... A TRAI)ESAAN'S IGNORANCE. 3, iS 1 Jt A .iL1tti i , . A . _.. .e At the Leeds County Court onu Wediiesdiy, before Mr. if Daniel, Q.O., judge, a citse in bubhrnptey came before his y bonour in which it was uecessary to) e-xamine at tradesena a 11 grocer, living at llorsforth, near Leeds. 'V'It witness, it transpiredI, ieil purchased a col, for tis debtor ; arid Mr. 3- Turner representing the ...

... DEBtlY POST ONF'ICE. DISPATOH OF: The Office is open to the public Lines of road and cbiefplaces ol destination. No. of Mail. 1 Aahborne. Belper, Matlock 13th, and villages around Derby .. .. 2Bristol, Choltenham, Gloucester, South WVales, and lst delivery In Derby 3 Buxton. Hull, L.eels, Newark. Not tingham, Norma-, to., York, North umberlant, & Durham . 4 Stoke-on-Trent, and South Midiand ...

... RAILWAY SERVANTS, ORPHANAGE. The annual meeting of the Governors of this Institu- m tion was )held on Thursday last in the Grand Jury-room (t of the Guild-b~llthe Mayor in the chair. Mr. Banks was di Aptpoin ted President for the year. The additional advan- Itag~s conferred on residents within 30 miles of an Orphaenage 3by Governors for 21. per annum, whereas others pay 51., was 01 diecarded. ...

... is The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Midland is Railway was being held as we were going to pres. The - following is a summary of tbe report read and considered d but we muet defer our report until next week:- ir The report of the directors of the Midlind Itilway Company for the half-year ending the 81st of December last a stated that the traffic carried upon the rAilway in this ...

... WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9. HOW QUEEN ELIZABETH OPENED PAR.- . LIAMENT IN 1586. : Noblesse oblige! I Thus, in two words, was a hint delicately conveyed to our QUEEN by the leading A journal in quoting from the Quarterly a short eulogy e on the devotion of Queen ELIZABETH to the duties of a her exalted station. Therein ]lay the expression of a h hope, which fills every loyal heart in thlis kingdom, ' ...

... lie Taste appears to differ withi loogitnid. FPai lwv to the il East, Dr. Bellow lately found polyandry beld iu high esteem p a stong many Thihethin tribes. Fromi the distfant West a in rather strongly-worded plea now conles to hanl in favour of the opposite iistitittion. No less tanil 22(16 female in- habitants of the happy land where tirigham Younig reigns on supreme have just presented1 t'( ...

... INJUDICIOUS UTMERANCES. ill The Editors of journals other than the Derby no] or Mlercury are becoming aware of the precise value are ed 'which ought to be attached to Mr. PLIMSOLL'S tehe he unsupported statements. The Globe of last Saturday Col ut evening in commenting, under the above heading, to i )St upon Mr. PLIMSOLL'S Liverpool speech, says:- acc 'rd When will Mr. Plimsoll learn that ...

... WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23. So far as Great Britain and her Colonies are con- cerned there is no reason whatever why a Bill to enable Her MAJESTY to add to the style and title of the English Crown should ever have been proposed v in the English House of Commons. To all English- n speaking people the present SOVEREIGN of these a realms is, simply, THE QUEEN, and the idea conveyed 9 by those words ...

... I A NATIONAL RAIRYMAN'S ASSOCIATION. b TO Tl-E EDITOR OF THE DERBBV MERCURY. Sir-Your couuty stands pre-eminent amongst all otheos for the bold and suecestful Movemeut to secure an improved make of cheese. I need not say that I allude to the esta- hlishmehnt of the Factory System in which I have, from the first, taken great interest. Many years ago I advocated training schools for young cheese ...

... Ii ortig Jntdlhotnfr. seem FRANCE. evid( ild GAMBETTA AND THE RADICALS, men th PARSrr, Wednesday. escaj Of The long-sniouldering hatred of the iuitransigent Paris Peni he Radicals against Gambetta has at length burst into a Ligh th flam~e. For months paist the extreme portion qf thle keep Paris T1own Council, whose influence among the work- thou iag classes of the capital is undoubtedly great, ...

... , Total 4r)japits. I - -- :- 11-1- t PLAY-GOERS have been in cstacies during the past A week over the Society dramas, of which Caste is the type, and which have been admirably produced at V. the Corn Exchange by the celebrated Company under 3, the management of Mr. CRAVEx ROBERTsoN, a brother so of the deceased author. We have rarely seen these ;s fascinating plays better acted; the ...

... Under this title, says Galignani, we some time ago pub- it lished ant article which has attracted particular attention. g We bave received a pamphlet entitled ' La Caverne del Y tapo cdi Louca, by the Chevalier Ulderigo Botti, delegate of e ecce (TerraOtranto), but itconnesontly byoeojecture within e the range of Giants' Cauldrons, although exceedingly in- t teresting in itself It appears ...