The Press. — 1854-09-16 (London, England)

SEPTEMBER 16, 1854.  artlata  THE Nation says that positive information has been received of the arrival of Mr. Smith O'Brien in Belgium. THE accounts of the progress of harvest business are all that could be desired. The Cork Examiner says : " Since our last report the weather has been warm and brilliant, with heavy fogs and occasionally light rain at night. The blight has in isolated spots made its appearance during the last week, amongst potato-fields hitherto healthy, but the damage done is no considerable increase on that suffered before. In the neighbourhood of Killarney the potatoes both on boggy and sandy soil have been quite untouched, while those in the district of Bantry and on to Glengariffe have suffered heavily." The reports from the other parts of the island are equally satisfactory; notwithstanding, there has been a rise at the Dublin Corn Exchange on now wheat of from Is. to 2s. per barrel. THE MAN RYAN, who was waylaid some days ago in Tipperary, has died of his injuries. ACCORDING to the Dublin Express the Lord Lieutenant was to leave on Wednesday or Thursday for England. THE Freeman's Journal has the following on the increase of railway traffic accommodation between England and Ireland : "We understand that important alterations are about being made in the present systeth of through traffic between this country and England, and that the contemplated changes include improved postal arrangements and greatly increased facilities for the transit of merchandise, &T. These are alterations in which not alone the railway companies but the public generally are deeply interested, and we believe that they are about to be carried into speedy operation. Some of the directors of the London and NorthWestern and Chester and Holyhead Railway Companies, with their principal officials, are now in Ireland with the view of hastening that event." THERE has been, unfortunately, no abatement of cholera in the north. THE rumour that the cholera had broken out in the Prince of the Seas emigrant-ship, which has put in at Kilrush, in her voyage from Glasgow to Melbourne, hes been contradicted by the surgeon and passengers of the ship. The captain had died of diarrhoea, and another case of the same kind had taken place on board; but that was all the sickness that occurred, with the exception of what is incidental to ordinary voyages. AFTER the late sectarian riots in the north of Ireland a new occurrence has added to the excitement. It would appear that a Roman Catholic priest, named Conway, was returning on that night from a sick call, when, as stated by his friends, be was assailed by some groups of persons in the street, and that he fired a pistol, as he says, merely to frighten his assailants. He then went to the police to complain of the attack made on him, and was arrested by the officer on duty, and kept in custody until next day, his pistol being seized and detained by the police. The organs of both parties are busy with the affair, one declaring that the priest fired at an unoffending young woman, the other declaring that he was unjustifiably detained. Thus the matter rests at present.  AN ACCIDENT occurred on the North Kent Railway on Tuesday morning, fortunately without loss of life. An engine and train, composed of fifteen trucks, left Strood terminus at aquarter past one for the Bricklayers' Arms station, and on its way stopped at the Higham station, which is the first on the line and close to the tunnel, for the purpose of unhooking one of the trucks and taking on another. At twenty-five minutes past one another train, consisting of twenty-nine empty cattletrucks, left Strood for London, and proceeded through the tunnel at its usual speed, and immediately on its emerging therefrom the driver, Tickler, observed the lights of the goods-train standing on the up-line of rails. He at once put on the breaks, and did all in his power to bring up the train, but to no purpose, as the engine dashed with great force into the last truck of the goods-train, smashing several of the coaltrucks, and causing the engine of the cattle train to he thrown off the line on to the down-line, where it lay. None of the carriages of the cattle-train were injured ; but the guards, who were in break-vans at the latter end of the train, were thrown with great force against their breaks and received some bruises and contusions : the driver and stoker of the engine, however, received no injury. The line was not cleared till eleven o'clock. The down train running over a portion of the up-line, the signals were all set at danger, so that the conduct of the driver is quite unintelligible. A FARMER IN HEREFORDSHIRE committed suicide from a too hasty despair at his pecuniary circum • stances. He took arsenic, and submitted w►th great reluctance to the operations of the stomach-pump, which were unavailing. His circumstances, though low, and causing him great apparent anguish of mind, were not irreparable, and, with a little assistance from his brothers, he could have paid all his debts. He has left a widow and eight children. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."