... , UNIVERSTY DXAMINATIONS FOR GIRLS. LADIES' MEETING IN LEEDS. The improvement of mniddfle-class education has for some time occupied a large share of public attention. The great efforts made by our educational societies, assisted in many cases by State aid, to promote education among the manual labour class, have resulted in the pro- auction of schools in which the education given contrasts ...

... PROPOSED REFUGE HARBOUR AT , HARTLEPOOL. EXPECTED GOVERNMENT GRANT. On Wednesday afternoon the flartlepool Port and Harbour Commissioners met a committee of the North-Eastern Railway Company's directors, at the West Hartlepool offices, to decide upon the adoption of a plan for carrying out extensive refuge works ins Hartlepool Lay. The Commissioners are prepared to spend £100,000 in the ...

... J ER~s- Tarmnws] FRANCE. Palnls, Sept. 7. Yesterday, the Emperor went out bunting at St. o ermains. The Etenebdrd of this evening publishes a despatch from Vienna stating that the cattle plague has broken out in Gallicia, Hungary, and Moravia. According to news received here from Berlin the King of Saxony has accepted in principle the conditions imposed by Prussia that the military affairs of ...

... | t- I . I - -- -1- A 1. The twenty-seventh annual exhibition of the above society wes held yesterday. Owing to the present state of harvestinig operations, it was feared that the show wocild be only thinly attended, but a shower of rain in the morning had the effect of sending the harvesters home, and the afternoon being fine overhead, though with a boisterous wind, spectators assembled ...

... flaTuER 's TReInASi. FRANCE. .PAIrs, Sept. 28, The Patrie of this evening publishes an article signed by M. Dreolle, which says- The insurrection in Palermo, the revolt in Candia, and disturbance in the Ottoman Empire, the agitation in Greece, and even the renewal of the efforts of the Jaarists in Miexico are the effects of a past plot which has been formed in the belief that a general ...

... I .'isrn the rall Mlall Gazettet) - Whether judges ought or ought not to tell jury- men wheit will be the effect of their verdicts on costs, there can be no doubt that journalists are entitled to publish such informatios. The following table shows the effect of verdicts for various amounts on the costs in diffcrenst classes of actions brought in the superior courts. There are five critical ...

... LATEST NEWS, ?? Tin..wLs j PRUSSIA. BERLax, Sept. IS, Evenina The seni-officinl MNrth G(erman Gaee:Il/ of this ex'et. ing says:- We f-nd lard down in the circular of )I. de ILavalette a programme which is highly favourable ta the tasks of Prussian policy. The conclusion only of the letter, in which reference is made to military r,. organisation for the defence of the French territor, might to ...

... I I AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF PARIS. [R=uriL'as ExPaREsS.] LIVnRPOOL, Tuesday. The Inman screw steamer City of Paris, Captain Kennedy, from New York on the lst inst., arrived here this morning. The papers teem with elaborate reports of the progress of the President and party, en route from Washington to Chicago. Scenes of great enthusiasm are recorded, and the Presidential tour is ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. TnnE negouiations between Italy and Austria, are said to bo approaching a satisfactory solution, and, even the question of the Venetian debt is to be amicably settled. Austria has proposed that Italy should pay a certain fixed sum, whereupon Venetia will be evacuated, and the Italian Government is dis- posed to meet this offer in a conciliatory spirit. Both France and ...

... TULE LECTION COMtMMISSIOTh LAAASTIlCA9TER, Mondlay. ~The inquiry into the existence of bribery ii corrupt practices at elections for this boroughi weva r'.o iii tlie Shire 11,11 this forming, before tcisi~o BJleisvow, NE1YToN, and A. f.TAVELEY HILL. r Mr. John !5hcarp, solicitor, of Lancaster, wvas thle i WitheSs eXssnsssed. ?? sisid,-I have been generally sl.;ill ~letis, i~ itosctthe ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. i WWE are told from Paris that the French I I Foreign-office is much engaged with the Eastern I question. M. DZ LAvALET has frequent interviews with the ambassadors of England and Russia, and more especially with the representatives of the other European Powers. Tom destructive floods in France have not subsided. The, waters of the Loire have not fallen in any degree, and ...

... I I A MOST destructive fire broke out in Hulillast night on the pre9iqep of Messrs. Reclfitt and Co biscuit, starch, blank leake, and'btuei jnzirstl !.Dausom-l~letanl~4 E*e,.~wffot~ «e Lfires which have of late occurred ine HuLll, its origin can only be guessed at. The premises are situate between Sutton Drain and Dansom.laue. The fire occurred in that part of the premises in which the ...