... CARRIED BY A LARGE MAJORITY. The Hobb9 of Commons on Thursday night carried the Clerical Tithe Rent-Charge Bill by a majority of 133. The debate on the second reading was resumed by Mr. Courtney, who opposed tbe bill in the most unsparing terms. He spoke with measured deliberation and with little anima- tion all through his argument, and from the frequency with wbich he tamed to the Liberal ...

... riIHM bye-election ut Oldham has resulted, m a- Mime close observers foresaw it would, in the deieat ot' ?? Unionist candidates. It, was not .hr any lick oi go and fighting capacity on their putts, we arj confident, though they wen- doubt- less handicapped by the unexpected nature ?? the contest, by rhe fact that they had no previous knowledge of tho constituency as candidates, and by the ...

... BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIA- TION AT BUXTON. Tie annual congress of the British Archreologica Association was opeced at Buxton on .11 or. day. The first day's programme was confined to a recepticn in the afteincon iv the Council Chamber of the Town Hall, and a conversazione in tbe evening. There «as a good master of members of the EBSOciation, i-.nd general and deep regret was expressed nt ...

... Before his Honour Judge Smyly, Q.C. Re Gi-iORGK ROBERT IrKAN. This debtor, who arrived in Derby too hire for examination at the last Court, now stated, in an- swer to the Official Receiver, that he had bc-tn a contractor at Ilkeston. He became a bankrupt 1 n a creditor's petition j be hud an execution levied en his eoods at Christmas last. The bailiffs en- tered, Lr.t cleared out for some ...

... Tub Dcke akd Duchess op Rctlasd, who bave beea staying in London since they oame op from Belvoir, have gone to Hamburg far three weeks, r.nd on returning to England will take up their residence at Stinton Woodbonse, neat Hows- ley, for some time. ST. John ahhulakce Bbioade: Deuby Division.— The eommissiener of tha brigade. Colonel C. Bowdler, St. JohnsGUta, haa arranged to inspect the Derfcy ...

... A JUDGE ON THE GRANTING OF BAIL. Mr. Justice Uatbew opened the Surrey Assizes at Guildford on Thursday, and, in charging the Grand Jury, said that it had been a reproach against the administration of the Criminal Law that prisoners were kept an inordinate time awaiting trial. That was a reproach the magistrates could in a great measure remove, and it was their duty to rebate prisoners on bail ...

... A Paris telegram says that Dr. Bra and Dr. Chevalier in their researches on canoer have reached indepandcntly the s ime conclusions, Dr. Bra has isolated what appeals to be the parasite of cancer-mushroom. Examining fracmects of diseased wood — particularly the wood of apple trees —he found characteristic couidia of nectria dit sdma. Ihese were cultivated just like ordinary microbes. They ...

... ASHBY- DE LA-ZOCCH. . , rasxivAC — TL-e annual festival of choirs ' ' ,- n with Ote V. e-t Ake'.cy Choral Un oa ■ ?? e MB Wednc.^ay at Heir Tilnily Church. -sb'-a.surl was he:rt a ' ' ,3 ° in ths afternoon. * ' ?? ■ ?? the cb'-rc>i was crowded, and ihe I chotra mmb red aboat £83 voices. f M V r.i .'it v.ir th* piece in which the P ?? ' ?? r_ •.. a.-l. tut ihi Nutia Ditntt-tv ' c . -'• r ...

... THE bill which Lord Lansdowne introduced on Friday night for the purpose of simplifying the ballot for the Militia in an attempt to improve in time of peace, machinery which might prove very .-valuable in time of war. It is, therefore, a measure which deserves encouragement. To talk of it as the thin end of the wedge of conscription is nonsense. We have always conscription hanging oyer us so ...

... Iheie Sessions weie held at the County Hall, ; Derby, on Wednesday,, 'tollman Mosley, Es-l-. pre- siding. The clhcr magistrates p-'sent were Sir ?? Wilmot, V.C, ?? ant. Fit/.Herbert Wright, J. H. Gascoyne, ?? Leeke, ■■ Woolley, W. Prig-, ?? Waite, CC. Bowring, -- B. Hamil- ton, T. ?? Farmer, F. W. Greaves, G. DArcy Clarke, A. Woodiwiss, J. Borough, W. (X Cope- stake, T. Stacev. F. li. Clave, J ...

... Loud Bcbtoi left London en Saturday f or KaDgtmcor The Will op the Latb Mb. Wm. Nbwton, of N *«k, baa been »«om ».t 2 ,959*. He leaves ixitii.n sums for church and charitable purposes. loaotGH oi' Dkbby.— lnfectious Hospital. Return of cases for fortnight ending Jaly Bth, I g99;_S C arlet fever, admitted 21, discharged 19. In hoscital. 75. DEKBY TKAJfWAY!'.— Ttafflc returns— Week ending July 8 ...

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