... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... - GREHNOOK. ; n I ..a A* i s TMATBk - Roy - MUr Darund's English l Opera Comnpasny is announced to appear to-night nh bhe opera of J L Trovatore. Il l Mr A. MidDonald of St Mary's 86eools hereo '1 ba o boon unanimaely olected a Fellow of the ' Educational Institute of' Scotland at the recent' e meeting of the Institute in Edinburgh. SHIPIBUILDIN%. CONTRACTS.-Wa understand that Messrs ...

... , . E. NO t., BOAnD Or A=ADE ExAMsiNATrox.-Yesterday, Jamasi M'GeoM passed as firet mate. Nono fiffii 5 > ?? Tuel- day fght, a atpenf fnamed Gutter, who ?? in~nrieeeby falling from .a a~e~eli~il-*W~ork-a1 eide~of a voaelnunder. go~nit'~ps~rs. ?? Doek a -few days o,.died ins the Mrtry 'wuhitber he bad been xE~d>'!¢ii*V2 iage a2Xb'66years. ?? :W ~bdi Kenneth GlasIow a ad!Gteelikblppiag'Cohpany, ...

... it . I- . GREENOOC. -i T l~i ?? BANiL.-At the aimnual meete ' .in of the oreenock Provident Bank. on Satirday Y'.-br MEdward Bl1ckno'e niesidin#-Mr'Thoma0 B ?? was elected chairmman forthe ensuing 3i' -year, and Messrs Wm.: Rankin, shijowner; John Y 'itXAllison, sugar refiner; ad Wmi Lethain, it ,merohant, were appointed to the vacant places l- in th'i committee. - SCENOE. ?? -OCI Saturday, ...

... TWVEED FISHERIIES COMMISSION. On Tueeday, MrS. Walpole, inspector of salmon is fisheries for England, and Mr Archibald Young, r commiesioner of saluon fisheries in Scotland-the ti Commissioners appointed to inquire into the opera- d tion of the Tweed Acts-bomnmenced their sittings d at Berwick. d Several fishermen employed in the white fishing ( at the Greenses. Berwick,, were examined. Their ...

... : . _. ?? A latter from Berlin, writtenlby one whose in- terest it is to obtain; accurate knowledge of the l military and financlal state of Germany, contains the following ?? average number t of recruits in the German Empire is every year ti 400,000, but from this' number must be deducted N 42,000 refractory emigrants Aan, missing conscripts. c Their remain 304,000 men who go before thep ...

... hi ?1- ti L !E,;TB4GT~49M -p.UNCHrT~ 9; I'iir~oW78elot A Ed'irnm4' Want 4 V It hbliay'? )yi you've auist *Jsn at,'home ill for me ondmnth l IS stone coming forwaw lik&a 'ier, and assalling St _ ?? barqu e ervous i>, ?? rnsy sitdown and read a bit to mq, and then you:i may give me a shillirig, 'afatulyrhii W*-. le t P.O BEBPQAO I That ha .e th I Gladitone *ith his-drattedflrewrlei s! a ...

... d. upon thom. _ ' he RAILWAYS OF THE UNITED KINGDONIL f8t1unfitn Tvlpr Ira ?? to t1he Rnirr of TrANA I Captain Tyler has issued to the Board of Trade .his annual report on railways, a document of very 1 considerable importance at the present moment. The loading features of the railway system of the i United Kingdom at the end of 1873 are thus sum- °E r marised -A total sum of £588,320 308 had ...

... AYR, In bh .isnAND-BE~mNo. - Yeaterday, the burgh' ce pgshco apprehended a Womsn naned Agnes Hay of or Fraser, the wife of a publican in Wallacetown, ve on the 'chugo of having assaulted her husband. ?? It apgeara that the poor mans life hae been 'n rbade miserable fre long time pas t, and that he h has mnore thn onoe been endangered in con.. d. sequence of his, wife's violent eonduct. ' ...

... BIDEFORD.-Whilet Mr. Jeffry, of Monleigh Mills, in, and his wife, were attending market last week, theiryoungest en boy who wae left in cbarge of the elder children, strayed ale away and on the return of the parents ?? market the child - 'Wae nowhere to be found. Atixiouse eeareh wes moade all H nigh fo im nd at daylight the poor child was found th drowned in the mill pond. Two bruises were on ...