... LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY (NEW WORKS AND ADDITIONAL POWERS). (New Roads, Footpathi, and otho.r Work-1, Stopping- up of Roa ls and Footbaths, and Adlit.ional Lands in the Counties of Middlesex Hertford, Stafford, Warwick, Ch-ster, Lancaster, York, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Monmou'h, Flint. Denbigh, Carnar- von, and Anglesey; Power to Lessees of North and South H esti-ni Junction Railway ...

... TV'OTIC K iS GIVEN, that X* application is 10teiidei 1 to be made to Parlia- ment in the next by the London and North Western Kaila-ay >.0|i-uiy (Hereinafter called the Company ). f r %c. fur the following purposes, or •OOls- of tile n ( 1 ,{ to s-iy) To e npower i it- .Join in to make a New Road, to be sit i;\t,e wii.i i\ i fs i of Acton, in the county Of Mi.ldles.rx, o n it ?tllti Out of ...

... of their Undertaking so much of the existing footpath as lies within the boundaries of their property To empower the Company to make a New Footpath in the parishes of Berkhamsted Saint Mary otherwise Northchurch and Hemel Hempsted or one of them in the county of Hertford commencing from and out of the existing footpath which now crosses on a level the Main Line of the Company's Railway two ...

... Tie Globe states positPY that there is no foundation for the report tJ-t Mr. Forster will leave the Education Office. The Soir says that thei.Ues^ou of the abolition of passports has been t'irtually settled between Fi-aflce ard Germany)n the proposal of M. de Reusat. The measure10 take effect from the be- ginning of next year. It is stated that th Pope has sent instructions to all the monks ...

... In the Rolls Court on Saturday, Mr- Roxburgh, Q C made a novel application. It was to vacate the enrolment of a deed of relinquishment executed bv a clergyman in pursuance of the Clerical Disabi- lities Act 1870. The Act provides that any minis- to of the Church »f resigned every preferment held by him, do the fol- lowing things1. He may execute a deed of relinquishment in the form given m the ...

... THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. Our readers have already been made aware of the presence of the Claimant in this neighbourhood. He last week visited Cardiff, and on Saturday night appeared before a comparatively limited audience at the Victoria Hall, Newport. The visit was doubtless inopportune, as at the period selected for the Newport meeting our townsfolk were unusually busy—Christ- inas was ...

... A few days ago the Government telegraphic staff IERE engaged in fixing instruments desigaed to afford r t'e first official trial over a long distance of the newly- jivented process by which messages could, it was plieved, be sent simultaneously along one wire in (tposite directions. It was found, to the delight of J. concerned, that the experiments were fully success- it Messages were ...

... A despatch fr .TU MVNTROS.1. DATED Sunday, says T WWE had a fcarfai' diay here YESTERDAY ON account of the state of E weather. J)T;rz; LT a south-easterly gale and a tremendous sea the brig Henrietta, of Memel, from F, I to that port, wAs seen running before the wbd mating for +-hE' laud. On THE whole coast of the British Isles there ARE no braver and more expert men those at Montrc* ...

... TUILWAY ACc7DENT7-On Friday morning a goods train got off the rails at Rushton, near Netterin. The line was blocked for a. considerable time The North Wilts Conservatives decided on Friday, a Meeting in Swindon, to propose two candidates at a meet »g gitt member, Sir George at the n George Estcourt. It was stated St th?KSwo^d only proposeonecandidate, the sitting member, Lord Charles Bruce. ...

... The BelgravÙt I Magazine for December contains, a contribution bv Jtenry Lake, which will have many readeis amongst a large class, and the recent atinos-- pherical disturbances add to its inteissf- Under the heading Is tilec'+icity Life ? the writer says The )8tlxffii June wid be lfemetnbered by all -cue people o £ THE north of England. AN Egyptian, DARKUESS camo DOWN upon the LAND at ...

... FIRES IN COAL MINES.-At the November meeting of the Manchester Geological Society, the President, Mr. J. Knowles, read a most useful paper On Fires in Coal Mines. The interest of the communication consisted in directing attention to the fact that a recent tire in the Ram's Mine Colliery, at Pendleton, was rapidly extinguished by throwing jets of water on to the burning mass by small engines, ...

... NEWPORT BOARD OF eUARDIANS- At tne.weekly meeting of this BiJarn. held on Satur- day, there were present-Lord Tredegar (in the chair) Messrs. O. Morgan, M.P. G. Gething, M: Cope, W. Jones (Cefnllogell), S. Scard, J Parsoia, Jacob JSaines, James Brown, B. Thomas, Lewis Wil- liams, T. F. Lewis, and J. W. Bebell, with Mr. W. D. Evans (clerk), and Mr. Needham. (masV^r). » The inmates of the House ...