... ESTABtISHED FACTS AND NONCONFORMIST I I ~~FIGURES. I We bad occasion last session to remark upon a certain pettiness which has of late characterized Nonconformist attacks upon the Established Church. It is needless to say that the questions whether an Established Church is ail advantage or a disadvantage to a country, and whether, if it be an advantage, the Church actually established in ...

... MEMORIALS OF TISSINGTON AND ITS WELL I ~~~DREFSSINGS.I [Written for the Derby Mlercury by Fr. Redfern, author of the History of Uttoxeter, &o., &c.Il The extensive library of Lord St. Helens was bequeathed to Sir William Fitzberbert, Bart., and is now at Tissiugton, and a great portion of it occupies the extensive rooms over the stables. The arms of the Tissington branch of the family of Fitz- ...

... .I I THE PRINCE OF WALES' PROPOSED VISIT TO TIE EDITOR OF TtHB DEBTBY MERCURY. Sir-Publici onthusiasm on the subject of the Princo of Wales'reported visit to Derby does not soom torun highi. The report is that general feeling prevails that the occasion of His Royal Highness' visit is too insigitillcant, and uot Of real general interest. It is felt that whell Royalty visits a town, the object ...

... ?? ?Ilfflligmm LBY ELCTRIa TELEGRAPH. FRANCE THREATENED WITH GERMAN RE-OCCUPATION. A Lombard telegam says that Count Arnim has infonned M. Thiers that the German Government matntains its right of re-occupying French territory should M. Thiers retire..Z FATAL SHIPWRECK. Tuesday. The last three persons left on board the Royal Adelaide, wrecked near Portland yesterday, were drowned, making a ...

... Conservatism in Derry has been too strong for the combined forces of the Government, the Roman Catholics, and Home Rule. Mr. PALLES, the Irish Attorney-General, has been thoroughly beaten by Mr. CHSARLES E. LEwIS, the Conservative candidate, notwithstanding that the Home Rule candidate, Mr. BIGGAR, when he found himself beaten, threw the weight of his influence into the Ministerial scale. The ...

... I AWAY WI THE INCOME-TAX., (From the SAq~eSd Daily Telrqphs flow long Will the men of Sheffield tamely st dot wit a tax the continued exercise of which is, in this period of trosaeriY and pence, a breach of faith amountingto a fraud? Why this perpetuation of the Lay Inquisition with its Father Inquisitors and its machinery of moral torture, and its boasted activity in putting on the screw? ...

... Writing, as we do, upon the dullest and foggiest of November days, it seems difficult to put a bright face upon an article devoted to the reception of' Royalty at this time of the year in what our towns- men delight to style the ancient borough. But it may be assumed as a fact that the PRINCE and PRIN- CESS of WALES have determined to honour Derby with their presence upon a day in the ...

... I On Thursday, the Pelsall Hill Colliery, near Walsall, was iti inundated by a volume of water, it is supposed, from some flt old workings. Eleven men near the pit bottom were of resoned, but twenty-two others were hopelessly shut off sat from aid. The water rose rapidly, notwithstanding in- w mente pumping appliances. It is feared that the entombed ta men are lost, but the greatest efforts ...

... PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD IN TV CHURCH I OF ENGLAND. it, The Church Herald has the following account of servioes Ltic at All Saints', LaInbeth:- Ond Any one desirous of seeing a striking and sudden contrast the would have had their utmost expectations fulfilled by ion attending All Saints', Lambeth, on the Feast of All Saints, lay and on Saturday night. On the former day the service was gorgeous in ...

... WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. Electoral Reform is a capital phrase by which to designate the basis of an agitation common to the uneasy people of town and country. ODGER, whose grievances are of urban growth, may, upon this question, shake Hhndds with ARCn, the rural derna- gogue and agricultural labourcr's professed friend; and both of them may extend the hand of friendship to Mr. J. C. Cox, ...

... The world-renowned hospitalities of the Palace of the Peak have been accepted by the Heir to the Throne of England, and next month the Prince of WALES will be the guest, at Chatsworth, of the Duke of DEVONSHIRE as his Royal Mother has been in times gone by. It is not at all times easy to induce a Royal Prince to turn aside from a contemplated journey in order to gratify the loyal wishes of ...

... I - , n. -- - , , The marriage'of Mr. Thomas Henry Rumbold, scnid son -of the late Charles Henry Rumbold, Esq., Esq., M.P., of Preston Candover, Hants, to Miss Katherine Lucy Bott, the youngest daughter of the late John Bott, Esq., of Coton Hall, was celebrated in Hanbury church, on Thursday moru- ing in the presence of a large circle of family friends and a crowded congregation. The ceremony ...