... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... On Saturday the half-yearly meeting was hold at the King's-cross Station; Colonel uncombe in the chair. The report and statement of accounts having been taken as read, The babirmain, in moving their reception called attention in the first place to the account of revenue, as on that de pended the amount of dividend. It showed a gross in- crease of 79,000L., which would only pay the usual rate ...

... d ARRIVAL OF THE PASSENGERS AND OREW. I The London and South-Western Comllany's steam nacket d Guernsey, from St. Malo, arrived at Sont ampton on {'hurs- a day morning, having on board 109 of the crew and 84 of the I second-class passengers of the Boyne. On entering the g basin they were saluted by three ringing cheers from the It crew of the royal mail steamer Minho, a sister ship of the lf ...

... Q1art & offitial THE QUEEN AT BALMORAL. P=BT;, Thursday. This afternoon, about three o'clock, the Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and suite, arrived at Bahmoral. Owing to the melancholy catastrophe on Wednesday evening the train was late in reaching a number of the English stations. After leaving Carlisle, however, the speed was accelerated, and the Royal train entered ...

... ROYAL VISIr TO SHEFFIELD AND DERBYSHIRE. is The first visit ever paid by Royalty to the borough of Cc in Sheffield took place on Monday, 'When their Royal High- ?? nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales 'visited the town at to the invitation of the Mayor (Mr. Mark Firth), to open the iv, park which Mr. Firt-h has presented to his native town. :lh Oa Tuesday their Royal Highuesses visited ...

... e ' INTERESTING GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY AT . THE SURREY COMMERCIAL DOCKS. a.; Recent excavations for a new tidal basin at the Surrey Commercial Docks having given rise to rumours of interest- )w ing geological discoveries, the place has just been visited by ed some of thle members of the Geological Society of London, ng under the guidance of the Rev. E. Jocelyn Bleck, rector of )n, Rotherhithe. ...

... pistrid Ittius. I, STAVELEY. i LODGE ANNIVERSABMES.-The annual gathering of the members of the Victoria Lodge, Staveley, belonging to the Manchester United Order of Odd Fellows, took place on e Monday. Upwards of 70 members met at the Crown Inn, e and, attired ia full regalia, and headed by the Sutton-in , Ashfield Brass Band, marched to the church, where an s appropriate sermon was preached ...

... Mr. Francis Francis, writing to the Times, ?? ,nore the oyster season has opened, and still at incre*sed prices. Native oysters at 3s. Ud. a dozen and the commoner sort at 2s. may well be reckoned prohibitive prices, and to nine-tenths of the population oysters are now a forbidden luxury. I confess this does not surprise me, nor would it surprise me if we were required to pay lid. apiece for ...

... WEDNESDAY, AUm. 25. 5evbvr -'It's ? Ler,.w '& . -?j The numerous differences which have hitherto al 's existed between the laws of the various civilized na- tions, have led to so many serious inconveniences It that it has long been the wish of most intelligent a persons that some means might be discovered, by as 8 which the mischiefs arising from such a state of things might be mitigated, if ...

... The returns from the moors during the past week, says Land and W3atep, have thoroughly borne out the more reasonable anticipations that were entertained as to the probable * crop of grouse that would be yielded this season. Nothing like the enormous bags that uned frequently to be made before the grouse plague was known have, so far, been obtained this year. Enough birds, however, have been ...

... THE COAL TRAFFIC TO LONDON BY RAIL- WAY FROM YORKSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE. vC AM . x AtUY. I~SL ±ALfl flJA t' 4 LSs During the past month hns reached about the lowest point it has been at for a considerable time past, and the conse- quence has been that consumers have purchased more freely, so that the tonnage conveyed to the metropolis by rail or sea was considerably more than during either of ...