... At the Wesleyan Conference now sitting in Manchester, the following statistics were presented by the Secretary to the education committee :-Tbe number of day schools is 887, an increase of 144; scholars, 150,765, an increase of 21,955; average attendance, 96,691, an increase of 13,029. The amount of Government annual grants to Wesleyan schools in 1870 was 40,2091. 17s. 4d., being an increass ...

... I_ Crt @f ficial. HEALTH OF THE QUEEN. In the Lencet we'read the ifollowing:- We have seen es, with regret the attacks on the Queen, based on Her Majesty's )er absence from evening entertainments and on her brief resi- oek dence in London. Now the fact is-and the more widely ier this fact is known, acid the more plainly it is stated, the be ?? Majesty is not physically capable of bearing al- ...

... xgition }Ntdlivt~c. a thar it INTERVIE W BETWEEN THE E MPERORS OF the GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. l VxxsccA, August 11, Evening. am ?? Emperor of Germanly, on his way to Gastein,wa -received to-day a.t the railway stattion of. Wlei, in 'Upper en, Austria, by the Emperor Francis Joseph. After a cordial w sf greeting on both aides, the two Sovereigns entered the sam lecarnage aud continued the journey ...

... 0i The bi-monthly meeting of the Derby School Board was held in the Grand Jury-room, Town Hell, on Monday after- noon, and the members present were Messrs. T. W. Evans (in the chair), Beswick (vice-cheirman), Thonipson, Shaw, it Johnson, Chadtield, Holmes, and Roe, the Rev. A. McKenna, 3 and the R1ev. W. Crosbie. THE CENSUS RETURNS. A The Clerk stated that he had seen Mr. Blandford, the ...

... THE STOWMARKET CATASTROPHEA t Another body was discovered on Tuesday among the ruins ti r of the Gun-cotton Factory at Stowmarket, and it is believed a there are several more yet to be found. The exploration of A - the ground is attended with considerable danger, there be- v - ing some quantity of unexploded cotton lying about, which a might be ignited by concussion. Most of it, however, is ...

... I The rTima, in a tempestuous article on Saturday morning, assails the policy of Mr. Disraeli, on the ground that he did not compel Mr. Gladstone to proceed with the debate on the a Royal Warrant before going into Supply. It cannot be e difficult to discover the reason why the leading journal is so aggrieved on this point. The Government has not, as Y far as we can remember, in a single ...

... I lrnt..nq ra V ; m QlaA fN I table Dur~ing thepastweek ?? Majestiee therhnperor end Empress of Brazil have boon malking a tour throuagh the if the north of England and Derbyshire. )ec, Their Royal Hiighnesses arrived in Sheffield on Monday Isisted evening at the Victoria Station,' and took up their qusarters ,o the tehelajnng ThMaerCutler (W. Bragge, Req), tiededupn temandon ueday morning at ...

... Mr. J. R. Hind, writes that the next total solar eclipse C which will be visited in England will not occur until the T 11th of August, 1999, when the circumstances will be nearly f as follows:- ?? The central and total eclipse will enter upon the earth's surface in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico; thence v traversing the Atlantic, it meets the English coast at li Padqtow, in Cornwall, ...

... fariffits. A HIXT.-A Parisian lady called on her milliner the other day to take up the character of a servant. The respectable appearance of the latter was beyond ques- tioning. But is she honest ? asked the lady. I am not so certain about that, replied the milliner; I have sent her to you with my bill a dozen times, and she has never yet given me the money. A Scotch minister recently ...

... THE RECENT CHARIE OF ROBBERY AGAINST I I - A FRENCH MARQUISE. l .r. ir lic a- he er ce e of r_- at hte ss. TO THE RDYOrl oP THE STANDARD. Sir-The attention of our client, Elizabeth, Countess of klarriugton, of Kensington-galace-gardens, has been called tq the report in your and other newspapers, of the proceed- ings at Marlborough-street Police-court on the 17th inst., relating to a charge of ...

... fortign 4utelliotlya, FRANCE. tIII AN UIMPPRIAL SCANDAL. h In the trial Of its president, li. Devienue, who wits ac- att ish cused by the Government of the Nattonal Defence, on b ren 'September 28 lest, of deeds of a scandalous nature, which at 0 that time made some Sensation, the Cour de Cessartion, his mn the revived an Impernd scandal, which in the late excitilig at Irs coureseof events ...

... Jkcrd 9rnpis. -he A FATAL ACCIETOCURDAT DENBX' on Friday' lif oat last (as reported elsewhere), in the Kilburn seam at ml the that colliery, when a fall of bind came down. We 1 an led understand the owner of the cofllery, Wm. DRuRY-' Ci hat LowF, Esq., of Locko Park, is most solicitous for. the mil Lnd safety and welfare of Isis workpleople-providing ampl~e st of material of every kind-and we ...