... 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, ...

... the The Derby Regatta took place on the liver Derwent last lone Saturday afternoon, but by no means proved so interesting as that of the previous year. The weather was all that could be desired, and there was no hick of company; in- 'om, deed in this respect the regatta was most successful. The n, banks on either side of the river along the course were lined uand with gaily dressed people. The ...

... Fattst ?Ufdligtntc HARVEST PROSPECTS. rtly), The effect of last week's beautiful weather upon the Ll ide growing crops, says the Magnet of Monday, has been every- more vwhere apparent, and the grain is rapidly maturing. Harvest Roe, operations are making fair progress in sHecx, Middlesex, d. Surrey, Bucks, Berks, and the more southern counties. Itye T E the and oats have been cut freely, and ...

... THE COLLISION OX THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. On Friday, at the Town-hall, Dronfield, Oliver Merritt, ,*intsman, was charged, on remand from last week, with manslaughter. The magistrates present were Messrs. H. Bowden, T. W. Rodger, and C. Cammell. John Skidmore, stationmaster at Unstone, said the defendant, Oliver Merritt, was the pointsman on the 19th of July. The goods train arrived at the station ...

... r?pirn?.ence. MR. B3ASS AND HIS WORKPEOPLE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MERCURY. Sir-I notice in a speech made about a fortnight ago, in Dery, y oe o yur eprsenatiesin Parliament (Mr. Bas), hathe s astrng dvoateforth eight hours per daymoemet or hewormei. ayI ask Low it i i doe no st te eamle y lttng isowl, workmen work eigh hors or day hu I uppse is motto is, do as I Bay, not as Id. ...

... ALFRETON FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL ISOCIETY. The first annual show of this society was held on Wed- nesday last, in a field kindly lent for the occasion by J. R. Fielding, Esq. The weather was all that could bd wished for. The attendance was very large, upwards of 2,000 pay- ing for admission exclusive of those admitted by members' tickets. On the ground we noticed C. 1. P. Morewood, Esq., the ...

... faxittits. vid he Brigham Young is threescore and ten, and so are his .th wives. u8 Masculine swells at Long Branch, Newport, and Sara- 3, toga, wear blood-red gloves this season. n A Minnesota juror addressed a note to the judge, in which o he styled him as 1 Onerable Jug. ls. A gentleman whose love of order was largely developed, i ahad a clerk in his employ whose habits about the offlce ...

... if-, . (v , guragn guitillotim, I-THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. oy THE WAR INDEMNITY. r VERSAILLBs, Thursday. r. In to-day's sitting of the National Assembly the Depart- re mental Commission (Decentralisation) Bill came on again of for decision. Clause 31, which lays down rules concerning le the publication of the reports of the sittings of the Councils re General was adopted, an amendment in favour of ...

... WEDNESDAY, AUG. 9, 1871. MINISTERS, AMN) WH IAT THEY EAT. | - -- -, . . I I f - ! - I-- ; -. The doings of Her Majesty's Ministers in the City , bave not unnaturally called attention to Ministerial dinners in general and the abolished 1 Whitebait at Greenwich in particular; and the stern displeasure of the Premier having been by some means aroused E against the pleasant custom indicated ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ze The forty-first annual meeting of the British Association in wis opened, on Wednesday, by a meeting of the general in committee in the Humanity Class-roomn of the Edinburgh University. Professor Huxley, the retiring President, was of in the chair. Mr. Gnssiot's magnificent gift of 10,00HZ. for n the endowment of the Kew Meteorological Observatory, as which owes its present perfect state to ...