... The Engineer contained last week an Interesting sketch of -TH- « « h^. BuU locomotive, exhibited at the Centennial. io^m»H°W g d,afcall» o1 this pioneer of American railway locomotion are also given ■o ^he locomotive .John BulL built by George and Robert Stephension, at Newcaetle-on-Tyne, England, for the Camden and Amboy Transportation Company. if. Ii?ed to Pwladelphia in 183L From Phila- ...

... The Lords Justices have before them a case of great im- portance to the charitable institutions in London. By seve- ral wills and codicils made in the French language in 1855 and 1856, Lord Henry Seymour gave all his residuary estate, amounting to upwards of £100,OUO. to les hospices de Paris et Lmdres. The Master of the Rolls decided in 1865 that the true meaning of the word hospices was ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Raphael, which sailed in the end of August from Nagasaki for Shanghai, has not since been heard of. Since the closing of the Paris Exhibition the receipts of the theatres most frequented in the French capital have fallen about 6,000 francs nightly to _,500 francs. The Pope is about to bestow a special mark of honour on the Pontificals and French who ...

... Before the same magistrate. IMPORTANT CASE OF SIIEEP-STEALING. A respectable-looking man, named Frederick Thompson, was charged with stealing a sheep, the property of John Pngh Richards, butcher, Commercial-street, Pontypool, on the 16th inst. Prosecutor said he had 47 sheep on his farm. He missed a ewp sheep on Sunday morning. Saw it safe on Friday evening last. The sheep's head produced in ...

... THE HORRORS OF WAR. The following extract is from the letter of the Special Correspondent of The Times, writing from Semlin, Sept. 10:— Deligrad ia now Tchernayeff'a head-quarters. He still has some troops at Alexinatz which, though they are yet 80 close to it, the Turks hive not attempted to enter; but the civil community of the town had entirely quitted it within a day or to. Every house in ...

... jjf- German Correspondent of The Timts, writing from on Sept. 7, on the German Army MaLceuvres, makes Vgt?8 reflections on the warlike spirit of the age, which are appropriate at the present juncture Emperor has expressed himself satisfied with bv* v.axon troops, the 20,000 men who were reviewed j*. hinn on the 6th of September at Pu'gar, near hot^8'0. Whether Moltke was equally pleased is yet ...

... The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes :—A frightful murder has been committed at Marseilles, One of the victims, M. Boutigny, chief engineer of the Var steamship belonging to the Frais- sinet Company, dwelt with his wife and a child of 12 years in a villa on the Boulevard de la M^diterratda. The house is isolated, but stands within 50 yards of the high road to Aix. On Thursday ...

... The Sultan is said to be suffering greatly from his old complaint—faceache. ...

... The New York correspondent of the Standard gives the following particulars of a frightful tragedy recently enacted in the state of New Jersey :— On the night of Feb. 25 the wife of a physician named Coriell was brutally murdered. Suspicion fell upon the one servant of the family, Bridget Durgan, whose conduct, both at the time of the discovery of the murder and afterwards, was of the most ...

... THE BURG COLLIERY EXPLOSION. The opinion that the unfortunate miners in the Bury Colliery in Saxony were all immediately killed by the explosion proves incorrect. In the note book of the miner Bahr the following entry has been found:— This is the last place where we have taken refuge I have given up all hope, because the ventilation in the Sc^engottes fchfift and the Hoflnungs shaft has been ...

... Mr Harris, the station-master at Pontypool- road station, met with a sad accident on Tues- day morning last, by which his foot was taken off. Mr Harris had taken advantage of an ear- ly train to accompany some friends off as far as Penpergwm station, about three miles this side of Abergavenny, intending to get back in time for the first up passenger train from Newport. A goods train being due ...

... PROPOSED PEACE WITH MoRocco.-Negotiations i:V»r peace with RY >»JT of (writes a Spanish rrespondent). It is said that immediately after tne C; oture of Tetuan, which place is not expected to make serious resistance, as it is armed only with old cannon, ad as the Moors are suffering from sickness and famine treaty of peace will be signed at Tangiers; ana wiac, t le basis of it will be an ...