... . I I E _ -S rt , 1-:- , SAD ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday week all accident of a fearful kind eccurred on the Carnforth and Lancaster line. It appears that the fireman of the mid-day up-train had been entrusted with a letter connected with the business of the railway, and, on nearing Carnforth, by some accident this letter was blown away. It was whirled into the air, and the peor man had some idea ...

... MIETROPOLITAN, PROVINCIAL, AND CONTINENTAL I ?? METROPOLITAlL A SIOAE5PEARi FANCY BALL.-A fancy ball is contemplated, under high and favourable auspices, to aid the Shakspeare Fund, which is still minus. The ball in aid of Scott's monument realised 1,2001. or 1,4001. ; and when we imagine how brilliant such an entertainment would be in Shaksperian characters and costumes, we cannot doubt, at ...

... ;ootorript. SATURDAY, JArUARY 1, 1848. Lord John Russell, in reply to an address from the clergy of Bedford, approving of the appointment of Dr Hampden, has stated-in direct contradiction to the assertion of Dean Mere- wether in the Cathedral Church of Hereford-that the Arch- bishop of Canterbury did not oppose Dr Hampden's appointment. Lord John's words are: Some time before I recommended ...

... EsnRCTrONS.-We16.-On Monday Mr Hayter, the recently-ap- pointed Judge Advocate-General, was re-elected nember for this city, xwitlhout ?? election took place on Monday. There being no other candidate besides the Earl of Shelburne, who vacated the seat by accepting a lordship of the Treasury, the noble lord was ?? Thursday week Mr .II M. Curteis, the son of the late member, was returned without ...

... Voluminous instructions have been issued to the various parishes and unions. The election of guardians is in future to take place between the 15th and 20th of larch, and the polling papers are to commence being cast up on the 9th of April and succeeding days, while the first meet- ing is not to take place until after the 15th of April. In all cases where the permanent pauper obtains medical ...

... FRANCE. THE KING'S SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE CHAmBENs.-The session of the French Chambers was opened on Tuesday by King Louis-Philippe, in the following speech:- 'Gentlemen, Pecrs,and Deputies,-I am happy on finding myself again among you not to have any more to deplore the calamities which the high price of provisions has inflicted on our country. France has endured them with a courage ...

... --5L ?? ' 1 ML_ __ - I .. .1 , . I Do l0IPDEN'8 APPOINTMENT.-The principal events this week in onnoxion with the appointment of Dr Hampders to the see of Here- ford, hase been a renewed protest on the part of Dean Merewether, d the elecion of the bishop. The protest was published on Monday in the form of a letter to Lord J. Russell, in which the Dean sets forth the reasons which have induced ...

... I I A PREDICTION BY DANTON.-A singular anecdote is told o? the Due de Chartres, now the King of the French, which can hardly have been published without the warranty of that high personage. Some business having brought him from Dumouriez's army to Paris soon after the massacres of September, Danton sent for him, and informed him that he had heard that he ventured in conversation to speak too ...

... l I f might give a short hint to an impartial writer, it would be to tell him his fate. if be resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiasoed truth, let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fia upon him with the iron hands of the law ; if lie tells themn of virtues, when they have any, then the mob ...

... INFLUENCE OF FEAR IN CHOLERA.- To the Editor of the 'EXAMINER.' -SeR,-If you consider the following observations on cholera worthy a place in your valuable journal, perhaps you will give them insertion. If we contrast the course which this dreadful disease is now pursuing, in its threatened approach towards England, with its progress in 1S82, it seems by no means improbable that we may be ...

... Tuesday, December 28. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, December 27. Royal Artillery: Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants-C. E. Walcott, vice Phillips, promoted; G. Burtchaell, vice Gobdy, promoted; G. Davis, vice Greene, promoted; E. G. Bredin, vice Miller, promoted; W. J. Bolton, vice Barry, promoted; G. B. Traherne, vice Orme, protnoted ; S. G. Batchellor, vice Cotemb' promoted; H. T. 3tiddleton, ...

... GLASGOW ATi-ENEE1i SOIREE. The first Soiree, commemorative of the opening of this useful institution, took place on Tuesday nightlin the City Hall. This in- stitution was opened in October last, on the same principle as similar institutions throughout the country. The success attending it since its commencement has beenall that the most sanguine could desire; and now numbers between 1,800 and ...