... TO THE EDITOR Or THE DERBY MERCURY. Sir-I beg to call your attention to the following arrogant remarks, issued in your paper of September 25th, as under, viz. : Class 10-This is a Derbyshire class all over, and one which we are surprized the society, with so many practical men upon its committee, has allowed at all, for the very con- ditions are a hindrance to good.farming, and we have seen ...

... THE LAST BOAT. Musing I sit upon the shore, Awaiting till the boat shall come, And bear me to my far-off home, To cease from wandering ever more. Wearled with waiting, pjnch'd with cold, D;in eyes of mine still watch the stream, Which rune as In an endlesg dream;- Runs now, will run, and ran of old. Ever unchanged the constant swirl In little whirlpools eddies still, The straws and leaves foat ...

... Mr. Charles Edmonde (of the house of Willis and Southe- ran) sends the following communication to the Tines:- ,,The extreme rarity of all the very early editions of the poems of Shakspeare is well known, but perhaps of all of them, with the exception of the ' Venus and Adonis' of 1593, which was the first published work of Shakspeare, the rarest and most curious is the remarkable collection of ...