... p LEEDS. i Lmnis PHILOsoPHRICAL AND LimEARY SOCIETY.- At bihe next, general fleeting of thid society, on Wednesday, ~ January 5th, a parcer will be read 'Onl Sir Walter Scott, HIt by Jatnee Lennox Hannay, Esq., barrister~atilaw. HI Li.=D. POOR-RATF.-The. overseers presented the k1 new rate booke for sigiiatuireby thie Magb6trateesoniThursday, h and in doing en, Mrl. Beeps and Mr. Weston ...

... POSTZL COMM UWICATIOY BETEBENIIBLL4D ANDAM AER1CA. We yesterday gave a telegraphaannourcement that a deputation had waited on the Lord Lieutenant of Irelaad for the purpoie of laying before his Excellency the resat - tions on the subject of postal communication betvween Ireland ; and America, adopted on a recent orcasion; the followni a more detailed report of the proceedings. The deputation ...

... .IR. B?. X. HIrILI'S, M.R, OWN- POLITICAL PROGRESS. ?? On Thursday evening, R. N. I'hilips, Esq., Mi.P. for Bury, was entertained at dinner by the members of the Non-electors' Association of that borough ; about tOO sitting down in the large room of the Albion Hotel; MIr. PETEX Coorsit presided. Mr. P1te1LIPS said that one object of their meeting he no- derstood to be, that he might have en ...

... DUtWJ SATURDAY, JANUARY 1,at -, DtJ~iI: SAUBDAY JANARY 1, 1869. . I i THE NEW YEAR- I Thie New Year opens on us with bright pros- peats, commercially and politically. Money, the great power of the age, is more atun- dant and cheap than it has been for many years, and in the -several markets there is a steadiness that indicates an assurance of security which amply compensates the thrifty ...

... THURSDAY. (Before the MAYOR.) YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTMAS LARKS. William Gates, barber, and Edward Hand, clerk- to Mr. Stockdale, were charged with being drunk and orderly, and resisting the police in the execution of their duty. Mr. Wilcocks appeared for the defence. t t- ^Inspector Giffard said he was at the Bute-street at two o'clock that morning, when the defendants and a rnan named Bush came ...

... Spitomrof Nrtes. South Kansas is represented as the scene of much disorder and lawlessness. House-burning, robberies, and other depredations, are of frequent occurrence. Meet- ings have been held for the suppression of these outrages. The management of the Louvre have com- menced an action against the Duke de Maille to recover a picture of St. John, by Raphael, given to his ancestor by Louis ...

... Australian papers bring us news of a new exploration of: that continent. The Register, under date of October eleven, gives the following details:— Major AYarburton, the Commissioner of Police, who has already distin- guished himself by his energy and caution in travelling in previously unexplored portions of the country, has been appointed to the command of the expedition. The major left ...

... The Rev Dr Cuthrie, of Edinburgh, delivered a very eloquent and interesting lecture in'the Free- trade Hall, Manchester, on Thursday sennight on the ragged school system, illustrating his subject by aspecialreference to the original ragged school in Edinburgh, of which the rev doctor has been so zeal- ous and successful a supporter and. advocate. Thomas Bazley, Esq, presided. Dr Guthrie ...

... TEA PARTY AND PRESENTATION AT CUARNOCH RICHARD.-On Wednesday evening last, a tea party was given by Mr. James Darington, at the new school in Charnock Richard, to the teachers and scholars of the age of 14 and upwards. Above 150 sat down to an excellent tea, &c., provided solely by the liberality of Mr. Darlington. A pleasing feature of the evening's pro. ceedings was the presentation of an ...

... On Monday afternoon a most distressing event, the intel- ligence of which will deeply wound the public feeling throughout the whole country, occurred in the metrupolis in connexion with one of its great places of popular recrea- tion, resulting in the violent death of 15 human beings, and injuries more or less serious to many more. Ten of the dead lie at the Lambeth Workhouse, one at ...

... ASSOCITEXD SCHOOLMASTERS' UNIO)N- ChurchSobo~olinasthers ofEnglan id-,Wales be ben.heldt SheffXiewd, t end.'the femor, who yenteaere comaid, by mh olv and . lebngds of4 heddatonugat ended divineervtionet the vathederalv whrealn dea rfatle s; erihon' wuk~as p~abd b te'Eeve Canon fo h~ais text theramcousd proverb of' Stlomon Trai uopetu 'a cil in th wa. ehould got andi whohren~o heqpis old' ...

... At the meeting of the Juridicial Society Mr. T. Chambers, the Common Sergeant of the City of London, read a paper on the institution of grand juries, of which the following is an extractAfter stating that no insti- tution, whatever might be its antiquity, was entitled to remain in statu quo unless it could be usefully adapted to present times and circumstances, he gave a brief history of the ...