... Rklikvxd during the Wexk — Men, 60; Women, 18; Children, 29; Total, 107.— Amount of Expense, 10s. lid. DERBY UNION. (Week ending 13th day of M abch, 1847.) Admitted, 1 ; discharged, 2 ; dead, 1 ; remaining, 154 ; Number relieved out-door last week, 317 ; number relieved out-door this week, 321 . Out-door relief the week ending aa above — ln money. 141. 9s. Od. ; in kind, 181. 12s. Hid. ; Total ...

... REPORTED CONFESSION OF PLATTS THE MURDERER. During Monday it was curr.ntly reported that Platts, who was on Saturday last convicted of the murder of Collis, at Chesterfield, and whose extraor- dinary trial is reported at length in the preceding page of this paper, had freely and unreservedly confessed to having been a direct party in that horrible tragedy. It will be recollected that there ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MERCURY. Sir— Of the Midland Boroughs Derby is destined to become in commerce, wealth, and ingenuity the first of rising towns, if more consequence is but at once given to prepare the way for its eventual size and importance ; though abounding with wealth and talent, its exact nature is not at present ascer- tained; a knowledge of the growth of other great towns ...

... FRANCE. The intelligence received this morning from Paris is without interest for English readers. The Chambers were occupied with domestic affairs. The papers contain a report of a grand banquet given on Sunday to M. de Lamartine, at Macon. The subscribers to it amounted to 2,100, and there were more than 4,000 spectators. In the midst of the ban- quet a tremendous storm arose, which ...

... THE CAMDEN TOWN DUEL.— TRIAL OF LIEUT. MUNRO. Central Criminal Court, August 18. Shortly after nine o'clock Alexander Thompson Munro was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bullock, to plead to an indict- ment charging bim with the wilful murder of David Lynar Fawcett, on tbe Ist of July, 1843. He pleaded not guilty. The various facts relative to the duel were proved by the evidence of the same ...

... Some allusion has already been made in this paper, to the rapid increase of a new sect of ethical philosophers in Great Britain and America. For its doctrines it is chiefly indebted to Germany. Amid much that is good, very much that is bad has been imported from the Continent into this country, and retailed by literary quacks. Perhaps the most poisonous commodity which has yet found its way ...

... OPENING OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF BRIMING- TON, NEAK CHESTERFIELD. This church was opened for divine service on Thursday last, after being rebuilt from designs and under the superin- tendence of Mr. Mitchell, architect Sheffield. It is in the decorated style which prevailed in the latter part of the 13th century. The plan is a double rect-angle, having a nave with clerestory, 57 feet by 22 feet ...

... Fbidat, October 8. [Before Mr. Commissioner Balout.] In re Wm. Evans, of Derby,* lamp manufacturer. This was a meeting for the proof of debts, and the choice of assig- nees. No proof being tendered, the choice was adjourned until tbe last examination meeting, which is fixed for tbe sth of November. Ur. Whiston is solicitor to tbe fiat which was sued out in the bankrupt's own petition, and Mr. ...

... T H E ERA. TOWN EDITION. SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1$47. A journalist is called upon to sum up the records of the dead, and compare them with the recollectiona of the living, in order that he may prognosticate the events of the future. And never was there a time when keenness of research, when clearness of cale- lation and deep thought were more necessary than in the yearl847. ...

... TUESDAY, MARcH. 9. BANr auprs.-William' Henry Hodding, of Gloucester -place, Portman-sr are, surgeon. Samuel Iubitt, of Colchester, clothier. James Law, of Faversham,- coal merchant. John Furby and Robert Stockton, of 35, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, tailors. William Bull, of S, Little Love-lane, Wood-street, setoc manufacturer. Joseph Frust, of Stratton, Cornwall, tlamer. James Miorgan, of ...

... RETROSPECTIONS-OF LIVERPOOL, BY TOUCHSTONE. ^ : By the time this reaches our sporting readers, the Liverpool July Meeting will have terminated. Ac- cording to our -usual custom we proceed to offer' a few. comments on out. anticipations, the results, and the general character of the meeting, Premising, thiat',the distance from town, and hour at which ve go-to press,- will preclude our including ...

... THE :TJIlS AND RALWAYS,|1 The dedication by the Thes, of 4wo long. ieaderF; to the speech: delivered by w Mr. Glyn- at 'the. Uiif- yearly meeting' ?? North 'Westerh- proprietorm isafgreat faet. 7There wiw a tim-e whbli the Thunderer would harly condescend ' 't 'anything. relative o 'railways iii its Tholumiii,savl to their abuse iand their disifragebikent' 'iut times a chang ed, an ...