... ILEEDS': I SATURDAY, JANUARY 12. COUNTY ExPENDITURE.-We have b een requested by Mr. Iogham to state, that when he addressed us on this 3 subject last week , he had mislaid the last published account 9 of the treasurer for the West Riding, and was therefore not able to refer to the precise relative cost of assize and sea- sjons urosecations, and an he was speaking from memory he was anxious to ...

... lUNIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. TH-URSDAY, MSARCH1 14. CONVICT PRISONS BILL. Marl GREY moved the necood reacting of the Convict Prisoons Bill. Toce cystem which thle Goveranment dresigned to fellow itt re. I gards %he graver class of criminals, waes explained by the Noble Bet-celery for the Colonies to include a preliminary iraprhsonment in llciocountry, in which separate canflnessent ...

... - - to TnEl WICATHER.--Since our, last we have had two C, days of. rain, namely, Monday and yesterday. On Monday sp the raiu was not vary heavy ;,but yesterday we badeseveral ad thunder showers. Thle other daya of the week have been At fine.. The corn ia now fast ripening, and vary much will: ,i, depend on the weather of the next few weeks, as deciding iii the character of the harveat. The ...

... TnIzRE is no want that has been so long and so generally felt by the inhabitants of Leeds, as that of a Public Hall, spacious enough to accommodate large public meetings, and of an architectaro worthy of this great and wealthy Borough. When, at the late meet- ing to promote the erection of a Monument to SiR ROnERT PEEL, it was proposed to erect a statue in his honour, it was universally ...

... THE SCRIPTURES AND THE CATHOLIC L CHURCHI. or IT was asserted at the York county meeting tar Itelast week, by the EARL OF HIAREWOOD, that P, the tlla to Roman Catholic is not allowed to read the Bible. and a The H-ION. CHARLEs LANGDALE said in reply- sel ae Had I been prepared to be asked the question, I could Thb [e have shown you a rescript-a paper-from the POPE adn as himself, ...

... -- - - - .> ?? 4)- ?? I Tecnty meeting at York on the recent papal aggression tooli place in the Castle yard yesterday . I weekc. Thle meeting was convened by the High Sheriff I (William Rutson, Esq., of Newby Wiske, near Thirale), b in com-lplinice witls a very numerclusly-signed requisition, 0ontaining the names of Earl Fitzwilliam, the Earl of t 1.larewooel, Lord Londesbrough, the Earl of ...

... uEARL OF SECOND FilE CARLISLE'S LECTURE. nT.RAVELS IN AMERICA. )n The Earl of Carlisle, whose first lecture to th ,I- Leeds mechanics' Institution, 1On the Poetry of Pope) will be found in our Suppkmeosf, delivered his second Lee. ~jture, on his Lordship's Travels in America, yesterday even. ,ni ing. The public interest excited was evess greater thsn on the previous evening ; a large crowd ...

... TRlE STOIIM OF TUESDAY NIGRIT. On Tuesday night, about nine, tile metropolis was visited by it violent gale from ?? wilich con- tinued tile wilole nsight, and up to twelve o'clock on Wed- nesday, with acarcely any abatement, accompanied at i11 pr~, tervals with heavy ruini. The storm raged most furiously in ml the suburbs. Lerge branches were torn from the trees at 00' Camberweli, Dutwiclh, ...

... COUNTY .EXPENDITURE. I TO THE EDITORS OF THE-LEEDS MERCURY. d GENTLEaeENI-It is 'probable, from the mantifeetation- of II opinion asopublicly ?? the neighbouring county of Lancaster, e aided, too, as that manifestationnhas been; by the presence of tihe county aod other Influential Mesubers of Parliament, that the sutb- i ject of county expenditure wili be brought under the consideration w of ...

... FOREIGN NE1EWS. led ,list. ~~FRANCE.S ay- Letters from Cadiz of the 17th ult, Announce the arrival 3O Or-there of the French frigate the Ponione, Witlh troops ona ic board for La Plata. Sho was compelled to put into Cadiz are in distress, having broken the main shaft of her Screw. She of is to proceed to La Plata under sail. The steamer Prony, hI which twice left Toulon for La Plata, has again ...

... ECONOMY IN TIHE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE. 9- P ?? A- A- _ AI A ?? ,1_ MR. COBDEN goes on losing his motions, but winning his cause. Ministers defeat him, and then re- 01 a. tire before him. His shotion of yesterday week for a l return to the expenditure of 1835 was defeated by a t t. great majority SC 3e For Mr. Cobden's motion ?? 89 Against it. ?? 272 a( '0 Majority against .-183 b at Yet since Mn. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. aol THURSDAY, JUSE 13. of The South Eastern Railway Bill, after an ineffectual attempt on to( the part of Lord MONTEAOLE to Introduce a clause giving the Board I1, of Trade power to appoint an auditor if desired by a majority of the it proprietore, was read a third time and passed; as was also the Court of Chancery (Couuty Palatine of Lancaster) Bill. d1 The Sheriff of ...