... GREAT YIRR AT WFILLINGAMI. On Thursday last, about 12 o'clock noon, the quiet village of Willinghan, in Cambridgeshire, was visited by one of the greatest calamities, perhaps the greatest, that I has been known in its neighbourhood for a very long period, t and the loss which accompanied it was enormous : the whole of the grain of every description (this year's produce), the hay.. straw, ...

... WBEC1 OFF TR. 4PH HERO.LR, AND LoBss OF 1IRC ?? LLFB. Particulars have been received respecting the lose of the Heroine on a reef about two miles trom Ronne, while on her passage from Greenock to Cronstsdit. Captain Brown etates that he came retued Fallerbo, Lightship on the afternoon of the 30th September with a fresh breeze from W.S.W. He set studding sails, and steered an E.S.E. course, ...

... I YHA GLOU7CESTER BLERCION COM &ISSION. GLOUCESTER, WEDISEsDAY. n On the opening of the court this morning, Mr. 52 B. Boughton, ironmonger, applied to the commissioners to ul be allowed publicly to contradict a statement which had been wi made that he had offered a man named Jeffs 650. to get up a a case of bribery against the liberal party. 0 George Welsh, a voter, proved that he received 52. ...

... IED12VBUi7GH, PERTB, ANDD U.DERAIL WA Y. I t The report to be presented to the half-yearly a general meeting of this company, to be held on the 9Lh inst., t states that a The half-year's revenus and expenditure accounts show a this general result: i ' Revenue: Receipts from passengers, horses, and car- l riaces, 36,7561. Is. ad.; rseeipts from merchandise, minerals, c and live stock, 47,4141 ...

... 1I NA V;AL: . D Jfj-ITAB Y. TZE GENBRAL. COXMMAING-IN-CHIEF AND - COAlftZl'D2tR4 OF 1iE'AlIENL5. The following confiidential circular memorandum has been addressed to general officers and to officers corn- mending regiments and depots: 1- . - HHorse Guards, S.W., Oct. 5. On the 19th July, 1853, a general order directed the attention of commanding officers to the necessity of having officers ...

... ENGLAND has lost another of those master minds which have led us on to the foremost place amongst nations, even in this remarkable age of social pro- gress. There are perhaps few events in the economy of an enterprising country like our own, more sug- gestive of reflection than the death of such men as BRUNNEL and STEPHENSON. What wonderful social benefits have the exertions of these two men ...

... ADMIRALTy, Nov. 26.-AProINTMENTs.-Chief Engineers C. H. Houghton (1864), to the Cumberland, for service in the Waterloo; W. S. gory (1853), to the Cum- berland, for service in the Irresistible; A. H. Miller (1859), to the Cumberland, for service in the Phaeton; T. H. Symons, to the Wellington, for service in the Jason; P. G. Lambeit, to the Wellington, for service in the Naroissus; W. Gill, ...

... NA VAL AND MILITARY. I ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 25.-ArIOINTMENTS.- raymastorrs G. Live (I'i S) to be secretary to l-ar Admiral Dacres; \V. H. Iichards (18531, to the Arrogan', 47, ;crew steam shiv, at Purtymouth; and It. Curgenven (1852), to the Fearl, 2 1 serew steam corvstte, at Portsmouth. Dldtseir Assistant J. T. Hoskjn, to tho Arrogaat. CHATHAM, AUGUST 25. Adme:a'ty orders have been received ...

... HAYMAREET. t PIrS EVEaNQO, WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS HEY ARE. Miss Amy SedQssilk.-THE RIFLE AND HOW I TO USE IT. Mir. Burkstone.-And tlALLOWE'EN. The Leclerceq. PDtll N OSS'S.t Tnis EVENING. IVY HALL. Messrs. II. Pland, Graham, H.£ Widiconebe.F.Matthbowsand ?? Mi'ssI. SamlBan'Mrs.: 0l.AYoung-nd a Drannatic Tableau of LOVE AND FORTUNE. t iss Louisa elieley and hli3 Carlotta Leolercq. ...

... I I . k e LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. t The screw steam-ship Nova Scotian, Captain Bor. e land, from Quebec on the 12th inst., arrived here ] this morning, bringing 143 passengers, including 53 soldiers. The Nova Scotian arrived off the Bell Buoy, at the mouth of the Mersey, at 8 o'clock yes- terday (Wednesday) morning, and was detained f there for 24 hours by dense fog. She was also de- ltained for ...

... LORD .BB0 UGHAIU IN W.EWOCASUE. Lord Brougham arrived at the central station, Newcastle, from Edinburgh, about two o'clock on Friday afternoon, His lordship was met at the station by a great concourse of gentlemen, and was loudly cheated upon istuin from the carriage. Among those present were Sir Ale. W Ridley, MP.., George Ridley, Eeq., ?? Mr. Joseph Cowen, sen., Mr. Cowen, jun., fr. W. ...

... O1DB B.ArIL WAY. The second meeting of proprietors in the above company was held yesterday, at the office, No. 8, 131 street; Sir MACDONALD STESPHNSON, u artan o company, in the Chair. The Secretary, Charles Taig, Esq., opened the business of the meeting by reading the RI port andstatement of accounts, an abstract of which hbsreo peared in the Daily .News. ll TheCHAIRMAN, while moving the ...