... IMPRIOVENENT OF DWELLING HOUSES. tiu LIFE IN THE CELLALr KITCHEN. bi sea- TO TII£ EDITWIS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY tO anid Leeods, Dzesiuber 31lot, 1858. rei ,Ire. Gsc'eTmL1I ?? I wrote my last letter on p 7o the above subject, I have been expecting, that some gentle. ar ,0)! main more able than myself would havo Corresponded with, P0' yon conoccinin~g it, but since euch is not thle caee, I beg ...

... IMISCELLANE OUS.| Michael Morris, Esq., of the Connaughat bar, hasj$ be been appointed Professor of Law in the Galwny Collage. '11 PRsOOgSS.-There is no miore ill-used word fi othan progress' in the English langnage.-Leocon)ciint. ~9, Mr. Francis Collisson, son of the rector of Wcslcot., us B-ath, was drowned on Mondaoy, through the upsetting, of a p ocf boat in the Amoc His brother ...

... 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 ...

... sas re iCXLEEDS. re SATURDAY, JANUARY 1. I, ,sl MPTHODIST NEW CONNEXION.-TIE TWELFTH ?? Sun- day, Dec. 19, sermons were preached by the Rev. T. Griflith, etof Hunielet; and on Sunday, Dec. 26, by the Rev. ii. 0. Crofts, D.D., of Huddersfield. The collections amounted of to the very liberal sum of £100 10s. 4d. On the three fol- in lowing days the ladies' annual bazaar was held in the large ...

... MR. BLACK, M.P., ON COML~IEDROIAL MORALITY. A meeting, in connection with the Scottish Trade ag Protection Socriety was held in Glasgow on Monday evening. acMr. Charles Cowass, M.P,, presided, and was eupported by it the Lord Provost, and many of the leanding inhabitants of' ~e the city. id After esoms introductory remarks by thle Chairman, IIr Mr. BLACK, M.P., delivered an address, ?? ...

... EvERY arrival of news from the Ionian Islands Li causes us to marvel afresh at the mission of MR. GLAD-P STONE. We suppose the distinguished commentator upon Homer was sent to these seven gems of the sea for some purpose, but it puzzles our simple wits to know what that purpose was. Ostensibly, indeed, the course chalkedout for him was to informhimself of existing im- perfections in the ...

... TIIE CHASE. Tne BRAI4HAMI MOOB FOXHOUNDS will meet o 30onday, ab Stockeld Park; on Wednesday, at larforbb Bridge; on Friday, at Wighill Park; and on Saturday, Jan. 8, at Harewood;-each day at half past ten o'clock. THE BA DeSsWORTH Fox HOUNDS will meet this day, f at Notton Village; on Tuesday, at Fenwick; on Thursday,i at Brierley; and on Saturday, Jan. 8, at Brampton Bull 1{ead;-each morning ...

... in, WE must again call the attention of our at readers to a subject of such great importance that it a- may well appear in our pages at the commencement of od another year, So far as our journal is devoted to the advocacy of local improvements, there are few ques- in tions which can more fairly claim our attention than ud the dwellings of the working and poorer classes. This se- lies almost at ...

... ?? ,w be ?? 21 PRMSENTATION Os' TEqTIMONIALg TO THE, REv. ?? .A. AND MRS. HULDERT.-On Monday, the annual 5,ChristirlaS festival was held in the National School,Skth wAits, 11ear Huddersfield, nwhen a 1 Missionary Tree, adorned withvaiu wa played, asi variou useful and fancy articles, wa dig- bly et n the resultse of the evening produced £17, to be 4ividedtetnlween the Church Missionary ...

... J . ?? NAPLES. 2 M MORE OUTRAGES ON ENGLISHMEN.I (From a Priviatc Correspondent.) asan.ti NAPLES, Dec. 21. 1 A domiciliary visit was lately effected by order of Signor ?? Bi1anchinl, at the residence of Mr. Win. Pierce, an English mnerchant. Hlis secretaire was broken open, and all his cars papers examined. Nothing, however, was found which but could compromise him. A tman in my service, who ...

... -A THEE YEAR 185S. rby ate bye To-DAY begins another of those stages in the a t brief life of man, which are marked on'the index of ii r the sklies by the revolution of the earth in its orbit. fc 2More imperceptibly even than the sublime circling LI *ns 1 ?? of the worlds through space, Time sweeps by on n 0i swift and silent wing, dropping our frail generations d ?? into eternity, and ...

... WAKEFIILD. - -r- AmmanI- 17_ tA__1 -_ 71I aidp ?? t FL CHARITY BALL.-Th~e annual Lal!1 ill Ei ado he funds of that excellenit institution, thle Wakoge2,4 taken Dipoa n lyo optl a eld io the saloon of ?? ornxhne-ulig, ?? and buat tede yaot20 iies aogtwo were lad mebrifnvrl ftepicpl aiisi h eigh- %Uses ,beiesfsioalead itigihated gu ets from I Ia greater distance. Dancing commen ed ebortly after ...