... 'noletised freo the ,Touseiaf of' t/l Conmtssoners of PatetsI. GRANTe AND DATES OF PI1OVISIONAL P1IOTEGTIOaN FoR S IX KOINTrI-Thomas Whitley. Cobden-strect, Brad- ford, Yorkslhire, improvemients in machiinery for combing wool and other fibre. '-John Tasker, Sheffield, improve- mentH in door sants, wbish iinproven-tents are also apph- cal)]e to coverings for floors of passages, offices, and ...

... (Zreusss 4.1. X 4 d D, Za ekay's COeCular.) LraRuooOl, Dec. 23. Like the other great branches of commerce, the tra(ls in wood has been listless and lethargic. Manufaacturers have met with only a limited nemoand, and this bete caused a restriction on the eonsuomptioii of wood, most consumners beiug content to provide merely for immediate wants. Tire immediate effect of this hies been to curtail ...

... COL. AKL: OYD, M.P., AND CllURCII-RATES. Last night, the ninth annual meeting of the Hali- - fax Church Institute was held, the president, Col. A ornYD, f M.P., in the chair. Mr. J. CRONxicuan, the lay-honorary secretary, read the report, which stated that the financial position of the institute was satisfactory. The income for the year had been £140 2s. 5d., and the expenditure - 181 Os. Id. ...

... 'W EK LY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROULI- OF LE EDS. 52ND Wnra, 1866. In the week ending last Satulrday 3,175 births and 2,610 deaths were registered in ten largo cities and boroughs of England, including London, The births were 0)7 lelow, while the deaths exceeded by 88, the atverage weeklynnmnbers in the ten years 1851-66, corrected for increase of populatiou to the middle of this ...

... The following summary of latest colonial intelli- genea is from Messrs. S. W. Silver and Co.'s Circular:- VIecrorA, Oct., 18066-Parliamont has been again pro- rogued, Under the new tariff, so much objected to, reve- nue returns show a decrease, viz,, £96,988, against £129,738 for corresponding period last year. 400 China- men left for Hong Kong, hbving in their possession £6,000 in sovereigns, ...

... TuBSDAY-Yesterday the wind was very strong from the eastward on the east coast of England. This morning the winds on our northern coasts are light and variable, and on our other coasts northerly (N.E. to NWM.), light to moderate. Att Brest a very strong northerly wind is blowing, with a high soa. Barometers nre unsteady. Temn)erature has declined, in some places many degrees. Snoi to a small ...

... TORCHILIGHT REFORM DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE RESIDENCE OF I MR. JOHN BRIGHT. Last night, a somewhat novel scene was witnessod on Cronketshaw Common, Itoehdale, nearly in front, and within a stone's throw of the rosidouce of Mr. John Bright. Many thousands of persons, chiefly of the workiug-class, had assembled on the common, under the auspices of the National Reform Union, to show their ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. TIE EMP'EROR NA1OLEON yesterday received I the amnbassadora and other great funotionaries at the Tuileries, according to custom on Now Year's-day. His Majesty's speech was pacific. EHe expressed good wishes for the stability of thrones and the prosperity of nations. He hoped that the world was entering upon an era of peace and conciliation, and that the Paris Exhibiticu ...

... THE GREAT OCEAN YACHT RA.VE. Gows3, Monday. By command of the Queen, Majoe-Goneral Seymour wes directed to present to 11er Majesty Contmo- dore M'Vickatr, of the Now York Yacht Squadron. The commodore, at tree o'clock on Sunday, asrived at Osborne House, and was presented to Hor Majesty and the Fria- cess Helena. The Queen .':prossod her thanks to the commodore for the opportunity afforded her ...

... I MR. BRIGHT AND THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. I The following Correspondence is published: - Alderley Edge, Manchester, Nov. 29, 1866. Sir,-In an article in the Yorfnrq/itty Rctseav, of Novemn- ber let, entitled Public Affairs, criticising the speeches of Mr. Bright, M.P., you say The absurd inaccuracy of some of his statements, its, for instance, that all ths lanld of Scotland is in the ...

... TI-E PROPOSED ALTERATION OF ioqoOL ITERMS. :i ii -e- TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS ME ROYC GENTLEMEN,-Will you allow me to add , renort of the meeting of principals of schools and teachrer held on Thursday last, to consider the expediency of the general adoption of the three-term system in the sohooletof ?? district, the following extracts of a letter from G. :T. Fitch, Esq., Assistant ...

... LCUAL AND GENERAL. LEEDS, JANIUA1tY 2, 1867. The Gazette contains a Royal proclamation for the assembling of Parliament on Tuesday, Feb. 6th. IkBWORM DINNER, HUNSLET.-OnMondayy even- ingabout forty of the committee and members of the Hunslet branch of the Leeds Manhood Suffrage Associa- tion sat down to dinner at the house of Mr. Duxbury, the Exchange Inn, Hunslit, in celebration of the ...