... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... On Saturday, 16th December, says a correspondent, these e bounds met at Kingston Hall, the. seat of Lord .Belper. There were about seventy at the meets including Lord Ferrers, Hon. H. Strutt, Messrs. J. Story, Wi B., W. J., and E,. Paget, Heymann, R. Story, Cross (3), Evans, &c. Mr. ?? was there punctually, and the hounds left soon after. We first drew along the little ?? at the outside of ...

... 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 ...

... - I Manchester and Liverpool papers state that a large num- ber of telegraph clerks, who have formed an association for obtainingredress of certain alleged grievances, have struck. The Mfaacnlescer Gsuardsan says that membership o4the asso- ciation involves dismissal from the service, and that several of the clerks in Manchester have already suffered that penalty. Fifty or sixty have been ...

... REPUBLICANISE IN ENGLAND. ind The English demsgogues have taken the stumip against Monarchy. A Sir Charles Dilke takes the lead. The re- staple of his argument is the expenses of Royalty,a which he illustrates by enumerating the names of the a officers-the surgeons. chamberlains, cooks, &c.-of the a at Royal household. The gross amount for these idle mouths, l including the Queen nud Royal ...

... DR. LEES' REPLY TO MU. BASS'S SPEECH AT THE DERBY LICEN8ED VICTUAL- LERS' DINNER. of i Dr. Lees was announced to reply on Thursdav evening to Mr. Bass's speech at the anniversary dinner of the Derby Licensed Vietuallers, which was held a short time ago. There was a large audience at the Temperance Hall. where er the address was given. The Rev. W. Griflith presided, and the platform was ...

... . q. L_- The December fashions are very fully described in Le Pei Follet. Nothing is more fashionable than a toilette com- on posed of black enlivened by colour. Two or three combina- trc tions uiiy thus be arranged from one dress. Coloured China In crepe is much worn with black velvet; the dress itself is to made without the introduction of colour. An elegant little an fichlu of crape, ...

... THE BARONESS BURDETT-COU'rS ON EX- TRAVAGANCE IN DRESS. A meeting Of the patrons and supporters of the Whitelands Po' Training Institution tookplace on Friday, for thedistribution the of the prizs annually presented to the pupils by the Baroness c Burdett-CoUtts. Owing to the absence of her ladyship at b Torquay, the chair was taken by Lady Dakin, supported by her husband, Alderman Sir Thomas ...