... L FI' ,m1.1 r-h-r ?? to th,. T,-Aw _n~A nf ?? The weekly returns made to the Local Board of Health have for several weeks past been uniusually high. * For tho y weekending Baturday last the number of registered deaths was a, ie 57, making the annual rate of mortality 51 per 1,000 persons * living. By a singular coincidence the numbers were pre- d cisely the same the week before. Of course the ...

... A-- .. --.A n.. T -.-i - ,-n-l e On Wcdnesday afternoon Dr. Lankester opened an inquiry at the College Arms, Canioden Town, into the circumstances attending the deaths of the six persons wbo perished in the dreadful fire at Sandwich-street, Burton-crescent, on Christ- Sa mas uight. The deceased ?? Anne Beetlestone, wi nged 30; Frances Betlestobe, aged 10; Alice Beetlestone, sai aged 6; Fra¢nk ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERRY MERCURY. Sir-Fairplay's letter in the Mercury of last week has C 't drawn forth a reply-if reply you can call it-in the columns v n of the Advertiser. I have not much fault, sir, to find with u 3, it. It is fairly grammatical, tolerably disecursive, quite s8 Me sufficiently flattering to our friend Mr. Clarke; but., sir, for 1 I- the life of me I cannot see the ...

... is'M. BURT ON-ON-TRENT. iton On Friday night last, the 14th inst., a wonderful perform- gton lice was given in St. George's Hall, by thocelebrated Japan- Miss ese troupe. The audience was large. Ark- On Weduesday imdrning last an old woman named Cur- lImot, zon, for many years an inmate of one of the almis houses chart was found dead on a sofa in her room. The deceased was 'race 79 years of ...

... LOUGHBORO UGH. WOnCrSSTER CATIIEDRAL.-The new peal of bells, lately a founded ait Losghborough for Worcester Cathedra], has just f left this town. The bells are 18 in number, and have been S procured at a considerable exepense, and about 3,0001. has 0 been raised by subscription to defray their cost. Their s tono is very fine, and they are spoken of as being surpassed E by no peal of beils in ...

... to THE CABSTANDS OF A LARGE TOWN like Derby are certainly, in one sense, great nuisances to the inhabi- tants in their immediate neighbourhood. Unless they Cl are kept scrupulously clean by frequent flushings with bi water, and by all the loose litter being removed from in time to time, they are apt to become physical nuisances tb of the highest order; whilst the collective presence of fll a ...

... WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1870. . Past experience appears to have made even Mir. BRIGHT wise. The annoyance which his unbridled car( tongue has beforetime inflicted upon his colleagues one in power, has taught 1 the tribune of the people hun the value of reticence, so that the latest extra- the parliamentary utterance of this subdued agitator can sine only please his admirers in a negative ...

... FIFTEEN PERSONS TRAMPLED TO DEATH. A most terrible accident took place on Sunday evening in St. roseph's Roman Catholic Chapel, Grosvenor-street, Liverpool, within a short distance of Rose-hill, Bridewell. id It appears that since the 2nd inst. a mission has been wi hold In this place of worship under the Passionist Fathers, res who have every day held several services, the first at six I ...

... on ; k- The Morning Post of Monday in relation to the game of at en billiards which has become so fashionable of late, makes the pf of following most important comments upon the future of the ib Dr. game *-An important step in relation to the game of bil- ni itliards has just been taken. At a meeting of some of the ma ug first players and leading table makers it was decided the S 1st other day ...

... -DERB PS O I DISPATCH OF MAILS. r The Offivc Is open to the public from 7 arm. to 9 p.n. co Letters,&c., san be posted nr Lines of road and chliefplaces of Without With I Letters q2 destinatlan. extra dditini can be be No. of charge penny registerd wi mail. until stamp Until ta 1 Ashborne, Belper, Matlock, WIrka- unt worth, and villages areund Derby 3.3a.-M 2 Birmingham, Cheltenham, Gleuceo- ...

... MR. T. O. BATEMAN AND THE COUNTY 'i POLICE. rRI - . I I 1 - - ?? ,B 'But Mr. T. 0. BATEMAN is singularly unfortunate in be t his endeavours to regulate mankind by his own The standard of right and wrong. It is impossible not hopi to give him credit for immense earnestness of pur- PP pose; but, of his discretion, so much cannot be said, ties since the absence of the latter qualification very ...

... AN EXTRAORDINARY LOVE AFFAIR-A FATHER ROBBED OF £500. 4; A1-m-hlP 1o'nwn Hall. on Saturdav. a resi.octablv- mi At the Sheffield Town Hall, on Saturday, a respectably- Tn; dressed young man, namued Edward Stansfield, a fishmonger mr in the townl, wns chaged with having feloniously received M certain sums of money belonging to Mr. W. Shaper, tobac- wI conist and eating-house keeper, Westbar, ...