... ETON. FATAL ACCIDENT.- Whilst playing football on Shrove Tuesday, at Mappleton, Thomas Froggatt in attempting to get the ball, which had been kicked into the river Dove, was carried out of his depth and drowned below Okeover bridge. The deceased was the son of Mr. Froggatt, school- master, of Stanton, and was in the service of Mrs. Berisford, of the Callow, near Ashborne. SMALLEY. Li-LiearIELD ...

... DISPATCH OF MAILS. The Office is open to the public from 7 amt. to 9 p.m. I ~ ..tesIc. n b.c.ns Lines ef road and clilefpiace of destination. No. ot Mail. 1 Ashborne, Belper, Matlock, Wirks- vorth, and 'n.Iiges eroutd Derby.. 2 Xrminghatn, Cheltenhom, Glouces- tcr, Worcester. and Wales .. .. 3 Stoike-otn-Trent, Hull, York, Leeds, and Northern Counties 4 London .. S Leicester. ...

... I to I M on MORE SEIZUfRES OF BAD MEAT IN DERBY. r. At the Borough Police-court, on Friday, before J. Bailey, a r. F. Longdon, and T. B. Forman, Esqrs., John Boam, butcher, t r. Market Hall, was charged with exposing for sale on the 7th b )r of March five pieces of diseased meat which were unfit for human food. Mr. Leech appeared for the Local Board ofa r. Health, who prosecuted, and Mr. ...

... )r - -- -- - . ?? ?? . - it THE TWELFTH NIGHT FETE AT THE DRILL ) SHALL. 1- Te l- SN n- A- - .--l --fA - 1)-hs j. 1-I1 . )a RALL. I-It has' now become un annual custom in Derby to bold a of twelfth-night Nisl. So popular has the festival become, and 3' it affords such an amount of enjoyment Dot only to juveniles Ithut to growyn-up persons, that a proposal to discontinue the g custom, we are ...

... hen At the Lambeth Police-court, on Friday, Mr. Thomas ort oyce, of Upper Tulse-hill, was charged upon two sum- iiet- mousse with wilfully and maliciously damaging the property Om of Mr. Thomas Snelling and Mr. Nelson P. Stratton. When are the summonses were applieel for Inspector Mee complained ark, of several outrages being committed at Tulse-hiil by a Aded number of ;young gentlemen ...

... la 3 A meeting of the general committee and subscribers was I ,m held on Tuesday at the Salisbury Hotel, for the reception of ft the executive committee's report in reference to the distribu- t. tion of seed corn to the French peasant-farmers ruined by to war. The Eight Hon., the Lord Vernon presided. The d report of the committee for a copy of which we are indebted 11 to the courtesy of Lord ...

... FUNERAL OF THE LATE EARL OF CHESTE RFIELD. ily; The mortall remains of the late lamented Earl of Chester- Not Its :field wvere interred in the family vault at Bretby Parkc on cf try- Thursday last,, after lying in state on the previous day ri ent. in the Hall. Thie day wvas bitterly cold; frost and snow ag '8 being everywhere, and the roads almost impassabltj but WE and niotwithstanding these ...

... ILion REPORT 01F THE FARM-PRIZE COMPE TITION, 1871. pra The system of giving prize fortebs aae fr s on in the districts of the country meetings, fi rst originated byeo Is the Mr. as~n last yar, is wellcalculated to illustrate the inf( a is. Pepeiar ~ractices of different districts, which, if properly d111 regiaiteareS in the journal, would form a collection of valu-da They able facts. At the ...

... WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1871. THE RECOVERY OF THE PRI-CE OF WALES. ght England has heaved a mighty sigh of relief and ng, thankfulness. A gracious answer has been given to rge ory, the prayers, not only of a nation but, of 'the whole Ut- civilised world, and the PRINCE OF WALES, after ,ar pausing for an agonising moment before the dread gates which separate life from the dark unknown ate abyss, ...

... DE RBY SCHOOL BOARD. a..fie At tha bi-monthly meeting of the Derby Sohnol Board on who Monday afternoon, there were present Mr. T. W. Evans )nn- (chairman), Mr. Beswick, the Rev. E. W. Foley, the Rev. ived W. Crosbie, Mr. Chadfield, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Johnson, Mr. this Shaw, Mr. Thompson, and the Rev. A. McKenna. DOen POOR PARENTS AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. ie551 The Clerk stated that Mr. Parkas, the ...

... INSPECTION OF THE D)ERBYSHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY. ,~The Derbyshire Yeomanry Carvalry, -after their usual tl :eperiod of training, were inspected in Osuniseton Park on 1P Friday afternoon by Colonel Chaplin, of the 4th Dragoon 1e Guards. The weather was somewbat cold, and the sky is was cloudy, and only on ouce occasion during- the inspection Is la did the- sun Shed its rays on thle glittering ...

... re We extract the following interesting account of the ng operations of a portion of the eclipse expedition to Sicily us from an address delivered at the Andersonians University, in Glasgow, by Professor Thorpe. The Professor was sta- la tioned at Catanis, in the garden of a monastery:- .-After P ny describing the preliminary arrangements, Professor Thorre e ont said it had been arranged that ...