... THE LEEDS MERCURY. TalE montbly statement of the public debt of the United StateB shows a decrease, on the let of April, compared with the preceding month, of 6,000,000 dolk There was also a decrease of cash in the Treasury amounting to 5,600,000 dols ...

... must be overcome at a later stage. Of course Ministers have still their hardest tasks ahead of them in I carrying through the Committee stage, with it§ countless chances for the Obstructives, measures like those just read a second time. Already we see the ...

... deceased. The Rome Secretary moved the second reading of the Factories and Workshops Bill. In the debate most of the speakers, Liberals and Conservatives, spoke in terms of approbation of the measure, and the second reading was agreed to without a division ...

... in accepting this measure, which, however, might be read a second time and referred to a Select Committee. After a few words by Lord H~rsbhell on th& ecomplexity of the measure, the second 'rending was agreed to. The Arimy (Annual) Bill passed 2 through ...

... Council. The Army (Annual) Bill and the Copyhold Acts Amendment Bill were each read a second' time. Other measures, one relating to musical copyright, were advanced a stage. IN the CoMmoms, questions were put by Mr. Austin as to funds left for the benefit ...

... Town Hall, the sermon being preached by the Rev. H. W. Crosekey, LL.D., F.G.S. Tan Exchequer Returns from the 1st of April to April 21st show the receipts to have been £6,101,612; expenditure, £7,737,224 ; and balances, £4,516,460. In the corresponding period ...

... Lord Ventris. The Industrial Schools and the Reformatory Schools Bills were read a second time, and referred to the Committee on Law. Other measures were advanced a stage. IyN the Co.MoNs, the Postmaster-General, in reply to a question, said with the approval ...

... kLeeLT yesterday, when, in seconding the Choirna proposal, he tried to show how lucy *d late Liberal Board was in receivinzg tt Government grant when the Free EducKUeOf Act came into force. It was W5V for Mr. Grosvenor Talbot to show that the preset Board ...

... moved his amend- ment to the motion for the second reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill, in favour of an equalisation of the death duties on realty and personalty; and in enforcing his argument he showed that at present the whole burden of the rates ...

... offences against the common law, Tim majority by which the second reading ot the Bill legalising Multi;iage with a Deceased Wife's Sister was yesterday passed by the' House of Com- mons showed that the representative Chiimber of Parliament remains, as ...

... THE LEEDS - NERCURT. . . . S9ATUBDAY, April 218t, 1888. 'Ta latest telegrams from Berlin report, the condition of the Emperor yesterday as better. The discbhrg1 of pus, prsviously mentioned, continued through,, the ,d4y,, and . had the effect of greatly ...

... of the second reading of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill was of no practical con- sequence, and that at a later stage he would be found opposing it in company with the other dis- sentient Liberals who had the courage to vote against the second reading ...