... RETURN OF THE NORTH STAR FROM THE ! ARCTIC REGIONS. I !r The subjoined official information was forwarded on Satur- y day from the Admiralty to tle newgspapers:- n The North Star arrived it Portsmouth yesterday morning from tile Polar Seas. No intelligence of Sir John Franilin. C , Captain Austin was in Lancaster Sound. Captain Forsyth, a iln the Prince Albert, ?? Bay on tbe.30th of Augnist, ...

... 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 ...

... I i Sti il' tIIIV. ?? 01, 1'kJBL]. Sir-As one of the Local Secretaries to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Palrts, I feel it a duty to reply to a letter published in the Derhli Mercury of Oct. 23, 1 which insinuates motives and impugns time veracity of the lie- port read at the meeting in the Tosvn-liall,Derby, held Oct. 8. As the champion of the Church lissionary ...

... EARL STANnoPE AND THE LABOURING CLASSrS. to tilie An address tias just besen issued by Lord Stanhoope to tile ad,. labouring classes of Great Britain and Ireland, in which his ed, Lordship, addreasing them as his fellow-countrytincr and inse friends, says- hi- `The effects of importation have been to encourage foreign ter industry in prefercuce to your Own, to lower your wages, and 332 to ...

... TO TlHE EDITOR OF THlE DERBY MERCURY. I. .. . .. ur . o- in+ r-a4Ih.tnrr.. *bi I -inff lcnn Dear Sir-It is with very great reluctance that I trespassde on your columns to notice a passage in thre Report of the he Derby and Derbyshire Branch of the Society for thle Props- to gation of thle Gospel lin Foreign perts which appeared in your thn print of ithe 9th instant.th Two gleat misvionary ...

... FOREiGUV lN7TE'IEZNCE. t I IIANCE. The raris papers stale that if- (de Ptrsigniy is about to pro. ceed 00 a special misstiil to Loidon. It i smmised that Ile will ble taken into the Cabinet as9 lioi1ister for Foreign Affairs. On Tuesdav.thc Pesident of the Frenclii atlended by the i Mlinister of Wr, (General Changtiriiier, and a numerous staff, reviewed the troo ps Oll tie plitins of Sartery ...

... MIS. BLt'I.Er'S E lOCU'rION ARY AN'D ORATO- 1l1tAL EN'TERT'AINAMENT. (In adeirikisig columns see announce three entertain- 1scr ho ysi.ldsetl~ talents have called ftirth the highest A .1enim's h re-s throughout this country. The pro. the ?? for thle first es-enim~ (Tuesday next), is as follows- and Mrs. thitifi wis revresenti Poriaitj, hyltock Bassuifut, auit the Diske n of od will give ...

... SOUTH DERBYSHIRE REGISTRATION, 1S;ij. The following is the result of the late Registration:- ConscrvativeObjections. WVhigOhjectiuom Districts. Sustained. Failed. Sustained. Failed. Ashbourne - 6 12 33 'in Belper - - 15 7 3 12 a Derby - - 30 15 30 73 e Heanor . - 12 9 5 1;- C Ilkeston- - 9 7 18 18 Mlelbourne - 5 6 13 In Swadlincote - 9 2 19 :q Wirksworth - 20 11 17 2.) .106 69 138 217 ...

... (From the Observer.) The returns of tile quarter's revenue will be made up to Thursday, the 10th of October. Notwithstanding the great reductimis which have been made in the taxation of the couintry tile public have been led, from the habit of the last two or three quarters, to look for IL con- siderable bnoyancy in the public resources. From causes, however, which it is only necessary to ...

... Is He who peeps through a key-hole may see what will vex o him. - Stoclks are firm, as the thief said when he had his feet in I them. o man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. A SP'LENDIuD IIARVEST.-If a man reap whatsoever he le sowethl, what a harvest of coats and breeches the tailors will n havC one of these days. . AesLANscusoLY WVIT.-A gentleman met ...

... A~t the annual nmeetitig of thle Poplar In itcwslflge r Schools, elvd ofl F riday list, Mr. G. F. YOU tNC (it gen teutlanl swhos-c very great abi Iitv, and powerful ads ocacy Of the peculiar interests itt thle Briitish firmier lin opplsp~tiont to thle freec-tradi~e theorvy, has rendiered his namle hocnourled Ithrough atB d out thle Voitetl Iiisgdonm), t bus referred to the generatI ques- ,I It ...

... Count Forestier was tried last week, at Tours, on a chargc of having enticed from her home a young girl of fourteen y years ol, daughter of the Rev. MIr. Hamilton, an English y clergyman, resident at Tours. The count, a married man, met the young lady on the public promenade, where she A walked with an attendant and some younger brothers and sisters. JIle commenced the acquaintance hy giving ...