... I TO TH1E EDITOR OF THE DERBY MEROURY'Y.. . Sir-In the controversy on Ritual which for some time has occupied the attention of the public mind; it appears to mte that.one importaht fact is lost sight of, namely, that whatever latitude may be enjoyed by the laity, the clergy have no choice at all, but are bound by those rules which they are solemnly sworn to obey. This I shall proceed to prove. ...

... ATTE3tFT TO DROWN At NON-UNIONIST. On Thursday, at the Chesterfield Police-court, two men, named William Webster and Matthew~ Hall, who said they were unionists, were charged with aiding and abetting John Hankerson in commsitting a violent assault upon John Ham- mond, a non-unionist, at Staveley, on Monday week. Mr. Busby appeared in support of the charge. The complainant was much bruised in ...

... (From the Times.) News of Mr. James Stephens ! A very pretty story for a Christmas fireside, and not likely to frighten any- body either. We must confess at once that we cannot say exactly where this gentleman is, but we can tell our readers where those who know him best expect him to be. The firm belief of the eminent Fenian who actually succeeded him after his imprisonment as Head of the ...

... LEICE STERSHIRE. LOUGHBOROUJGH. SEIOUS6 HOBBESS1Y OF PLATE AND JE'WELLERY, AT LouGI1- noitoUGll.-At the Borough Police Court, on Monday, three men, named Edmund Sewell, Samuel Coxon, and William Mfyers, were charged with being concerned in breaking into the house of Mr. Jelly, elastic-web weaver, and stealingthere- from a quantity of plate, money, and jewellery, amounting altogether to nearly ...

... I - -. - - - - - - In the year 1853 Roger Cbarles Tichborne, eldest son of Sir James Francis Doughty Tichborne, of Tiehborne Park Alresford, Hants, an ex-lieutenant of the 6th Dragoons (Carabineers, left England to Visit South America. After having crossed from Peru to Rio Janeiro early in 1854, Mr. Tichborne embarked on board a small merchant schooner, the Bella, of Liverpool, for Jamaica. ...

... WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1867. The near approach of the re-assembling of Parlia- ment is exciting a good deal of public interest and discussion; and oddly enough, as the time draws near, when the compact union of all Reformers should be more closely consolidated, there are additional indications of rather important differences. 1fr. BRIGHT and the Reform League are ready for con- flict; and Mr. ...

... ASHBORNE. PETTY SEScIONS, January 19. EBefore F. WRIoHT and J. GooDwIw: JOHsNSON, EsqrS.1 Samuel Cooper, of Hulland Ward, was summoned by Mr Superintendent Corbishley, for having in his shop at Hu~land W two pairs of steelyards incorrect and unjust, on the 9th inst-Fined 21. and costs. John Hodgkinson, shopkeeper, of Hulland, was sum- moned by the same officer for having a pail of scales in ...

... M.o some time ago described the extensive restoration of this pretty old church then in progress, and alluded to the promised new organ, and are now glad to announce the re- alization of the expressed wish of the worthy vicar, the lion. and 11ev. 0. W. W. Forester, that it should be com- pletede and opened during his stay in the parish, and pre- nious to his leaving for another sphere of ...

... RESIGNATION o01 -THE FENIA LEADER. :r. The miserable dupes of the Fenian Head Centre )n Stephens have been rewarded for all their subscriptions ty by the resignation of the traitor who pretended to lead !V them. id The lNew York Tribunne says:_A few days since ir we announced that James Stephens, the C. 0. I. R., .1- had not left for Ireland, but was still in this city; and now we have to ...

... A NEWV INDUSTRY FOR NORTH STAFFORD- I SHIRE. A new source of industry and wealth is rapidly developing itself in the North Staffordshire coal field-the production of paraffin from Cannel coal and coal shale-and there can bo little doubt that in a comparatively short time hundreds of persons will be engaged in an employment which had not been dreamt of three yeers ago. It is about that time ...

... PROPOSED NEW Bissiornic Ix CH lNA.-It was men- .tioned some days since in the Tines that the Church Missionary Society has under its consideration a scheme for the subdivision of the Bishopric of Victoria, Hong. kong, and the creation of a bishopric for the North of China, the seat of which should be at Ningpo. The Archbishop of Canterbury coincided in the propriety of establishing the new ...

... I IMPORTANT APPEAL. TO T14E EDITOR OF THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. Sir-The time has arrived when the Oaks Colliery Relief Committee can give the public reliable information respect- ing the extent of the calamity and the amount of money re- quired to meet the sad necessities of the case. After the accident the colliery proprietors paid the repre- sentatives of the lost miners a full week's wages, ...