... The following account of Derby and other places is taken C from a manuscript note-book (now in the British Museum), C of three travellers, who made a journey through England in 1 Oct., 1735:- 1i On the 9th our party reached Manchester, a most flourishing town, though neither borough nor corporation. c Near the college is a hospital for sixty boys, founded by Humphrey Cheetham, Esq., who also ...

... HARVEST PROSPECTS. The Agricaltural Gazette publishes a tabulated estimate of the harvest, which goqs to show that the wheat crop is this year considerably below an average. The Gazette says:_ A dirtier lot of wheat fields-more knocked about and laid -dusky, stained, and often prematurely dead-thanaretobe seen just now all through Staffordshire and Warwickbshire. so far as they are commanded ...

... I IS FINDERN AND WILLINWTON UOIITICUL- TURAL SOCIE'Y. The second annual exhibition of this flourishitin secien- took place on Saturday last, iii the Fittdtrn Vicaraig. Grounds, by permission of the Rev. B. W. 61ilabury, the president of the society. In addition to the ttusual dli.piav ef flowers, fruit, and vegetables, thre Commnittee liari prov!'ded an attractive programme, including an open ...

... Apropos of the approaching civic festivities in London. to a which several continental mayors and municipal dignitariP3 n have been invited, attention is called to the fact that the h Mayor of Florence, Signor Peruzzi, one of the invited guests, is a decendant of certain ancestors who advanced a large d sum of money to our Edward III. to enable him to g carry on his wars with France. The ...

... WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18. Parliament rose from its labours last Friday, and the QUEEN'S Message, read in the House of Lords by Royal Commission, announced the close of a Session which will be remembered for several pieces of useful legislation upon social matters, in addition to a variety of curious incidents which, from time to time, startled the staid propriety of the House of Commons and almost ...

... (From the Gardener's Matgazine.] A considerable proportion of the human faunYy, having no actual knowledge of the high Peak, imagine it to be a single conical hill or mounts n or terrestrial sugar-loaf, to be ascended with the help of a ladder, or to be simply stared at gad admired as a thing no one can cliub. Such persons need a bit of information, to tile effeet that the h high Peak is a ...

... 10 The select committee on public petitions has just ill issued its 81st report which has reference to the period be- of tween the 22nd July and the 4th August, and the par- he tkplars of the petitions presented during that time extend over twenty pages of the document. Among the petitions relating to individual grievances is one from Petrus lrm- manuel De Rioubaix. The petitioner, who is a ...

... DISPATCHt OF MAILS i The Ofice is open to the public from 7 a~m. to 9 p.m. l~~~ ~~ paaiJLriliirte, herdens th gumsprlevet atr tp Lires of road and eilofplaces of destination. No.of Mail. 1 Aabborne, Belper, Matlock Bath, and villages around Derby .. .. 2 Bristol, Cheltenbam, Gloucester, South Wales, and lst delivery In Derby 3 Buxton, Hull, Leeds, Newark. Not. ttngham, Normanton, York, North ...

... I L J At' V ?? In connection with the flower and fruit show of the Normanton and Pear-tree Horticultural Society, which was . held on Saturday last, in the grounds of Pear-treeI House, r a series of sports more or less resembling the games once in vogue at Derby wakes, was projected aied successfully carried out, under the direction of a committee called to- l gether by the energetic owner ...

... (By our rambling Rwporter.) n iass There is nothing, I would imagine, my dear Sir, the a oaf general reader more detests tban a long pedantic introiluc- ea tiou to an article of this nature. I might write a lengthy T dissertation on introductions; but to oblige you I will coin- tL on: mence my subject sans dissertation, and, to gratify the hi general reader, sass introduction. lo As the train ...

... cotaI brpic is TimE CURTAIN FELL UrON TilE1 FARCE of The Walk- ceing Woman last Monday, after a final scene of re imposing magnificence. It had been announced that at the close of her feat of walking a thousand miles in a thousand consecutive hours, the heroine would make a triumphant progress through the streets of Derby, I and (as anything in the shape of a procession is eagerly 30 ...

... DISPATCH OF MAILS The Office is open to the public: Lines of road and chiefplaces of destination. No. of Mail. I Ashborne, Belper, Matlock Bath, and villages around Derby .. .. 2 Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucester, South Wales, and ?? delivery In Derby a Buxton. Hull, Leeds, Newva;k. Net tingham, Normanton, York, North umberland, & Durham 4 Stoke-on-Trent, and South Midland Countles r let London ...