... An important meeting to consider tile plans of the aug. C tested lines for Melbourne has been recently held. I Mr. JOHN EL3ISLXY wa called upo~a to pregside, and briefly it stated that the object of the meeting 'sas to take into consi. I1 ,deration which of the two schemnes. would be most advanta. 0: geona to the parish. They had nothing to do with the grival- n vries of railroads; all they ...

... i- A -4 ___AA ;- n wn On Friday last a respectable meeting was held at the ~of Gujidhall, to listen to an address on 1The Condition and the Prospects of the Refugees from Slavei'y in America, by the frRev. Lucas M. S. Haynes, M.A., of New York. We were glad to see that the object of 7the meeting excited much Lr intereat. W. T. Cox -Esq., had kindly consented to preside, LY but in his ...

... some conscience-stricken servant has sent 51. to the Duke of Sutherland, returned per centage.1 This is certainly an age of wonders. The Indo-European gu: Telegraph was opened throughout on Tuesday se'nnight, and yet at twenty-five minutes past eight o'clock on Wednesday a 1. morning, a telegram was received in London from Kurrachee a 8 announcing the fact. Sol A telegram from Penzance ...

... Mr. Spurgeon has at last received a rebuke, the sting th of which he will sorely feel and long remember. A T clergyman of his own denomination of no mean reputa- or tion, the Rev. Baptist Noel, has written him a letter of cl earnest remonstrance for his late arrogance, and want of th charity and consistency. However Mr. Spurgeon may w profess to appeal to the tribunal of God when ques- G ...

... WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 14, 1864. AMERICA-PROMISING PROSPECTS. ?? -- !-1 ?? .. ..A. America is still the great centre-point of attraction, to which the anxieties and calculations of Englana are principally turned, The latest intelligence of the war is somewhat contradictory and confusing; and both parties fight with a desperation and energy, as if the final settlement of the conflict depended on the ...

... 49 LONDON TO NOTTINGHAM, DERBY, &t LEEDS. 173 Goy. Go,. Fs aiG, at STATIONS 1 1 2t21 12 12 1 212 Mail Departure a.m. A~.aM. ~. a.P~m. P.M. p.m. p.m., London E.Square . 6.15 6.30 9FI . 0110. . .o London K. Cross .. . 7.2o 9.20 110. ?? 7. 0 Rugby ?? ?? 10.20 11.30 1 25 3.10 7.14 10.49 ?? 11.30 12.16 2 3 4. 7, 755 11.27I ?? 11.42 12.21 ..4.15 ?? I1.ss . 4.3 Loughborough 9.39 1'Z. 5 12.40 2 25 4 ...

... IfESENTATION TO THE MARQUIS AND MARCHIONESS OF HASTINGS. The tenantry on the estates of Loudoun and Rowallen Iving agreed-as we have already reported-to present a token of respect to the Most Noble the Marquis and BRrebioness of Hastings, while visiting Loudoun Castle after their marriage in England, Robert Mackie, Esq., 9ictor on his lordship's estates, was deputed to make a imitable purchase ...

... The Lecture-hall of the Derby Mechanics' Institution will, we understand, be re-opened shortly, after having been closed for the purpose of being elaborately decorated, and provided G with new chandeliers, and a more perfect system of ventila- tion, to render it in every respect suitable for concerts, operas, and other first-class entertainments. The gay style of decoration adopted seems to us ...

... We have it now, on the admission of Earl RuSSELL himself, that the war of Germany against Denmark ba was not Only an unjustifiable aggression, but that its W results are not at all likely to promote either the km interests of Civilization or the progress of liberty. All tim this has been known before; but it seems as if it re. tw Iquired the pressure of votes of censure in Parliament 1 the to ...

... SWADLINCOTE IGHWAY DISTSCT. TO TIlM TMITOR AV TV. -.1 - - TO THE EDITOR OP THE DERBY MERCURY. Sir-However unwilling I may be to refer again to the St subject of my statement published in your paper of the 1st do inst., inasmuch as that statement has not been gainsayed, gi although Mr. Davenport has endeavoured to cast doubts upon it, yet I feel it necessary that I should do so. At this time, ...

... thefo AhICeULTURE AND Fox-HUNTING.-The last meet for the season has taken place; the sagacious hounds have to e tone to their homely kennels; the cherished hunters are Si Iin again almost idle, and the hardy sportsman returns to cial town, to office, or to the southern coast. After a long, in T to and upon the whole an exciting season, the MEYNELL Li Ons and the MUSTERa' parties retire ...

... or __ -E rs 1 - I (From the Daily News.) Da Mr. Bright, in his recent speech at Birmingham, re- Pa ferred to the complications in foreign politics which arose from our Royal marriages. Without prejudging the put question how far the action of our Government with re- til ference to foreign states is, or can be, influenced by the bre family ties of the Sovereign, we may point out some of 3 those ...