... I?AILWAY LEGBSLATION. (F~rom) fto ~rrailwa Newts.) The bill introduced oni Thursday night by Sir Stafford Northooto for making provision for *'the better regulation of the affairs of railway comspanics unable to meet their engagements'' is one which deserves the suppor05t of all who desire to witness an improvement inl the position ' of the railway property of the country. It is quite true ...

... TH E ESO OF PARLIA.~flNT AND I THE QUESTION OF! OPITALJPUNISHMfz TO THE0 EDITOES OF T'1 ILEDS MEROIJ~y. [GEByETM}ELast eevening the Home Secretary Istated that it is the intention of the Government to intro- |duce two bills relative to capital punishment, thie Scesion - one of these will probably be to give effect to the recom. nitendation of the late Rtoyal Cow l~slson, thlatmurders I hould ...

... |(lEome t~e l'oluniwia &crtie jGazeltr.) Abstract of Annual IletunsB dated let Decemuber, 1S66. No. 7,-Lieultenant-Colonel \Wemrbwell. YOuRI (EASST RIsiuo.) E~feiontO Em1 Arm. of Corps. blisbmstnet. Eliefiente. E:lNltens ETnre it.e.Clt. Artillery. I ?? 160 ?? 78 ?? 21 ?? 10O .. - Artillery. 2 ?? SO 5G ?? 17 ?? i3 Artillery, 4 ?? 4fSO . ?? ?? Ot ?? So .. Artillery 5 .. .. 80 ?? . 291 ?? ...

... THE EDt?C?UflON OF THE 5HGP. It has been rsaid, andi perhaps truly, thalt the archetype of a snob is the British .shopman. But when does his snobbishness appear 'MNot in his hours of buisi- ness, but in his hlours of recreation. A man engatged in honest work nearly always appears respectable, and when his work is of .a kind which requires, or et any rate sug6- gests, quiet costume, pleasing ...

... L OCAL, AND GENTER AL. LEEDS, PE]S1tUAItY I, 18874 The flank rate xvies yesterday reduced to three jer cent. U'nx TowN Orrrnesuxv Qir LoTus-Only nine alipliecatiuns had been received for this office up to poster- riiiy-which was tie inst dcv origiiislly fixed for reeelvlflg the names of eanrlrdetee. The timo for appliortion has bern extended to the 1st of sMercis. Trio IMI'selSOxbtENT 01' ...

... i THEa JAMAICA MASSACRES. l Yesterday morningh~r. Fitzjnmea Stephen (with Mr, Horns Payne), instructed by Messrs. Shaca and Itoscee, applied to the chief magistrate, Sir Thomas Hoary, at Bow-street, for a summons to command the attendance of the porter at the United Service Club, to give evidence of the presence in London of Colonel Nelson, in further- ance of the application for a warrant ...

... THE LEEDS MERCUJRY. TilEf Italian Parliament has beent dissolved, and the new Chamnber will meet on the 22nld of next AN American war vessel has sailed frosu Spanish waters to Candia, in order to assist in remloving Christian families from the island. Despith the news of insuegeut victories which the Greeks contiune to send us, we must regard the insurrection as practically at an end. Some ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONItAL. ROMFJ. PRoocs, Feb. 9. About a thousiand yard3 outside the Ports S. Giovanni, ou thos embanked border of theo Acqua ~acrenan, wheore ibet streaiclet runs parallol to the IPreseati road, stands hs youngest of those rudo crosses ^whicl in Itoman Gatholic countries are erected by tho w aysido to msaik the Scene of a murder. Tbis particular cross, which is simply stuck in ...

... [HEI-IOESE GUARDS AMD THE MILITA&RY HE OFFICEBRS IN JMICA, ; Ibis morn ing was 2ubhlshled a copy of extracts from correspondence which passed between the Horse G)uards and General O'Connor on the conduct of military officers during the Jamaica massaceres. The documents printed inelnde letters from General Nelson, Capt. Hole, Lient. Osley, Col. Hobbs, ?? Eyre, and others, referring to military ...

... THE EARTHQUAKE iN CEPHALONIA, The Frenceh steamuer So)Iisthell, ?? left ou thb 5th inlstant to carry assistance to the victims of the eatc quake, has returned from its mission. Tlse commander of the steamecr and the Csndiote o'ns It. do CasEtillon, put thlemselves iui comasmnnicatioa ;nith'th Nom arch of Cephalonia, as so on as thley enltered the he r of Orvottoli, and placed at Isis dispo0sal ...

... MR. BRIGHT ON THE IRISH QUE TION. [Ftoer ?? owN RiPsroaTEhi] h ,MP. JOEN BnIUGT, MIP., presided last nightG. at a meeting held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, to t bear an address by The O'Donoghue, MB.P, on The s Irish Question and the Importance of Union between pi English and ILish Reformers. The spacious hall was tc crowded to excess in overy part. Previous to the cor- it muecement ...

... THE RE BIJRGLATh?. I At theo Cle~rhonwoll Poiice-cosurt, on Thursdaiy, the prisoners ANntonio Galioni and Matteo DaCola, who were lost week remanded for the depositions to be com- pleted, in order that they might he committed for trial on on a charge of entermng the dwelling-house of M~r. John V'oltieri, aud stealing precious atoneos valued at OG0, were again brought sip, together w,,ith ...