... PERSONALITY OF THE PRDESS. Esroe thue Daily Rkws.) The Drogress of reform is reflected hi the lan- guago of its opponents. Failing argument, they descend to calusmny. If the advocate of measures distasteful to them is a workman, he is depicted as a good-for-nothing fellow, who has tried various trades and failed in each, and who, having been dismissed by master after master, and from ...

... TBE AVEATI1ER AND PUBLIC IIEA.LTII. QUARTER EN-\DIN'G Mvneso 30, 1867. The quarter just endod was oharactorised by two periods of severe frost and s10w ii Jaitnivir', a spoil of five weeks fine open wearher from January ,2:3rdl till tho 2eth of Febrialry, and then followed rul uninterrupted course of frost and snow which lasted up to the 23rd of March. So severe a March has not been ...

... 81R WM. HUTT, MA?., ON THE REFORM I II]?OLTJTIONS. j 8~ir Win. fluff suet his cocestitlenlts at Gatos- beald, on Thursday, to explani hsis viewvs ciilisth question of irfucin -I hoard with thle greatest g7ratificaltion that Lordl Derby, entirely breokinlg with the pasit, hadl come to tihe' detercninatious to bring the subject of Parliamentary l~efoici to a final and estsiaslaory conclusion. ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. M, 1OUHEn has intimated in the Corps I Lbgislatif that France has informed the PouL that she was ready to open negociations for the distribution of the amount of the Roman debt among all ths Catholic Governments of El uropo, so as to free the Holy Father from all liability. He said it was tree that the Roman question was not yet settled, but it had been placed under the ...

... (lEasio the' Stan ders d. Lord D~erby's s ursportors, to thle nmmber of isbout t 2>30, assemnbled at his oiticial residence ous Monday, shortly f afttertw oo'clock. Hlis Lordship, inu a speecch of sosnelenlgth, laid before the meeting the details of the Reform Bill r which the Go0vernment were prepared to introduce, and n wh'3irls corresponded with the programmes set forth in Mr. t Disrneli's ...

... THE WEATliTER. MONDAY-Atniospherical pressure is less in the north and east than it was on Saturday morning; at Valentia it is about the same; and in the south it is gieater. Temperatures hare increased in the north and east, and are generally high. The winds oni the south coast are southerly, fresh to strong; on the east coast westerly ; and in Scotland variable, light. Much rain has fall6u, ...

... PAVIC CONGREGATIONAL CIIUROE, HALIFAX. LAYING OF THlE MEM)ORIAL STONE. Tie ni10li01o0 tillstne of the Park Congregational (butcil Mojiwood-Isnle, 1flielte, was laid yesterday by ise'lois Crossley, ?? For several years paist aL wantl ct itiereased accomumodation for public worship has boon sujttilTlY lt in the ivest and north-west parts of Halifax, is the secitibers of all denorninations. The ...

... (By Teleyrapp.) HOUSE OF LORDS, YESTERDAY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock, SALE OF LAND BY AUCTION. The Commons amendments on the Sale of Land by Auction Bill were agreed to, after a division, in which a motion of Lord Sr. LaoxAnos to throw the responsibility of altering the original bill upon the House of Commons was rejected by 60 to 9. MISCELLANEOUS. The County Treasurers (Ireland) ...

... THE PRIVY COUNCIL AND THE NORTH RIDING 9EAMBHRI OF AGRICULTU4E. On Saturday we reported the refusal of the Lords of the Privy Council to entertain au application from the Xorth Biding Chamber of Agriculture for. the opeing of thl Maltou market for. the use of the North . ?? Riding farmers formeale of hored cattle, The refus'al was based upon the report of an outbreak of plague in the North ...

... |LAT;EST n ?EWS. Rougse TsL~oaII 4 FRMOZE. PARms, 17th June. - a The .Aoaiteur, giving ani account of the departure of (d the Ring of Prussia, says it was the desire, of His tb lajesty to leave Paris 'without ceremony. The K~ing 1 warmly thanked the Emperor for the reception he had A had~ inl Paris, and the 'twgo sovereigns parted on mos'tp affectionate termts.' The Emperor .being slightly ...

... LATEST NEWS FRANCE. P11nT8, Aug. 7, EveDning The EeCnIh~g Afoniteur, in its bulletin, t any tih Governnenis of France and Italy show a firm mine. 1 tion Jeernpuloesly to respect the Convention of the 16th of September, which is at once a guarantee si the pontifical territory and a pledge for the existence I of good relations between France and Italy, The Fraance of this evening says :-We ...

... THE LEEDS JERCURY, Tnn Committee of the Italian hber Deputies have agreed upon a scheme for the . of the ecclesiastical property of the S POBAI tvaoidiinary tax of 30 per cent, is to be levied on ?? ecolcsiaeteal property. Mortgage bonds are to he issued, redeemable at par in fifteen years, until an advance of forty-four million sterling sball a aee obtained. This seheme will no doubt be ...