... TIHE DERBY EXTENSION AND IMPROVE- |MENT BILL. W We have reported at considerable length the debate s on this matter, which took place at the meeting of e the Local Board of Health last week, as we are anx- ious that our readers should be furnished with every Y argument which can be brought to bear either for or e against the measure. We are prepared to admit the e specious nature of the ...

... THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE DUFFIELD- ROAD. l ,Ja As. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MIERCURY. Sir-Another fellow creature has fallen a sacrifice to an accident, and his widow, and fatherless, helpless, children have the satisfaction of knowing that no one is to blame- Thc Coroner's quest have found it so. To be sure a slight attempt was made at the inquest, followed up at the late meeting of ...

... (raous oUI OWW COARE5RONDXLT.) BMoNDAY, January 1. The opening of a new year is at all times, in all places, and under all circumstances, a period for sober redeetion, 'which must, in many instances, be mixed with considerations of a saddening tendency. If such be the case in ordinary seasons, the depressing influences wlieh are marshalled in eombre array, while a retrospect of that which ...

... 'S WAR OFFICE, DEC. 29. n (From the London Gazette of Friday night.) r The Right ITon. the Secretary-at-War has received f!trT his Grace the Duke of Newcastle thc following li-t of casu:.t e ties amongst the lion-commissioned officers and privatei ir. f the forces tinder the command of Field Marshal the Lo.d .e Magtan, G. C.B., from thc 27th of November to oth of DQ- t cember, 185'4, both days ...

... 4. ..I -A- ?? le Commiesstoee Stalsreav 15'~Tn LORD-LiEUTENANT OF THRl se COscNTra OF STA'rORD.-.--II't Regiment of King's Own Staf- in fordishire Militia.-Colour-Serjeant Thomas Oswell to be to Ensign.-King's Own Rifle Regiment of Staffordshire at Mlilitla.-John Maur~ice Foster, Esq., tobe Captain. Assist.- re Surg. Edward Waddington, late Essexc Rifles, to be Surgeon, vice Ashwell, ?? Own ...

... A FORTNIGHT IN SURREY. CHAr. Ii. II I0oj LaNDON TO B0XIIILL.-EWZLL-LEATUe5RI5EAD-- tc ELYsNouR RUAMMYNOE-A SPoRTING CoMPrAsIoN. ti ' THE HARE AND 1o1UNDS, AND 1 Tup BErLcuvE, F fBOXIIILL. II; Itestands .upon reqord-in the journal-that the weather hi wsid thse whale of the morning, and, indeed, for some days at previously, bad been all that could le desired, began about 3IC to give ...

... .-i f . . . . - - I I ?? ?? -rA Clormn Ditowvsexo 15N A Pirxsse,-On Wednesday last, el Mr. C. Swann held an inquest at the Greyhound public- Jr house, Skegby, on thle body of Herbert Naylor. Deceased el was eighteen months old, and was thle son of Rueblen and w Esther Naylor, of Skegby. On the day before thle inquest ali the child was missed by its mother, and on a search being p made it was ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES AT TnE COUNTY ASYLUM. :h Again have we had the pleasure of witnessing the triumph ie of humanity and science, displayed at this important instlitu- in tion, on the annual festive assembly of the patients and a re limited number of visitors, on T1hursday evening. Nor was the Oceasion interesting merely in itself and for the time-- be e though the phenomenon of about one ...

... 5 In ?? ITALIAN5 RYS: GRASS QUESTION.-If asked to name the most irem~arkable truth 'which has been'illustrated by the agricultural experience of the past year, we should point to tj the proved productiveness of Italian rye-grass under the liquid , method of manuring it. On the 7th1 of last month, at a i -meeting of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of d 5Ireland, a paper onss hIgh ...

... A meeting of this board was held on Wednesday last, in the Guildhall, there being present WILLIAm GOODWIN, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair; Aldermen-Mr. Forman, Mr. J. Havwood, Mir. Jessnpp, Mr. Peet, Mr. Sandars. Councillors -Messrs. Allen, Barton, Bates, Cartlich, Chadwick, T. Clarke, W. M. Cooper, Cock, Corden, H. Darby, Dunnicliff, Evans, Etches, J. Gadsby, Gamble, Glaborne, Henley, Hol- ...

... THE LATE DR. ROUTH-AN EVENTFUL LIFE.1 TIME. f We ?? the Tms)5 d 'Weyestrdayrecorded the decease of an Oxford tj y divine who had maintained an immediate and personal In le connexion with that University for upwards of 80 yearsi it or Our. columns have, already furnished tlie'reader with A r0 n general outline of a career which, if not in all respects 13 k veydsigi~ewscranymmorable for some- a ...

... I JNOJfAlO iI WLlULX%,I ?? a. nn I- - ny Y WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE NAVVIES AT BALArLAVA ? tI e -No doubt theslow progress of our arms in the Crimea will a 0 force on the people some troublesome reflections. The turn D 1. of those reflections is indicated by the eager glance of expec- Y tation cast at that reinforcement of navvles now on its way. el It is the bit of novelty, the little ...