... oatsionat 'Aotct SMALL BIRDS IN GARDENS. Our correspondent, Mr. E. J. Lowe, the astronomer, in a letter to Tuesday's Times, mentions an instance of the value of small birds in ?? years ago, a countryman left here for Australia, taking with him all our popular hardy fruits and vegetables; but the produce was yearly destroyed, until ?? sparrow was introduced, after which there was plenty of ...

... I THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT THE MID- | BLAND RAILWAY WORKS. ad On Thuraday morning an inquest was held at the Derby- oabire Infirmary, before the deputy-coroner, on the body of a3' Thiouas Cuorran, whose death under shocking circumn- 8 stances was reported by us icst week. Prior to the i i' depositions being taken the deputy-coronor and jury viewed T the spot where the accident happened. Some ...

... r THE FREE LIBRARY COMMITTEE AND THE 0 - PAINTERS OF THE TOWN. II On the evening of tb; 2tst iant., a. taeting of tibe mcaster painters and journeyman paiuters of Derby was Icild at the lemperance Hall to protest iicaiinst thbe acition of the lriee Library Cioommlittee il givilng tho work of intermitl d-ooratiouc of the new ?? to a firm outaide the town. Mr. Utiae. Dannioliff presided, and ...

... A Post Office Clerk, muruml william Hudson, was, for v stealing lettors containing money, sentenced at the Cholins- ford Assizes on Friday to five yoar's penal servitude; and Patrici Brickley, a larno labourer, was, for horse steeling, , ordered 15 months' bard labour. t The coroner's inquiry into the duath of an rld womrn named Sweeney, who was found murderer] in a well at Ravenswell, on Lord ...

... THE ROMAN REMAINS AT LINCOLN, - L 1 il. ftn l. -jlfl fl'.J flf jL s2As. - AL the second meeting of the new session of the British writb oit8 Noranciation an Interesting paper was read by in Aroughsotoiak Assone3f.M nd we ffnd thenremains the u; the Rev. S. M a. Myhw, one of the VIpe o r, ntb. on te P discoveries recently made at Lincoln, the Coloniu Linden of ati the Romans, and with ...

... WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15. A London contemporary is printing a lengthy th correspondence upon the subject of Co-operation in be tiade, the letters bearing more particularly upon the or effect which such undertakings an the Civil Service fl( Stores are likely to have upon the shopkeeping in- wl terest throughout the country. There is some fitness ml in thus re-introducing the subject at a time ...

... ntatigfl Jn telligelt.e THE AFGHAN WAR. d ow wee' THE PLIGHT OF THlE AMBER. Chile Capt KoontUM FORT, Tuesday. till The news of the Ameer's flight to Tashkettd is con-ar firmed. All pooeerlhad slipped front his grasp, and the tarm government is now vested in Yakoob Khan. und Desertions from the Afghan army are continual, are I TUE AMEEWS PROCLAMATION. Koo1nu3 (ru~aanko TiJWLL), Tuesday. The ...

... In an anecdotal photograph of Prince Bismarek, a V iwriter in Truth ?? was never at any time of tl dhis life a pleasant-peraon to negotiate with either in private h or public business; for be was born with a short temper, g and has been shortening the same ever since. While Bis- a marck was Ambassador at St. Petersburg, be was one even- eng at the palace of Princess B~riatinski, and said so ...

... I FI'NANCIAL PROSPECTS AND PROBABILITIES. The Times says:- There is a general impression that the Government will shortly he face to face with serious financial difficulties. Not only do leading memss- bers of the Opposition afflrmi that as the fine for the payment of charges which have been postponed is at hand the Government can no longer evade these diffi- culties, but there is a common ...

... t GARDENING OPERA'LIONS FOR JANUARY. - ..l. .. ?? . .I- .: - r-§- lsr I b (From Sutton's Amateurs' Guide in Horticulture.) O ?? are now at the mercy of the weather, aud must shape our course accordingly. During ?? rains keep off the ground, but prepare to go on it the moment it is fit to bear in your weight witbout poaching, and make ready for the busy spring. Duriug hard frost wheel out ...

... STABBING A PUBLICAN AT BORUOWASH. At the Derby County Police Court on Friday, before 0. I F. Mleynell and H. F. Gisborne, .qD., Charles Shore was I charged with unlawfully woundinR Wim. Boden, by stabbiug I him at borrowash, on Christmas veo. -Mr. Briggs appeared for the -prisoner, who Is a cattle dealer. at Borrowash, arnd the prosecutor Is landlord oE the Noah's Ark publichouse, at the same ...

... IiAKl) TNIMES IN OLDEN DAYS. - . - . ?? .- - n f APAtA. ?? .- ?? :- l.1l tillies. unfortunately, are no new experience in . i y other country. 'They lhave coie round, frottt tilue to, tine, with more or less of what our 1ie109( capll periodicity, and with more or less I ith ; ill. d though, perhaps, there is not in this fant t se] tiiilg calculatedi to afford much relief or consolation l ...