... (Communicated.) Of the Hertfordshire election we wrote last week, thus signally did the Conservatives win the clear gain of another seat for Lord Derby's party in the House of Commons. We repeat this assertion, and for this reason; the Times and other Liberal contemporaries, whilst eating the humble pie, which necessity obliges them, neverthe- less endeavour to explain away this great ...

... STAFFORD SHIRE. - M BURTON-tiN- TRENT. TowN ComistissIoNsES.-On the morning of Wednesday last, the above corporation held their monthly meeting, when the following gentlemen were present, viz. :-T. Poyser, Esq. (in the chair), Messrs. Worthington, Bell, Nunneley, Simnett, Grace, Newton, Baxter, Robinson, Lalibury, Townsend, Greaves, and Stratton. The preliminaries having been gone through, tie ...

... The steamer Ame7ica, arrived at Queenstown, on Sunday, with intelligence from New York, to the 30th of May, of the highest interest. So far from the Confederates having evacuated Vicksburg, as falsely reported by the last Northern accounts, they are defending it with the utmost bravery and tenacity. It appears that General GRANT, after a series of sanguinary engagements, arrived before the ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MERCURY. Sir-I have no intention of entering upon a newspaper con- troversy on this subject, but the opponents of the rate having lsome time since alleged that it was lost at the poll taken on the 30th January last, I think It right to state that, as chair- man of the meeting, I have consulted with a gentleman in London, of great experience on church rate questions, ...

... A-- _r .. A i A - Some of our cotemporaries who profess to have a , great regard for the interests of the farmers, but who would at any time sacrifice those interests for party advantage, are pleasantly sarcastic or grimly facetious, as the case may be, in obstructing the movement for the repeal of the Malt Tax. One of them, more pre- eise than the rest, has a sweet tooth, and laments the ...

... MR JORDAN AND MR. BOUCICAULT, Mr. Dion Boucictult has published a letter, in which he I enters into a statement of his relations with Mr. and Mrs. Jordan. He asserts that Mrs. Jordan's theatrical engage. ment with him was made at her husband's desire, and that when he wished her to resign her engagement on account of some suspicions her husband had expressed, the latter refused to AllOw her to ...

... On Tuesday (From the Morning Post.) tt On Tuesday evening the Countess of Fife introduced rather, I a novel. feature into the evening entertainments of London al society by producing a series of tableaux vivafaM, in which d some of the graceful creations of poets and painters were most g I effectively delineated. It will be remembered that at the visit vi of the Prince and Princess of Wales to ...

... , - X, . r Om (From the Times.) Another tremendous disaster has fallen on the Federal ty.arms. So great has been the carnage, so complete and tog undeniable the defeat, that the North appears stunned by l tie blow. In all these encounters the tendency of the I Federals, who alone supply Europe with the news of them, was to conceal their losses, and to represent the conflict of a week as ...

... WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1866. DEFEAr OF THE GOVERN-MENT. erby, The grand measure by which Earl RussFLL pledged yon. his Ministry to stand or fall, makes but very slow progress. On Thursday night, in the House of l few Commons. there was another smart debate, followed and by a close division on Mr. WARD IIl-rxs amendment UOR to substitute a rating for a rental qualification in the qEn~ County ...

... . I= GAS FITTINGS AT THE IUJKET HALL. se7n~r is - - .- TO THE P-DITOI OP THE DERRY MERCURY. A SW-There have been several letters in the Mercuryan other papers from Mr. Evans and Mr. Thompson complain- To iig ilat the gas fittings, at the Market-hall, are not being Trt dome according to the specifications. Now I think the ques- 5WW smost interesting to the inhabitants and the frequenters of tie ...

... [lefore Dr. PEACH (Chairnman), Major M1osLEY, and J. LEWIS, WM. Cox, F. BRADSHAW j un., N. C. CUaRZON, WALTER EvANs, and F. NOEL 3UNDY, Esqrs.] GAMiE TaEsrAss.--Israel Cooper. a nilitia man, and Thos. Potter (who did not appear), were summoned on the com- plaint of George Gregory, gamekeeper to Win. Mundy, Esq., for having trespassed in search of rabbits, on land in the oceupation of Mir. ...

... MIlSCELLANEOUS. The new Palace of Justice, to be erected in London is tcontain eleven hundred rooms. _ man has lost his life in London, through swallowing, ,,t of bravado, a pint of neat ruin at a draught. By' the upsetting of a fishing boat at Gorleston, on Monday Dighttwo fishermen named T odd and Fleming were drowned. s, third man escaped. a The Galician artillery in consequence of a ...