... I The Index, the London organ of the seceded American hi States, publishes the text of the letter in which Mr. Mason, BF announces the termination of the Confederate mission to I England:- fI 24, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square, Sept. 21, 1863. * The Right Hon. Earl Russell, HerMajesty's Secretaryof State foe ir Foreign Affairs. fit My Lord-In a dispatch from the Secretary of State of ...

... I The Speakir's notice is published for the issue of the writ for Coventry within six days. At a public meetingat Glaisgow it baa been resolved to erect a monument to Lord Clyde. Two men were suffocated in a veil at Scalby, near Scar,. borough, on Tuesday afternoon.ony4,0r it appears from a census-paper that there are ony8,0 foreigners resident in England. The Globe baa reason to believe that ...

... CODNOR. On Sunday, Feb. 8th, two sermons were preached in Codnor Church, by the Rev. W. G. Ketchley, incumbent of Ripley. A collection wabs made after each service to defray the expences occasioned by the week-day evening services. MATLOCK. In the New School-room, Matlock Green, on Thursday last, Mr. Adam (author of the Gem of the Peak, and other works), delivered a lecture on the American ...

... | The fourth annual meeting of the Church of England Clerical and Lay Association for the Midland district was held in this town on Tuesday and Wednesday the 2nd and 3rd inst. The members to the number of about 120, being about an equal number of laymen and clergy, assembled at the Mechanics' Hall at half-past ten on Tuesday morning, Francis Wright, Esq., of Osmaston Manor, Derbyshire, ...

... I MATLOCK. BRITaISH AND Foa.s=sN BIsBLESocimTy.-The annual meet- ing of the Matlock Bath auxiliary of this association was held in the National School-room, on Wednesday evening last. There was a very fair attendance. The Rev. J. M. Maynard, M.A., occupied the chair, and the claims of the society were ably advocated by the Rev. W. A. Brown, rector of Loft, Lin. colnohire. A shocking accident ...

... LI ALVASTON. d The series of fortnightly lectures continue to attract large audiences. On Wednesday last the Rev. E. Poole read in an n impressive manner the Rev. Dr. Guthrie's eloquent exposition el of the Parable of the Ten Virgins. The attendance was numerous and remarlably attentive. The village band was present for the first time this winter, and played a suitable a selection of sacred ...

... Ministers sustained two defeats in the House of I Commons last week, and although it is said by their supporters that they are of no importance, they serve t to show the weakness of the Government, and the i slippery hold of its officials on the mind and will of E Parliament. In the first instance, they were de- feated in an attempt to prevent the issue of a com- mission of inquiry into the ...

... - S I- E C E- . IS IT PEACE ! Everybody who has heard Lord PALM1E3sTON tl address a festive assembly, knows with what felicitous e touches he can paint all his political sketches in rose d colour, and invest with glowing tints our national v position. At the annual banquet given last week by c the Lord Mayor of London to Her MAJESTY'S Minis- c ters, the Premier's after dinner speech formed ...

... WEDBNESDAY, MARCH 4,1863. More disasters appear to be looming in the future for America. Notwithstanding an unprecedented accumulation of military, financial, and commercial disasters, the Federal Government still professes to have confidence in the notion-although all the rest of the world disbelieves it--that the South will be subjugated; and the Union re-constructed. Acting upon this ...

... At the Borough Police Court, on Monday, consider- able excitement was manifested on the part of a large crowd of women to hear the examination of a man named Hickinbottom. The first witness was Hannah Kidd, who ?? Sunday week I heard my daughter, who was married to the prisoner, screaming murder. I ran into the house and said, For God's sake what are you doing? and he said If you don't ...

... 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 ...