... A serious disaster, which there is every reason to believe was the produce of an atrocious and wicked mind, occurred on Saturday morning on the Cale- donian Railway, about a mile and a half to the north of Larberb station. A North British goods train, consisting of twenty-four waggons, left Stir- ling about fonr o'clock for Larbert, and had pro. ceeded all sight till nearly opposite Torwood, ...

... D | The condition of the Mierchant-Seaman does not often appear as a public topic. Per- haps this may arise from that peculiarity of human nature which leads us to treat our greatest necessities with indifference. Perhaps the sailors frequent absence from sight is one of the reasons why his comforts and well-being are so generally out of mind. However this may be, it is certain that whilst the ...

... -INF1RMARY CEARITY BALL - - LAST week the annual Charity Ball in aid of the funds the Hull General Infirmary. was hold at the Public Rooms, Jarratt-street. About 160 persons were present, but in Ipoint of numbers presentt the ball was not equal to some of those which-'have preceded: it. In other respects it passed of most satisfactosily. Mr, Acey's quadrille band 'was in attendance, and layed ...

... While the congrogation worshipping at St. Matthias's, Stoke Newington, were leaving on Sunday night, an attempt was made to assault a party of gentlemen who were mistaken for Mr. Brett, one of the churchwardens, and some of his friends. Owing to the disturbances which have recently taken place, a body of police were on duty on Sunday, and the admirable conduct of a party of officers alone ...

... I A4ENGAGEMEINT IN THE PAPAL STATES. I The correspondent of the Standard writing on the 'Ith says :-A most brilliant little fait d'armes Ehas occuirred; and its importance must in no way be ,measured by thenumbers engaged, as its chief value Ilies in the moral effect it has produced in Rome on the revolutionary classes, and in giving renewed cokirage and self-reliance to the Pontifical army. ...

... AND EAST RIDING TIMES. REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE FOX TRANSMISSION ABROAD. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1867. - THE Fenian movement has assumed an en- tirely new phase. A contenmt of possibili- ties which have become facts has been followed by adread of contingencies hopelessly remote: the public after having despised Fesiiuizism is now absurdly fearing it. The wildest ru- mours are ...

... I ?? ?? WORKHOT~sI~g ~-LItA s- I #HGITSWRW-ES~- BB.- suc a o.ravw on ne'troatpnut ot uh a8 d6id hltvasti~ation brought ?? 'meItoen oiin,- ?? ritnwpssbet g na~f@ edffldiitie~ fi qiyprd ove so 4 gu:s~tinh 2~ia or~, ~tgIitne fdn ~ ?? dtion'lr astohem-now:. 3flrmhy hre- hci.'stadteiof things is'dn maimn (Spebr~'1866); he'foun'd allthe'`worst i: Cdefet's d6f-,pbrei nyrli;ing iunthewards :LSeeing ...

... I -, PIMMU.pyRTY COKr1TTEE. The usual for nightly meeting of this committee ti was held at ?? on Monday; Aldermnan C1 Bannister in the chair. The Chairman reported f that he had let the premises occupied by Mr. B. ru Halliday, ale and porter merchant, to Messrs. 1 Wright and Thelwall. The following letter was 0 read ?? t Treasury Chambers, 12th Sept., 1867. V SIR,-With reference to the return ...

... -f ! - i -Mr- Gladstone and Mr. Cbadwel were entertained at dinner on Saturday evening by the Political E Economy Society of'Paris. Upwards of ii huhthIM sat down Long before the hour fixed for the ebher, ! says the Times' Paris correspondent, the saloon of the Grand 'Hotel was filled. At half-past seven Ir. Glad- stone, with Mr. Cardwell and the nephew of the latter gentleman, made hog ...

... I, . I On Monday, the committee appointed on the motion , of Mr. Richardson, to inquire and report as to the propriety of establishinq a free library in Hull, met r or the first time at the Town-hall. In the absence of -Mr. Richardson, Ald. Gresham was voted to the chair on that occasion. Ald. Gresham moved, and Mr. Bellamy seconded, a proposition to the effect that Mr. t Richardson be ...

... I N S--- RS I M.IANHOODU SUFF PRAGE, AND ITS RESULSt2. An American correspondent, in his letter to a contemporary, describes the results of nianhood suffrage in the United States. Good English people, he says, who read with amazement of the extraordinary performances of our popular House, must loot suppose that our Congresemen are the true representatives of the better class of our people. ...

... FRANCE. The Eastern question is again reviving. The King of the Greeks is stated to have addressed from St. Petersburg, where he is now staying, to She cabinets of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, an explicit and detailed memorial relative to the existing subjects of dissension between Greece and the Porte. The Etendard of Tuesday says :-Private letters geceived here from Rournania state it to be ...