... THE COLLISION ON T.HE GREA T -NORTRBR, RAIL WVA Y. A visit yesterday to the scene of the fearful collision which occurred on the preceding evening at the Hornsey station of the Great North-er Railway enables us to narrate with souse degree of.accuracy the whole of the attendant circumstances. The down express train leaves the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, at King's-cross, every ...

... RAIL WA YS. *KOBTH BETR1OPLITAV.'| SieX~rst' eherl aijeetiisiof ?? and sb-alreholders of~tlit~cv'cpay~ii which'htas-for its obkect':tlie bons'rwution I of a subterranean line of railway through the very heart and about the environs of London, was held yesterday at the board-goo*n4 7; Parliaroent-street, it pursu naida of',the act *O'arlihdnent recently passed to hncbrieate eto'ofany .rt ...

... To THEe EDITOR OF TEEB MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-Witbout intending for a momdent to cast a reflection on the Great Northern Railway management, which is gene- rally allowed to be as good as that of any other line in England, I cannot but express my opinion that if a guard (in commu. nication with the driver) had been placed at the back of the train, the fearful accident at Hornsey, on Wednesday ...

... MORNING CHRONICLE OFFICE, 7lsuursiay, 12, Noora. EXPIRESS FR'Om PARIS. LFrom O' owEON CORRESPONDENT.] PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Paris papers contain no news of the slightest interest to-day, oud.for once ven the discussion on, the Eastern question slumbers. The Moniteur publishes the return of the re- c~eipts of. the-customs duties and indirect taxes for last month, which amo~ut to 12,675 ...

... METi A.1fN COMMISSION OF -4 e 'sE . i , TRS. ¶liheetedpblitan Coimissioners of Sewers held a special court y&6sterday, at their principal office, Greek-street, Sobo, thIe. Wpion being the first mseeting of the commission since the passing of the last act of Parliament continuing its powers. The commissioners present were Mr. Richard Jebb (the chairman), Lieutenant-Colonel Dawson, Mr. Geo. ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON I AND NORT-.WSTERN RAILWAY. I P1EgTOmf, TumsDAY-An accident of a character fearful to contemplate, though providentially unattended with loss of life, occurred yesterday afternoon at the Buxton junction of the London and North-Western and Laacashire and York- shire Railways, situated about six miles from this town. The circumstances connected with the casualty ...

... LFROu OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] COPENEAGEN, SEPT. 1. Finland was not conquered by Russia; it was taken by surprise, without a declaration of war- seized by an army of execution, as a guarantee thbt Sweden would join the continental system against England. The excuse for entering the duchy had long been eagerly waited for, and had nothing to do with the real designs of Russia upon the coun- try. ...

... CANADA ABD THE BRITISH PROVINCES. BOSTON, Auc. 22.-We learn, by an arrivai froenGlou- eesterthat the American fishing schooner Starlight was' re- ceutly brought to by a shot from the British steamer De- vastation, and afterwards hoarded and taken into'Gaspe. This happened in Magdalena Bay. The schooner High. lander lhad also been previously seized by the same steamer, and afterwards released. ...

... The Unisrars publishes a long letter from M. M1a- resce, apostolic administrator 'of Nankin, datedl Shanghai, the, 8th June, giving ?? of persecti tions by the Chinese insurgents agailist the Romau Catholic Christians':- The insurgents arrived on the 8th March before the walls of thle town-of Nanicin, arid establibedit heir cap in a twenty-eight' divisione. Th~ey'dug mines under the walls S ...

... CONSULAR CONVENTION BETWEEN F, JIr-ANCJZ ANDiTIE UJViTED STATES. BY THE PRESIDENT OF TIlE UNITED STATES OF . AMERICA-A PROCLAMATION. Whiareas a consular convention between the United Slates of America and his Majesty tihe Emperor of the French was concluded and signed, in- this city, by their respective pie- nipotentiaries, on the 23d day of February last, which convention,, as amended by the ...

... LONDON: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1853. When the peace of Europe depends upon the construction which one Power may put upon a few words in a diplomatic note, those words are entitled to a careful and anxious examination. They may be trivial-they may be wholly unmean- ing. Nevertheless, the conspicuous position which they take in the field of European politics demands that they should be ...

... BIRBMINGHAAM BOROUGH GA oz. SEVENTH DAY'S INQUIRY. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY. The examination of Captain AMaconochie was resumed this morning. He stated, in answer to questions by Captain Wil- liams, that the boy Bedford was several times severely. Pu- nisboed during the time nO Wan gOTerFib?. le was sentenced to do 500 yards of mat platting, and in consequence of his doing only 35 in the prescribed ...