... RAILWAY TYRES AND THlE comfUNIl- I (~ICATIONCOD We receive fo Oriayd-;epartMent of the BoArd of Tyade, eonol Uutch fflo report on teaccident ' Shlch ?? to a trh Xin etar gW gvroth station. en 4he North-Eaatm ailway, on the 1st nlt. On that occson, seve8 passenges complained of having been shaken, and one of the guards of thestralft ead a mail imsenger were t;hrown down in their vans, and a ...

... At a meeting of the Irish Statistical Society Mr Justice Lawson in the chair—Mr. Heron, Q.C., M.P. for Tipperary, read a paper on the Irish Land Act, One of the first results of the Act, he said, had been that in many counties the practice of serving notices to quit had altogether stopped, except for non-pay- ment of rent. The second portion of the Act, to facili- tate purchase by tenants, had ...

... An extraordinary case of abduction was tried on December 19th before the Assize Court at Havre. A priest, the Abbe Vitet, and two nuns were accused of taking away from her parents a girl of 15J years of age, named Louise Prevost. Two English women named Mary and Caroline Pope, whose respective places of birth are stated in the legal journals to be Turnchapel and Plymstock, were indicted, ...

... 0 fawl ar Ddychweliad y Parch. F. SONLEY JOHNSTONE yn aclod o'r Bwrdd Ysgol, TON— Robin yn Swil. I fyny a'r faner i entrycli y nen; Gorclifygwyd y gelyn mae'r frwydr ar ben; Er gwaethaf ci ystrvw, ei gynllwyn, a'i frad, Rhoed taw ar ei ymffrost, mac heddyw dan Ein Johnstone yw'r dyn, cin Johnstone dyn. Rliow'n lioedd fawr wetreiddiol-Ein John tone yw'r dyn. Er gwaethaf dichcllion yr Eglwys ...

... DESTRUCTION OF A SHIP BV FIRE.—The- barque Psyche,, 652 tons register, of London, Fred. M. Harris, captain and part owner, bound for Shanghae with a cargo of steam coal, was destroyed by hre in the basin of the Penarth Dock, on Friday afternoon. It is some time ago since the Pmjche entered the Penarth Dock, she being then a ship-rigged vessel. While in dock she had undergone considerable ...

... ?.hui?d. DYDD&IDWRM BHAGFI2? 30, 18?1.. FFRAINO A'R TYWYSOGION : ORLEANADD.D . :,,,,- . . . ,; -, %. Y digwyddiad pwysig diwedaaf yn iiPfrainc ydyw eisteddiad y Tywysagi Ofltaiiaidd yn y ymanfa Gyffrediinol, ned'y' n hyrh, I'ste diad y Duc VD'AUMAx yhno, aie6gid xid 'ydyw d ix debyg. y bydd :i'w frawd, y Tywysog D- JOIN- VILLE, achosi llawer ao drafeAth' oherwydd ei' foad yn clywed mor drwm. ...

... All Correspondents must furnish us with their names (not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of their good faith). We are not, however, bound by the eetineuts they enauniate. 3 - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The tender of Mt. S. Monk, of Hyde-park, Southsea, for mutton and suet, was last week accepted by the Guardians; not that of Mr. G. Monck. Several communications are postponed until next ...

... alito obtuinild otb3d. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Bombay mail has brought news to the gth of December. On the 29th of November, as was reported by telegraph at the time, a serious explosion took place in the Agra Fort. The chief laboratory was blown to pieces while the con- struction of cartridges for the Delhi camp of exercise was going on, and the conductor in charge, a sergeant, a European boy, ...

... TifE CAPE MAIL. CAnE Towv, Nbrsamber 19.-A proclamation an- nexing the diamond-fields has been receivid at the diggings witbout any deonsontratioi of feeliu, but: tbe fiygeg-are troagly ?? to the polic of the Governor. ?oiletBrasqd,. o thece $tate, bas issued a prbclamatiomirtiest$tg against annexa- tion to a colony, of diout'ed. VI j';aneling unpozi the inhabitstits of, the;etat.itioid ...

... LETTER FROM TRE QUEE N IN REOOGVNITON OF NATIONAL SYMPXTRY. ?? - ~ . . . . : . ., - 1 The Hromne Secretary ligs received her Majesty' commands to make public the following letter:- WsINDSoe-cABTLR, December 26. The Queen is very anxious to express her deep sense of the touching sympathy of the whole nation on the occasion of the alarming illnessofherdearson,tbe Prince of Wtales. The universal ...

... O- e~j~ouf~t~ctI I Wi sa so oa hod orseve reponbe for the opinions of cs-rsponeat. Weoffr a airfield to all, and ~neI~ rf ~seinertontoleter, rom wlwmsocner theycom, unessthe aretotllyirrelevant, un- reaonaly ay orperonllyabuiv.-Ed. P. C. CHRISTMAS BOXES. TO TIM1 EOXTOn OF THE3 PRESTON CHRSONICLE. SIa,-Along with other tradesmen, I have been called on by the servants of the great railway ...

... Ih th ! ?? foilowing article, which appears in the British 4)at- , andl xpaii~hciroumnst~anoesunder which Te and important medical manaifesto on alcohol was issjued: rward in ths Bretish Medical Journal of the 30th of Sep. estion ,.,inber, we wrote as follows concerning the duty o~f ;y for Wri a men in relation to the temperance movement f tlo ie habitual and medical uwe of alcohol: Looking ...