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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... I AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Oct. 14. The Emperor Las addressed an autograph letter to Count Beleredi, the Minister of State, in which His Majesty expresses his most grateful recognition of the inestimable proofs ef fidelity and noble self-sacrifice which have been afforded by the peoples of Austria during the late unhappy times. The Einperor instructs Count Beleredi to make known his sentiments of ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3366 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE BANK RATES OF DISCOUNT FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS—THE ALTERATIONS AND DURATION OF EACH RATE

... THLE BANK RATES OF DISCOUNT FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS-THE ALTERATIONS AND DURATION OF EACH RATE. The following table, showing the dates of the various alterationsa which have taken, place in the mini-i- mum rate of discount charged by the Bank of England since the Bank Act of 1844 camo into operation, also speci- fying each rate and the number of weeks or days during which It was in force, has been ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1629 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... I I LONDON, Monday. The next great sensation we are to have will be furnished by tho trial of Mr. Eyre. At present the deter- eination of the Jamaica Committee to prosecute is re- garded with mixed feelings. Numbers of persons who utterly condemn the atrocities perpetrated under his rule, and who Bee the full bearing of the execution of Mr. Gordon on the great question of our personal ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1960 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

OUR MEAT SUPPLIES FROM ABROAD

... (From the PTal Aall Gazelte ) Beef and mutton at elevenpence a pound, accord- ing to the butchers' view, is to become a normal state of things in this country. If this is to be the case the sooner we discover some other mode of extending our supplies of meat the better. as it is quite clear the working mal will no ]ongcr be able to obtain the proper amount of flesh food he requires. Why plices ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1580 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... LEEDS, OCTOBER li;, 1866. VISIT OF TflE VOLUNTEERS TO BRUSSELS.- Major Robinson, of the Leeds Rilles, and Major Butler, of the Leeds Artillery, together with the other principal Volunteer officers at Brussels, had the honour of dining with their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, at the Chateau Royal do Lackon, on Saturday last. LEEDS BAZZB OF HOPE LEAOUE.-The annutal meeting of the ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6180 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST

... THE~ H{ARVEST2. 13.IIINAIU CASTLE.ifiItaid Progress has been siwdedirisig 're pst week in gathering in the grait', Isut alarge prop, tion ?? out intefldadi 3ttitYCs55 ieC It witvat is foun~d to be Sprouted to Ii large itt.Ots ansd barley arc bad in colour, and peats arle .raast tot. ly sbltlled Oat on tho ground. Potatoes as's a jargo Crop, 110s tle) disetise has nsanifssted itself. Tits ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9416 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

MR. C.S. ROUNDELL ON JAMAICA

... MR, C. S. ROUNDELL ON JAMAICA, Last night Mr. C. S. Roundell, of Gladstone (Secretary to the late Jamaica Commission)p delivered a lecture on Jamaica, in the Town-hall, Skileton. There was a large attendarice. In the urravoilable absence of Mr. Henry Alcook, President of the Slipton Mechanics' IDstitutioU, inr connection with which the lecture wie given, Mr. T. HII. Ingham occupied the chair; ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1643 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

IT is said, with some show of probability, that the first act of the German Parliament will be to

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. IT is said, with some show of probability, thatbthe first act of the German Parliament will be to proclaim the Kwo or PnussrA Emperor of Germany. Everyone sees that what has been accomplished is but the first, although the most important stop in a great work. The unionists of Germany seem to think that Bifirzu has halted too soon, and it is quite certain that the inhabitants ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4381 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: News 

LEEDS MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

... I Mai-laIL, WARD.-Yesterday evening a Meet- ing of the burgesses of this ward was held at the Great Northern Hotel, Wellington-street, for tlce purpose of nominating a fit and proper person to represent the ward in the Town Council for the next three years. Mr. J. B. Myers, plumber, was appointed chairman, and in opening the meeting lhe said it wais understood by those present that the Ward ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2012 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

VISIT OF THE VOLUNTEERS TO BELGIUM

... BRUSSELS, Saturday. Notwithstanding the heavy work of Thursday, and that few of them retired to bed before the small hours after midnight, all the Volunteers were up and stirring yesterday morning at eight o'clock, when, by a salvo of 21 guns, the artillery of the Garde Civique announced to all Brusselsthat the fefes of independence of 1866 were aboutto commence. The morning was foggy dnd damp ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1475 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... LATEST NEWS,, |E aum's TrLvawArm A AMERICA. (By Atlantic telegraph.) NEw YouR, Oct. 13. Gold 153. Exchange on London 1G6. 5-20 United States Bonds 1134, Illinois 128, Erie 83. Cotton 12. HESSE DARMSTADT. DAgier8TIDT, Oct. 15. It is stated that the convention between the Govern- ment of Hesse Darmstadt and the Archbishop of Mlentz has been annulled. During several years this conven- tion lis ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1648 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

... UNITERS ITY lNTELLIGENCE. OX.SORD, Oct. 13. MAGDALEN COLLEGE.-Mr. Edward Russell Bernard, B.A., scholar of Exeter College, was this aftcr- noen elected to the vacant fellowship at this college. There were three candidates. Air. Bernard was placed in the first class in classics, first paulic examination, Easter term, 1(3i, and in the second class in. classics, second public ex- amination, ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 532 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News