... AiCCIDSNB AND OFFENCES. Bus- a . -- - . - I - , - . A STATiON-IIASTIR KsLasoE.An accident, resulting ina tv the deathsof Mr.Joseph Nevin, thestation-mlasterat~tockton- se 5ipon1.Tes, took place on the Stockton and Darlington Rail- is way onMonday week. It appear.s he had been toDarlington ei that day, and returned homne to Stockton by the afternoon ef train. At the time of the arrival of ...

... WEDNESDAY', NOVsEBnE 22, 1854. The week has been almost without news. Lord ! RAGLAN'S telcgraphic despatch announcing the great victory of the Sth inst., is as brief as, and adds nothing to, the few facts contained in that of General CAN- ROBERT given in last weck's Mercury; and further than these no intelligence of this splendid engagement has come to hand, except that of the deaths of l ...

... SEvax Livis LOST IN A COLsLERY.-On Saturday week as a party of men and boys, seven in number, were being lowered into a coal mine at Rochdale, known as the is Belfield Colliery (Messrs John Knowles and Co., owners), the plat. form on which they stood suddenly fell to the bottom, carry. ljg them wmith it, and all were killed on the spot. Thedepth of the shaft is 75 yards. The accident is said ...

... AGRIC ULT URE. - __ Ino - - F1 Time Coax, TRADE: 0r THJE PAST W~rc._WHeAT.-The 5550 excitement recently experienced was o hr uain r.h bably owing to the sudden cessation of purchases for French account as thle mains cause, audits part to ther mor e favo; urab e aspect of the weather during the early Itarlof theaar w leek; butI h from our reports of the crop there is nlothin ?? odr , and ...

... .-C tha I nnrnn l ,V,- gh At a recent meeting of the London Farmers' Club, the vs. subject of agricultural statistics was discussed; and a resolu- is. tion passed, that the collection of such sratistics by govern- est ment would be a public benefit, though of no particular ad- n- vantage to farmers; and the farmers will assist the scheme, ip- provided it be carried out in a mariner as little ...

... On attending this excellent source of amusement on Friday evening last, we were more than ever convinced that these concerts promote the cause of go ...

... Few matters have been inculcated with such pertinacity | and reiteration, as the numberless and almost immeasurabh benefits ahich all clashes of the community were derive from the full development of the principles of free-trade. By giving free scope to the practical operations of these wonderful doctrines, foreign commerce was to be increased in an incalculable degree—the home-markets were to ...

... v . - - - -- - a IA ,I A I. Ar l Joseph Cantrell. of Ashaver, to be imprisoned 14 days, or I? paV 11. Is. lod., for trespass. il enry Johnson, of Headfleld, to be imprisoned two calendar . months, or pay 31. I8s. Od., for assaulting Mary Nelson. ed William H1unt, of Belper, imprisoned 14 days with hard n-labour, or pay 129. 9d., for nonpayment of rates. . l Williamr Jachson and Charles ...

... rid THE, FIIXANCIAL STATEMtNT. but in- ~~~(From the Times.) age !t Had it been possible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer va ,. to surprise the House of Commons, he woold certainly have con !sh done so by a financial statement which Peel himself would cur lot only have vert.ured ion under the mnost encouragin~g cicum M& it stancee, and in one-of his teoet exuberant moods. Without ?? li ...

... DERBY MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, Av;usT 25, 1852. - SUMMAR.Y OF THE WEEK. - L - - - A-l ..A After the rough weather which her MAJESTY encountered T both in going to, and returning from Antwerp, the repose of PA e I the green shades of Osborne must have been ?? in day after the return of the Royal party, the QUEEN devoted at r to the business of the state. A privy council was held, at n I which the ...

... The following apnouncemnt appears in the Gazette of Tuesday: Commislon signed by the Lord Lieutenant of l Lelcestersbire:-Sir William Edmund Cradock Martopp, 1 t Bart., to be diputy-lleutensn't. I F Nfimp OF TH sLAT SIaJSKA MS POAxiR.-The lamented i] Vice-Chancellor, was interred in a new vault in the chapelbe. j, ! longingto Bothleytemple o nFridayafternoonathalf-pasttwo. y Theeofflnwas borne ...

... It will be teen that a rule niti has been obtained in the Court of Queen's Bench, calling upon Mr. DuxMicurr to shew cause, why he holds the office of Mayor of this borough. The friends that gentleman are very indignant at the course which has been pursued in this instance, and their ire is especially raised against Mr. Alderman Mouslkt. Our contemporary, the Reporter, would have us believe ...