... HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY. At the Newcastle assizes on Saturday, before Lord Chief Justice Bovill, Mr. Donaldson, mining engineer, brought an action against the Blyth and Tyne Rail- way Company, to recover compensation for injuries which he sustained by a collision which took place near the Backworth railway station, at the junction of the Morpeth and Tynemouth branches, and ...

... FORESTERS' FESTIVAL.—On Saturday the members of Court Loyal Britons celebrated their anniversary at the Hanbury Arms inn. They had a procession, which was headed by the brilliant brass ban(I of the 2nd Mon. Rifles of Abersychan, under the leadership of Mr J. Burt, bandmaster. Ahaut fcarteen .member^ r«rfe oa horseback, dressed in the costume of the order. They proceeded to Abersychac, and ...

... Wen furst from Oireland heer I cum, The Welsh names druv me crazy, But now I've larnt them all, by gum, An' shure they're moighty aizy. There's CODE o' GltEEK, the thruth to spake, It cums so nate an' pat in, That if it wasn't Welsh, I'd take The wurds fur raal Latin. Sum stares to find the name of Jones As commun as Welsh ponies is, But shure 'tis nathral Whales should have A bellyfull uv ...

... A Cabinet Council w is hoi 1 on S'i'nr lay at the official residence of theEnrl of Derby, Downing-street. 'lhe receipts by the Royal Agricultural Society, at their meeting at Bury St. Edmunds, have amounted to £ 4,160 against £ '0,267 at Plymouth in 1865. Earl Beauchamp has been appointed to the Under- Secretaryshinof the Home Office, vacate 1 by the Earl of Belmore, on his appointment to be ...

... THE WIFE MURDER IN SOMERSET. On Mondav, the Corouer tor East Somerset beHau inquest at Woolvorton, ou the bo ly of Mary Britton. who was murdered by her husband. Intense ev.ciie- ment prevailed in Fromeand surrounding district. A crowd assembled in front of the police station, where the prisoner had been locke 1 up; and all along tha road to Woolverton persons ranafteftho lly in which the ...

... The Globe announces tlJat the isit of the Suitan to Western Europe Will have one beneficial etfect, and probably the one mOot hoped for in connection with his journey to France and Eng1an(1. The condition of the Christians iu his dominions is to lIe improved, and beyond this it is alleged that improvements in the administration of the Empire, and a manber of sanitary reforms are to be ...

... At Worcester assizcs Alfred Frederick Compere and Eliza Compere have hen indicted for maliciously set. tmg- fire to a certain mill on the 5th of December, 1866, at Blockley, with intent to defraud the Royal Insur- ance Company. In a second count they were charged with committing the same offence with intent to de- fraud one Isaac Stanley. It appeared from the opening speech of Powell Tor the ...

... Passing through Weovoe OA SA7 V°WER> prised to hear the old CHURCH ?RDAY ^AST, WE were sur- bom—bup, bup—bim, BOM • A J NGING OUT BIM, they were ringing in honour NFTV,°N E0(lUIRJ FOUND THAT Jenner, Esq., with Miss JON WEEDING of Algernon two sound specimens, and A CF8' U C°osist of not with ropes, but by STR;I,;„,AC, ODEJ and are rung, hammer. THEM with some sort of The Rev. Charles Jenner ...

... EPAMINBNDAS, THEMISTOCLES. AND PERICLES. X LordvC«rns in the classical allusion kl & 011 the Reform Bill was com- tha followmg IetteA^ffiS0 BUndS TO THB EDITOR OF THE TIMES. sad slip of Lord Cairns last night to make out that Epanunondas ruled Athens. He lived a little after my time, and was better known at Thebes than in Athenian circles. But are you quite right in your correction, when .u? ...

... 1n rebuilding a house in the village of Gex- ivr, the Courrier da Sas-Rhin, the workmen di=.ercd under one of the inner door-steps an earthern containing fifty-two gold coins and eighty-four nilver ones. They date back three centuries the former 'are thinner than our present gold pieces, and the latter ure about the size of the old six-franc piece. A thousand francs has been offered for this ...

... IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, &c. In London, last week, a sensation of grid, which it is almost impossible to describe, was occasioned by the sudden death of the wife of Musurus Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador during the festivities at the India House Musurus Pasha was informed that Madame Musurus was taken somewhat ill. He imme- diately left, first making known to the Sultan his ob- ject in so ...

... The committee of the House of Lords have decided against the creation of pre-preference stocks. This virtually puts an end to several financial schemes before Parlia- ment. The example of the Brighton directors will have to be followed by other embarrassed companies. Present necessities must be met by the issue of additional ordinary stock, or liabilities must be diminished by the instalments ...