... 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~ ...

... 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 ...

... the 31, On Friday. evening last, the 18th inst., the Church Choristers here were honoured by the Rev. Henry tv t Owen and Mrs. Owen with an invitation to supperM artat the Rectory, and they gladly availed themselves w of the great treat thus given to them. Ablout sc 01 6 o'clock, they were kindly received by 1' y gwr bia'r ale nenbren and his lady, at the lawn ill front of the b ra, house. ...

... 'J.1 !f ?? if the3 r- Reading-room and Library for RailwaY ~srvmnts.-Tlhe ten, w Is directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and E ast Lancashire cept o: Vs Railways bare subscribed 1007. towarids the formation of a naE ig reading-rooma and library for the servants employed at their o o, joint station at Salor.Cremc a, A Good Example.-The Soanth-Eastern Railway Company Court ig have, on ...

... IE EXPEDITIOXIjMy FOR1E. - To following is in extract from, the letter of a n'or-cor- missioned officer serving'in the expeditionary force now in the BEst-it is dated August 84d-nrId adds another testimony to the many already received, showing the sufferings and ?? the troops have to endure Those who think that the troops composing this much talked-sf expeditionary force can or do live on the ...

... ARMYAND NAVY PRIZE MO-VE Y. lok I I [FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETiE.I BY TILE QuEaN-A PROCLAMATION. a VICTORIA, R. sr Whereas by our Royal Proclamation bearing date the oh 29th day of Alarch, 1854, we have ordered and directed, that 015 the net proceeds of all prizes taken during the present war c;- nd with Russia, by any of our ships or vessels of war, after the .p- same shall have been to us ...

... BOARD OF GUARDS. r-e rl-n no at.ho, fl)*bhu,-n ?? was held on TID weekly meeting of the Blaekburn Guardians was new on Saturday, Richard Eccles, Esq,, in the chair. The following members of the board attended:-Messrs. Moses Cocker, Goo. Hawortb, Miles Baron, L. Bolton, J. Boyle, Robert Watson, Joe. Turnbull, T. Clough, James Fielding, T. E. Swift, Wm. Clark, W. R. Wood, George Ward, N. Walsb ...

... MEALTH OF LONDON. The weeltly report on the health of London, published by the lle- , strar..Gtneral, stntes that the nuober of deaths from all causes re- turne for the week tl-,at ended lnst Saturday, vas 1,833, that of the previous week vas 1,832. In the ten weeks corresr)ondin-, to last ?? of the years 1844-53 the average number was 1]113, which, if raisel in proportion to lincrease of ...

... -LA-tEST TNThELT~IGENOE, I . ?? . ?? ..I The' following, telegraphia communication has been re- 1 ceived from Vienna:- S Odessa, Aug. 15.-A band of Caucasian mountaineers, C commanded by a son of Schamnyl, have made a razzia into ti the province of Tiflis. They have sacked several places; h put some people to death, and carried off a general's wife h and a Princess Orbilian, her sister. The ...