... HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, Feb. 27. In reply to a question from the Earl of ELLNSBoROUOII a5 to the appointmentof Major-General Vivian to the command of the Turkish contingent to our army. Lord PANII5URE said that General Vivian had performed in India duties very similar to those which he would now have to undertake, and to the entire satisfaction of the authorities in that country. It was iD ...

... That the popular belief in ghosts is not extinct, even in a large town like Sheffield, is proved by a tragic circumstance of recent occurrence. It was currently reported in Campo- lane, at the latter end of last week, that a ghost, all in white, had made its appearance in the house of John Favell, who lives in Campo-lane, a little beyond the parish church. The story was genuine thus far, ...

... DEATH OF THE ME31BrE FOrP LIsBuax.-Roger Johnson lowesi Smythe, Esq., the Member for Lisburn, died suddenly on were 1 Friday, the 19th ult. ordin- A MUNSTEist ADDnaSS TaTHE QuEczs.-The Corporation ram, I of Waterford has adopted an address to the Queen, in which mond there is a paragraph, prayifg her 'Majesty to pardon Smith and I O'Brien, John Mitchel, and the other State prisoners who eight( ...

... DERBY MERCURY. WEDNESDAY. SEPTE.VBEu 7, 1853. ~ t~ Thli -,npm to have been a vei Her Majesty's visit to Dublin appears to have been a very gu ple2sant one. Arriving after a good passage-bnotwithseand- [ iety ing the hurricanes which prevailed before and about the time of departure-the presence of the Royal Family of England dis was the occasion of a display of a genuine and hearty loyalty, ...

... (From our own Correspondent.) MONDAir, Sept. 10. MAS5CH5ISTZP ANDO eLsSK5.?OO AGRICULTUR5AL SOCtIRTY'8 The eighth annual meeting of the Manchester and Liver- pool Agric.ultural Society ?? held ?? last, at St. Helen's, about half way between Liverpool and Manchester. 'The day was beautifully fine, and the attendance of visitors extensive and gay, many of the nobility aud gentry of the ...

... (s'aoat OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) M0NOAY,'A'gUgIt 7. General topics of remark have been very scarce in this 'j t quarter during the past week, most matters having settled into their customary routine. Among these has been the dispute which raged with considerable violence between the C dgentlemen of the long robe and the corporation of Liverpool, I a relative to the accommodation of the former ...

... - -- -.- . - I - .. - . . All-AIJ.L25VI AND UV717Lr no. DEATH FRom FOUL AiR.-Last week a person named A Shorthouse, living at Moira, descended a well by means of le the bucket, for the purpose of cleaning it out, a female, his sl sister-in-law, remaining at the windlass to draw him up. He c e had scarcely reached the bottom. when he gave tier the signal ti to draw him up, which she weas unable ...

... ?? . . . - - ?? a: During Wednesday night and Thursday the inhabitants at the East end of Lorndon were kept in a state of continual excitement, in consequence of the alarming conduct of several hundred dock labourers and other destitute persons, who perambulated the principal thoroughfares in procession, de- manding bread and money from the shopkeepers, whose pre- mises were forcibly entered ...

... vat7- -The j>= - - ROYAL Rolst, Aslse-D ItA.ZoucH. -The Marchioness of Butc, accompanied by her so, the youthful Marquis, tab arrived at this elegant hotel, last week, for a week or ten I days. ch at C SCHOOL Taxar AT AsiSY..-The annual treat of c a children of the Ashby-de-la.Zoich Churci Sunday School was given on Wednesday. the 17th instant. d c ren of assembled at the school at half-past ...

... LEICES'FERSI]IRE. LricESTEa GAOL Isouary.-The Commissioners returned LIVE to Leicester, on Monday, the 10th instant, to continue the ! investigation. doi LEICESTERSHIRE AoRnCULTURAT. SOCIETY-31r. Thomas far Sills, of Hornington, near Grantham, the judge for the best cultivated farms offered by C. WT. Packe, Esq., M.P., has wreo awarded the prize in Class I to Mr. Benjamin Painter, of of w ...

... .*fl f- A VI I on MR. DISRAELI.t he On Tuesday evening a meeting of the Blackburn Protes- tl he tant Association and Church of England Institute was held IT he in the St. Peter's school-room in this town. The Rev. Thos. ti - Sharples, M. A., incumbent of St. Peter s, was in the chair. d JY- Tee Rev. Chairman, in explaining the object for which r TS the association had been called together, ...

... LEICFS'I'ERSIIIRE. (From our own Correspondent.) Lascicslwic, Monday. i The Shakesperian celebration last Monday evening passed acco off well. The Ternperance-hall was engaged fr theocca- pr sion, 700 persons were present. and J. F. Holling, Esq., p.e- swer sided. After all expenses were defrayed, the sum of 51. was wte handed over to the Jones Testimonial Fuod. last The annual attack on the ...