... BRISTOLV AND EXETER RAILWAY.. Til half-yearly meeting of'proprietors of this company was:held on Thursday, at the White Lion 'htel; Broad- street, J. W. Buller, Esq., ohairman of the Bord, o Directors, presiding. REOT- EEPORT.: The Sseretaryj.12.BADOSAN, Esq,, read the report~which stated that thegros trafficreceps upon terisetol and Exeter railway from the lot of January to the 1011 et~ ...

... The following general orders have been issued with a view to improving the diet of the troops serving in the East: Varna, Julyj 19, 1851, Bowel complaints belig prevalent, as is usual at this season of the year, an Id the officers of the medical depayt- ment being of opinion that some improvement of the.ration might be beneficial, the Commander of the Forces has been pleased to authorise, as ...

... SUSSEX, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1854. I0 - ?? n l t ?? On Monday evening last a special meeting of the Town Council at Chichester was held Mfr. Alderman Gruggn, in the absene of the Mayor, presided. The object of the meeting was to consider the best means of :atrovuding an asylum for pauper lunatics, The subject had been discussed at a recent meeting, and the Town Clerk had been requested to ...

... TRIAL OF TE NEW:GUNBOA-T.-EXTRA.- ORDINARY RESUTS. e Some experiments were made on Tuesday afternoon, in the presence of the Queen and a large number of dis- tirluis ed and official personages, to test the qualities of one of the new screw gun-boats that have been recently built for the Baltic, and of the famous gun on Laneas. ter's principle, from which so long a range is to be got with a ...

... I (From the Belfast Mercury.) The late nefarious attempt at abduction on the part of Mr. Carden reminds us of a ease somewhat similar, but attended with more melancholy results, which oc- curred in the north of Ireland 93 years ago. We refer to the case of John M'Naghten, Esq., who was executed on the 15th of December, 1761, for the murder of Miss Knox. We have been at some pains to ascertain ...

... . I I 1 I . - I , IN our Supplemient will be found a report of a lecture delivered in Leeds on Monday last, by the r1Ev. F. D. MAURICE, lecturer at Lincoln's Inn, and late s Professor of Divinity in King's College, London, II On the application of Co-operation to Industry and to 3 Education. Those who are acquainted with this l gentleman's personal history and writings know that he is an able ...

... BOCLESIAST1CAL. APPOINTMENTS. Tho Rev. Joseph B. Owen, M.A., vicar of St. Mary's, Bil- ston, Staffordshire, has been appointed to the ministry of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, London, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Rev. T. Nolan, M.A., to the vicarage of Acton, Cheshire. The Very Rev. Dean Jeraryyn, incumbent of the Episcopal Chapel in Forres, has been eppointed Archdeacon of St. ...

... THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THB CIOYDON STAtiOY. ?i Several days will pass over before the whole extent of in- jury done to the passeengers by the ezouraion train Cosat met with the serious accident at the Croydon station. cast be 3r asoertained, and no doubt there are A numl:oer of per- nat 'one at present suffaring from their wounds and injuries of Sie, whmneither the rajilcay company nor ?? ...

... TALKIN TARN BEMATTA ?? _h_ On Thursday and Friday In last weeL, this aquatic gai. Ing, which annuall iconvert the secluded little lake at I h foot of Talkin Fell into scen obtlng activity, tO PL under distinguilshd patronago Snce the meeting Wau An established, it has t'eacly been assuming a more populii . , stable charaoter. Ibis success has not been a little pro_ by the great interest which ...

... The following are copies of the correspondence and notes' recently exchanged between the British and Austrian governments on the Eastern question:- THE EAL OF CLAI=NDON TO THE EARLi OF WEST- MOBELAIWD. Foreign-office, July 22, 185A. - My Lord,-I have to acknowledge the receipt, this day, of vour lordship's telegraphic despatch, by which her ma- jesty's government learn that Prussia has ...

... CRVISE=OFF SEBASTOPOL. The following ininute and graphic description of the late reconnaisance of Sebastopol by Sir G. Birowne, General Canrobert, and the officers of the steam-sloop Fury, will be read with much interest. It is contaibed in a letter to his relatives in Dublin from an Irish officer serving in that vessel:- cruAug. 1,t18o4-fHer Mamesty's ship Fury, Basdjik. My dear -,-On the ...

... - COMMITTEE HEALTHI COMMITTEE. d The weekly meeting was held on Tuesday last, at the It offices in Cornwallis-street. Present - Messrs. Dover t- (in the ohair), Juhnson, Gladstone, Beckwith, Moss, Hen- rr derson, Godfrey, Stewart, Bighaai. i Mr. Gladetone complained of the practice of the gas company in tearing up the pavement in the streets after it has been finished by the health committee. ...