... - - ?? . A, . . .. .. 1. -. . .. The following important Address to all Directors and Pro. prietors of Railways has been issued by the Committee of the North Staffordshire Society for promoting the due observance of the Lord's Day. GEN TLEDlEN.-Impelled by a solemn sense of duty, the committee of the North Staffordshire Lord's Day Observance Society, again respectfully address you concerning ...

... DERBY MERCURY. IVEDNESDAY, ARIL. 17, 1839. ir, 'lmc TheiAmndmient proposed upon l or(d 1J)hn R1ussel's Resolution on Mondlay night by Sir Rob;crt PlclI (wvhicil , i11 1-l ?? I'd ill ?? :!sul af ?? I 1,8 { - -,.I nII ws i ltl ~l rvi I(. - will be fo1bnd in oUI' abstrac t of the parlianmentary de- F' bates,) is precisely tlhat kinl ot' locu nent e'v'cry ?? st expected fror him ; plain, honest, ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, APRIL 23. ten Petitions were presented on various subjects, mnong which was onle conlplaining, of the operation of the New Op Poor Law, which was prcsented by Lord STANHOPE. His dlei lordship -was understood to say that it came from William Okeliffe, a chuirchwarden in the countyr of Suffolk. The I petitioner stated that there was an increase in the amount cor of' poor ...

... VENZY POSTAGO. The CFlANCELl.OR of thP ?? ROIT~Ml hn, 1e The CsTANCELLOR ofthe ExcnEQueuhavnlg nioved the order of the day for bringing up the report of the corn- in mittee on the Post Office Acts, n, Mr. GOULBURN moved the following resolutions for the ti le postponement of the measure:- id That it appears from the finance accounts of the at Id united kingdom laid upon the table of this ...

... 'TlHE LATEST INTELLIGENCE. - - - - - 5 u .. LO I) ON, TUE SDAVY J UL, ' ;- ( | | . Tl SD ?? IIALIL-P'AST OnI-.-Tl e llei wt lii. defiat ot the T ur)ks ICas riot had ;my eff(ct on the 1irii! mjiarket. coniols Tily\ hbe ljliote fit 921 for tihe Ace omit cluliel-bilk Ii 1S IG ; Ildia Bonds, 26 }3ank Stwh, ; I) India Stock, 253. S pasih Active, 19, rather loxter Portugueses 14-' L;lrc Iper (eVts., ...

... I. W ?? R A ILIVA Y E STIMA TE S. ,e The following statement relative to the difference I between railway estimates and expenditure, was made by t 11 the chairman of the Hull and Selby Railway Company, a le at a late meeting:- I ie The Liverpool and Manchester, (Mr. C. Ste- phenson, engineer,) the capital in 182t was r. fixed at ?? £510, 0 t le In 1829 it increased to ?? I37,00 0O Subsequently ...

... DERBY MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, JuxJy 3, 1839. The proccedings in the House of Commons during the past week furnish little inatter for conmment. ?? I ] 1 . .. . a.. Ins Indeed, the history of the session displays a sad amount of timc wasted and business neglected. t Party intrignes for the preservation of power on the part of ministers, and questions involving mere theory ?? and useless generalities ...

... From Me London GA ZE TTES of July 17 §- 20. i le D)ECLARIATION'S OF TNSOl.VrNCY. sC WVilliamt Wreville Junes, Greville-street, Holbort, sur. geon, July 10. Wenry WVheatley, Scarborough, Innkeeper, July 14. le A.l;|t r s.iI e William Smith, Swarkeston Lowes, Derbyshire, dealer antl chapman, to surrender August 1, 28, at the County of Tavern, Derby. Solicitors, Messrs. Stmireso ?? Frear, le ...

... PAPAL BULLS and IND ULGENCES. -1 - - _ _- .1- TO T11E EDITOR OF TlE DERBY MERCURY. tI on SIR-You will much oblige a constant reader, by giving S led the following a place in the next nuniber of y)our paper, I of as being in the writer's humble opinion calculated to cast en- some light upon a subject, over 'which, at present it is the Iad object of the Priests of' the Church of Rome, in this ...

... WEDNESDAY, January 24, 1849. We have been favoured by a Correspondent with the following literal copy of a letter received from Laurence He* worth, Esq., M.P., for the borough of Derby, in answer to an application for subscription to the funds of the Young Men's Society. To comment upon the inflated vanity which could prompt the transmission of three tracts, written by himself, iii lieu ...

... We are authorised to state that there never has been, and is not, the least foundation for the rumour that Mr. Hudson bad resigned, or intended to resign, the Chairmanship of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. — Railway Times. We have just received the official accounts of the traffic on the Dutch Rhenish Railway for the last quarter, from which it appears that a considerable and ...

... IRELAND. harvest prospects— the potato crop. The accounts of the potato crop received up to this time are on the whole favourable. The alarm excited by rumours of the appearance of some symptoms of the disease of last year has been dissipated, and a hopeful feeling is generally enter- tained. The Dublin Packet, taking a general review of the prospects before the three kingdoms, says: — In ...