... 1,LI-tl lntl LsXl ACTlS. MORTALITY 1tt THE POLICE FoRcEs.-Of the 12 or 13 days of average illness in the year, less than one day and a half is from injuries received from violence or accident. Some readers may he surprised to hear how few deaths result from vilhat they are apt to consider the special danger of the police -from assaults and accidents. These assaults and accidents, together with ...

... ITO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBV IIERCURY.I Sir-Your last week's correspondent mide some sensible b retnarks on the programme of our Diocesan Choral Associa. sR tion for its October meeting. Improvement in our church g music is much needed. and the Liclafield Association is effect- Ii Ing great good, but it is tobe regretted that for the approach. ing meeting a service has been selected which, ...

... POE'I'TRY. - Is SPRING. Late in the month a rude East Wind came down, A roaring wind, which for a time had sway; But other powers possessed the night and day, fol And soon he found he could not hold his own. The merry ruddock v histled at his heart, re And strenuons blackbirds pierced his flanks with song; Pert sparrows wrangled o'er his every part, And through him shot the larks on pinions ...

... With that enterwrise and spirit which hag hen ;hn - , at With that enterprise and spirit which has been without a 1, parallel in the history of English entertainments, the Crystal re Palace directors have made arrangements for a great inter- y natiooal musical festival. For this purpose they have secured re the services of upwards of 3,000 members of the Orpseion of be France, an amateur ...

... *.BOSFOP. REvIEW. -Books, MUSIC, New Engravings, Pi &c., intended for review, left at the establishment of Mr. sa C. MITCHELLe, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street London hit addressed 1to the Editor of the Derby Mercury, will be a forwarded and receive attention. I MAGAZINES, &c. (Second Notice.)il The Art-Jo ur-al. No. LXVI., New Series, June. er London :GEORGE VIRTUE and Co., 25, Paternoster ...

... ,'SHE BEING DEAD YET SPEAÐ! a: ONr THE DEATH OF A LITTLE GIRL NINE YEARS OLD. Farewell, papa! farewell. mamma! cl Brothers and sisters deat! The Master call'd-I could not stay; Excuse, He would not hear. Whispered to me that gentle voice, Which erst in accents mild -Suffer to come unto Me. said; T: Suffer each little child! Come, come! it said-the same dear voice- J 'Tie I. be not ...

... SEA SICYNRSss.-Some way or another the British mariner does not seem to feel as much commiseration for these un- tortunate persons as the real misery of their situations might inspire even into the most hardened hearts. ' He didn't ought to do it here, Sir, said an old sailor to me one night (I asl admit that on the night in question other feelings than that of scientific curiosity drew me ...

... DEAD VXOLETS. They took them from the woodland glade Where they awoko Beneath the sprouting hawtborn shade- Before the chestnut leaves were spread, Long ere the buds burst on the oak, Or yet the lime was flecked with red- And smiled on spring with love-dewed eyes. They took them from the sweet spring air, They took them from the sweet spring skies, They took them for they were so fair- And ...

... Pvr-w . Rnrdal 1lcmn iC *.'Booscs FoR REviaw.-Books, Music, New Engravirgs, &c., intended for review, left at the establishment of Mr.t C. MITCHEiLL., Red Lion-court, Fleet-street London, di addressed ?? to the Editor of the Derby Mercury, will be w forwarded and receive attention. SI C'assefl's Popular Natural History. London CASSELL, F' PETTER, and GALPIN, La Belle Sauvage-yard. 0 This very ...

... I full A book was printed during the time of Cromwell with the C to a followiog title:-- Eggs of charity, layed by the chickens of the covenant, and boiled with the water of divine love. Take f ble, ye and eat. 5 of Mr. Frank Vizetelly, who was engaged by the Illustrated S of News to sketch throughout the whole of the recent campaign n ,i In Northern Italy, has been sent to Sicily. M in- ...

... Dm TIlE SORROWS OF THE STAR. ile In vain I spend my eloquence. My arguments lot fly, ry To teach the people how to be 'he * Dissatisfied, and why. rds I poke the British Lion up- if a In his dull ear I scream; I stir the fire, I blow the coals, as But can't get sip the steam! e There's flogging in the Army; There's jobbing in the Fleet; lue Corruption in the Treasury; the Intrigue in) ...

... A CITY OF THE CLOUDS. i! The clouds Had heap'd themselves over the bare west in crowds Of misshapen. incongruious portents. A green a Streak of dreary. cold luminovis ether, between The base of their black barricades, and tlse ridge Of the grim world, gleam'd ghastly, as under some bridge, Cyclop-sized. in a city of ruins o'erthrown By sieges forgotten. some river, unknown c And unnamed, ...