... r Or all the election cases, which have lately Ipressed with such painful notoriety upon public atten- rtion, that of Pontefract is the most remarkable, and in I some respects the most mysterious. The mystery, as bis often the case, arises from the simplicity. It is a mystery that there should be any mystery. Nothing could apparently be more obvious, nothing could leave less room for mistake, ...

... the The annual meeting of the eupporters of this hot charity was held yesterday, in the Lecture-room of the the Leeds Pbilosophioal-ball. F. BiLLAm, Esq., of Newal-l-12a,1, Bil Otiey, presided. The attendance was not numerous, as I The report, which was read by the Rev. JEo. SNOWDEN, tha of Ilkley, the hon. sec., stated that the receipts of the 1It gbcarity from all sources for the year ending ...

... WHILE France has been insisting that she was of lcompelled by the hostile attitude of Prussia to abandon the C work of liberating Italy, and Austria has been insisting ti, that she was compelled by the hostile attitude of Prussia to abandon her ancient occupation of Lombardy, Prussia T. quietly puts forth an assertion which, if true, gives a flat W contradiction to both these irreconcilable ...

... PUD6ji Y. Iseveral FATAL FAL,.-A man named Isaac Stricklanre y go residing in the Park, at Stanninglay, having risen between ee three and four o'clock on Tuesdasy morning last, and when ge with a about to descend the stairs accidentally fell down. He was yo 3 kind inmmediately removed back to bed and medical aid procured, ba undor- but lie had received such a severe ceontusiou of the brain of ...

... TO THlE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. TC DEAR SIRS,-Ihave read the able and interesting.a G article in your paper of Saturday on the proposed occo- Eddi pation franchise, and showirig How it would work in of bd Leeds ; and I most cordially agree with your preliminary fro remark that 1if the true friends of Parliamentary Reform thin 0aine to a full and candid explanation with each other, ...

... LEEDS. SATURDAY, JULY 2. ,LY.- MAI. DitRAELI AND HiS OFFICI&L PENs1ION.- 'E Our Llndoni correspondent 'in discussing on Wednesday the Nlhi climiceil of Mr. Walpole'e election by the Houme of Comulons Sar. as Chairnman of Commliittees, gaive ais one roeason which would probably iiifinence metiailers in that Right lion. Gentlemuan's Intf-syncr, that lie Nid not got his pecsieon as Mr. Disraeli ...

... . .- - -- LEEDS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, SIR GEOROE GuREY RE-APPOINTED GOVERNOp o. I THE CAPE.-We have great pleasure in calling attentinoto the circumstances ae Stated by the managing director of t Cape Town Railway, at a meeting of the companye et h day, that Sir George Grey is no longer the late, Goverero of the Cape, but is forthwith to return to resume his forruez position-an announcement ...

... itt MissrONABY SE.MONS.-O Sundav last, the )D, sermons for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, las were preached in the parish church, in temoruingby the she Rvev. C. Lloyd, M.,A., Rural Dean, Hampden Rectory, s Bucks, and in the evening by the Rev. T. Nevin, M.A., *id Mifield. On the following evening tMe annual meeting was held in the Infant School-room, when the Rev. C. vas ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURYT. 59. G9NTLM.NlF-T,-Thi subject of free labour iu os,~ ba hree West India colonies has lately received considerable Us~-. j 1 live tion, and as there appears to be Some misapprel ?? in the ,xr-many quarters as to the real state both of the ne~r-, ,~ n h h mer panaios I venture to lay before the publ' 0 ,Irsd few f hets thi bto, Its comsmonly' asserted that ...

... a - - -- -- AN EMINENT FRENCHMAN'S VIEW OF , ENGLAND'S RESOURCES AND t SPIRIT. a The Paris Journal des Debats of Tuesqay presonts 3 a striking,. eontrast to those Paris journeis which owo their En''a ?sole chliai to notitis to abus~e of Englend. h b In a rsmarkahla letter Pddres::ed to that journal, M. fe I Michel Chevalier, who bag been long and Ihonourably di- i Itinguislhed as one of thle ...

... r TO THEE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. h GNTLE1IEN,-AS one of the 228 clergymen of e the West Riding proclaimed by a correspondent in your o last Saturday's paper as the bitter and determined oppo- nents of the worthy and intelligent of the operative classes 8- in their aspirations 1or political advancement, I respect. fully request you to allow me room to deny the statement in the ...

... . I a 1 - 1 - - . As we are just on the eve of the Municipal Elections throughout the kingdom, we venture to draw the attention of those who take a part in them to the warning offered to all electors by the recent exposures of the corruption of Parliamentary constituencies. The lessons to be drawn from those shameful transactions are twofold, namely, first, the vast extent and variety of the ...