,

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3886, 4 February 1870, Page 4

SYDNEY,

January 28 : The new Ministerial arrangetoent, under which the Hon. Charles Cowper, O.M.G., returns to office, has been the subjeet of a smart correspondence during the past week. Sir James Martin declares the course adopted to be "unconstitutional," and Mr. t/owper appeals to the letter of the law, and to the common sense of the people. A few days since, Mr. George Thompson, the postmaster of Murmungee, whilst riding towards the Ovens River, was suddenly thrown from a restless horse and killed. An eclipse of the moon occurred at Sydney during the night intervening between Monday arid Tuesday. The clearness of the night caused many deeply interesting circumstanoeB of the. phenomena to be readily perceptible. J r An experienced miner named William •tJereridge was accidentally killed, whilst at work in the New Lambton Pit, Newcastle, on the 12th instant. __ Several cases of coup de soleil have occurred in the Hunter River district. In most instances the parties soon recovered, but a man, named George Wells, of Greenwood, near Singleton, died, on the 12th instant, withm half-an-hour after he was struck. Mr. Gale, the aeronaut, prepared to make another ascent in the Domain, on Tuesday last. Unluckily, however, the balloon burst before it could be fully inflated. Awoman,namedMariaSarahLyon£arlow, was found dead m a house at Newtown, from apoplexy, on Saturday evening last. At a fire at Mr. T. P. Grant's station at -Beluga, on the 10th instant, a flock of 300 aaeep were burnt to death. The residence of Mr. John Hausen, near i Grenfell, was accidentally destroyed by iu-e on Tuesday last. At Sofala, last week, a nugget of gold, llooz. weight, was found by a man named Prosper. The Hon. John Robertson has resigned his seat in the Executive Council. A married woman, named Elizabeth Smith, poisoned heiself by taking arsenic on Tuesday last. She died on the 19th inst. The dead body of a young woman, named Margaret Boyce, was found floating in Darling Harbour, on Tuesday last. The cause of her death is still a subject of inquiry. A man, named George Quinlau, of Waterloo, died on Wednesday last from exhaustion, consequent upon intemperance.