... LOeCALj AND GENERAL.. LEE3DS, OCTOBER 19, 1868.. Tor TntnL or MB. GTREENLAND. -We unlder- stand that after numerous adjouraments, the trial of Mr. Greenland is fixed to take place next week. The ease will be brought before the Central Criminal Cour t on Monday,X when an adjournment will be asked for to Thursday. It: is expected the trial will at last be fixed for that day. : EosO.eEd BOARD OF ...

... LEEDS, OOTOBER 28, 18860. '1 t LEEDS NxwTh a~rlRcY SITE.-In thle letter on the Boar-lane Improvement, signed IE. C. P. w.hich appeared in Tuesday's Mercury, the writer (no doubt unintentionally) fell into an error when he stated that the surveyor of the new Inlirmary (Mfr. Fox) Originally proposcd that the buildiiig should be placed upon anl an-gular site. It is hrue, that by the design ...

... THRE MNTI-SLAVRY CONTEST iN REI( \LAND . Parties in Holla1nd are divided on the subject of ~ Java. Java, as the reader is aware, is the brightest gem in the Netherlands' diadem, the pride of the Indian Archi- pelago, unmatched for beauty and fertility by any equal exstenlt of the earth's surface. Java, an old Portuguese, and subsequently a Butch colony, came into the hands of X the English in ...

... s AMERICA. ARRIVAL O)F TUIE MSORAVIAN. IRauvan's Ensures.] The Cnadin mal scew Lvmu'oor., Tuesday. TheCandia mal srewstea~mer Maora~vian, Captain Aiton, w hich sailed from Quebec en the 29th nlt., arrived in the 3ierssy about ten o'clock this mornling, having been detained off the port about twelve hours owing to the prevalence of a dense fog. She brings 2'3 cabin and 29 steerage passengeo s. ...

... THIE STTNDAY SAME OF DRINK. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLEmEN,-Would you allow me through the medium ot your valuable paper to say a few words on a question that appears to me to be of vital importance, social3y, morally, and nationally, in the hope that they may lye the means of calling the attontion of some of the philanthropic associations to the matter-I mean the closing of ...

... TE[E CATTLE PL AGUE . 'inn CA1TTL P]r AGUE AND THa STORE CATTL'E Trcanr,-A memorial, addressed to the Privy Cotuncil, and signed by magistrates, landowners, grazirer, andl cattle dealers, to the numaber of nearly 400, froml the district of Craven, preying for a modification of the restrictions on the trade between England and Scotland, and for perinis- sion to hold a store cattle fair en ...

... Showing the days of departure fromn London of tho principal Colonial and Foreign Mails not of daily dispatch; and showing when the return mails are due. OCTOBER, 1866. Mails Dispatched. 2 (Mosning) to West Indies ane Pacific vid Southampton to New Zealand aid Aus traliaevid PI'nania. 3 (Moraling) to America b UnitedStates packet; (even ing) to India (Bombay line) Malta, Alexandria, &c., b ...

... I I (1Pr)om the London Review.) It is currently reported in political dlubs, and in other places where gossip of the kind usuallycirculates, that the present Government intend to introduce a Reform Bill in the next sessiou of Parliament. The rumour is likely to be well founded, for two or three reamjus. In the first place, even her Majesty's Ministers can hardly believe that the reform ...

... THE GREAT WEST RIDIN\G R E 'a T RA i GDEMON STRAtTI ON, EVTENI G MEETING IN THE VICTORIA ILUL, I Toe great reform demonstration of yestd 1 r brought to a close by a public rmeeting is the cveanrij) the Victoria Hall. Long before the hour fixed fo tb coumencecnent of the proceedings the hall was crrsdf i4 every part, whilst many hundreds of person LurrlUl fll0 the building, and endeavoured to ...

... INAUGURATION OF SIR TATTON SYKES' I MEMORIAL. Lfitom oun ow:, ltrpoamya.) A daiy of unciadoced beauty has broil SO rare of late that the pronioters of the memorial to the ?? 'fattest Sykes, Balit., of Sledmnere , mst he caagratutlated on the floe weather which yesterdlay enabled them to comp'lete flit, isaiugural ceremony with eo much success and with so much satisfaction to all who took part ...

... I I ME, ETING AT MANCHEfSTEB, [Frem onun OWN Ri'omEBs.] MANCHESTEI3n Thursday. This Dnorning the different sections resumiaed their sittings, and the attendance of members and associates in all the departments was quite as large as daring yesterday. Lord Shaltesbury end Lurd Brougham, again-i visited the various rooms, and were vesy wurmly received. Great curiosity has been excited since the ...

... I AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PERUVIAN. LivraPoOL, Monday. The Canadian mail screw steamer Peruvian, Captain Ballantine, which sailed from Quebec on the 22nd ult., reached the Mersey shortly before six o'clock this evening, bringing 40 cabin and 24 steerage passengers. Mr. Secretary Seward had entirely recovered from his late illness. The North-Western States had suffered immense damage from ...