... THE EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE IN EDLNBURGH. 5EABTRTIDMG saO s AmN HAIR-BREADTH J a ESCAPES. Id The main facts connected with this sad catas-a trophe are exactly as our correspondent described P them yesterday; but the following account, which n we extract from the Scotsman, of the rescues which t were fortunately effected, will be perused with in- 0 terest- El Overhead, in the innumerable ...

... AUTOMATIM C OFY. In the ParisExhibition.is shown,.: in actiual ope- ration, an invention of particular interest just now. La cuisine eoutrnwtiqe ffiorvtgienne is anu apparatus composed ofa wooden box, lined and stuffed-with-a non-conducting material, and containing a tin cook- ing vessel, which exactly fits into the stuffed .aper- ture of the box. I The principle of the invention lies in the ...

... REMINISCENCES OF A NEE MONTHS' RESIDENCE IN BULtARI-A.P: V (By a Glasgow Engineer in t Week Hersd a -:4 t] (Conene!d. t DUBtXG the months of June and July, scarcely a E day passed without a great deal of thunder and b lightning. My location was then at Bowzen and Vetova, about 20 miles out of Rustohuk, in a fine o hill and dale district, the valleys being some 200 or v 300 feet deep, in one of ...

... FEA.RFtUL EXPLOSjIO IN EDINBURGI, FIVE LIVES LosT tjom om oW Correceo:set;) Yesterday an explosion, re ucitie1 's a ser and attended with melancholy 1055 > f ife C re in the Canongate of Edinburgh.S, 1f14 o'clock the neighbourhood was stortlul asoj- with the sound of an explosion, reeerablls1 simultaneous discharge of sevorso P ec-. o sth the reverbration being heard even Ca the the town. ...

... MO.NETARY REFORM. To the Editor of the Gluwgoso Herald. Ssr,-In Elackzscwd's Magazine for October there B is an article on Monetary Reform, which, from the X general ability with which its views are stated, is likely to attract considerable attention. The article a is by no means either commonplace or superficial; it shows that the author has devoted thought to the n subject, and its views ...

... FEMALE CONVICTPRISONS. There are three prisons ?? specially ap- propriated to female convicts, ande tuated respec, tively at ParkhurstFnflham. andB Rrixton. During the year 1866, ?? were received ordispased of at Parkhu at l2lof whom weretrabsferred 6 Mill. : bank, FutlhamI, or BrixtOn, 101 discharged, and 59 re- noved to the Eagle House and Carlisle Memorial Refuges. Sevendeathsoccurreid. ...

... - 7 ?? r A GLIMPSE AT THE HOTEL DES I.l : INVAJI-ES. : - - Every'sight-seeing visitor to Parismust eeds 'do theluvalides, underthedome ofwhichrepoe etheashes of, perhaps, the greatest man ,of his day or ge-he upon whom .the sun ofAusterlitz shade victorious -the First Napoldeon. Foumded and coipleted:by Louis the Fourteenth, this vast edifice for, neary two hundred years ?? shelter and ...

... ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AT LOUD WATER - About eight o'clock on Friday morning a dastardly attempt- at murder- wt--eommitted at-Loudwater, Bucks. A. police constable named4 iS imderstoody Deacon, keeper of the lock-up at Wycombe, in pur- suit of a ?? whose apprehension was 4esired, left- the latter place by the 8.5 LA. train, and arrived at the Loudwater station of the Aylesburry branch of the ...

... -, AY BEDULCOATION IN ,C OTLAN ?? thtCcroeh^ ) ., .;Elucatiofl cuinna- sirlo n. ii leil'; ?? isto the condition oi ti h eleme- l ?? -,!S SCotaIan, divided teiritinquiry ?? apponite two Assistant , 0 report upon t'he state of edu- . country districts, two to report 0 ?? . ;n .en as a samplze of the schools 'QUO 1n, :, r wtS, tld one to inquire into 8t I~eto uP .ud;t'on of the Western eF these ...

... FRIGHTFUL CONFLA4GRATIONIN NORTH : GRAY'S CLOSEA EDINBURGH. (-trom the Edinburgh Conrant.) On Thursday nightthe public of Edinburgh were again awfully startled by the outbreak of a fire in the densely crowded and populous group of houses between the lower part of the High Street and Physic Garden and between Carrubber's and Chal- mer' Closes. At 10 minutes after 10 o'clock a great I blaze was ...

... tREAMENT (F [ENAICT -Although the 'trhatment, of the ?? hiss so greatly mprovedtnmder official ,inspection, and is still- improving, there are' from tixaeto time diklosnrea of great mismanagement, neglect, and malractice yet continuinv and hard- to -be eradi- cated. The ?? Luncy avow themaselves -started to find last year at the Colney- hatch asylum a&practice prevailing of placing certain ...

... TIM HON. COLONE-. H.-LWDSAY, M,., ON :OTHE VOLUNTEER SERVICE.r.{. The-ollowing ;emarks:wereimde :by ColonelC.. H. Lindsay, commanding ?? George's Rifles, at the Maidenhead-Agricultural Banquet on the 8th instant : -- - ' He'said ?? soldier foir many yearA of-his life e weliknew howhighanshonourit was to be cale- upon ?? the British army on publihoocasions,;n dhe said so because at wana pro- ...