... The Executive Committee of the National Board of Health have declared the existence of smallpox epidemic in the United States. Au accident occurred on Saturday evening to a coods train entering Chelmsford Station. The axletree of ono truck broke and many others were scattered over the line. The was ssrio-.sly 1 shaken, but the driver was uninjured. The Duke of Edinburgh, who bail. I ron the ...

... ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE NEAR HYDE PARK. At the Marvlebone Police Couit, en Jpn. 19. Fn- Fanselow, 24, waiter, was charged on remand wiw shooting Clara Annie Byfor.. a tiome.-■ ic -.en-m- :t 1, Southwick crescent, Hyde Park, with a revolver, (n the 19th of December, w uh intent to m ...

... DESTRUCTION OF HAMMERSMITH STATION BY FIRE. On Friday, Jan. 20th, about one o'clock, a fire was discovered at tbe Broadway Station of the Ditti-ict Rtiilway, HamMersmith. The alarm wis given promptly, but a very few mcments the flumes i.ai made great headway, owing to the nature of the material it had to feed on. The brtpe.de station Hammersmith turned out, and by ths time they get into the ...

... THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT. CAIRO, Monday. The cholera has disappeared from Elivedj. On the 4th inst. the first Egyptian party of pilgrims, numbering 300, were freed from quarantine at Moses Wells. # ...

... Information has been received at Dundee of the total leas with all hands of the steamer Lion, of Greenock, wrecked off Newfoundland, with a crew of between 20 and 30 men. The London Daily Telf graph aaya that ii-rections have been given for the, removal of the name of Lieutenant H. Ponsonby from the retired list of lieutenants of the Royal Navy. Her Majesty's ship Lapwing, which has been in ...

... The Pall Mall Gazette announces that the Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir John Holker, M.P., to succeed the late Lord Justice Lush as a member of the Court of Appeal. ...

... THE GOVERNORSHIP OF NATAL. The Press Association has received the follow- ing official communication from the Colonial Office: The Queen has approved t ie appoint- ment of Sir Henry Bulwer, K.C.M.G., to be Governor of NaTal. Sir fienry having already served as Lieutenant-Governor of Natal for up- wards of five yea s, will probably net hold his present appointment for more than two years. ...

... A decision of some importance to butchers, cattle dealers, and farmers was given by the Judge of the Leeds County Court on Monday, in a case in which Wm. Anguish, of York road, Leeds, sued, on behalf of his wife, Mary, for the recovery of JE50, as damages for personal injuries inflicted upon the latter by a bull belonging to Wm. Rob- son, farmer and cattle dealer, of Kirk Hammer- ton. The ...

... The Press Association's Belfast correspondent telegraphs:—Great regret is expressed in Belfast and district at the death of Lord Lurgan, which occurred on Monday at Brighton. Lord Lurgan ws a in his fifty-second year, and had suffered from paralysis several years. ...

... FARMERS' COLUMN AGEICHLTURAL P rtOSPECTS. -With the new year comes the hope that it mav prove better than the last, and better than any of its immediate prede- cessors. The season so far has been open, and work is tolerably forward after a late harvest,. All the growing crops stand well for the time of year, and the outlook is not bad for the new year. The mild weather has greatly lessened the ...

... Dr. -vnffi. -Toues, of Ospatria, charged with criminally assaulting four girls under twelve, was, at ljarlisle Assizes, ordered to be detained during the Queen's pleasure, on the insanity plea. A fire broke out at Clongowea Wood College, on Jan. 12th in a building known as the OldlInfirmary. The students extinguished the tire before the engines from Maynooth arrived. The building is insured. ...

... ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST IHE S TAR OF The case of Graham v. Johns was opened on Tue3 day afternoon at the Worcester Assizes, before Mr. Justice North. The plaintiff is fr. Robert Graham, solicitor, formerly of Newport, now of Kidderminster, and the defendant, Mr. W. N. Johns, proprietor of the Evening Star of Gwent, a paper published at Newport. Mr. Jelf, Q.C., and Mr. Bosanquet more for the ...