... The pressure of work at Derby Post-office in connec- CL tion with Christmas was greater this year than ever be- wi fore. Tne normal number of letters dealt with at the *ls office is about 90,000 a day. This average is itself a very de high one, exceeding the entire population of the town. be It does not represent, however, merely the postal patronage Bi of the inhabitants of Derby, as in ...

... ~V1ots.- I hear that the word is already being sent quietly round the Liberal ranks to prepare for another general election. To the party managers on both sides it is it now plain that the only possible ?? from the dead. lock is in a fresh appeal to the constituencies. Even. if Mr. Gladstone buys the Irish vote, a sufficient le amount of opposition to his scheme has already 1- developed in ...

... lam,- mm Sir James Hannen on Friday made absolute the decree nisi in the Crawford case. Prince Albert Victor on Friday presented new co'ours to the East Kent Regiment, popularly known as the Buffs, now stationed at Dover. Two girls, Jessie and Ellie Cullen, were drowned at Rosbercon, county Kilkenny, on Friday night, the former in a gallant attempt to save her younger sister, Eight social ...

... .OT. it?fsfolt 11cf. ? V-fla ? Al THE COMING ELECTION. a y TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MERCURY. Sir--There is a consensus of opinion that a dissolu. n- tion of Parliament will come before long, and in that 11 event it would be well if the Conservatives and the a Unionist Liberals were prepared for the contest. In La- presence of the agitation for the repeal of the Union y it is incumbent that ...

... Ams. ter rn- The Central Liberal Association is already under. ins stood to be in want of funds, and its agents are Ls- finding scant response from both London and the to provinces to their applications for assistance. The ug electoral fund which, through the medium of the He association, was drawn upon to a large extent last Sa year, is at the present moment exhausted, and there us is small ...

... . x3ist#ft gt?lvs. AMBERGATE. a CRUSHED TO DEATH.-A man named William ,. Rolley, quarryman, of Crich, died on Monday morn- et iug from the effects of injuries .received on the d 15th tlt. He was employed by the Clay Cross ie Company at their limeworks, Ambergate, and on the *r, day named was engaged in sending lime waggons on Y the line laid between the quarries and the kilns. He dwas running ...

... ,39qbgshiq 9,0#45. an ra- The resolution of Mr. T. W. EVANS to contest t ,nt the Borough as a Unionist candidate, and the t unanimous determination of the Conservatives of e rt- Derby to support him, is as significant an index to M rs the gravity of the crisis through which the Empire 1 its is passing as could well be found. For more than le, twenty years Mr. EVANS supported Mr. GLADSTON E in ...

... I UDU 1pUR'1LU-rDAR1TORD.l X .. ?? .. M = -. - - - . 11- ~, THE MINISTERIAL PROGRAMME. sr A great sieoritrutis irni df 'Conservatives was he'ld] net aella as Saturday afternoon ini (ak field Park, Dourtford. It weeS whil se estimated that there were present between 15,000 and earl, n- 20,000'peeple. 0.. the platfornirn a large number of ladless if orccupieid isats, the trajority of themr ...

... THE REPRESENTATION OF I DER.BYSHIRE. he SOUTHERN DIVISION. bo til t ild on Wednesday the men and boys onl the l c hei of side at the Midland 'Works again spent their dinne- Re be hour ini listening to a political speech, the candidate ,at on this occasion being the Hon). George Curzori, ed though but a small proportion of the crowd who 01e3o ve listened to him would be electors in the ...

... The seventeenth annual dinner was held in St. Paul's- Institute on Friday night, when about 200 sat down. Mr. Tomlinson, of the Rifleman Inn, was the caterer. A.ir A, V. Pryor (Messrs. Trueman, Hanbury, Buxton and Co.) presided, and he was supported by Mr. Gerald Hardy, Rev. J. H. Fish, Captain Goer, Messrs. ?? F. Reeve, J. S. Hughes (Repton), T. B. Piddocke, J. Stirk, T. C. Martin, T. Gentil, ...

... CVtU1OU gift%, auto = - s. is Archbishop Walsh and Archbishop Croke, I under- , stand, came over specially to give the irn7printiatur of d the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland to Mr. d Parnell's Bill. The Irish leader is not allowed to take 'yany step in consequence without the sanction of his ifspiritual advisers, who insist upon controlling every movement, great and small, of the ...

... T ?? THE-E T - THEI CLOUD IN THE EAST. -- Each day's news from Sofia and Constantinople -am gives EngliShmtew serious reasdi for congrafulation hi that the government of the Elijiie Is not in the bands of the scuttlers from Majuba Hill. To dr describe what would have inevitably followed upon w. Russia's swaggering in Bulgaria had Mr. GLAD- th sroNF been at the head of affairs would be no ...