... SHOCKING DEATH ON THE RAILWAY.—On the morning of Monday last, about twenty minutes past 4 o'clock, a platelayer named Thomas Lewis, engaged on the railway in this locality, was horrified at finding on the line, near where it passes the reformatory school, the body of a man quite dead, and partly resting on the rails of the up line. Lewis obtained assistance, and removed the body, which was ...

... Mr. Thomas Johnson, solicitor, of Grecian-chambers, Devereux-court, Strand, appeared at Bow-street, in answer to a summons charging him with having sold about sixty gallons of gin without having a spirit license, and with having delivered the same without a legal permit. Mr. Welsby, counsel to the Board of Inland Revenue, conducted the prosecution; and Mr. Daly, barrister, at- tended for the ...

... -FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER IN. THE BALTIC. Loss of Seven Lives. The Zealand, a fine screw steamer, of Hull, 700 tons register, was totally lost, with seven of her crew, in the Baltic Sea on the 11th Sept. During a storm one of the engines of the vessel broke down, and shottly afterwards the other; the latter in its fall started one of the iron plates in the hull, and the steamer com- menced ...

... Chrysanthemums will soon be beginning to occupy attention; let them be tied out so as to display their blossoms to the best advantage, and, where too thick, thin out the buds. Protecting materials had also better be got ready for such plants as require to be covered up in winter where dry fern can be had it answers the purpose perfectly. If the weather sets in wet, choice sorts of hollyhocks ...

... A Disastrous Voyage—The British ship Earl of Derby. Captain Grayson, 1,047 tons burden, with a crew consisting of thirty-four men, built at Quebec in 1851, and formerly in the Liverpool and Quebec trade, after undergoing extensive repairs sailed from the river Clyde on the 27ttt November last for Meloourne, with a large and valuable cargo, including 79,550 pounds of gunpowder shipped at ...

... A curious case came before the Divorce Court last week, which was a suit instituted by Mdlle. Victoire Balfe, daughter of M. Balfe, the eminent composer, against Sir John Crampton, formerly English minister at St. Petersburg, for dissolution of her marriage with Sir John, which took place at the chapel of the embassy in the year 1861, on the ground that the marriage had not been consummated, ...

... SWALLOWING A THREEPENNY PIECE. A young man, about nineteen years of age, was lately admitted into the Wolverhampton Hospital- suffering from the effects of a threepenny piece, which. he had accidentally swallowed. It appears the cause of the accident was as follows :—While walking along- the street, having the threepenny piece in his hand, he. for some reason or other placed the coin in his ...

... At the meeting of the executive committee of the Central Relief Fund, held on Monday, the report of Mr. Farnall showed that 5,822 fewer persons were receiving parochial relief on the 23rd ult. than were on the previous week. There was an increase on the number at three places only-the Fylde, Glos- sop, and Warrington, but the increase amounted only to thirty, so that the favourable nature of ...

... THE NEWS BUDGET. A Highlander in Paris.—The Parisians who were loitering on the Boulevards the other evening were exceedingly amused at seeing a man in full Highland costume stalking solemnly along. He had gone over to seE the races, but never thought of dressing himself in costume but his own. The French are only familiar with the Highland dress in pictures, but they—unless in this country ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN ASSO- CIATION. The annuil gathering of the members ofthisassooation took place within the ruined walls of Llangibby Castle, on Wednesday last, at which upwards of one hundred of the gentry of the county were present. Among the company we observed Lord and Lady Tredegar, Sir George and Lady Walker, O Morgan, Esq. M. P., T Cordes, Joseph Latch,, EJ Phillips, and J ...

... An inquest has been held on the remains of the late Captain Julius Alex Sartoris, at his residence, Linden Castle, The Grove, Stillorgan, before Mr. J. L. Harty, county coroner, and a respectable jury. It appeared from the_ evidence that the deceased gentleman was about thirty-four years of age, and was a powerfully- built and fine-looking man. The deceased had been in the 16th Lancers, but ...

... THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT TO HALIFAX. Despite the deep and wide-diffused disappointment occasioned by the news that the Prince of Wales would take the journey to the North unaccompanied by the youthful Princess, Halifax was all alive with visitors. On Monday and Tuesday people poured into the town from every avenue, excursion trains ran from the neighbouring towns even on the Saturday ...