... SCIENCE IN 1870. I- -inn noH. . n..hi fitfn l#h. work iD asa waidsi In taking a retrospect of the sbjere of England's work cnhoked hi the progress of science duriu the past year it will be seen as-as dislco - tt thea ncsmd In th Ieea branches into which It was Ste science is conventionally divided are very unequal. The, Y, most Attractive additions to our knowledge have been in it ravenou ...

... Ty THE DERBY BOROUGH EXTENSION BILL, Dyest The Bill which the Town Council of Derby are pro- ovi red moting for the compulsory annexation of the whole of He0 ,ord Litebureb, Little Chester, Osenaston-by-Derby, and sec an Normanton, and parts of M~arkeaton, Mickleover, pre ade Li ttleover, and Darley Abbey, has been printed, It opt 7ith is entitled A Bill for extending the Boundaries of tio: ...

... - - ---- -n SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. V, - TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MERCURY. Sir- The combat deepens. On ye bravo. A contest 1 cannot now be avoided, and both parties are preparing for the poll. Political meetings every evening! What pos- sibly oaD forma the ubject for discussion ? It cannot be economy v, for the Derby Bosrd has certainly spent a com- paratively smll amount o f rntepayer' ...

... ir- _ _ - JAI of THE LIBERAL SIX. Jx Oe- n Monday night a meeting was held at the Wn. I Boom J lo- of the Temperance Hall, in support of the Liberal Six. so Mr. Councillor JouNsoN, in the absence of Alderman Renals, took the chair, and opened the proceedings with Co he some remarks as to the position of the Denominational- 110ists. He said they had never allowed a School Board to Ho a8 he ...

... v azatot &tfiligmt. MERCURY OFrrcE, Tuesday, 4 p.m. (BY ELECOTIC TLEO&PHL.) THE CONFERENCE ON THE EASTERN QUESTION. A special edition of the Daily Telegraph publishes a tele. grarn ropl Fern, January lst. The sitting has lasted lht a very short time. The Turkish delegates declared they had no authority to discuss the questions of International con- ditions and gendarmorio. After a general ...

... -t _ t. . .. . . . The dispersal of the library of the late Rev. Thornas Corser, Stand Rectory, near Manchester, was completed on the 15th of December, under the hammer of Messrs. Capes, Dunn, and Pilcher, at Manchester. It is now more than eight years since the first part of the cata- logue of that admirable collection appeared, containing the affecting announcement that the owner, from ...

... e Snoops says if you wish to rocolleot man's narao go hm as security for his house-rent. For keeping your memoiy on th fresh, there is nothing like this plan. la An Illinois girl couldn't secure a certificate as a school- pep )t, teacher because she couldn't tell the committee why the cla a hind wheels of a wagon were the largest. All the answer it , RI she had was, Cause they are. ' ani A ...

... s a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. 1t 1 e Three chemists wore prosecuted at Runcorn last week for co haviDg sold adulteratod milk of sulphur. Tho defence was Y takon up by tho Chomists'and Druggists'Trade Association, 1f h l the contontion being that the milk of sulphur was far more ti beanticial when mixed with sulphate of lime than without W ,e it. The Bench decided to convict in a ...

... -, - ~~. a A t - ---lls- hh 1-v ft.. 1 6 I S. ~~TV - Ied- If Dr. Slade has been treated roughly by the law, he the can at all events, console himself with the knowledge al- that he has highly-pliced and influential personages tile among hisr client&e. Most enthusiastic of his disciples 6'ay are said to be the Princess Louise and her sister-in-law, ave Lady Archibald Campbell. At the house of ...

... THE BOROUGH EXTENSION SCHEAIIE,. PROTESTATION MEBETING AT LITTLEOVER. On Monday evenilrg an iniflulntially atteuded meeting 6cit Ithe ratepayers of Littleovor, called by the churchawardens ri anld overseers of the parish, was bald in the Church School- ' room, to consider what Stella should be taken with refer- ti ence to the bill furthered by the Corporation (if Derby to annex part of the ...

... jf sit ?Ilttlligtuft. ,,,Grti THE REPORTED ULTIMATUM, b COLOGNE, Friday. The Colole/c (;azette of the 27th inst., received to-day, publishes the following telegram from its Constanti- nople correspondent confirmatory of the news respecting the interview of Lord Salisbury with the Sultan on the t 26th inst.:- PERA, December 26. a Lord Salisbury during his audience with the Sultan to-day ...

... .- ,. Is - . -- - -. nye , A.D. (CONTIVUBD). Baril e 186 At Chesterfield, the plague (Parish aegister); also at Beans La Derby.-Pilkington. n. 1586 November 29tL, a violent gale on the evo of St, s, Andrews, at Becoles, Suffolk. Oat, 168G November 29th, the river had frozen with severe frost at Becles, SniFolk. I 1587 Thys yore, anno 1687, the pryce of corne was as own. )X1 followeth, and ye ...