... - FEVER EPIDENIO AT DARWEN. 1200 CASES- 44 DEATHS. ' I 6 On Saturday a special meeting of the Darwvn Local Board was held to receive the report of Mr. Heo Stevens, M.D., who bad been appointed by the LocaI Government Board to investigate' the cause of the fever epidemic now raging in that town. Mr. Snape occupied I the ohair, and the public were admitted. Mr. Stevens said that in Darwen 44 ...

... THE RECENT EXPLOSION ON THuE REGENT'S CANAL.- Yesterday Mr. Forsyth, M.P., Sir Thomas Chambers, M.P., Dr. Holt Dunn, and other gentlemen representing the vestries of Paddington and Marylebone, waited upon the Home Secretary to urge upon him the desirability of immediate legislation on the subject of the storage and transit of gunpowder for the public safety, to secure obedience to existing ...

... SBEIOCS )It.ILWAY ACCIDENT IN IRELAND. About a nile from Clonroad Station on the Athenry, Tuam, and Ennis Railway come waggons broke from a train, and running into the station, dashed into a pas- senger train with great force. Several of the passengers were severely injured, but none fatally. The carriages were much damaged. AOOIDE&T ON THE MA.NCHESTER, SEIEPFILD, a-un LiNCcovsLTcsun RBrLwAr- ...

... TE PROPOSED CANGESINTEE MIDLAND RAILWAY. MIEETING IN LEEDS. An influential and numerously attended meeting of *hareholders of the Midland 1ilalway Company' was held =esterday afternoon at the Queen Hotel, L eeds, to con- id er the proposed abolition of ?? carriages and other important changes announced bI the directors in passengerfares. The requisition whioh convened the meeting was signed ...

... FR~,ANcE. PRus, Wednesday.-Lord Lytton and Mr. Wash- burne dined with Marshal ?? at the Elysie yesterday. The Paris Munioipal Council has commenced die- cussing the mode of cleansing the Seine. The deputies representing the Department of the Dordogue have presented an addresI to the Minister of Foreign Affairk, protesting against the arrest, by an Argentine man.oi.war, of M.- Onelie Tounens, ...

... The annual meeting of the sichcribers afnd friends of the Leeds Invalids' Ritcben was held vesterday in the Grand JurV Roote, at the Town Hall. His Worship the MxAYo (Alderman Maseden) occupied the chair; and there was Et icumlier of ladies present. In oponing the proceedlings, the Mneor. said that there WOS scarcely any societv in thse towni which was calculated to do more good than this ...

... oarstpan13ence. ACORNS AND CARROT TOPS. e TO THE EDITOR OF THE 111L PACKET h. SIB,-Flowers are failing fast, and, but fcw two Cgsd lV Lincolnshire friends, we should have had none to distribute to our sick and infirm poor this week. (Why H Lincolnshire only?) The Window Garden. Society hi has kindly and generously promised some six hsndnred A pots of bulbs, but there wvill still remain many ...

... --AE --NEW LATEST NE WASS ade lOO IMPORTANT RAILWvAY AMALGAMATION. 4de The Midland and North-Eastern Railway Com- em. panies have become partners in a railway designed to be form a portion of the best and shortest communication ion between their districts. I in by, f iWENTLOCK ELECTION. ace Official declaration of the poll:- Forester . ?? 1,720 ime Lawley . ?? 1,401 fine Dmn Conservative ...

... Ad0:CELLANATEOUS. Thoc Prin Ce anti Prhincess of Wales wvill rceive a pet a anritigh am during the week. Die gentlemnio w~ill haIveI naoportunity of shooting oere the Royal cstato 0e. Mi.GLISnsTONn -There is ino fouindattion for Ithie sletenietit in the Obseorver' tlat,anotltoriaticle onl thu UII~rxnensne cntroersytran the pen of Mr. Glad- stone1, wvill appear iii the fortheominig number of ...

... GENERAL FOREIGN NEW S. I(nz;B's TELrGwXS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Monday. At the second bnlloting yeste day for the Councils-General, eleven Conservavils o and seven Republicans -were elected' c The examination of candidates for officers' cocmnis- 1 sions in the Territorial Army commences so-day. 1 Very few candidates present themselves. It. Chanffard, chief of, the Cabinet of the Minister of Public ...

... l (EVT'Rn'S TELEGAM.) Y P FRANC E. ?? Friday -~The Off ii4 -Jeuri; n of to-day says: - Several ncorsplipers have published statements resdpectig alleged Ministerial ?? and the atti- -1. t ve '~llc the Governmena will take np in the debate wc ithet Constitutionl laws. These statements are ai 'Iout foundation. The above contradiction is tndepst~oodto apply to the information published by the ...

... ITRE DEGRADATION 01? PRINE\rCE EUiNG. The degradation of Prince 3ung, which was reported in ries China opaprs received on ?? last, only lasted, it 11n.'Rse Sa, fol tivi sty- -attr hours. Thle dicre insocs is- ing thue d tiasalion of thie Prisot vwa.s issued on the 10th of Sicntrmber, and wias eisa 53 lowa;- ' c ?? in the Veimilion [Pencil]. Be it made ];nown to all the Princes and Mielaisters ...