... Oppressed with a sluggish trade and a dimmed Ref prosperity, Derby has somehow or other managed to coa take a great moral and intellectual stride. Without Ji ostentation, and almost silently, its Grammar School- in t once the fount from which its best sons drank inspir- to ing draughts of knowledge, but in later years merely his the wreck of a nobly-freighted ship-has speedily, Tes and as if ...

... I Orro'z a -7--> I I PUBLIC MEN ON PUBILIC TOPIC.S.l . ? . ' I I . I ?? .. . ?? ; I , . / IT-5-- . ?? i' * .:-i ?? .. ?? ?? '2f ~ t-t^ 0*f ,B t,, th AMERICAN'QUsTIM:.' nabt At the opening of the Hartley Institution, Southampton, was -on Wednesday, the Earl of Hardwicke responded to the gen ed toast the House of Lords. In the course of his speech mor em he referred to the late speech of ...

... THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S LAND TRANSFER IACT. d (From the Times.) i The Lord Chancellor's Land Transfer Act is an- f nounced to come into operation on October 1. The l If object of the act, as stated in the preamble, is threefold: . first, to give certainty to security to the title to real estates; secondly, to facilitate the proof of such title; and, e thirdly, to render the dealing with land ...

... DISTRESSING CASK OF SUICIDI AT LE1cusTvn.-An inquest ti was held on Tuesday evening, before Mr. J. Gregory, ti coroner, at the Wool Combers' Arms, Church gate, Leicester, ti on the body of Mary Ann Ward, 17 years of age (daughter s; of Mr. Ward, founder, Watling-atreet), who committed self- c destruction, by drowning on the previous night, under very n melancholy circumstances. It appears from ...

... 0- - I Tb 115 The Princess Alexandra of. Deimairk will, it Is. expected, desl cli pay her first visit to Osborne ?? month'.pr ily The Poole Herald states that Garibialdi will, as Coon ats hepr edi is able to leave Ital, visit a gentleman in the neighlbourhood will It. of Lyrmington, in Hants. fl1l1 d- A letter from it naval offlcer, servlno; Id the African squa- 17( en dron, spesiks of slavers ...

... . BNAT1UL'AL'LruE'U* purp On. Tuesday~, meetings were held at the Temperance Ai Hall Derby, ina furtherance of the views of this society. Masi Xn til afternoon a select meeting, presided over by the jb iv 1.U aklwscneed to discuss the best car easocarig oat the temperance reformation, and A11s4 the Rev. T. Phillips, of Lichfield, gave an accouot ofth W scheme proposed by the League, and ...

... -1- A -- l!--l . ?? ] - at - ?? Shareholders are sufficiently accustomed to the general r.umours and imagined events which appear in the daily or provincial press to attach little importance to the premature intimations respecting the opinion of Colonel Yolland on the Market Harborough collision. Still less are proprietors in either company disposed to attach credence to the unauthen- ticated ...

... THE VOLUNTEER MiOVEMENT. LORD RANELAGH AND THE FRENCH EMPEROR. On Thursday evening the inhabitants of Brighton pre. Fented two splendid swords to Viscount Ranelagh, who in the u f his sneech said he had had occasion lately to be in thi h ds3 riia app ran~c'e._ He t~ad the good fortune to go to chfolny, a- pov ther he met with a kind sand cordial reception fr utetnf Emperor of the French ...

... a 0 0 d 5. I- Is e ASHBORNE. DOve VALLEY RIFLE CoRPs BAND.-A donation of 31. has been received from Francis Wright, Esq., of Osmaston Manor, since the closing of the amateur concert account. BREADSALL. On Sunday last, the 6tb instant, the sum of 61. 178. IlId. was collected for the Lancashire Relief Fund, after a Harvest Thanksgiving Sermon, by the Rev. H. R. Crewe, Rector. SMALLEY. An ...

... By ?? . - - te REVIEW OF THE ROBIN HOOD RIFLES. W et The members of the Robin Bood Rifle Corps were reviewed gr inch on Friday, on the Forest Ground, by Colonel Dick. Many M, thin of the principal residents of the town and county were preslent co IrtY to witness the movements of the Volunteers. The picturesque th * 5 slopes of the Forest were covered by a large assemblage of I 15spectators, ...

... . D At the annual dinner of the Huntingdonshire Agricul- 0 tural Society, on Tuesday, General Peel responded to the toast of the Army and Navy. In the course of e his remarks be ?? Queen of England has got a regular army-certainly not so numerous as the armies . of other countries, but still respectable in point of num- s bers, for it consists of 220,000 regular troops, including of course ...

... THE LICHFIELD CHORAL ASSOCIATION.-We observe 9 with great satisfaction the growing interest felt in the ,, movement in this diocese for promoting ?? d music in our churches, We have been caliedvery re- . cently to notice the meeting of the association, which is Ml o fixed for Wednesday next, and we desire now to counsel our readers to render it all the support in their power. i The ...