... Ristrid Idu* OSMASTON-BY-ASHBORNE. of ON GOOD FRIDAY the annual senuons on behalf of the id Society for Promoting Cbristianity among the Jews were e- preached by the Rev. F. S. Legg, M.A., association secre- Fs tary. The collections nmounted to 71.13s. 7id. ,ee . BRADLEY. Dt ON GOOD FRIDAY evening a sermon was preached in this M church on behalf of the Society for Promoting Christianity 1 ...

... LANDOWNERS IN DERBYSHIRE. The population of the county in 1871 was - - 379,394 Inhabited houses - - - - - 78,309 Number of parishes - - - - 331 Total owners of one acre and upwards 6,992, holding 619,357a. 2r. 12p. Total owners of less than one acre 12,874, holding 1,597a. 3r. 6p. Estimated extent of commons, 11,655a. 3r. 3p. Total estimated rental of the county, 1,764,689 l. 7s. Gross Extent ...

... wh 7 - ?? 4 t- EASTER VssTRius.-The annual vestry meeting for the it parish church was held on Tuesday afternoon, under the It presidency of the Rev. C. F. Thornewill, M.A., vicar. Mr. J. is A. Bindley retired from the office of vicar's warden, and Mr. _ Id R. Auty, of Stution-stfeet, was chosen as his successor; e while Mr. Henry Bireb, grocer, was re-elected people's It warden; and Messrs. J ...

... DISPATCH OF MAILS The Office ts open to the iublic from 7 am. to 9 p.M. Letrs,&c. can beposted Lines of road and chief placea of WVithout wit I Letters destination, extra atdlti'oi can Ibe No.of charge peony register Mail, until stamp until I AshborntO, Belper, Miatlsck Bath, until and villages around Derby . - ,S3tia.m - 9. Optm 2 Bristol, Cheitenhasfl, Giouceater,- South 'Valea, and lat ...

... awattst 311ttIlipuff. Br- - of [LBY ELCTRIC TELEORAPH.1 25 RETURN OF THE DUKE OF EI)INBURGH. 1st TURSDAY. ne His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arrived at ot Portsmouth this morning, and paid a visit to the Sultati Jot ,j iron-clad ship of war. up Ins EXECUTION AT MAII)STONE Slr- IUSAY on The convict Fordred, convicted at the last Kent Spring ud Assizes of the wilful murder of his ...

... LANDO'WNERS IN DElRBYSHIRE, Thep pulation ofthe coun-tyin 1871 was - - 379,89% and Inhlabited houses? ? ? ? ? -78,1309 Number of parishes - - - - 331 ?? own era of one acre and upwards 6,992, holding 619,357a.j apr 2r. 12p. DmPt Total owners of less than one acre 12,874, holding 1,597&. Br. t has tp. esh Estimated extent of commons, 11,65334. Br. Sp. it isf oa etated rental of the county, 1 ...

... PSEUDO-HERO WORSHIP, ?? long as the public choose to centre their interest upon a harmless object of attraction, we have no fault to find with them as regards their own welfare; but we seriously raise the question whether adulation does unmixed good to those whom it most concerns-'the objects of attraction. We -in no way wish to. cast a wet blanket apod modern athletic enterprise, but, on the ...

... This was the subject of the ,Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, delivered by Dr. E. B. Taylor, 18F.R.S. There was a large audience of members and vlsi- 7 tors. The lecturer traced the origin of ordeals and oaths i 1a back to that stage of ?? when social order was be- S coining more settled, and when the wise men were trying to get over the want of truthfulness by devising ...

... ?? - - Ristrut Ittbas. )r ?? F A On Sunday, April 10th, 1876, two sermions were preached of in 1 Codnor Chutrcha, that in the morning by the Rev. G. isMellott, and that in the evening by the Vicar, after each of 9 which a collection was made to defray the current expenses iv is of the church amiounting to 10?. 6e. i a to SMALLEY. ts a- Suicirip.-An Inquesat was held at the Bell Inn, Smalley, ...

... - ?? - - - - - ?? . . . - ?? - I 'istrift jtbu. ?y Id Wo 67 ~~~QUjENDON. ley, M On Thursday evening Is t, a grand misoallaneous concert I- lawas given In the School-room, In aid of the funds of the Quaradon Foral and Horticultural Society. Though the Wl re inclemency of the weather made it rather inconvenient for alld Lis tbe inhsbitar~ of the Surrounding neigbhourhood to avi he themselves ...

... WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19. r- The straits to which the Liberal party in the fai ,e House of Commons have been reduced by the corm- cor of D plete failure of their schemes for undermining the bee :h popularity of the Conservative Administration, must 'c Dtbe pleaded in excuse for their coquetting with the soc Dt Separatist section of the British House of Commons. no, le That the Opposition is ...

... .. . . . I . : . t.. ?? ?? ?? A - - ?? Rr- A n.. a At the ordinary meeting of this Society, on Monday up n evening last, the following interesting paper on Natural sb f History Societies, their Aiims and Objects, was read by Mr. si( Y T. Heath, ?? the secretary, in the unavoidable th, It absence of the Rev. W. IH. Painter, its author:- a I S The prominence given to the study of Natural ...