... 'The Courier publishes the following:-[ TO TIHE KRITOR OF T1ea DERBDYSHIRE COURIER. Dear Sir-As a native of Chesterfield I sometimes take a look into your respectable paper, the Derbyshire Courier, to see bow it fares with the old town, and I observe in your paper of the week before last an article on the crooked spire of Chesterfield Church, and of the probability of its being polled downv ...

... i THE AssizEs.-The business of the assizes was cow es on Monday. Mr. Baron Martin, in charging the Gra I CA e, made a touching allusion to the death o. the Pr LrV n the intelligence of the mournful event havin re °nhoe rstown on the previous day. In the course of thell thi Viscount Ingestre, the foreman, returned into cour' re true bill, and, addresing the learned Judge, expre, e ilth a xc ...

... SUDBURY. PETTY SESSIONS, Tuesday, Feb. 25. [Before Lord WATERPARK and J. BRoADHURsT, Esq.] John Ault, farmer, Mickleover, summoned by Constable Vann for being drunk and riotous in the village street, at Hilton.-Fined Bs. and expenses ?? Os. 6d. Allowed one week to pay. Joseph Elley, farm servant, Thurvaston, summoned by the same constable for riding without reins, on the highway lead- ing to ...

... 1 ~artot Meow Tuesday, 4 p.m. DERBYSHIRE WINTER ASSIZES. In the ordinary course of events the Derbyshire Winter Assizes will be commenced on Wednesday'by Sir Lewis William Cave, Judge of the High Court of Justice. Only criminal business will be taken, but there is a lengthy calendar, comprising nineteen cases. They are as follows:- George Hillingworth, 40, joiner, charged with criminal assault ...

... STAFFORDSHIRE. BURTON-ON-TRENT. TroWNw IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION3S4s.-The members of this board held their ordinary monthly mncetinF in the Town !r Office, on Wednesday last; Mr. W. H. Worthington in the chair. Thero'were also fifteen other members present. The tl Highways and Sewers Committee, in their report, stated a that they had received a letter from Mr. John Thornewill, d clerk to the ...

... STAFFORD.SHIIRE. ; fle-- te.o half AFFRAY V. ITH POACHERS AT TRENTIIANI.t / 11 e , i ad- of Monday. three gamekeepers to the Duke of Suti id ring prised a gang of poachers, nitmberi!pg zibout a d: zre in .e- c!r- on tile Trentham estate. WYlce- di-corered. tlhe p ?? eltig set too rabbit nets, and were beating up wi!h tl.a- a. unas, n couple of dogs. T1he keepers 5prsng up, n the rI;_ ma- gang ...

... Iff TO' THE EDITOR oP TARE DERBY MERCUR~Y. on Sir-In your piaper of the 19th inst., there is a letter from J is Mr A. W. Harrison, answering my letter of some time since FE bs on aniual agreements. He says he t N he understands be of practical farming. Very likely he is a flu fertile of hecuty, not wanting any great amount artfcafood o ed top. up cattle, or purchased inafnures to grow cros ...

... PRESENTATION OF SCHOOL PruIES. On Wednesdayj evening thle Christmas prizes of the St. Andrew's M idtle Class School, were distributed by Sir Henry Willoot. previous to his ?? the military con- cert at the Drill Hell. Thrier wites A large Attendance and the acconilmnying eutertaininiant was exc-ellent. The CHAIRMIAN sajid ho had to thank thle R1ev. Mr. Scott for allowing him to hit pres-'nt ...