... Serious Railway Accident A MAIL TRAIN OFF THE LINE. I 20 Passengers Injured. I A Times second edition telegram dated Rangoon Monday Mays :-The down mail from Rangoon went off the rails last night about 55 miles from Rangoon, the engine aud fourteen carriages ran off the line. About twenty passengerti were iu- jured and one was killed, The line had been tampered with. ...

... THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. Speech by Sir Edward Watkin. Sir Edward Watkin, M.P., chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, who has recently developed his system of railways via the Dee Bridge into Wrexham, was enter- taiued at Wrexham on Monday at a public luncheon. Afterwards the hon, baronet delivered a lecture on the channel tunnel. Amongst thoso present were Mr Osborne ...

... SUNDAY CARD-PLAYING AT RISCA. Newport county police-court, this afternoon, Ven colliers (mostly young fellows) were sum- Jaoned foe gambling with cards at Risca on unday afternoon, the 21st ult,—P.C. Durham 1aid ha found the defendants grouped in a Public place playing cards for money. The Coins were staked ou the ground. The pack of Card!! was produced. The officer, in reply to the ...

... j THE NEW REMEDY FOR BREACH OF PROMISE. An extraordinary case of attempted murder is reported by the last Australian mail. It seem that a young woman named Lily Bagisy was for some time keeping company with an Italian named Botta. An estrangement had taken place t'^tween them, and Basrley, in a letter, asked liotta for an interview, They met at the corner of Russell aud Lonsdale streets, ...

... ACCIDENT AT THE FRENCH I NAVAL MAfiCEUVHES. I [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.I TOULON, F,-i,iay.-L)urizi ,g sonte evi)Iintions in Toulon Road-, yesterday afternoon, the torpedo boat N'I. 59 grounded badly ou a mud bank. ?idly on t iiiud k),,?n k Eight long boats bolollg; ng- to the reserve squadron went to her assistance, but failed to get the vessel df, aud it was found necessary to send a tug, which ...

... At the MavorVcourt, Cardiff, on EVidr.y Board of Trade inquiry Was held (before Mr T. W. Lewis, stipendiary, assisted by Captains French and Davies, nautical assessors ) into the stranding of the British ship St. Gothard, of South Shields, on the Patioi Reef, Novorossich Day, Mr Waldron was for the Board ot Trade, and Mr Ingledew, juti., tyms for the master, Captain Wosterberg.—Mr Waidron, in ...

... John Henry potter's dipper, Spring i banl,-rl-ipt, un d erwent Villas, Edensor, Longton, a bankrupt, underwent public examination at Stoke-on-Trent yesterday afternoon, before Mr J. C. Marshall (Registrar). the total liabilities amounted to £ 90 9s 9a, bf which £ 80 13s 8d was due to Miss Harriet Crane, a music-hall artiste-professionally known as Harriet de Lisle-as damages and costs obtained ...

... END OF A LACE WORKERS' STRI KE. [RENTER'S TELEGRAM.] CALAIS, Wednesday.—At a general meeting of the lace workers on strike held here yesterday evening, it was declared that work should be resumed to-day, ...

... Mr Gladstone, accompanied by Mrs Gladstone, Mr Marjoribanks, M. P., Sir James Carmichael, and Mr P. W. Campbell, left Edinburgh this morning in order to fulfil his engagements in the North. He drove from Rothesay-terrace shortly after ten o'clock, and upon arriving at the Hay- market Railway Station was 'loudly cheered by a number of people who had assembled to witness his departure. The right ...

... A Shocking Tragedy. |KKCTERS THLEGRAM.J PERIQUEUX, Monday.—The bodies of a youal man and a young woman were discovered yester' day morning in a meadow near here. A letter was found on one of them stating; that they had killed themselves in despair of ever being united in life. An enquiry was subsequently held, and it was proved that after both had taken miorpbig the man shot the girl in the ...

... SOMETHING LIKE A BICYCLE RIDE. Adventurous Muscovites are f'rld of travelling to Paris nowadays, using f-)r their j-urneya means of locomotion not generally patronised by the average traveller or tourist. To the number of enterprising Russians ansS other inhabitants of Eastern Europe wo cama here during the Exhibition on horseback, in handcarts, or in a trunk, like the Viennese tailor, Eiust ...

... REWARDS FOR GALLANTRY, On Saturday the committee of the Royal II oin -ne Society, London, announced the result of the in vestlgation of nearly 100 cases of saving life. Among them being the award of a hand. some testimonial to a boy named Ambridge, aged enly eight years, for saving G. Haynes, aged seven, at Barry Harbour, who got cut of hts depth while bathing on September 6th last. Tiie ...