... LONDON NEWS OF THURSDAY EVENING. Co!1N Du Tx IES.-The duty on Wheat has risen to 20s. 8d. per qr. TnE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S Message has not yet reached this, country. Its delivery appears to have Ta been delayed by long disputes in Congress on the right of certain members to take their seats. The stormy weather has also retarded vessels from the west. COLONIZATION BoARD.-The members of titis ...

... (Tefollowing fri~ghitful details of vice bave been draw - by a pious individual, whose duty leads him to visit tuhe houses in one of thc woirst districts of the town, for the er purpose Of' reading the Scriptures to the inimatesi, anti m who has been the instrument of bringing sevecral wretch- C'U ed women to abandon their vicious lives, and to enter the Probationary Penitentiary. The ...

... Mr. Blore, the architect, has three hundred men at work. at BuckiIngham Pslace to rnke some alterations in consequence of the fintended royal marriage. The orders are to have all finished by the middle of January. as on itO, her Majesty is to be married on the ist of February. It is rumoured in Dublin that the Queen intends to visit Ireland next surnmmr. Very extensive alterations and ...

... Addingham, W. Spencer. .4rinley, John Farrar. Ashto-aunddr-Line, Thomas Cunningham. Barneard Castle, J. K. Powell. Barnsley,*George Harrison. Johb Ray. T. Lister, Postmstr. Riehd. PYbus, Queen st. Barlon-upon.Hurnber, Jane Wilbar Bailey, Jas. Fearnsides Bedate, Gen. Morton. Beverley, Mich. Ellis. Postenr. J. Kemp. W. B. Johnson. Bingley, Joseph Richardson. lirtningham, Wm. Cooper Mansell & Co. ...

... F ?? e. WRKEFIELD CORN MARKET. a' JANUARY 3.-We have a good arrival of Wheat : the S . condition of new comes very bad, which makes the sales n slow and prices arelas last 'week. Old fully as dear. I Fine Barley is scarce, and the turn dearer ; lut all second ( t sorts are without alteration in value. Oats and Shelling as s last week. No alteration in Beans. Mlalt is dull sale at Is former ...

... GENERAL SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE -| UNEMPLOYED POOR. THE General Subscription for the Relief of the a linemployed Poor in Leeds has been conducted by the sklmoderation, and sound policy of its principal pro- moters, through all difficuldies, and brought to a most satisfactory consummation. The conduct of the infatuated men who had put themselves forward in the committee of the unemployed, was such ...

... THE LEEDS -MERCURY. THE latest accounts from China are not of such Id'il a character as to relieve in any degree the anxiet we no have felt and expressed on the existing state and future of prospects of our relations with that empire. We will Ic endeavour, as on former occasions, to put our readers in Ca possession of the plain facts of the case. CII I., their eagerness to calumniate the ...

... y .0 ly 5 0 .15 Ig Er ry 0. a0 It' ie a, 75 [to 70 30 50 es 50 io p.- !5, of si; :0, Is- 1st 5 : re or It Wst a- e. are I Cl k'S elf Iso ell ysa as, irs 'els lge ids [ it bnt ml tli Alb cre *WINDSOR, SUNDAY.-Her Majesty and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended divine service this mosling, in St. George's Chapel Royal. The Rev. Mr. Musgeave preached the sertlon from the First Book ...

... SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1840. BEING attached to old English customs, and lovihg their spirit still more than their forms, we tl~~ heartily svish our friends a Haoppy New Year. S IT must be acknowledged that in the present state of at the political and commercial horizon, this wish cannot be attended with very conflident hope. It is like wishing your friend I a pleasant journey,' when he is ...

... LEEDS MEETING FOR THE REPEAL OF THE ' CORN LAWS. THE CHJARTISTS ROUTED. thi ext Tuesday last was the day appoi itedl 'by the DIayor, in wo compliance with the requisition presented to him last week, pta for holding the mueeting of the inhabitants of this borough co to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the res repeal of the Bread Tax. The occasion was looked forward for to ...

... LEEDS. ANvUAL AIEETXING OF' THE LErEDs BENWEVOLENT 00 STRA~eseas' FRxic,,l SociETY.-On Monday evening flast, tht's ' society held its forti -ninth annual ?? at the Court Ilouse, WMn. Smith', Etti. Pilyor, in the Chair. The Chairmnan said that he had f bees aeqicointed wlih the society from Irs first institution in the year 17itli, aeid that he had filled the office of secretary for many years, ...

... the witnesses for the Defence weas it concluded. Amongst them was i .Ifr. if. Wullisaes, a tradesman of Newport, who acted during the nos night as the Mayor's aide-de-camp In watching the rnovernenrs of the d isnurgenra, and who received four wounds as a special constable at the e door of the Inn ;he deposed, that the tmm who first came up said~ i Surrender up your prisoners, and he replied, ...