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Ibrahim Pacha prosecutes his country tour. On Saturday he arrived at Bir mingham; and on Sunday paid a visit to Warwick and Leamington, returning to Birmingham in the evening. After a few minutes' rest, he appeared on the bal- cony of the hotel, for an hour before dinner; gratifying the curious crowd assem; bled in the street Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, were devoted to visits to the various manufactories in the town, and to some of the public buildings and institutions. The Pacha gave extensive orders for glass and other things, the manufacture of which he had witnessed. At the Soho works of Messrs. Mutton and Watt, he gave an order for eight engines for pumping water and other par- poses. In this neighbourhood the wonders of a coal-pit were to be unfolded: the Pacha arrived at the pit-mouth, but on being told that lie would have to de

w end by a rope, he begged to be excused. Some of his attendants descended; and while they were going down, as long as he could make himself heard, he con- tinued speaking to them in his own language, and apparently congratulating ri himself upon being upon terra firma. During his stay at Birmingham, the Pacha displayed much courtesy and liberality to all who contributed in any way to as- sist the object of his visit. In the evening of Wednesday he set cut for Manches- ter; and on the following day commenced, under the auspices of the Mayor, a round of visits to the principal machine-works and factories.

The Morning Chronicle states that it is the intention of Ibrahim Pacha to visit Ireland, for the purpose of making himself acquainted with the mode of cul- tivating and mannfactunng flax in that country.

The Eastern Union Railway, an extension of the Eastern Counties line, was it

3.weel from Colchester to Ipswich, a distance of sixteen miles, on Thursday week. The cost of the line, including stations, has been 20,0001. per mile.

Farmers are this year obliged to make a considerable advance in the rate per acre paid for mowing, owing to the difficulty of obtaining mowers. It is said that in some parts of Middlesex 7s. per acre is paid for cutting meadow-grass; which is 2s. 6.51. above the average rate paid last year.

We begin to fear that the failure of the apple and pear crop in the county of Hereford is almost general, and that many who imagine that they are likely to have a moderate crop are doomed to disappointment.. A few days ago we accom- panied a friend over his land in the neighbourhood of Ledbury, and examined the fruit-trees, more particularly the pear-trees, thereon: most of them were Berland, and bore apparently a good bit of fruit. Much was our surprise, however, on pulling down the boughs and plucking the fruit, to find the inside completely filled with a large number of grabs. This was not the case simply with one soh- tary tree, but every tree was similar; and we do not believe there was a pear which would stand on any of the treel—ffereford Times.

Greenheys, a suburb of Manchester, was visited on Sunday afternoon by a whirlwind; which, however, does not appear to have inflicted much injury beyond tearing off tiles, rooting up plants, and filling some of the houses with dust, shavings, paper, and other rubbish,. which it carried along in the form of a " h

pillar. -The duration of the whirlwind was twenty.five minutes; and it p ltd in a contrary direction to the wind in the viciniti;Xeuring the whole evehing indeed, the wind was variable to an extraordinary degree. A man halt been shot at Stockton-on-the-Forest, near York, in a singular man- ner. He was riding a pony, having in one pocket the stock of a double-barrelled gun, and in the other the feirrels, loaded, and with caps on them. In attempting to eisten a gate through which he had passed, the barrels fell out of his pocket; the cap of one struck against the gate, and the contents passed through the man's body. He died next day.

A largo excursion-party, returning to Manchester from a railway trip to Lon- don, met. with an alarming accident on Sunday morning, on the Grand Junction Railway, near Crewe. The train consisted of thirty-nine carriages of all kinds,.

and was drawn by a single engine: the morning was thick and misty; and the speed was, fortunately, not very. great. Four miles beyond Crewe, the train ran into four or five goods-trucks standing on the line : of course, the passengers were much terrified, and not a few were bruised and cut, though none were dan- gerously hurt.

A serious accident occurred on Saturday morning about two o'clock, to the Dover luggage down-train, at Stafford Wood Gutting, about two miles from Eden- . bridge; caused by one of the axles of a waggon suddenly breaking, which threw . several more off the line, and tore up the rails to some extent Some of the waggons were completely broken to pieces. The destruction of goods and mer-

chandise is great, and will fall very heavily on the company. There were, for- tunately, no lives lost, and the cause appeared to be purely accidentaL—Kentish Observer.

A workman was killed at the Dover and Brighton station at Croydon on Satur- day, while walking on the line as an express-train was coming up. When the driver of the engine saw him, he sounded the whistle; but the man took no notice,

and in an instant he was knocked down. At the inquest, Mr. Curtis, the Croy- don station-clerk, said the deceased had no time to move off the line if he had

heard the signal: the express-train, which proceeds at an average of thirty-five

miles an hour, does not stop at any station till it arrives at Tunbridge; it was not going at its maximum of speed past the station. Mr. Coroner Payne addressed the Jury on the subject of the speed of express-trains, especially in passing sta- tions: if that speed was so excessive as to involve danger to people on the line, it was a similar act to furious driving on common roads, and if death resulted the verdict should be "Manslaughter. Twelve of the Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death"; while two were for " Manslaughter."

A fatal boiler-explosion occurred last week at Walsingham, in the county of Durham, at the Tow Law Iron-foundry. The roof of the engine-house and the chimney were carried away, and a steam-engine was forced through a brick . wall five feet thick, while fragments of the boiler flew in every direction. The engine-man, mangled and scalded, was taken out of the rubbish dead; a man and i a boy employed in the foundry were killed by the engine and brick-work falling upon them; and several other workmen were hurt. It is said that the disaster arose from a deficiency of water in the boiler.

Three men have been killed, near Cheadle, Staffordshire, by the breaking of ai rope while they were descending the shaft ofa colliery in a corfe.

A great number of people have been injured, at Redrutii, in consequence of a false alarm that a lion had broken out of a cage in a travelling menagerie. The crowd flew in every direction; and the feeble were knocked down and trampled on—two hundred persons lay on the ground at one time, and several had bones broken.

A woman living at Otley went to bathe her three children and those of some of her neighbours in the river Wharfe: a girl, nine years old, struggled hard with her when dipped; and both were plunged into the stream where it is deep. Every effort was made by some men who were at hand to give assistance, but they only succeeded in rescuing the girl: the mother perished before the eyes of her cliWren.

The sailor Reid, who has twice been fetind in the gardens at Buckingham • Palace, hai been sent to Portsniouth, to be forwarded to his ship, the Reliance; when he will most probably be tried. s a deserter. Reid appears to have escape from the Reliance at Plymouth when he made his second trip to London. He has been leading a roving life for years past.