... MAY KEEPERtS TAKE D00S WITHl 'sHe'. ence At thle Stafford Assizes last week, before Mr. Baron Mlartiot, slrap Aaron [-arrison, 3S, crate maker, John Yardley, 48, miner, thle Philip Hyatt, 35. miner, and Henry Johnson, 28, no occupa- taute tiou, were charged with night poaching on the I Ith of Novem- few ber. on lands of the Duke of Sutherland, at Tittensor, Ins the A parish of Stone.-Mr. ...

... LONDON TO' NOTTINGHAM, DERBY, AND LEEDS. Gov ~ ov. Mail,Faat Gov. Feast 1 2 STATIONS 12 12 12 12 1212 1212 Mail Departure 5.A1. a Lna . a~m T.o. am. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.Eg London E.Square .. 15 6.1 0 9. 120 2 45 1. 0Si9 0 8 London K. Cross. 7.101 9.25114 III .. 30 6.40 u Rugby . . 8.30 10:11111.3111 35 2. 1 5 20 7.1[0 120 Tut Leicester.. * .. 1.1 l,8112.24 2 II 3.10 6 1? 7.50 11.f8ig c Syston * ...

... TIHE CURE FOR CRIMINALS. - - 4- . V aa*AAT>- r..- . The report from the Reformatory Committee for the County of D)erhy, presented to the Court ot Quarter Sessions last week, was a very suggestive one. During the year just dead there have been twelve juvenile offenders sent to various Reformatory Schools from this county, and the total amount paid towards the maintenance of juvenile criminals ...

... A salutary Act of Parliament becomes operative Dffrom this the first day in the New Year. It is entitled s the O Old Metal Dealers Act, and its provisions were is desianed to give the police authorities power to effect Id a much closer supervision over the doings of marine- is store dealers than they have hitherto been enabled ie legally to carry out. The enormous evils which have grown out ...

... STAFFORDSHIRE The Hanley and Burslem branch of the Pe of Railway was opened on Monday, and the Potteaes Stre 'de favourable, passed off satisfactorily. A party, *conssbeing he provisional directors, shareholders, and others, to the numg b n-of about seventy. started from Hanley, about noon each of which was drawn by two horses On their ar , Burslem they alighted, and walked to the Town arrial ...

... E r-nn-n-A ?? - - . - - . . This renowned missionary, whose extraordinary adventures in his pious labours to propagate the Gospel, and in his patriotic journeys to rescue the oppressed, have excited the most lively interest in various parts of the world, has now settled down at an advanced age in the vicarage of Ile Brewers, Somersetshire. But as the earnest desire to relate his experience, ...

... THE WEA'ETHER FOR DECEMBER, 1861. I- - Ln-> I - t-TUh.51ZA, 1tSU.. BAROMETER. INCHES. d Average rleadings reduced to 32 * -b - - 2920 pI Highest rending-- .-0 410 tC Lowest ditto - ?? 29-178 I Range - ?? 1-232 d T'HEzooMETERS. DEGREEs. r Mean of maximum-- - ?? ?? Highest reading-- ?? 5-- 00 P Mean of minimum- ?? 3.--71 ti Lowest reading -2- ?? - - - oo a Range ?? 00 b RAIN. INCHES. II ?? S ...

... LO6NDONTo NOTTINIGHAMD)ERBY.AND LEEDS. Gov. Goy. MalatGOy. Fs STATIONS 12 iI21,1 2112Mi - - ?? 2 I - 2 1 Departure aIDl) ama ?? in ~kp.m. p'm P..D London E. Sqnare 6.1 30a 9. 012 .24 ,0pm London K. Crass * 71 ,92 ?? 2 35.5 0:49.0 ES ?? 11435A 13a2. 05 20~ 7.10 11.201 Tt ?? 2 1013.10, 1G 7.00112 Barrow 9.24I33 11501243..I3.42 221R Kegworth .j* 9.,54 12.13 12,54 2 403.85~ . 8 12.20,.. j92.26 4 ...

... MONDAY, January 27. a a (From our own Correspondent.) LOSS OF THE SH11P INDIAN OCEAN-SAFETY OF THE d CuEW. e A great sensation and much grief were caused on i Friday, in Liverpool, by the receipt of a telegram from r Wexford, intimating that the ship Indian Ocean, which had sailed hence on the 20th inst., for Sydney, had been driven on shore oi the coast at A unestown, in the county of ...

... I TaOOPS FOR AMERICA. LiavER'ooL, Saturday. To-day another embarkation of troops took place here. The Cuasard mail steam-ship Canada, which left this port for it Halifax and Boston, took out the 7th battery of the latht d brigade Royal Artillery (Captain Child's), six officers and 117 n men, to Halifax; and the 8th battery of the same brigade a 1- (Captain M'flea's), six officers and 117 men, ...

... THE STATE OF HUNGARY. TheVienua correspondent of the Times, writing on E the 11th instant, says:- The proclamation of Stand- a recut, or the most rigorous martial law, in the united counties of Peath, Pilis, and Solt, professes to be directedC especially against the robbers and incendiaries by which those districts of Hungary are infested, and declares that 1 whosoever shall be taken in the ...

... THE ASSOCIATED BODY OF CHURCH SCHOOL- kMAS'rERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. ma -1 . v -t y e 5, e e '5 a Is le rs of I- le The ninth annual conference of this body was held in St. MAary's School, Stafford, on Thursday and Friday last, and was numerously attended by teachers from all'parts of the country. As manyoflhem veresentasdeputationsfromvarious local associations, upwards of a thousand ...