... In honour of Count von Bismark, Herr von Roon (Minister of War) and General von Moltke (Chief of the Staff, who directed all the movements of the army during the war), a grand dinner was given on Thursday evening at Kroll's Hotel, Berlin, which was very numer- ously attended. The invitations had been issued by the President of the Upper House, Count Eberhard zu Stol- berg, Chief Burgomaster ...

... 4b LEEDS, NOVEMBER 13, 1866. The Duke of Cambridge is expected to leave towsitarly in next month, onl a tour of visits inl York- vitire. and, among other friends, will visit Lord and Lady Lenideeborough at Gxihoston. RAILinAy AIIALOAMIATION. - N011TII-EASTE11N -Serves Drammax.-N otici, hias been given of aii intended application to Parliament for the incorporation of the South Durham Rlailway ...

... THlE HOYMi COl1SSION ON AdE POLLTUTIO N OF1 RITVEiBS- INQ5InYi AT DEWI3BURY. M~r. RAFLNrson% CEl1., Mr. HIrRISON, FsB..b., and Professor WAY resumed their inquiry yesterday, at Bewabury, into the state of the Colder and its tribu- taries. The first witness celled was .itr,. C/tes. Olcitoyd, solicitor, who said ?? am clerk to the Local Board of T'hosolbill. The township of Thorn- hill is 2,504. ...

... TER~RIB3LE EXPLOSION AT TlH: O AKlS COLLJEkBYr 350 LCIV-ES LOST. ]lnsnnsr, Wednesday Night. Thins afternoon an accident took place at the Oaks Colliery, about a mile and a half from Barnsley, w hich will, it is feared, surpass in the loss of life canned by it any similar catastrophe upon record in the history of the country. At the present moment very little for certain is known as to the ...

... ThE GREAT FIRE AT QUEBEC. A deepatch fromll Quebec, dated Monday, Oct. 15tb, gives the following particulars of the great fire in that city:- At four o'clock yesterday morning a fire begant in the louse of Mr. Trudel, grocer, in St. Joseptc-street, neir the Jacques Caiter Iderlcet. Owing to the early hour of the morning few people were about, Ttle wind, which had ?? half a gale from the east ...

... THE LONDON PRE'S AND MR. BRlIGHT'S3 LAND SCHEME. The Da ily K-s regrets that Mr. Bright, by an ill-considered proposal on the Irish land question, going far beyond not only the necessity and justice of the case, but the demands of the extremest Irish party, should have partially impaired the otherwise good effects which might have been looked for from his visit to Ireland. On Mr. Bright's ...

... LOCAL AND GEERAL. LEEx S, JULY 17, 1867. In the House of Lords on Friday night Lord Stratford de Redeliffe will move that an humble address be presented to Her Majesty expressing the condolence of this House with Her Majesty on the afflicting death of Her Majesty's near relation the Emperor Maximhilian, and their deep, indignant sense of the violence done to humanity and the usage of ...

... TRE MIDLAND AND GLASGOW AND I SOUT-WEbTBRN AMXAIAMATION. (From the .RisajwyN~esos,) TShe question of the amalgamation between the *Midland and Glasgow and South-Weetern'remains still j undecided, ?? meeting standing adjourned to the 13th, 'r in order to take the, votes of the shareholders on the question. There appears to be ?? miauuderstanding . between a section of the proprietors and the ...

... THE ALAB&MA ELECTEON. WAmsrNGlTot, March 28. The secretary of War sent to the 13ouse to-day, in compliance with a resolution of that body, the official report of Major-General Meade to General Grant, dated Alabama, Alarch 23, containing the following analysis of the returns of the vote in Alabama at the election submit - ting to the registered voters the Constitution framed by the Convention ...

... THlE HANDEL FESTIVAL. TO THE EDITORS OF TEE LEEDS MERCURY. GNTixMEN,-The rehearsal of the Yorkshire contingent of the choir for the forthcoming Handel Festi- val took place at St. George's Hall, Bradford, on Saturday evening. Having been present, and heard with great delight the powerful chorus assembled on the occasion, I shall be glad if you will permit me to make a few remarks upon this and ...

... LOuAL AND GENERAL. LEEDS, MAY (3. 1RG8. t We have been given to understand that the Mayor bas, with great liberality, signified to the Executive t Committee of the Exhibition that he will be very much I guided by the list of first-class season ticket holders in his 1 invitations to the bail. Mr. Henzry B. Sheridan, on Friday, will ask the Secretary to the Poor-law Board what steps the Govern- ...

... THE RATEPAYING CLAUSE OF THE REPRE- SENTAXION OF THE PEOPLE ACT. I TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. OENTLEMFN,-Th columns of the Mercury and etherpapers have of late chronicled many cases of hard- ship, or alleged hardship, arising from the abolition of the Smell Tenements Eating Act; and in order that the grievance may ho remedied, u return to the system which lees been in force in this ...