... - 1~ r w. - I LOCAL JNTELLIGEINCE. in: ?? I rn SCIooIs or APRT.-The minutes of fte 4 Education Committee of the Privy Council, mcade in n' Fehruary and March, prescribing new arrangennents for t? grants to schools of art, have been laid before the b House of Comnions. The committee have resolved that t after the lot of October, 1863, payments will cease to s be made in respect of the ...

... CLOSE OF THE LAW SUIT AGAINST PROFESSOR JOWETLI The following letter has been sent by the pro- moters of this suit to the Vice-Chancellor Ii Mr. Vioe-Chancellor,-We, the promoters of a suito against Professor Jowett, beg leave to inform you at the tU carliestpogsible momentthatwe have given up theintention of making application to the Court of Queen's Bench for a tylardaoins to compel your ...

... Ji TO THE EDITORIS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLEMENr -J would not again trespass Oil bh your kindness, and ask for space in your valuable paper, if l TI were not fully convinced that the neglect of our salmon d, fisheries is causing a loss to the nation, increasing with bh every season that neglect continues. is Our salmon fisheries are all but exhausted ; but, happily, r- there still exists ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACK&rT. SIR,-Small pox is rife in the land-and the pul^ir mind is in a state of ferment and uncertainty in ?? to it and vaccination. The following is an aphoristic summary of the, piv- sent state of our knowledge on the subject, and may t accepted, if not as absolute truth, as a close approz4i- mation thereunto:- Small pox is a most virulently contagious ?? which ...

... I I ?? 4- a LEEDS, MAY 9. 1883. On Monday, Mr. Hadfield will ask the Attorney- General whether the Government intend to make any and f what alteration in the existing circuit arrangements; and whether such arrangements will be completed before the next summer assizes, and will include a winter circuit, and in what places. c LoCAL BILts IN PARLIAMENT.-In the House of Commons, on Thursday, the ...

... Her Majesty and the Court 'will leave for Ball moral on Friday nexlt. Their Royal Higlhnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will remain in London until the end of Juno. The Prince and Princess of WVales will honour Vinoolnt and Viscountess Palmerston with their presence at a dancing party on Wednesday next. The Prince of Wales was present in the llonse of Peers on Friday night during the ...

... In consequence of the long drought the Thames bis become offensive. The tendered resignation of the Earl Spencer, as Groom of the Stolc to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, has been graciously declined on the part of his Royal Righness. It is asserted in well-informed circles that the -Earl of Brownlow, who hlis recently attained his majority, is likely to be further elevated in the ...

... AXE-RICA. AFDERAL SUCCESSES ON THE 2 MISSISSIPPI. CONFEDERAIE R1AID UPON PENNSYLVANIA. 4 [REUTERa'S EXPRES3.] LlvurtrooL, Sunday. f 'The loyal mail steamship Arabia, Captain James Stone, whicl sailed from Boston on the 29th and Halifax on the :;th ulthuo, arrived in the Mersey at an early hour this eorning, ria Queenstown, where she called yesterday to laud maiis and passengers. She brings ...

... Lich JT is right that we should occasionally revert ght to the conflict between the North and the South, 6t a and point out, as clearly as the news last received 000 cnables us to understand it, the real position of the lied contending parties. Daring the last few weeks our u is eyes have been so constantly fixed on the threatening notI the aspect of our relations with the United States, and ...

... For several weeks past the lloman Catholic chapel im - Union Rued; Cambridge, has been the scene of the most udorgracefuldisturbances It appears that a number of inrgraduate met ber of the University, evidently aot- in In aoncert, have been in the habit of attending the ,evening services and'interruoting the priest by langhino ,derisively, smnoking long clay pipes. and other unseemly conduct. ...

... THE POLISH 1NSURRECTION. To~day lasting three DAMBERG, May 7. To-dag a fight, lasting three hours, took place between the Russian and Jeteloriaski's corpe, which resulted in the retreat of the former. The insurgents kept aln their positions, CRACOW, May 7. Numerous arrests of private persons and noblemen have been made in Posen and in its proviecs. The insurgent Osinski has occupied Demibronn. ...

... ! I A letter from Frankfort states that the King of Han. over has subscribed 1,000 florins towards the fund for purchasing Goethe's house. Accordirg to accounts from pilgrims lately arrived at Marseilles from Jerusalem, a greater number of persons bad visited the Holy City this year during Paesion 'Week than bad ever before been seen. The influx of foreigners was so great that the circulation ...