... The Mercantile letters from America to-day show that some of the leading bankers have a full sense of the financial disgrace and confusion impending over the coun- try. In one week the New York banks had sustained a diminution of £1,500,000 in their stock of specie, and the amount now held was only £4,600,000, or less than half of the total of last summer, when the Secretary of ?? and all the ...

... aft #u l Vactut AND EAST RIDING TIMES. [REGISTERED AT TEE GENERAL POST-OFFICE. FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD.] FRIDAY, JANUARY 31. I THE tragedy at the Hartley Colliery has saddened the whole country. Englishmen are only too much accustomed to regard colliery accidents as matters of course. Every year s thousand lives are lost by explosions, by fire. damp, or by some one or other of the countless ...

... (Fromeor Cbo?-esod-L) Su A mieeting of the Council of the borough of i Bradford wais held yesterday afternoon, at the Court-H1ouse. T1 The MAYOR (Isaac Wright, lEsq.) presided. n TUIE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. Sb, The TOWN-CLERKm (Mr. Rlayner) read a conmmunication, inl from thle Home Secretary of State, acknowledging the f, rcep of the loyal end -dutiful address of the Bradford di: ...

... A I aeT - NEW L 1A TE STr N E WSeI VJ D ?? and RiEMa Tccagraphaj -AM11 1t ICA. TWVO DAYS' LATER DESPATCH, HIfGH-I-FLY PACIFIC NE E WS. AT:PIVAL OF TE ANGLO SAXON. ?? s-, (7'tide?/ Mornay ei nip. 'lToe Canadian cmail steam-er Aiglo Saxon, from Portland, on 21st Dec., hals arrived. Kjimx Yonti, 20/h, Afiterlnooln. A battle is reported in Missouri, in which 1,300 C'onfeder ates, fin.di ng ...

... LATESTNEWS. (By Aagynetic and Eletric Tel.egracphs.) LRE[UTER'S TELEGRAMS.| THE OPENING OF THE FRENCH C HAMBERS. THE SPEECH or THE EMIPEROR. PARIS, Jan. 27. The following is a translation of the speech delivered by His Majesty the Emperor, on the opening of the 3egislative session of 1862, this day:- Gentlemen Senators, Gentlemen Deputics,-The year -which has just passed, despite certain ...

... THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY.-MEETING AT BIRMJNGHAM. A 1 lltIlJ INtflUiVj. a A public meeting* was held in tse Town-hall, t] Birmingriliam, onl Thursday night, to consider the propriety s of urging upon the Government to have recourse to arbi- a tration, instead of an imimiediate declaration of var, i 1 the event of a serious disagreement occurring with the United States. The mieeting had been ...

... MOLD GItEEN LOCAL BOARD. SPECIAL MEETING. On Wednesday evening a special meeting of the above Board was held at the Offices, Bridge-end, Mr. G. S. TOLSON in the chair. There were also present Messrs. T. *'Midley, 0. Odlder. St. Brook, J. Day, G. Wilson, J. Whateley, 3. Byrain, and 3. Hanson. On an, examination of the bank-book, it appeared that there was a' balance of £1,400 against the Bloard ...

... ANNUAL IME.ETING OF THE LEEDS '10\N MISSION, LAST N1GilT. 'The twent y- tis asulsivoersary (Af the establishi- 11mitof llis vt ubableinstitiltioll wascelebrated lastelighlt by a public mecetiug in the Music-ldal. On tlhc previous day sermons Were preaclied and collectioms masdc on behalf of the Idissioji ai St. George's cllurch, by til IROv. J. Blonmficild lit Headingley churcu-h lby the lev. ...

... I LOCAL A NiD GENERALh L!, itS *A N 1:A PA IV I I I fitlhlilnL gvn e).a on-ler It ., ?? ?? f(rnii tli-- Horsel ;ua rdq Fl -, F-oyii Hinliner tie t en-,al (5oi..11ussuiti ?? FIm, I-I-Ceive: iFlit- Qu~i-r-- o ?? C'ii5ii not~lify to til aruly fli;, tfie, nwifoi ;ing -trtr his Itt'.- I-oalIihui Fie P'rince {'-on.,ort tv;s iP l-sugis Oi F-h I7th of (lie nest- tettut Ft. ilien fthe full niiizlranti ...

... |NEC'ES1S'IT OF? It l'TSING, ITEIINATTONAL LAW I. Ear n1ow, it. seems., likely to be delivered from the scoutrge of war. EveNL the WickcedaLes' of the ?? 17ork Hcitw1N hias iot so utterly Minde(ld its cyes as to allake it anxious to plitge into hostilities with E~gland at such cnrisis. Thoughl it UgCes con- cession with muttered threatcs of future revengc- though it buys peace wvith reluctance ...

... I I C ANA DA. Toiiomro, CANA [FIA Wtts'r, Dee. 26. Canada has at lcngth been aroused to a sense of hier duity, and is making strenuous exeitions to place herself in, uchl a, state of defence ts; shiall, if possible, deter our neighbourg across the border from invading her. Every city, town, ?? couinty, in both provinces, hras taken steps to Organize and equlip ils quota of volunteers, for ...

... | I FRANCE. THE OPENING OF, -THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. i THE SPEECH, OF THE EMPhROR. PABXS, Jan.'27.:i The following is a, translation of the asbech' delivered by his.Majesty, the Emperor on l.e opeping of the Legislative gsesion of,18fi2, thie day;- ii~1em~en:e Senators,' ,'GentleaeRs SDeputies&,-.Tbe year Wbidh hs just pagsad7i,'deapit certan anxieties, has seen peace cbnsolidafed;.: All the ...