... LAUNCH OF THE ,ALEXANDRA. ma- --A ?? -n A; ?? m l- , The Prince and Princess of Wales and other members of o Yeg the Royal Family, as well as the Lords of the Admiralty d ax- And other distinguished persons, went down by special I Ies trains from Charing-cross and Victoria on Wednesday B by morning for the launch of the Alexandra at Chlatbam. The A of Prince and Princess started from Victoria ...

... I At the last monthly meeting of the North Cheshire Chamber of Agriculture at Macclesfield, the subject for dis-l cussion was ' The cheese factory system. Mr. Murray, steward to the Earl of Harrington, who has had an ex-I tensive experience in the working of the Derbyshire cheese i factories, addressed the Chamber at great length pointing . out the success which so far bad attended the ...

... CLAY CROSS. PETTY SEssIoNs, Wednesday. Before JOHN P. JACJ:SON, Esq.j Thomas Corbett, a powerful man, who stated that he a cam from Hyde, in Cheshire, was charged in custody by I the Policeconstable Froggatt with sleeping in the buildings at t and Danesmoor Colliery on Tuesday nigbt.-Prisoner was found j nant covered with hay, and said he was going on the road next t t his morning.-Committed ...

... Tocl duscb.$ n nk ri Lord and Lady Vernon, Ron. William Vernon, and the g a Ion. Miss Vernon have arrived in England frum Paris. air Lord Hartinglon entertained a political party at dinner at en Devonshire lonse on Wednesday. a The Earl df Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, tl 2es arrived in town on Wednesday from Cowes. h he The Matquis and Marchioness of Bute, accompanied by Fi ...

... AN OFFICIAL WARNING. A numerous deputation, comprising in its members Mejor Ellis, Admiral Crauford, Mr. W. J. Norman, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. C. Osborne, Commander Rivington, Mr. 1H. B. Arnold, Mr. Guest, and Mr. Kitto (of the Imperial Brazilian Public Lands Improvement Trusts), was introduced by Mr. A. Orr-Ewing, M.P., and Mr. S. Morley, M.P., to the Earl of Carnarvon, at the Colonial Office, on ...

... DISPATCH OF MAILS The Office ts open to the ?? from 7 ILM.to 9 P-m. Lines of road and ?? destinatioi. NO.of Mall. 1 Aebborne, Belper, Mattock 1ail', and villages around Derby . .I 2 Brirstol, Cheltenhall, Gloucester, South Wales, and let delivery In Derby. 3 Bakewell, Buxton. Hull, Leeds, Mlat- leek B~ath, Newark, Nottingbam, Nosrmanton,York ,Northumberland, sod Durham . 4 Stoke-on-Trent, and ...

... WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28. - In a House of 482 members, Mr. OSBORNE MOR- her di RY GAN brought forward his Burials Bill for the first spare' - time since the general election, on Wednesday, and those to was beaten by a majority of 14. The Opposition hose irs received the announcement of the numbers with concei ad cheers, ostensibly on account of the narrowness of exerci - the defeat; but their ...

... 'ed There are not a few signs flint the promotion of Dr.t of blafnning to the cardinalate has struck with some force that 3see fibre in the great heart of England, whose vibrations always ;he supplied Thackeray with his favourite themes. The spirit of tnt Jearrnes rejoices that an Englishman has a title almost iep now to Englishmien; and the newspapers gives us elaborate, ud accounts of the ...

... OUR PARPS LETTER. PAnis, April 12. -The country now enjoys an 1Olympic calm, proof that a Government of conciliation is better than a Ministry of n combat. Of course endowing the nation with a definite and I-legal constitution has something to do with the existing y happiness, more especially when that constitution in prin- ciple reflects the wishes of thle people and the necessities of the ...

... NEW WESLEYAN SCHOOL-CdHEL AT ROSEHILL. ita - 1he On Saturday last, the memorial stones of a new school- ich chapel to seat 300 persons were laid at Rosehill. For seven gu years the Wesleyans have had a Sunday-school and preach- ing ing services in a most inconvenient room of the Depot Milliiu Pre the congregations consisting entirely of working people and So .rs. their families. The want of a ...

... cdltsiastica. IUb - C 18 Dr. Alleyne Nicholson has been formally installed to the t sld natural history chair in the University of St. Audrew s, v nd rendered vacant by the death of the late Dr. William Mac- v ery donald. a ire, It has been decided to provide a new Bishop's throne in b ieb the choir of Salisbury Cathedral, at a cost of 8001., to be b A raised by the subscriptions of the clergy ...

... FASHION. on Sunday afternoon the fourth Of the seriles Of ?? aon The Use and Abuse of the World at St. Jamies's a 8Church, Piccadilly, wits preached to a large congregation byp ethe Very Rev, thle Dean of Chester (Dr. Howson), whose special topic of discourse wa s Fsshioi,. Prayears ?? t belen read by the Rector, the R1ev. J. E. Keinpo, the Dean, p EL gave out as his text part of the 3lat ...