... LEEDS. SATURDAY, MARCHI 12. THE WEST RIDING REFoRm REGISTRATION ASSO- CIATION AND 'THE REFORM BILL.-A meeting of the Executive Committee of the West Riding United Reform of Registration Association, was held in Leeds, on Wednesday, he John W. Childere, Esq., in the chair, when the following rd resolution on the subject of the Governmaent Reform Bill Us wae passed unanimously: That the Bill ...

... HALIFAX TOWN COUNO TL. Pi Ppn GnE- ^- ' ?? fING THE PROPO0jtN TOWN HALL. tiyts' The second quarterly meeting of the Halifax: eafkno Town Council was held yesterday at t Tor I The , In Mayor (T. S. WALSm, iq i ) in thie chair, ald a large at- the tendance of inithers of the body.e Thy ?? rwas orfne tiksps t . he lclnwppers av eed on- was menced with the reading of the f milnutee, which ware ...

... LE ED S. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. SERIcOUS ILLNESS OF xuE EAisL os' BFiON.-The Earl of Ripon is very ill, and it is thought improbable that he can recover. On Thursday, bowever, the account was more favourable. For some years the Earl has been paralytic, and he is now in his 77th year. We need not say that the decease of Lord Ripon would involve the removal of Lord Goderich to the House of Lords, ...

... I (By British and Irish a Magnetic Teclgraph.) ?? THE ITALIAN QUESTION. Li The Vienna correspondent of the Times, writing on b Friday, Eaye the French and Austrian Governments have h not yet come to an understanding. The diplomatists are a nearly at their wits' end. The writer adds that Prussia begins to exhibit symptoms of a resolve not to allow her t interests to be separated from those of ...

... DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT CHURCH RAWT R1TOL. RATE BILL. THaEiE are some infants whom admiring parents I and maiden. aunts regard with fond dismay, because, e as they say, the pretty innocents are too good and too I pretty to live. Just such a brat was MR. WALPOLE'S C Church Rate Bill, which yesterday afternoon fell i under the fierce assault of the Coruish Herod, SIR E JOHN TRELAWNY, who with ...

... i MISCELLANEOIS. |? The pres-ent of RIor Maejoty to lher grndono a i hiieiti is a spleindiii and very Valuable coral of the g l Th e Government are fitting up the defences at v the mouth of the Tyne with 32.pounders. The .Sardinian has arrived from Geelong, with B 1 4,106 bales of wool, and elro tons of leather, but no gold. I: The Head Mastership of the King's School, Can. 1 y|te btry, is ...

... WESLEYAN CONFERENCE OF 185r a The Conference of the Wmleyan body will hold 011 5 ite ?? this year in Ollhem~etrooh ch~pl hManchesterX ]3 5 ooinenolng on WeIeLay O~ext. The tionine neon. to . mi'ttcc, whleh alto eomne daye boforo theo pooo of the d, . Confernce, bee agreed to the ?? ei thle iilq ?? Of a THlE STATIONS OF MIISTEI io THE LEE4DS DISTRICI. in e Lxed, F hei (lrinswik chaieL bok.- ...

... NEW AND'EXTENDED MISSIONS IN | 11 I . - CHINA. l XTesterday evening, the Rev. Dr. James Legge, late mnissionary in China, attended a numerous and very respectable meeting in East-parade 'chapel, for the purross of delivering ass address on the opening presented in China for missionary enterprise, and in advocacy of the moyesment originated by the London Missionary Society, for extending I its ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, APeRIL 14. THIRD READINGS, The Red Sea And Iadian Telegraph Bill, the Savings lanks (Ireland) Bill, and tihe Alidavits by Commission Bill, were readb third time and passed. BILLS THIROUGHI CONMMITTEE. The Combinatiosb of Workmeny Bill, the Superannuation Bill, s end thu Municipal election Bill, passed through cot . mnittee. THE MINISTERIAL STATEMENT ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS ...

... wee D SO THE Zurich Conference sat for two hours on Satur- pen day. Nothing appears to be known about its~proceedinge, hei WO except tbat some diffloulty has occurred, and that beols eidee tail t of are awaiting further instructions. Where the hitch is WI, nobody positively knows. The two favourite points for it 'acnjecture are therestoration of the Dukes and the Lem. Aesd bard debt, both of ...

... THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. whi LAST Saturday the session of Parliament was alta brought to a close. The QUEEN'S Speech was read by mos the LORD CHANOELLOR, and of course conveyed no new rest information. Bat as a mask to indicate the present auti 6d. position of legislalion, it at least has the merit of reqi d.affording the journslist end other writers the oppor. to - tunity of taking a somewhat ...

... staff OUR readers will not be surprised to learn that ?? the Conference of Zurich finds itself already in serious ebi sion difficulties. True, indeed, as the letters from Zurich the assure us, the Plenipotentiaries meet together in the most cordial manner. But it is easy to make speeches th of inimitable politeness, to put on smiles of matchless cli once courtesy, to dine together in all the ...