... DJERBYSHIRE ASSIZF>. ?? - - _ - The trial of prisoners committed to these aseizes comn- snenced at the (County 1Ball, Derby, on Mrnd.iy morn- was loteHon. Sir William Rana Kennedy, Justice of the pris Viglh Court of Justice, presiding. The oalendar was a ibeavy 000 and cuutaineud 19 criminal orsus, there behig 29 prisoners. rl TnlE GRAND JURY. tr: The following gentlemen constituted the Grand ...

... DERBY BOHOUGH POLICE COURT. TuesDAY. 9, [Before J. D3AILEY, J. W. NEWBOLD, W. T. SHAW, and GEO. SMITH, Eeqre. f DRBUN1 AND DISORDERLY AND ASSAULTING THS POLICE.-Oornelius Helton, a young man, denied being I. drunk and disorderly on the Londou-road on Alonday afternoon. Police-constrble Harrison said the man was lying on the road at the bottom of Litchuroh-8treot in a fit, and when be came ...

... I TSHE HIDANOR BETTING CASE. I At the Heanor Petty Sessions, on Monday, the case of Thomas William Briggs, farmer, residing at Nook End Farm, Heanor, and his wife, Charlotte Briggs, came up for hearing, it having been adjourned from last sessions.-Mr. Briggs was again charged with being the ocupier of a certain house at Nook End, Heanor, and unlawfully using the said house for the purposes of ...

... DETrERMINED SUICIDE AT DUFFIELD. I . . A death of a most painful and tragic nature ocltirrred at Duffield on Wednesday evening, vhen a man ?? John Clifford, aged about (i0 years, framework-knitter, of Milford, was cut to pieces by au e.;press goods train on the Midland Railway. The case is sonposed to be one of determiued suicide, as the decease(d was observed to get on to the railway. near ...

... 111MICRY-A MODERN -RIME. I -. U E Where imitation or wriicry goes no farther t tn fairplay, there is somothng to be sa'd in its.de.eace. It argues a certain humrlity of mind that a person should acknowledge hinicelf incapable of originalitv and it is better to follow hu.?bly a beaten trawk than to do nothing. In sos- other ways,, bowevecq imita. tion is an unpatdonab1b crime. Where -same great ...

... celebration the day In Derby will be a dull one, merely of an ordinary Whitsuntide Bank holiday character. The meeting of the Mayor's Committee held on Friday decided that there were sufficient funds in hand to justify a decision to fete the children under 14, and give the old folk over 65 a packet of groceries. Now tbs British puolic loves a spectaole, and we venture to say that the spectacle ...

... I THE >ATAL TRAP ACOIDENT IN KING STUEET. At the Town Hall on Wednesday morning the Borough Coroner held an inquesttouching the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Mason, aged 63-the wife of Mr. Lot Mason, farmer, of Shuttle-who died at the Infirmary on Monday from the effects of an accident sustained on October 9th,-Mr. F. D. Cooke watched the case on behalf of Mr. Mason.-Mr. Mason stated that on the day ...

... : D] BYS(IJRE QUARTER 0 k ZESS IONS - . lThL- sessions were held if.hte hC .sunty'.`iBi abl- Derby,. on Wednesday, - Tourn $Mosy, Ad., . piesi iiig. Amon, the othdi` magistrati prp ent were Sir-Henry Wilmot, V.C., . CB.Sir J.tG. N: Alkeyre, Sir AlfredHislasin,. the HGn. W. hI. Jervis, and J. SLia, J. H. Woolley, J. D. Wraggi J. fHall, C. 'E B. B.Bwles, 3. Canner, J. L. P. B ar- ber, A. B. ...

... T*HH first acr , f t ?? t ?? »'„_-.„ »£-. vote of congratulation to the p,;„ Wale* upon hi, recent provitfentiate 'T2 mat tbe « We county concurs. The short li «on which arose on the question f^ that, thin'; ec ' « J^f action, the ?? of the C« i, .^ f Pathetic Rather kte in the day ,t ™ t^ anthonties at York 1 J Jjfe ?? Us ' pance of this q ues;i on, nnd noWo^^tZ for assistance to the ...

... BURTON-ON-TRENT AS A COUNTY BOROUGH. On Tuesday Colonel W, R. Slack, RE., one of tbe Local Government Board Inspectors, held an enquiry at the Burton Town Hall concerning the application of the Corporation for Burton to be Constituted a county borough. Mr. Cripps, QC- Mr. Etherington Smith, and the Town Clerk (Mr, Whitehead) appeared for tha Corporation ; and Sir, G. A. Fitzgerald, barrister, ...

... TuESDAY. ?? J. BAILEY (Chairman). J1. TuvnNER, and 0. HoI10 , Esqrs., and Dr. TArLOR. A Suspicious OA6E.-Anne Uitbinll was Charged with . being on the premises of Dr. Taylor that morning for an unlawful ?? Shaw said, abont one o'clock that morning Le was on duty on the Dufflield-road. t1e met the prisoner in company with a man, and she asked him the way to Walker-lane. He told them the way, ...

... I DERBY BOROUGH POWICE COURT. . *~~~WEsDNESDAY. r, [Before J. Bljuur (Chaitman), J. TucnBtI, G. HOLUB, R. r. A. I. JO'Es, aud .J. JonsoN, Esqrs.] d Peter Hardy was brought np in custody, charged witM e stealinig a coat from the Great Northern Iailway, at Oolwick, o He was hitnded over to the Notltighouu police, a sergeant t of which foreo was in attendance waiting for the prilsoner. t C1Vx.vTY ...