... The erection of a Corn Exchange for Derby was suggested, it will be remembered, by the present Mayor on the evening of the banquet given in honour of Mr. Alderman Gadsby. The proposal has been, we are happy say, taken up with great spirit, and Mr. Eddowe?, solicitor, of Victoria-street, after interview with Mr. Cox, convened by circular a meeting for the purpose of considering the expediency ...

... Tuesday Afternoon. Moderate trade in Wheat and Flour at barely last week's rates. Maize unchanged. Beans quiet. Other articles firm. LATEST FUNDS. CLOSING PRICKS. Consols 97 Ambergate, 64 L. &N. Western, 97i 97$ Eastern Counties, South Western Edinbro' & Glsw. 80 81 Man., Shef., Lin., 37$ 38 Gt. Northern 104 Midland, 108 108* Gt. Western 66} 67J York Lancashire & York. N. Stafford 43| dis. ...

... One of the Shareholders of the Great Company has furnished the public with the report of the Surveyors appointed to examine the Great Eastern at Holyhead. This document, which is dated October !8, anything bat complimentary to those responsible for the execution of Brunei's grand conception. The Surveyors state that the ship is utterly unfit to undertake a long voyage; that the repairs ...

... On Monday last a large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Bakewell and the district, was held in the Town Hall, Bakewell, consider the propriety of forming a rifle corps. The Lord Lieutenant occupied the chair, and was supoorted right and left Lord George Cavendish, M.P., Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., W. Pole Thornhill, Esq., M.P., Colonel Leslie, R. W. Nesfield, Esq., and others. The ...

... The news from the Contioent doe* not possess the slightest importance. DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE CROWDER. Mr. Justice Crowder died very suddenly on Monday, from attack of ague. The learned judge was in Court Saturday last in, to all appearance, his usual health. The deceased judge was eldest son of the late Mr. William H. Crowder, and was in his 64th year. The learned gentleman was called to the ...

... At Westminster, on Wednesday last. Mr. Sleigh, barrister, instructed by Mr. Towne, solicitor to the Hon. Hugh Rowley, applied to Mr. Paynter for a summons calling upon the hon. gentleman's late wife to answer to charge of perjury alleged to have been committed her on the recent trial in which she sought for and obtained dissolution of marriage from his client. The learned counsel stated that ...

... Retford and the director* of the Great Northern,and Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Cooapauiea, the Great North of England Cattle-market shall held at Retford every Tuesday, the same to commence soon the neceaaary arrangements can be made. The area of the market will be about acres, fitted up with all the requisite conveniences, with pay affice, Ac. &c. Nottingham Journal. ...

... The aunual cattle show of the Smithfield Club in Bakerstreet, was opened to the public yesterday, and the private view justifies us in stating that it cannot fail to prove as attractive to the inhabitants of the metropolis as the best of its predecessors for several years past. At the same time a little reservation is necessary; for if the exhibition include* some of the finest specimens of ...

... At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Sarah Jane Wiggins was charged with the murder of her child, a boy about three years and a half old. The child it appears was very filthy its habits, and the prisoner was in the habit of punishing him in the most brutal manner. At length one night, she took him out of bed, and tied him in a horizontal position to the cross-bar at the foot of the ...

... To the subscription list for the reatoration of LichfteM choir have been added the names of the Earl of Lichfield, 200/. ; the Earl of Dartmouth, 100/. ; and Canon Residentiary Hutchinson, 50/. Chubch-rates. —Meeting or the BisHors.—The John Bull states that on Wednesday se'nnight, in compliance with an earnest invitation from the Primate, the whole English Episcopate with only here and there ...

... understand that a meeting of gentlemen at Pye Bridge, few evenings ago, a proposal was favourably entertained to erect a monumental column to the memory of this Waterloo Hero, who was a native of Cossall, and that subscriptions were immediately announced amounting to 10/. 10s. Od. with guarantees for double that amount. Doubtless there are hundreds of persons in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ...

... On the 11th ult. Miss Burdett Conttf, Accompanied by the Countess of Falmouth, Mrs. Brown, and other friends, went to the National Society's Training Institution for Schoolmistresses at Whitelands, and presented eighteen of the students prizes for general usefulness, for good needlework, and for progress in needlework on which occasion Miss Coutts addressed the students, in explana* tion of ...