... SHROVEITIDE. Shrove Tuesday is called in some parts Fasting tt Eve, and, in.Derbyshire, Pancake Day. Its n former name indicates that on this day it was usual for the people to confess and be shrived, in order H that they might be the better prepared for the obser- ,Vance of Lent (the fasting season), and for receiving 1 the Holy Sacrament at Easter. The previous day is. g deignated ...

... Nufal Expics. ?? ?? Tims RECENT ELECTION FOR PIUARGATE WARD (if at E that may be called an election in which the electors P' r had no voice) has aroused what the Yankees style a w good deal of latent feeling; and uncomplimentary a! remarks upon the age and experience of the new AC Councillor have been dsropped into the letier-boxes of as some of our contemporAries. As for the youth of g1 ...

... atccionat Soteve a THE RECENT MIDLAND STRIKE. d B A letter has been addressed to us by Mr. JrNEING8 1' le complaining of the insertion in this journal of certain 1, letters which were printed in a St. Paneras newspaper *1 al (signed by ?? ?? which 1 he says were not justified by bis personal antecedents. t, ir He asks for the insertion of certain lengthy letters in S re reply, which have been ...

... Misirlt dtuop+ RAD BOURNE. mnnae g Saitious AccIDsiNT,-0t. Wednesday, ayatungma me re ThmsSth0l 8y~~o g, was leading a horseI ?? Sfthea aial suddenly turned round and kicked him. le otwe h ur He was removed to the Infirmary, where it w55s found that beba sstind compound fracture of the thigh, The young men is employe~d at the farm of Mr. Finney. CHURCH GiRBSLEY. ). PARtISH Cituatcas.-Ou Sunday ...

... 6aufes~ponA.elct. SOUP IKITCIIENS. TO THE EDITOR OF TIHE DERJIV MERCURY. Sir-It i8 iot bapauso I like to be ?? in a newspaper ooutrovirtly that I ieply to Mr. Joies' letter which appeared in your columins last weok. I feel, however, that it is due to the public. uo less than to the Soup committee, that I ahould auswt r the points ha has raised. One would gather from his openiug remark that I ...

... Occasional Ilates, THE PARLIAMENTARY WEER. The proceedings in Parliament during the past week have been remarkably devoid of interest. In harmony with the gloom of trade, Bankruptcy reform has taken the lead, the new Bill being introduced in the Upper House by the LonD CHANCELLOR. The appointmentof a Bankruptcy judge; greater control of accounts and trustees; restriction of the use of proxies ...

... II PC ria 11 I ~ariamolt. HOUSE OF LORDS, TrIUltSDDAY. ThLere was a good attendance at the reassembling of their lordships after the adjournment, and thopecresses' gallery was fully occupied, the Princess of Wales, Prince Leopold, and the Duke and Duchess of Teck being among those present. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Connaught, and the Duke of Cambridge sat on the ...

... tr ?. 'I.Otal bpiks. THE MASTERLY SPRMIJ OF SXR HENRY WILMOT,; M.P., at Sandiacre last week will be read with true satisfaction by every patriotic Englishman, be his h politics what they may. It contains a perfect answer to the absurd charges brought by Mr. GADsToxrB, and b the section of Liberals who act with him, against the t Ministry; and the splendid enthusiasm and confidentt hopefulness ...

... THE STRIKE OF DOCK HANDS AT LIVERPOOL.- wri THIE STREETS PATROLLED BY CAVALRY. dre In view of the probable continuanee of the riotous ing scenes of the precedieg day the authorities of Liver- ma pool were actively on the alert on Saturday, and as bal the result of their timely measures no disturbance of any ma kind took place. During the whole of ]riday might the cor police at the docks were ...

... The Standard's correspondent with Lord Chelmsford Bends a telegram from Rarkes Drift, Zululand, dated January 12, in which he ?? Zulu King's first lact after the-reception of the ultimatum was of an absolutely defiant nature. In a fit of indignation at our demand that wholesale massacres of hia subjects should not take place without some sort of trial, he immediately ordered the destruction of ...

... PRESENTATION OF A MEDAL TO A POLICE OFIF'ICER. An interesting scene graced the Derby Market Place on MA Tiurday l1ist. About 70 moineoes of the Derby Borough Pr Police Force Were drawn tip iu lquoro whilst the Mayolr ill Fi the presence of n good man11y town1speople, affixed the da bronze modal (f thoe Royal Humialle Society to the breast of d I'olice-conetabhle Tonmilinsoun, Rs a recognition ...

... -1 l % a lr Mr. Edward Ificks has been elected, without neiti, to fill the vacancy in the representatinn if CGmlutridgesihiro caused by the dieath of the lBon. E, C. Yorhe. Mr. Hklis, of d Wilbrham 'lempli, Cambridge. is the oily s:,u .;f tie laot Edward Simpsoam, Esq., of Licfifd, by Elizatbi, dI itighter 8 of William Atdvrlaon, Esq., of Moseley. ll xv;I i bo rn in . 1814, and is c:isequentiy ...