... LEE DST nOWN As ecialmeeting of.the Leeds Town Council was hold yesterday, the MAYOu presiding. T EX , e Nw PROVsOWNT ACT. The Town Cor I -laid on the table the Leeds Improve- me*t Aot 1869 and reported that it had received the -Royal assent.2O1 the motion of Mr. Aid. AOncDDANP seconded by Mr. THOMPSON, copies of the Act weee odered to be sent to all the members of the CouncdL Subre~Oeatly the ...

... BPREACHERS AND PRIESTS AT ELEO IONS. I _- d . .. . . .. _ - . The first witness examined before the Select Committee on Parliamentary and Municipal E'ections yesterday was the Rev. Jfr. Jones, an Independent minister, and president of the Theological College at Bala, in Merionethehire. The witness said he had taken part in the elections of 1869, 1865, and 1868. Dissenters in WaleS are almost ...

... RNDIA AND CHINA. Iy the arival of the mails we have advice; from ulymb8ay to July 27; Ceylon, July 26; Hong :Kong, The Calctuta Xngjuthwan says that among the vessels lost in the cyclone that swept over the Bay of Bengal in 1867, were thl steamer Thunder and the ship Morayshire. Seaich was professed to be msde for these aud other miss- iug vessels among the Soonderbuns, but no trace of them as ...

... (.From a -Pariuian Correspondent of tA6 Times.) There are certain plants which cannot grow nor even live except under shade, and with a good protection 3 aainst the brightness of light. Such is the Imperial Con. stitution, the nsaster-piece of 1852. To be sure, it might h ave lasted centuries in the happy obscurity afforded to it by general indifference; but now that the force of events has ...

... EEILy RETIUR OF BITXTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS. 21ST WrnlX, 1869. In the week ending last Hatnarday, 3,777 births and 2,35 deaths werergistred in eleven large cities and boroughs of England, neluding London. The lborths were 59, and the deaths 397 below the average weekly numbers ift the ten years 1851-60, corrected for increale of population to the middle of this year. The deaths ...

... H ER MRMSTY'S JOURNEY TO SaOTLLXD.I Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal family left Windsor for Balmoral on Thursday night. Hr Majesty was accompanied by their Royal Highness s Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, with their children, Prince Christian Victor and Puince Albert of Schleswig.Holetein; Princess Louisa, Prince Leopold, end Princess Beatrice. The suite in attendance ...

... ::ILELEY CO&BITY HOIPITAlj.; Theq 'anhel meeting of the subsoribers to thie ?? .osital Was held at Iikley, yesterday. 'As this ?? long been known as one ofthe mtost suaeres- ?? Our 0o01valeseunt hospitals, unusual interest qtttebo5 to its progrses frorr the near opening of the OookridRo Oonialeo ent' Eomne, sO munificently ereote lbi bur towns- naiu' Xi X. JMetcalfe SmithI' Mr. IdoFIr,9 ...

... _, - _ w?r THE[ ARACGUAYAN WAlR The following telegram wasreceived in Liverpool yeater. day, dated Buenos Ayres, April 28, 8 p.m. -Since the ?? of the packet important sdvicea have been received from Paraguay revealing to the River Plate Republic that the Ptragunausev are as active as ever. His Royal Highne3s Count R'Eu has been to the front and adopted mbasures to secure the position from ...

... TH? ?EUIIOPEAN ASSURANO? OF?'XGE. TO THE EDITORSi OF THE LMENDS !EROURY, ; OtrTI4Rr~l'r,-May I inquire, throughl you' itidely circulated paper, what t hfd shareholders,. aud olicyholders of the Europe an 4esuranee Sociaty intend to oP' The s~ooety harQ sent out cireulars for pxesniunis eirg .due on the Wuro'iaaured-atlesst they have dope so in tho ecsecof the Breitigh IEation5 which, with ...

... * THE. LATE MR. sAT?VrJEL?M?RsH&LL, OFKEZ4DAL. ;The Ken~dal newspapers of' Saturday eontain lengtby obituary notices of a' venerable oitire loi ths.t mcwn, 'aho was last week relsioved' by d'sath. A' this gentlenman was a native of Leed3e, and was to tbe Jast con- ne oted wilbth it through more thannone of his children, nud'* Ity other relatives, we gnive a brief n oticb of his long and iseful ...

... LOCAL AND GENERAL, * LEEDS, DECEMBER 29, 1862. VOIVNTEER CoImissIoNs.-Thefollowing changes have been gazetted :-East York A. V.-1st Brigade.-The Right Hon. Henry Baron Middleton to be Honorary Colonel. 4th Corps (Hull).-Major J. T. Dobson to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice Pearson resigned; Captain E. A. D. Brooshooft to be Major, vice Dobson, promoted. Memorandum.-East York A. V.4th Corps (iHull ...

... mAA 1 A.0A 4 _.1. ?? annual meeting oft the,, subscribers to~ this It, 'institution was held onl Phkeiridy, in the Crandl Jury Room, 16 Town falal. The MAYOR, who wss requested to preside, ndl referred to the unsatisfactory financial condition of the 1. caincom The expenditure was £1,100 per annium, but the eta ncm was only about £600, leaving a deficiency of £,500. 93, If it were true, ...