... THE AFGEA&N DIFFICULTY. SERIOUS ATTACKS ON BRITISH CONVOYS. A convoy of Britesh troops in the neighbourhood of the Shutar-Gardan Pass has been waylaid by a body of Mongols, who killed the guard, consisting of nine Sepoys and eighteen muleteers, and carried of the eighty- four mules. A despateh from Ali Kheyl, dated Tuesday says:- General Baker telegraphs from the Shutar-Gardarn, twelve o'clock ...

... , ward CouJNTY OBSECTIoece.-A. list of 'objections has been AL issued by the respective political parties in North-East on I Lancashire ; 247 more have been issued by this Tories than chsar6 by the Liberals, sings A NzW Missiox Roome-With the object of providing ThiwF accommodation for poor children and adults who do noit admi attend places of woriship, a email room has ?? been TnE erected by ...

... I R-EPORT- ON CONTAGIOUS (ANIMALS') I DISEASES IN LANCASHIRE. After the sitting of the Court of Annual Sessions, held at Preston, on Tharsday, tho Executive Comarittee ap- pointed, under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, for the purpose of carrying into effe1t the provisions of the Act in Lncashire, met to consider the report. In their report the committee regretted that the county had ...

... I I Achilles. Mediterranean. Tnilexible, Portsmouth Active, (Cap of Good Hope Industry, Cape of Good Hope and IV. C. of Africa; order. and Weest Coast of Africa ad home. Invincible, Channel squadron Agincourt, Chan. Squad. lris, Portamouth Alacrity, Australia. [Iron Duke, Devonport Albatros, Chatham. |Jaekal, E. C. of Scotland Alberta, Portsmouth. Juno, China; passags home _ Albion, Deronport ...

... |De/artures for Septembs,, Yarnm PRESTO To BA~RTON AND BR0UGaHTOW.-7-30- 8-3 1). 4.40 6.15 9-20A.-Smadays: 8-10 4.50 (*IUI' 'Po ISLac~tBunt, ACORINOTON BuRY, AW~jNCF - 6-0 7.30 8-5 9-10 10-50n., 12.5 1.0 2).0 - 6-25 7.45 9.30.-Sundays ; 6-40 9-25.2-25 6~-20 TO ?? S-l ;so ,, 10.6 10.50 at. 12.5 1-20 2.0 3.40 4-20 13 -ua~ 9-30-Sunnays: 6-40 9-23at. 2.25 62 -. To BRADFORD ANDo LEEDS.-(Via ...

... SHOCKING NEGLECT AT A HOME FOR CHILDREN. At the Old Bailey, yesterday, Laura Adiscott was sen- tenced to 18 months' hard labour for the crim~nal mis- managemnent of Deptford Home, resaulting in the death of seven chlldren. FAILURE.-LIABILITIES, £300,000. The suspension is announced of Messrs. L. Stevenson and Sons, New Bssinghall-street, London, an old- established firm in the Australian trade ...

... ,~Pal11I o I ?? I CLOSING OF CnURCRYARDS.- Her MajeEty inl Coancil has ordered that burials shall forthwith be wholly discontinued in Stidd Churchyard; and also, with I a few trilling exceptions and reservations ia favour of family graves, in the church and churchyard of Ashton- f on-Ribble. LEYLAND PARISTC CnURCU CHURCH.-0n Sunday, three sermons were preached in the Leyland Parish f Church ...

... The lock-out of colliers in Staffordshire has terminated iby the withdrawal of the notices of reduction of wages, and the men will resume work on the old scale. The proposition of the Masters Association in the Potteries to reduce wages 10 per cent. is vigorously re- sisted by the workpeople. At Barrowford, near Burnley, on Wednesday, a number of operatives lately employed byifessrs. Holt and ...

... ARST~ANGfUi ?? in cont Q,.1 RTO\ CrtChut' CLUD ?? as--- eldol at tile Utid `els, fl'.1tjo with ScstllCititCu rsalarge eint JI)y tel on Si~S 'eveing. tosln), presidlent of Clerk ~ttan~, M. ounceillor l'lurroiv (Prqd l u ,the lu, ?? I ocaiad Ir. Holdenh (tand l u (i t f the, ltr 0i~O tatel, treaseni' Ithserve-o hain seiliea , repast, wvhich hdbeet evdtote 1 Aft- the ececllit hd clstttmary ...

... 4,;Dfal Dwo. I - ! -1. -- . ?? .. I Tue ACCIDENT TO A CArTER.-A young mau, named Tne Michael M'Grelal, of Tarleton, was driving a cart laden pre, Iwitli manure and ?? by two horses, on the highway of S between Much Hoole and Tarleton, on Tuesday, when he tea, was knocked down and his right arm run over by the cart, AMtt causing a severe tflcture between the elbow and the chai shoulder. He was ...

... I - - I an- An important change in respect to the post of Clerk of of the Peaae of the County Palatine of Lancaster has re- Of cently been effected, and on the 11th inst. questions per- re- tainilg to the salary, deputies of the clerk, &c., will be it brought before the magistrates at the adjourned annual ar- session in Preston. From a report prepared by the Com- vas mittee appointed to ...

... I ET:1'UIR 0l' CO MII:N.l;.NIsrs, i Thel''(,.11si rtml,, )f t . . .. ?? .. 2, - ?? FCl,ill 01 tLiC ?? t , i'iis (IeC o^ the lilost Iop;ieCtii sigii 01; o if It sihowvs that tie !epiibli;Il (Tlveiiie ii * trOlig, .liirl tat' the lrelil leo)i(l ni tented. Th lie ap.I0elelni:on s no il tile occasion 1Wol ili l e kl vallii ?? t;f ,o iiilik Olli ot thaeir l ?)I'iii tli,)l ot 0 b-:ilily Ve to ...