... LORDS BROUGHAM AND STANLEY- AMUSING INTERLUDE IN A GRAVE PERFORMANCE. MxAN is tile only animal that laughs; and we sometimes see, in actual life, as well as in the great writers who have best portrayed it, SHsANsPEARE and SIR WALTER SCOTT, mirth oddly coming in to the relief of melancholy, and farce interweaving its motley colours with sable tragedy. The I-louse of Lords, all cold and stately ...

... CALLING OUT OF pTHE IILIUTIA. a- Th following circular has been addressed ] on by Sir James Grabom to the !Lords Lieutenant of the ing oW sieveral counties in Gireat Britain, in reference to the ap- Up pointment of adjutants, and the filling up of, the other of vacancies that exist, at present among the commissioned We lar officors of the various regiments of militia. sist ro- I- Whitehall, ...

... Gh~s.-The inhabitants of Woodhouse and Head- ingley have now the great advantage oieiglghdw Ih gas, and a correspondent very properly makes the inquiry- When Vill Potternewtofl and Chapeltown follow the I example ? MaI. JAMErS CRADDOCKC, manufacturer, of this town, on 31onday lest, at thle Leeds A rna, Bhank, gave a substantial dinner to his workmen, in celebration of the majority of isis son. ...

... LE ED S: . :%T o - - pla, SATURDAY, JUNE 27. p Sir TnACtuARsAN TIIUNnER AT WAiuEIELD-The fi gaell a uri'mintions of Popes against individuals or cemruunities who exy 9 diltterel from the Ronman Catholic faith, lave been often his ad heard, but it seems that the Established Church of England inc S ulso can thunder when she pleases ; at least, some of bar strc Vy ministers try hard to imitate ...

... THE VICAR OF BATLEY AND HIS EASTER _ _DUES. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GalrLE!DEN,-As myself and several otlera have been served with aummonaso to appear before the msagistrates at Dews- bury on Monday, the 14th inst,, to answer the complaint of one William Newsome, and to show cause why we refuse to pay a sum of money, which has been cruelly demanded by him, as collector of ...

... FU 11 E 3: N EXV Lf EIV S.a FRlANCE.c 1 III the Chaim er of Deputies oil Saturday, an I attach was made on the governlienit bv M. Odilon Barrot, on the subject of the National Guards. It appears that tell D, or twelve years ago tho National unlads of Lyons, Tonlouse, es Strasbutrg, and some other important towns, were disbanded I lmd ili consequence of somne syniptonis of disaffection showin ...

... REMOVAL OF TILE LEEDS INFIRMARY. IA (h) Mlonday last, a Special General Board of the Leeds Infirmary svas held iR the 13oard-room, by adjourn- meat from the mecting of Monday, the 2nd of March lit t;st., to receive the report of the committee appointed at re :he former meeting, consisting of iAr. Hall, the Rev. Jas. Armitage Rhodes, Mr. Baines, Mr. Tennant, and Mr. W. I .1 Ahiude, to conter ...

... LEE DS: SATURDAYS MAY 2. f THE AricinDisHor OF YORIC.-We are sorry to I- find that this venerable Prelate is at present labouring C under great debility. According to previous arrarngemenlt b his Grace waas appointed to officiate at the marriage cere- I Tnonyof lr. George Grannille Francis Egerton and Lady r Mary Campbell, bat he was not sufficiently well to undergo the fatigues of the ...

... I A CATECIIISM FOR MR. FERRAND. TO W.f. BUSFEILD FERRAND, ESQ., MIP. , Sit, As you have proposed a series of questions to LoRD MORarTI', which have been satisfactorily an- swered in the MVercury, allow me in return to propose a like series to yourself:- 1. How can you pretend to call yourself a friend to British Industry, when your principal object is to maintain laws which mbfke tlhe cci(cf ...

... AWFUL S'TORM.-LOSS OF LIFE ANDI PROPERTY. I A most fearful storm occurred off the western coast during Thursday and Friday week. The lose of life d i and property has been truly frightful. At Newport the gale burst forth about ten o'clock on Thursday morning . from N.W. Late in the evening the brig Charlotte, of Lon- to don, and the schooner Union, of Whitehaven, both bound for ,d Glasgow, ...

... 3IINISTERIAL PLAN FOR THE SETTLEMENT how OF THE SUGAR DUTIES. TuIE measure which will test the strength, and reso perhaaps decide the existence of the new Government, SiOl was brought forward in the House of Commons by tern 1011D JOunv RUSSELL on M1onday. It is a bold and life, decided measure, founded, as we conceive, wholly on not right principles, and yet prudently adapted to the cir- PrOl ...

... B We have had the following ~orrcporidenrco handed 9to uts by Mr. Sutoliffe, of Willow Lodge,. near -Ha lifax, I asd, in compliance with his wvish, we give it publicity COPY OF LETTER 'TO TUE RIGHT HONOURABLEI LORD VISCOUNT MOlRPET}I. BIT Lohn.-Portnit me, as an elector of the West Riding of thea county of York, to ask your Lordship's viewvs on the question lately before Parliament, with ...