... C ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN AND VICE- me(i CHAIRMAN, tea The Birat meeting of the new Board was held on Monday andl afternoon, when there were present the Rev. Canona pie, M'Kcnnr4 Messrs. S. Whitaker, T. Roe, Holmes, W. T. tha Shaw, P. B. Chladlield, RI. Wilson, W. Bemarose, Leese, and clia Newton. wah The Clerk announced the receipt of the usual letters cisti rons the Local Government Board, ...

... - -- - - -- - _ The Committee of Management beg to acknowledge, mg with thanks, the receipt of the following numerous gifts led to the Hospital during the half-year ending December 31st, 1879 :-Mrs. W. R. Holland, eggs; Mrs. Foilden, flowers; in- Mrs. Cartwright, flowers; All Saints' Children's Flower Eor Service (per Mrs. B. Brindley), flowers; Mrs. Sankey, of flowers and packet of cards; ...

... TH.E OUTRAG-IXN A CHURCH. A. - . . 1- . . . .m _ _. m_ JLfJ.a1n D.V U 1 IvaixI i aA ult At the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Thursday, Alexander ulti Sohossa, 350 asphalte worker, living at 87, Saffron-hill, a iad native of Switzerland, was charged, on remand, with felo ia niously attempting to assassinate the Revs. Adolphus t ,or Bakanowski and ?? V. Arkell, inside the Italian I Church, ...

... ST. ANNUS PARISH, DERBY. te On Tuesday evening, the 20th inst., Mr. Bowring for- :0 mally opened the new Reading and Recreation Rooms in i Is onnection with St. Anne's Church. The rooms are in I d Parker-street, and they are furnished with all things which I Ih are necessary for the healthy recreation of the working r. classes who live in this thickly-populated district. The .o vicar of St. ...

... he BAKEWELL DELUSIONS. S. to TO THE EPITOB OF THE DEBBY'MEBOURYI. Sir-The historic renown of JBakowoll for its fishing and ran: skty for its puddings is now additionally notorious for its to a Lug domestic theaitricals. The sudden disappearance of False kno Teeth was the foundation of a performance very melodra- Wh matic in the first act, but, which ended in a laughable farce. wiel Nry The ...

... - ?? DERBY. A SCOTCH RE-UNIONfestival of the St. - - - w- celebrated '2ociety was celebrated Mrj On New Year's Eve the openils Restaurant.- This in tb Andlrew's Patriotic and Boeuevolenflonians living fil the hurri at Derby by a dinner at Mr. Ljct ar e othi ig society has been formed by the C1i uaintanceshipaflidthe Brao, town and neighbonrhood, an eni who may from of M its third nile1 :-T po ...

... REPOIRT OF TILE COMMINTTEE OF MANAGEME1NT FOR M TilE YEAR 1879. an The membliers of the Committee of Management report or with thankfulness, is they have year after year been ena- to bled to do. tt' grreat usefulness of the Hospital, adding, as 1o0 it has doe'. iluring the last twenty-one years, to the value - of thc ancient l'aton Bath Charity, affording board and A: lodging. sill eve ...

... I. ne The pretty and popular fete with which Derby is Id annually graced on or about the feast of the Epiphany [n. took place this year on the 15th night, namely Friday. %ra The Drill Hall is always charmingly decorated for this ff, occasion, but, although more pretentiously, it has never nd looked better than it did on Friday. This part of the ae, preparation had been left to a veteran in ...

... T)EE A.LLEGE SHE TAING IN DERBYSHIRE. ?? ?? nu fin Saturdaw ph anyufsna m. I At the County Police Court, at Derby, on Saturday, kn 3k, John Jackson Kyte, joiner, Allenton;- and George KYte, mec ph working with his uncle on a farm in his oec~upitiofl, were he N; chiirged with stealing six sheep, the prprty of Mr. Win. ho Riley, at Boulton, on the night of the 1sgt january.Mr elm '1 Briggs ...

... A DAY ON FOOT WITH THE DOvW. mAEY HlllD.. H RIl: RS. . (For the Derby 3fMercury.) O On Wednesday last, the bye day between the Ashbourne , balls, NMr. Cotton, th'e master of the above pack, brought his hounds to Tiasington Hall, the charming baronial resi h dence of 'Sir William Fitz-Herbert, Bart,, for the enter- e tainment of the several parties gathered together in the r. neighbourhood. ...

... I qthds%. TERRIBLE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. LOSS OF SIXTY LIVES. WV - On Weslnesday morning the ill-fated ?? Lady Pit of be 5 the Leyeett Coliery, belonging to the Crewe Coal ?? th, Comnany, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, wag the sene of Cal another explosion, more disastrous-both as to the loss ?? life and the destruction of property-than that whic hap- pe pened there on the 12th September last, when ...

... m u AS 1 b11 ,,r +Aa. - ?? .h.f. I ll vh , tinqofi Ad Though the War Office has not issued the full returns of Bas the strength and efficiency attained by the Volunteer Force be in the official year which ended on the 31st of October, it be is now known on the authority of the Secretary of State C for War, that, notwithstanding the discouraging influences iad of the past twelve months, the ...