... I LEEDS MERCURY OFTICE, Saturday, 4 a..e, AMERICA. [R11UTER's TPLEGRAM8. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 20. The Arabia, from Boston on the 19th, and Halifax on the 21st, arrived at 8.30 P.m. She brings 109 )passengers and 14,209 dols. in specie. After having landed all her mails and twenty passengers she pro- ceeded at nine p.m. for Liverpool. All well. Nu:w YORK, Aug. 17, Morning. The Baltimore ...

... ,. I X ?? _.a A large meeting of landowners, tenant farmers, and others assembled yesterday at the De Grey Rooms, at the invitation of the Yorkshire Association for the Repeal of the Malt Tax, to take into consideration a petition to Parliament to repeal the malt tax. Mr. E. CAYLEY, of Wydale, presided. The CHAIRMAN made some observations, and charac- terised the late proposition of the ...

... TniE steamer City of Baltimore passed Cape Clear late last night, with -ew York intelligence to the 16th instant. The news appears to be generally unimportant. GENERAL LONOSTRERT had received a reinforcement of 12,600 infantry, raising the strength of his army to 30,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry. He was said to be fortifyingaa position at Bull's Gap. LEE was also receiving reinforcements. ...

... I SCHIESWJG-HOLLS TEIN. By the latest accounts received the Austrian and Prussian troops continue to pour into Holstein. by the various rail- wa3s running in that direction; ant although at first the soldiers were received by the inhabitants of the countries through which they passed with much enthusiasm, a differ- ent feeling seems to have arisen in consequence of the pre- valence of the ...

... THE1 ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. id Do TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. St GENTLEMEN,-1f ever a man deserved the sincere d thanks of the neglected and ill-paid (for such they are) as gricultural laborers in this country, undoubtedly it is Mr. Bright. Probably at no pariod in our country's history bas any member of the House of Commons ever delivered 52 a speech so big with importance, ...

... HALIFAX TOWN COUNCID. A special meeting of the Halifax Town Council was held yesterday evening, the Mayor (Major Holdsworth) presiding. The minutes of the various committees and the councils in committee were read, and Mr. Pickles moved, and Mr. Hardcastle seconded, their adoption. Before the motion was submitted, Mr. Swale called the attention of the Council to the circumstance that the ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF TEE LEEDS MEERC1UOtY. GNTaIoMBN,-Permit me to draw attention to the w ay in which the business of the County Court in Leeds is conducted, as ilustrated in a case in which I am concerned as the plaintiff. Some eight or ten months ago I obtained the judgment of the Court against a debtor. It was arranged that the money due to see should be paid in monthly ie- stalments. Whren ...

... AGRICULTURAL STATISTIC5. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MEROCURY. (3GNTLEBMEN,-I1n order that another Parlia- mentary session may not go by without leaving us a me-acre for the collection of agricultural statistics, I am ind ueed at once to make known a simple plan, to which I have given considerable attention. The reasons why all schemes hitherto proposed for obtain- ing returns of agricultural ...

... THig ST#IE IN THE IRON TRADE., i ?? ThPTAM PTAM A PRACTICAL STOGliSTION. TO THE EDITORS OF T[E LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLEMEN,-As a well-wisher to the iron trade, I thank you for the judicious advice you are giving to both the capitalist and the labourer. There is a lamentable -misapprehension abroad as to the true position of both. Capital must feel safe and sacred or it will cease to expand and ...

... - ~ ?? a MA D U V A ;! fi . TnIE BRAMHIAM MOOR FoxuoUNDS will meet on Wednesday, at Byram: on Friday, at Thorp Aroh; and on Saturday, November 7th, at Spofforth;-each morning at 10. 30. THE BADSWOiRTH FOXHOUNDS will meet on Tuea- day, Nov. 2, at Womersley Park; on Thursday, at lted Eouse; and on Saturday, at Ringstone Hill ;-each morn- bog at half-past ten. THE YORK AND AINSTY FOXHOUNDS will ...

... THE CONFERENCE ON TRE DANISH i QUESTION. i I LS. IT is now ascertained that the Conference for ''the settlement of the Dano-German dispute, will begin at London on the 12th proxisno. We 10are also informed that the Conference is to take Bnplace on the basis of the integrity of the Danish monarchy. The foreign telegrams are very particular in saying that the Conference is to meet without any is ...

... | FOREIGN AND COLONIAL ?? hce he DENMARK, .CY ?? Dee. 21. so ,ho The session of the Rligaraad baa this day been brought to ir* a close, but although it was expected by some that the all King would have availed himself of the occasion to have be personally addressed the national representatives, this was or- not the caue, ats the Royal Speech was read by the President ~on of the Council M.f ...