... ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY, The fast train fronm Leeds to Birmingham was thrown off the line yestorday afternoon, at Woodhouso Mlll, near Chesterfield, by running over a cow. When. George Stephenson was asked what would happen In the event of a train meeting a cow, he said it would be so much the worse for the cow, but in this case It was very near being as bad for the paseongoes as ...

... LATEST A ND TELEGRAJ'HIC NEWS. COMMEROIAL. LONONN, WRDES3DAY EvENea0. Thore has been really no business on the stock l exchange; and the market, being perfectly inani- mate, has shown downward tendencies, from which no reaction had been established up to the close. Very little support In given to prices by the opera- Vtona of the Government broker, as the public do met respond, and for the ...

... The Dunderbnrg has been purchased by the French Government from its builder, Mr. W. H. Webb, with the consent of the United States Government, and a description of her and her voyage from New York to Cherbourg is given by one of the voyagers. The Dun- derberg is a clipper, sea-going, wrought-iron fort, mounting 18 guns-four 15-inch and 14 11-mch. She was launched on the 22nd of July, 18&>. ...

... THE TRADE OF THE PORT.A correspondent en- closed us a few days since a reprint of some remarks that appeared in our journal, with criticisms thereon, by some anonymous scribbler. Tha Editor of the paper prudently declined to endorse the extraordinarily hyper- critical discoveries and quotations in italics. The defects referred to are, we readily admit, palpable in one or two instances. Our ...

... EXPERIMENTS WITH SAFETY LAMPS. The notice the experiments made at the Barnsley Gasworks last tending1 to shew that the best of lampa, including the- Genrdie/' were not to be depended upon, has caused ordinary amount of excitement throughout the South Yorkshire and other coal districts, and from all other parts of the country communications have been received by Mr. Hutchinson relative to them ...

... OXFORD LOOAL EXAMINATION. Long0 .The following are the names of the Senior candidates- who Tb isatsified the Bmatfsiners and obtained the title of Associate knig_ in rtsa and also satisfled the Examinreirsitb thmudimetsitof Yony Faith and Religion- Tb FRSTe DIVISiON. Webb,IR., Grammar S,, Monrmouthi MTaster, Rev. C.9 er Roberts. Tb Docker, S. H., rammarS,, Monmoeth; Rev.CQ W.Roberts, on NY ...

... BYSBOP COIENESO AND BISHOP TWLLS.- The following letter, dated: Durban,: Natal, 10th July, giving an account of occurrences in connexion with f Bishop Twell's visit to the diocese of Natal, appears in the e 'CapeArgus of July 18. The author, it will be seen, writes e ad a strongpartisan of Bishop Colenso: In my last I told you of the ruinours afloat about an intended invasion of this diocese ...

... LORD LYTTELTONAND THE INCREASE OF, THE, EPISCOPATE. ?? _ Lord Lyttelton writes on this subject toi the Guardian:- Sir,-I beg to be allowed, through your columns,tocalltheattention of churchmen tothefposi- tion in which the question of an increased episcopate has been left, on the failure, in its last stage, of the bill of the recent session on the subject. It is possible that, at an earlier ...

... I HN; C GHRS AT NISI PRUS. ?? (From tshe Solie0rs' Jourao.) t) -Much has been written lately about the function t of the judge in the trial of cases at Nisi Pius, and the ex- tent to which he ought to interfere in the examination of witnesses, and other details of the trial. These discussions , have been suggested by one or two' recent scenes, as i they are commonly called-anglies, quarrels ...

... The thirty-second ordinary half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the North and South Western Junc- tion Railway was held at the offices of the company, Euston Station, yesterday. Mr. H. TOOTAL, the chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, which we have already published, said it wars gratifying to know that the receipts from traffic for the last half-year siowed 7n increase of 329L. ...

... ICOCEA EMEfT OF SEX FOR FIFTEEN YEA1BS.| Aninvestigation of a very extraordinary character took place on Wednesday evening before Mr. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, at the Prince of Orange Tavern, Brewers-green, relative to the death of a woman unke own, the supposed illegitimate daughter of a Seotch nobleman, whose true sex was discovered while dying at a common lodging-house, No. 5, ...

... 0gabu aenr AM f.tarv. (FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZERTE.) ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 23. Lieutenant the Hon. John Brabazon Vivian to be com- mander in her Majesty's fleet; Sub-Lieutenants Robert Fredk. Ward, Archibald William Hamilton, and Lewis Anthony Beaumont, to be lieutenants in her Majesty's fleet. The following promotions have this day been made:-Mr. John Leeson, Mr. John Robert Harvey, Mr. Thomas ...