... _ortioll ?? } _ . . -A n THE EASTERNI QUESTION. o1 . ?? THE IMPALEMENT STORY CONTRADICTED 0. BY CONSUL HOLMES. 0 IMPORTANT DESPATCHI TWO THE FOREIGN OFFICE. [Central News Telegram.]* r LoNDooN, Thursday Evening. tl The Foreign Office to-night publishes further official u correspondence regarding the statements made by ti Canon Liddon and Mr. M'Coll of the impalement of I Christians in Bosnia. ...

... 6arxmspilotZuct. DERBY BOROUG11 EXTENSION. TO TISH EDITOR OF THlD DERBIY MERC.URY. Sir,-As it may appear necessary that I should makeI s ome reply to your criticisms ixpon what you termu the t. 6souillwhat ?? Utterances' Of Myself, ats Uhaiirnianof I the meeting at Normanton on the 11th instant, I hopo you I wil allow me ats briefly as possible to notice one or two Ipoints enl difference. ...

... Scott$. A iI The official denial of the rumour that the ?? not! * of Hanover and her children had juined the Church of pro, l Rome was hardly needed perhaps. But had the rumour re ord been true, the Crown Prince Ernest and the Princesses mer 5ion his sisters would of course, as the Pall Alall Gazette Opo an- notes, have forfeited their rights of eventful succession and for to the Crown of ...

... TIHE COLLIERY FIRE NEAR BOLTON. The fire at theocolliory of Messrs. Roscow and Lord, at Farnwortb, which we briefly announced in our telegraphic summary last week, is extinguished, and this result has not been achieved without mucb labour and fatigue. Two con- tinuous streams of water were poured into tho vorkings in f which the fire was raging. Some of the irou pipes wero o unable to ...

... I WHAT MR. COWEN DID SAY OF RUSSIA AND | . ~~~TURKEY. i . . . . . M - - IC '11JIM~~~xaesletx. of A doubt having been raised aS to What Mr. Cowen, M.P., a- really did say of Russia and Turkey in his Newcastld apeeclv a' II we quoteo the following ?? from thle report of the boun' gentlemntu's address given in bis own paper, the local P Chronicfe: Louis Kossuth, once the governor of tree Hungary, ...

... Natest LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.1 MinERcUtY OFFICE, TuESDAY. TURIUISH DEFEAT BEFORE KARS. A Vienna telegram confirms the rnmour of the Turkish defeat before Kars. The Turks sustained heavy losses. Ali Pnshi was taken prisoner. Great uneasiness prevails at Constantinople. THE MONTGOMERY BURGHS ELECTION. The writ for the Montgomery boroughs has beou re- 3 ceived. The nomination is fixed for the ...

... FUNERAL OF THlE LATE WILLIAM DRURY LOWE, ESQ. ?? f. r n h. I n n tha hlrir- M nOAPA Of se For many generations Deu baas been the burial place of f es the Lowe itamily; in itb church are tombstones of atcient e it date, recording the deals of different members of tho fam ly. h at Amongst others ib a well-proportioned monument believed it a to belong to tho Lowes, but unfortunately it does not ...

... Sli5trid 'Ados. RISLEY. Cluonci Exr~ssES.-0n Sunday last collections were m ide on beholf of Church expenses. The amount realised was 21, 18s. lid.I 1IJIEASTOX. LENITEI SmeavicEs.-Durlug the present Lenten season the following clergymen have taken part in, or will officiate in the serrif'es :-Theflevu, T. F. FaunRo d R. Hey, S. Peter's, Helper; F. Atkinson, Long Eaton; H. M. Mosse, Hesge ; J. ...

... ST. MARY'S CATHROTC CHHRCHC-FESTIVAL II ~ OF CORPUS CHRISTI. Ild- Yji't- On Sunday last grand services wore holl at thleaanlve ugh church, in commemoration of the festival of Corpus Christi, n to , id the fiftieth anniversary ofbthe episcopal consecratioa his of his Holiness Popo Pils IX., who is now 86 years of np. age. Heo liS been a Pliest 58 years, Bishop. 60 years, and Pope 81 years. ...

... r. THE PROPOSED AMALGAMATION OF THE GREAT NORTHERN AND GREAT EASTERN RAILWAYS. it Tho Fieanciesr says the following letter from Messre. it lieiry Kiimber and Co., the solicitors, will be read with satikfaction by the holders of the stocks of the Great It rthern and Great Eastern Railway Companies, ns proving t. how serious and weighty is the movement which is i' pro- groess amongst both budies ...

... ~JntcJJi~cn~. THE WAR. THE RUSSIAN PRESS ON LORD DERBY'S DESPATCH. Lord Derby's answer to Prince Gortschakoff's Cir- cular, which has been published in the Journal de St. Petersburg, has caused considerable excitement in the Russian capital. The following is the article of the semi-official journal on the subject:- As far as we know none of the other Cabinets have given their adhesion to the ...

... A.D. N (CONTINU2D): ' 1718 The weather from January 1st to the 6th frosty (fce. three inches thick); February mild; June but little rain ; July rainy, especially after the 16th; December it 18th the weather so warm that primroses blow ; and this warm weather continued totheendof the year- 1i( Dr. Short. Y 1713 Wheat, average per quarter, 51s. l 1713 A flood on the River Trent.-Deerivg. 0 17IP ...