... 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 ...

... The following, presented in pursuance of an address of the House of Lords, dated August 15, is a copy of so much of the Criminal Code of Malta, now transmitted and lying at the Colonial-office, to be laid before her Majesty for approval, as relates to the punishment to be infdicted for offenoes against the respect due to religion:- EXTRACT FRO'. THE CRIMINAL LAWS FOR THE ISLAND OF MALTA AND ...

... QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAe . The arrival of upwards of twenty vessels of the royal navy in this somewhat secluded naval station hbs made a great excitement amoun the inhabi- tants here. Such a spectacle was never before witnessed by the present generation. For once the I memory of the oldest inhabitant is at fault l and in seeking for anything approaching. to a parallel to the present naval ...

... .r ( L1FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONMiENT.] BERLIN, fSi. 17. The greater part of the population of Berlin, although accustomed to the concentration' of' iarge bodies of troops, flocked out yesterday to the viAi- nity of Lichtenberg, east fo..the city, to 'witnese the splendid military spectacle which' terminated the grand combined' manoluvres ?? and'certaiuly this spectacle fally repaid the trouble.' ...

... In an address delivered before the Royal Geographlicall Society, Colonel Chesney thua drew attention to the tcl~ula~r life-boat,invented kiy MrH.% Richardson. He said:1 fear that afcer the gigantic undertaiiings to which Mr.' Fairbiirni,in his opening address, drew, your attentioni the subject which I am about to bring before you, namely, the best means of* constructing an efficient life-bqat, ...

... [FROM THE GENERAL BOARD OF HIIALTI. WHITEHiALL.] Newcastle, Sept. 24:- Deaths. ?? 72 Diarrhoea ?? ?? ?? 6 Sept. 25 ?? ?? 4e ?? ?? ?? .. 1 Gateshead, Sept. 24:- Cholera ?? ?? . . .. . 14 Diarrhola ?? ?? 1 The total nmber of death& from cholera and diarrhlea at Newcastle during the present outbreak has been 1,187. In the same period (viz., the first 25 days) during the prevalence of epidemic ...

... - [FROM oua OWN CORB EPONDENT.] ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 20. For the last two days. much excitement has ex- isted amongst the Mercantile community here. On the 17th the intention, after eight days of consideration,'of the' Pacha' to prohibit for the pre sent the further' . exports ';ograin, was announced by Stefano Bey, the Minister: for Foreign Affairs, who had been sent down from Cairo for that pur ...

... TEE MORNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: JJ'JDAY, SEPTEMMBER 23, 1853. From a telegraphic despatch which we publish elsewhere, we gather that a judicious attempt had been made by Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE to ef- feet a pacific solution of the Eastern difficulty. At his instance, new conferences had taken place, and it had been decided that the representatives of the mediating Powers at Constantinople ...

... . , . ; I PREFERIMENTS AND APPOINTr5ENTS, The Bishop of Exeter [lss instituted tile Rev. R. E. Buck, M.A., rector of Bideford, Devonshire, to the rectory of St. Dominick, Cornwall, vice the Rev. Francis Ley Bazeley, Ml.A., the late rector, who has exabanged preferment wilL Mr. Buck. The Bishop of Oxford has licensed the Rev. John Hughes, M.A., to the incumbency of Loageot, near Sirivenham, ...

... 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. ...

... THA CROPS IN SCOYLAND. l. - [FROX T99 DNORTEI BRITISH AORICULTURIST.] We have been furnished with a series of reports on the state of the crops in the different counties of Seotlaud. These are upon the wholeo more favourable than private in- formation had led us to believe; this,'remark applies more particularly to the potato crop. There can be no doubt that this plant has been more vigorous ...

... QUEENSTOWN, MONDAY. It has been finally determined, on the authority of the Lords of the Admiralty themselves, that there is to be no review; and farther, that the fleet is to leave Queenstown by daybreak on Wednesday morning, not to return. This unwelcome piece of intelligence has been very reluctantly re- ceived by the good people of Cork and Queens- tewn; and even the Cork papers, published ...