... ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE BLACK- WALL RAILWAY. On Thursday afternoon an inquiry was instituted bv order of the directors respecting a serious accident which took place on the previous evening at the Lon. don Dock branch junction of the Blaokwall Railway, and placed the lives of a number of passengers iu con. siderable peril. It appears that the train from Broad. street station, and due m ...

... An inquest was held at Hawkhurst, Kent, on Saturday, on the bodies of a gentleman named Durrant and his wife. It appears that for Bevera1 weeks symptoms of a deranged mind, and a female attendant had been engaged to look after her. On F?2 exn™LeAen n°-\ing: f.0r ttr6e da?s, Mrs. DuJrant expressed her ™sh to have a glass of sherry and an vf f it ,ber 'or a moment to order he egOI but the moment ...

... „ ^S0 one week, daring which no fatal cholera in'winaf persona have died of Asiatic its during the last, the third, week of Iff w ^township. On Monday, John Oilier, Then followed'Ellen Thom^LeVil than 12 hours; William Soro^fn „ also ill 12 hcj, succumbed to an attack of 11 > *rouon, George Dunning who wasat^Ck cutSTLdge up to eight o clock on Friday evcmng, wal dfad at s!x °- £ Thi UtSe ...

... -Emigration.-The ship Prince of Wales, 1,451 tOllS, Captain J. Bippon, left Plymouth on Saturday, for Adelaide, with 52 married men, 54 married women, 144 single meB, 72 single women, 33 male children, 28 female children, Government emigrants, under the charge of Mr. T. S. Jou, surgeon superintendent, and Mies GlaByille, matron. The skips Strathnaver, pas- senger snip for Sydney, and Ida. ...

... SINGULAR CHARGE OF HOBSE- STEALING. James Allen and Thomas Dwyer, horse keepers, were charged, at the London Guildhall, on remand with stealing a horse, on the 20th ultimo, value j £ 1010a., belonging to Mr. James Meacoek, and also with receiving the said horse, well knowing it to have been stolen. Samuel Dohle, metropolitan police-constable 147 X, said that on the morning of the 21st June, he ...

... TWO YOUNG BEGINNERS IN CRIME. William Noakes, a respectable-looking youn^ man, aged 18, who was charged at the Maifylebone Police- cour, with his brother (not in custody), with stealing and receiving £ 278 in gold and notes, and cheques for .£20, was brought up at the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday. The facts are fresh in the recollection of the public. Information was given to Mr. Inspector ...

... Under Perisian on clits in the Court Journal is the following:— A marriage of a young avocat and a young lady of considerable attractions, including that of fortune, has just taken place, and is said to .have originated in a singular fashion. The young lady, fresh from boarding- school, is said to have occupied herself by mystifying the persons who went along the somewhat secluded street of ...

... The Prince de Conde, son of the Dllc d'Aum&Je, was taken ill of typhus fever, and died at Sydney. ...

... (From the Law Times.) Mr. J. S. Mill has presented a petition from 1,500 ± ladies of Westminster praying for the admission of female householders to the suffrage, and he has given notice of a motion for the introduction into the Reform] Bill of a provision to that, effect. The announcement { has provoked a repetition of the storm of sorry jests by which shallow pates purchase an easy ...

... The Times military )rrespondent, writing from the head-quarters of thouisfcrian army, says: The army of the North has hrown its whole energy into one blow and failed. Stressful in Italy, contrary to all exoaciations, Austria as failed in Germany; what now remains ? Will Friice support the Italians, and Eussia strike a blow for tnaervatism ? Nothing more is possible here but to draw back the ...

... We insert notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, FREE OF CHARGE (except marriages containing the words No Cards, which are charged 2s. 6 d. each), and should, therefore, be obliged if the friends of the persons concerned, who icish such announce- ments to appear in our columns, would forward them direct to the Office, with full address attached. By these means greater accuracy of detail ...

... Suicide of a Solicitor at Manchester.—On Saturday morning a painful sensation was caused in Manchester by the announcement that Mr. Harrison Blair, a well-known solicitor, had committed suicide at his house in the Polygon, Ardwick, by shooting himself through the head. The deceased gentleman had become connected with some iron works, and it is rumoured that losses connected with these had ...