... DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT I . . . - READING, I A serious accident has occurred on the Reigate and Reading branch of the London and South-entern Railway. The lives of five human beings have already been sacrificed1 and there are fears lest that number should be exceeied, as not fewer than seven others are suffering from injuries more or less severe. Though the immediate cause of the accident ...

... (14om an e-rztraorainary London Gazette,) WAR JJEPAUTUMZNT, Sept. 22. Mojor the Honourable Leicester Curzon arrived this morning, with a despatch from General Simpson to Lord Parnmure, of which the following is a copy:- ?? SEBASTOPOL, Sept, 9. MIy Loan,-l had the honour to apprise your lord- ship in my despatch of the 4th inst., that the on-ineer aud artillery oficaers of the Allied armies had ...

... NEWCASTLIE, IMPROVEMENT ACT; 1855. Printed topies i tbis bill have just reached the bands of the Council; and it may be uveful to present the rsdter , Phi n ab-tract thervof. Oftthe lees impor- tant elauree we give the marginal notes, and inetrt tbe others in full. The preamble recie tle et it would be of tublie and local advantnge to form now, and imprcve existing streets and thoroughfires ...

... THE FLIGHT OF THE RUSSIANTS ACROSS THE HARBOUR. Marshal Pelissier counted upon a certain victory, but a victory for which many days more of sanguinary com- bat would be needed. In ordinary conflicts this would not have been the case; but the Russians, who have oc- casionally shown the most signal disregard for the cus- toms of warfare, might be expeted to violate them in defending the ...

... WAR DEPARTMENT, Sept. 10.-Lord Parnmure has received a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his lordship by General Simpson:- Before Sebastopol, Aug. 28. lly Lord,-Since the attempt of the enemy to force the passege of the Tchernayn, on the 16th inst., no movement of aggression has taken place; but all the accounts I have received tend to show a ...

... W - 1.o -nils. - -- - TJMtES.-The presentation of an address from the in- habitants of MIelbourno has given Lord PIrmerston an opportunity of making those remarks on politiesi affairs which the late triumph at Sebastopol invites. But it is to the Premier's declaration as to his future policy that the public will attach the highest importance. Hespeaks of final succes, and intimates that the ...

... INVESTITUAE UP ' OMAR PASHA WITHI I THE ORDER OF THE BATH. LORD 6TIRATFORD'S ADDRESS. It has already been mentioned that the investiture of Omar Pasha with the Grand Crors of the Bath was per- formed with much ceremony on the 11th at the official residence of the English Ambaesador at Pera. Lord Stratford delivered the following address on the coca- eion:- OnOar Loutfi Paaher,-I am ...

... An adjourned meeting of the council was held on Wednesday, the illayorpresiding. 'i he Tow; CLERKtC read the report of the Gateshead Quay Improvetoret Committee, from which it aplpered that the committee, under the direction of the council, bad aocertajied the piice of the site of Messrs Wilson's weorstcd mnnufactory, acd recommended that it ba ac- cepted. Te'lliy 080 bad had interviews with ...

... The ceremony of catting the first sod of the Silloth Railway was performed at Drumburgh on Friday list, by Sir James Graham, Bart. The new line is to join the Poit Carlisle Railway at Drumburgh, andi to rmu to a point on the coast of the Solway Frith, called S lloth Bay, a distance of nine mil a and a half. At two o'clock a train of 16 carriages starlel from the Carlisle terminus of the Poi t ...

... |Tie first Question (says the Times) which prsents itself to our consideration, after we have given utterance to those feelings of exultation and of gratitude which the glorious termination of the siege of Sebastopol ex- cites at this moment throughout the empire, relates to the military ensi quences of this victory, and to the strategical measures best calculated to bring the earn- paignand ...

... Opinicns are divided (syva the correspondent of the Vienes, writing Irom the camp before 6ebastopol, on the 2O;h ult.) as to the plan of attack that wiil.,be observed. Somie thinj that without puebirg their works beyond the point at which they have now arrived, the Fiench will give the assault; and a report is prevalent ia our camp that a B3ritioh division (the light, it is rumoured) will ...

... TRNNSMISSION OF THE COURANT BY I POST, I The attention of our readoer is directed to one of the requirements of the Newspaper Stamp Amendment Act, as to tho transmission of stamped newspapers by post. The red stamp, or distinctive die, on the corner of the sheet, hitherto used, and bearing the words Newcastle Courant Newspaper, will, in future, be retained only on such part of our ...