... An alarming accident occurred to an express train on Thursday night at Euxton curve, a few miles from Preston, whereby several passengers were, severely shaken and more or less injured. The express from London had, it appears, proceeded en its journey all right as far as Euxton, when at the basis of a heavy embankment, and while travelling at top speed, it ran into a bank engine. The collision ...

... j Double Suicide.—An kiqueatwas held on Tuesday | onthe bodies of Mr. Henry Matthews, farmer, of Colaton Raleigh, near Exeter, and one'of hia sons named Ellis. | The father committed suicide by drowning himself in | a stream about half a mile from his house on Monday. | Unhappy family differences, in which he had been j much abused and ill treated by his own sons, were con- sidered to have ...

... HINTS UPON GARDENING. KITCHEN GARDEN. —Get manure on to the plots that are to be sown or planted this month and next, and dig the ground over deeply, and leave rough. Level down the ridges of ground prepared last month, so as to be ready to sow and plant as soon as weather permits. Plant the main crop of potatoes where the ground is well drained at once, but on damp soils wait till next month. ...

... THE REFORM BILL. The following table, compiled from the Parlia- mestary volume of Electoral Eeturns, shows in column 2 the actual number of persons now entitled to vote at the borough elections of England and Wales, double entries deducted. On the one side of it is given the actual number of working men now on the register-i.e., mechanics, artisans, or other per- sons supporting themselves by ...

... John William Leigh, generally known as Captain Leigh, and described as a seaman, 27 years of age, was on Thursday morning tried in the Crown Court, at Lewes, before Lord Chief Justice Erie, for the wilful murder of Mrs. Harton, his sister-in-law, at Brighton, on the 1st of February last. Mr. Roupell and Mr. Hurst prosecuted, and Mr. Kemp defended the prisoner, who was apparently unmoved, and ...

... The Marquis Townshend and the Beggars. —Bridget Moran, 14, one of a family of most notorious beggars, was charged by the Marquis Townshend, at Marlborough-street, with begging about half-past eleven the previous night, in the Haymarket. He spoke to her, and told her the history of a girl who had been charged with a similar offence at Bow-street, and been rescued from a life of misery, in the ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. In the House of Commons, on Wednesday, Sir Colman O'LcUen moved the second reading of the Juries in Criminal Cases Bill, which, he said, proposed to give the judge the power of discharging juries in cases where the Court adjourned. It also gives the judge the power of ordering refreshment to juries after they retired to con- sider their verdict, which, according to the ...

... Movements of the Troops. Consequent on the existing agitation in Ireland, several important changes in the quartering of the troops at Aldershot have taken or are about to take place. The 14th (King s Own) Hussars have moved to Hounslow, and the 74th Highlanders to Dover. The 92nd Highlanders and the 31st Regiment are under orders to move to Ireland, the former on the 1st and the latter on the ...

... Grants to the Royal Family. The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed on Friday dotations for the Princess Helena on her marriage, and Prince Alfred, who has attained his majority, though he has not yet, according to custom, been created a peer. The grant to the princess is a dowry of £ 30,000, and an annuity of J36,000 a year—to com- mence from her marriage; and to the prince of £ 15,000 a ...

... THE REFORM EILL. OF 1831-2. The system of Parliamentary representation may be traced as fa.r back as the 13th century, .in the times of Henry III. and Edward I., both of whom, in their struggles with the feudal barons, endeavoured to ob- tain the sanction of the people when their measures were opposed by those powerful chieftains. Ic. this small way arose the English House of Commons, now the ...

... A letter in the Morning 8tar, dated from Cork, and signed S cont&ina the following in reference to Captain M.'Cafl'erty, who is now engaged with O'Mahony in keeping up the Fenian delusion in America:— A certain Captain M'Cafferty, who had been one of Morgan's guerillas in the late American war, was thrown out of employment by the cessation .of hostili- ties. The history of that famous band ...

... STBANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF A MOTHER, AND CHILD, On Saturday Mr. Payne, City coroner, held an in- quiry at the Rose Tavern, Thames-street, touching the death of Louisa Bryan, aged 35 years, who wa,8 sup-, posed to have destroyed her own life and that of her infant child by leaping into the Thames. Hannah Brydges, 14, Goodge-street, Tottenham- court-road, said that the deceased was her sister, and ...