... . jortion gnWhomm 3E lePRUSSIA. An Imperial ordinance dated the 14th instant, has been Tf promulgated, postponing the opening of Parliament from the e. 9th to the 16th of March. r- v. ITALY. n Senator Delfaco has been appointed Minister of Justice Df vice Signor Raelli, who had tendered his resignation on ac- 0r count of ill-health. ie The Italie says Signor Visconti-Venosta gave another to ...

... The Committees of Management of the Derbyshire A Associated Dairies have issued their first Report . to the guarantors, and we are indebted to for an early copy of this interesting production. B The number of impressions being limited, we are induced to summarize its contents for the benefit of our agricultural friends, believing, at the same time, that the facts will be read with interest in ...

... I - - - . IMR. GATHORNE HARDY ON THE HOUSE OF . I COMMONS. A new grammar school was opened at Maidstone on Tues- day, in the presence of a large assemblage from the town and neighbourhood, which included the Earl of Romney, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., Sire. Lubbock, M.P., the Bishop Suffragan of Dover, and Mr. Wykeham Martin, M.P. Mr. Hardy defended the House of Commons from the charge of ...

... We reprint the following outspoken and energetic R article from John Bull:- es The unexpected burst of national sympathy with the X Heir Apparent in the hour of peril has swept into the political world like a mountain breeze into a close. unwholesome valley. The political world was in great need of such a purifier. When a Prime Minister of a British Sovereign can tell his constituents that the ...

... fuarietst. Wilson, the condemned Counectirutmurderer, has stopped writing his life. The sheriff is expected to finish it for him. Josh Billings says:- Never do any work before break- fast. If it is necessary to work before breakfast, have your breakfast first. Putnam, Connecticut, claims first-class honours for a young lady who is an adept at ploughing, planting, haying, and barvesting, and ...

... sty TUlE MASSACRE BY THE REDS. SIT GERMAN THREAT TO BOMBARD AND OCCUPYfr PARIIS. o nit (RtEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.,) gre P~AtaS. March 22. UI Yesterday afternloon the 185th baettalion of the National coi Guards, urdler the commaud of M1. Lullier, reinstated M. dcl Tony Mofiln in the atturie of the Sixth Arrondissenient, th, whence hle had been obliged to withdrew in the nmorini ' ga consequence of ...

... Larittit. ti l Here is a matrimonial advertisomenit cut from a contem- 0 is porary:- A young lady of exterior and pleasant appear- a ir ance, wishes to marry a gentleman of just the eanie way of t' thinking. p l- A young lady of Baton Rouge sent a poetical piece to a 0 r local paper, entitled, May 30th. She felt unpleasant next v is day to see it headed, My 30th. It was about her birth ...

... MANOD RMALwAy DiVmENn.-The dirpeotrR of MIDLAND RAILWAY DivIDEND.-The directors of the Midland Railway Company have decided to recommend to 1 the proprietors a dividend on the ordinary stock, for the half year ending 80th June last, at the rate of 6J per cent. per annum. THE MANCHBsTESn, BUXTON, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.-The usual half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, ...

... At the Matlock Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, before Q. it 0. Radford, R. K. Pringlo, and E. M. Wass, Esqrs., James Andrews, gardener to U. R. P. Morewood, Esq., of Alfreton Shre Y Park, High Sheriff of Derbyshire, was summoned by John prog d Walker, Esq., for a gtme trespass on the 12th of August end I Drlast, in the parish of Darley, and Mr. Rowland P. More- of Si le wood himself was summoned ...

... E QantspunZlttew. THE, TOWN HALL CLOCK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MIERCURY. Sir-Will you kindly allow me a smill lspace in your columns to correct it misrepresentation in your article of last week speaking of illuminating some of the town clocks. You refer to the one in the To'wn Hall as one not to be de- pended upon; this is the statement I wish to correct. Since I had the management of the ...

... i fortion ?Mflligtnrt FANCE. TEF EXECUTIONS AT SATORY. PAus, Tuesday. The following are the most interesting and authentic par- tioulars concerning the last moments of Rossel and Ferrd:- These two leaders of the Commune were executed this morning, together with a sergeant of the 46th Regiment, named Bourgeois, who had been sentenced to death for hav- ing deserted his regiment and gone over to ...

... Wu WOME1N. I 8l' TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. hro, Dn- Sir-May I venture to sond you~a f-w lines suggested to nev thle me by a severil week's sejourn in England, where the terri- len blo strife now raging on the Ckntinent has led me to seek a 350. ted refuge? What I have to say has, no doubt, been said many Ne the times by English writers, teacheri, and preachers far better exh to) than I, as a ...