... There seems be no doubt that a free pardon will be given to Dr. Smethurst. On Saturday he was brought up at the Southwark Police Court, on a charge for that he, on the 9th of December last, did unlawfully and feloniously intermarry with one Isabella Bankes, his wife Mary being alive.** The prisoner was dressed in a d»rk green cont, closely buttoned round his neck. He looked well and cheerful, ...

... King's Head Hotel. A large company assembled to do honour to Mr. Alderman Gadsby, who haa worthily discharged the duties of chief magistrate during the past year. The chair was occupied by W. T. Cox, Esq., Mayor. The hour at which the dinner took place, preclude! the possibility of our giving a report of the proceedings this week, but we intend doing so in our next impression. hear that grand ...

... The production of a work like Mendelssohn's Elijah is so seldom undertaken in a town like Derby that we cannot wonder at the interest with which last Friday's performance was watched. Every musical man of the present generation acknowledges that the oratorio full of splendid composition and pays hii homage to the genius of the composer with ready gratitude. The characteristics of ...

... At the Borough Police Court, yesterday (Tuesday), befor* the Mayor (W. T. Cox, Esq.), J. Gadsby. Esq., and R. Pegg, Esq., Mr. William Cubley, landlord of the Angel Inn, Burton-road, was charged the complaint of Police-constable Clarke, number 7, witn an infringement of the act — Clarke said: I was on special duty last Sunday week, and went into the Angel Inn at quarter before twelve, and saw ...

... Order in Council appointing Monday be observed a general holiday, in order to obviate the inconvenience previously experienced with respect to the payment of bills of exchange. The Conservative Club of the Glasgow University, have agreed to bring forward Mr. Disraeli as a candidate for the Lor ...

... The following »re the receipts of railways for the past week_ Correeponding Railways. LsstWeek. Week, 1858. Birkenhead, Lan., Chea June - 2.193 0 S, 107 0 Bristol and Exeter - - - J.*» J ' «13 Caledonian 0 0 12,654 0 0 Eastern Counties (including Norfolk) 24,189 SW.®M 0 0 Edinburgh and Glasgow - 6,185 0 0 6,798 0 0 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • 2.36.0 0 0 V'JJ 0 Great Northern - 26,814 0 i 24 ...

... The Bishop of Chester commenced his triennial visitation on Monday «t St. Luke's Church, Liverpool. In hi? charge to the clergy his Lordship referred to the fact that at the present time lhe services of our Church are made a subject much discussion. Some persons object that our ordinary Sunday service too long ; others are desirous of introducing alterations into the substance of the liturgy ...

... In his charge to the Grand Jury, at Birmingham on Monday, Mr. M. D. Hill alluded, in congratulatory terras, diminution of convictions for crime throughout the country. Admitting the fallacy of confounding the numbers of convictions with those of offences committed, be still thought there was reason to rejoice over the altered state of things. He felt that the increased prosperity of the ...

... THE SOUTH DERBYSHIRE REGISTRATION—THE LIBERAL APPEAL DISMISSED. As our readers are aware, the Liberals have appealed against the decision of the Revising Barrister, reported at length in the Mercury Oct. sth, with respect to the notices of objection served upon Conservative voters, in which the learned barrister declined to receive the notices as valid. The appeal was heard in the Court of ...

... After two days* trial, George Frederick Royal, of Poplar, has been acquitted of the charge of haying poisoned his mistress, Zipporah Wright. was stated in evidence that the woman had been seized with violent illness, after quaffing off a draught handed to her by Royal, and that she had. during her last illness, charged bira with having been the wilfm cause of her sufferings. The medical ...

... 14 Hertfordshire Incumbent, so familiar to all readers of the Timet, gives us his views on 44 national dangers and national safeguards. He believes that Louis Napoleon has the strongest motives possible for the roaintainanceof peace; but, on the other hand, he sees in the discordance the institu* tions of England and France a real source of danger. He is strong supporter of the rifle movement ...

... attended. The guests began to assemble seven o'clock, and shortly afterwards tea and coffee were served, as usual, in the library, at the couclusion of which, Mr. Herbert Holmes, was the (motion of Mr. W. H. Cox, seconded by Mr. Jewitt, called to the chair. Mr. Reed then read a highly interesting and instructive paper on u Sepulchral slabs and monumental brasses. the conclusion a cordial vote ...