... =_T -h s]8l,. ?? :. To B.-I should niot consider the failure of a the plan proposed by the Gentlemen you mention 'Two or Three Years ago, as any reason why the town of v Leeds should be deprived of so great an advantage, nor have I so little respect to my fellow-tdv-nsmen as r to indulge a fear, that were the plan again laid before iI the public, and the undertaking entered upon with I spirit, ...

... - I .. .. - . . WE have the satisfaction in our present publication to insert the proceedings of a public Meet. ing held here on Thursday, which forms a gratifying contrast to the proceedings of Am the social and loyal league, published in our paper of this day month. WITrHOU T imputing any unworthy motives to the fcw who prepared, or the thousand who have signed the Leeds Dcclaration, we ...

... THIE proceedings in Parliament have, during the present week, possessed an unusual degree of interest and importance. The principalsubjects of discussion have been, the propriety of' taking the claims of the Catholics into consideration, and the ex- position of the law. promulgated in a late circular letter by the SECRtETARY OF STATE. We regret to have to add, that the result of these ...

... To CORRESPONDENTS. Extract from the Moravian Missionary Report next week. 000000 On Wednesday last, the Twentieth Annij. versary of the London Missionary Society was held, and the first meeting according to annual custom took place in Surrey Chapel. The Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D. one of the Ministers of Glasgow, and Author of a number of truly valuable works, preached a most eloquent, ...

... LEEDS PETITTONAND DECLARATION. T'le Leetis Pefition lior a fleforms in Parlia- mont, contairing il2signaturcs-irwi Itst Saturday transinitted to .-ord Conhrane, to be by ?? Lordship prescnted to the House of con oIs. The .eds De- claraioi, which has now been about the ?? ttime in thc course of signature, contained, when it was last heard ot, about s8l0 namies, tmaking the excess of num- bers ...

... HO USE OF COMMO.VS, Fridn,,, July II. P4Z1WQCINC.NDxl MR. PlONSONBY. Mfr. Lamb h in oviiig f r a new writ fit- the county of 'iclklow, in the room of the Rlight Hon. George Ponloney, felt the impossibility of cail.og their attention in language altequate to thesubjcet, to the clla::icter of' a ?? who ,as tollowed by the respcet, regret, and aftection ofl every member % ho heard him. ?? fea.) ...

... PutBLIC MrEETPtG AT ROCiGDAL1 AI jr A ?? BT~L1 G M E C s i'i N J of tbie linhhlfit- ,ants of ROCHDAIB anrjits vidcnity liheld .on; th 2d bf JalnlurY, 817, Mr. Grandage in the Chair, the following Resolutions were urauismoutjly agrced to, vii3. : I. That thze industrious and useful Part ofthe Poiplr lation of this great Country are in a State of unpasal- ieled Distfessi wbich forcibly iladuces ...

... LE'EEDS, SA'TURIDAY, APRIL 19. We hear that i11r. Finch, drioZyist,- of Halifax, has lately ebtainoel Commissions in ithe three several Courts of' King's-Benric. Common-Pleas, and Exchequer, totake.Special Bails in the country. At the (General Quairter Sessions of the Petce, held this week at Pontefract, it was determined that Lord Silinouth's Letter to the Lord Lieutenant, for putting down ...

... TilE MERCUlRY. THE session (if Parliament wns opened rin Tuesday, by the PRINCE Rana-Ne- in person, with a speech from the Throne, a copy of w'iiel will he found in another part of tins paper. Though we do not feel I disappointed by the language of this Speech, we confess that we feel great regret that his iloyal Highness has not been advised to rewimnend to the early and serious attention of ...

... HOUSE OF' COMAMONS,R FrrDAY, Friritary7. vlr\ I xlovc -- _ FINANCES. The paesa-e in the Spet-ch from the Throne whichl referred to the distresses of the country, having 'ben read, I,ord Castlcrcori said, he was confident every iNfern- ber wvould feel tiat the attention of the House had never been called to a subject which tnore deeply in- volved the vital intercsts of the nation. After havitg ...

... POSTSC Ri pT. (BY EXPRESS).-LONi)ON, ALaRri 13. WESTMINSTERt ME'i ING. A nunievous and respectable TIeItlinir oft tle Inhabitant Householders of Wpsttninstir, Iwas this day held, pursuant to requisition, in Palace yard, fbr thc purpose of considering of an v\ddress to the Prince Regent, praying for a removal of the present Ministers. 1'ne business of the day having been opened by the High B ...

... LEEIDS, SATURDAY, AlAY ;3. The Picture of the Battles of L.INY ai WATERLOO, nov exhibiting in the Music.-iall, m il remain open a short time longer, which will aff'lrd an opportunity to those who have not already vi~ited this interesting Painting. to gratify the laudable curio- sity it eonriot fail to excite. -- ce Advecrliscimrilt. Onn tile second readinX of the Salt l)aties Bill, Mr. ...