... SANITARY CONDITION 0F LEEDS. TO THE EDITORBS OF THE LEtEDS MERCURY. GENTLEMEN,-IJl th1e remarks of your reporter upon the above subject lie alludes to the comfort and cleanliness of the Model Lodging I-ouso. I wish to Bug- gest to some of your wealthy townsmen that several more similar institutions should be started for married couples end their families. It is well known that they pay well in ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. A CAIBLL telegram informs us that PRESL- i I DENT JOnNSON has laid before the Cabinet a veto upon ' the bill passed by Congress for the military govern- ment of the South. It was quits certain that Mr. Johnson would veto this bill. however much he might desire to conciliate Congress, lie could not in common consistency approve of a bill which violates more directly than any ...

... The following letter frons Mr. Rlssleiss, to a. gentleman in the North of1iEnglaud, has been published in the Scotsmansse Deumark-hill, Fob, 4, 1867. My dear D-,-I have sent you the four papers I wrote for tase's a Magazine bound together, and you now have everything I have yet published on political economy. I told you I was writing sometlhing that would interest you, it was eboutestrikes and ...

... STRENGTH AND EFFICIENCY OF VOLUN- I TEER~ CORPS, (Dataw the Star.) We present our readers -with a table showing the enrolled strength and efficioeny of nearly 70 of the princi- plrife corps, provincial as well. as metropolitan, and. reltin tonal50,000 men. In one respect we depart from our table of 1866. We are making no comparison between the rifle aisd engineer corps, as the conditions ...

... I NORT11-GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BERLI, Feb. 2.3. Yesterday, at oae o'clock, the first Parliament of the North-German Confederacy was opened in the White Hall of the Berlin Schloss. In honour of the event the shops and hotels Unter den Linden had displayed numer- ous specimens of the new Federal flag, varied by the notiolnal colours of Prussia. There was a crowd in trout of the Royal Palace gazing ...

... RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS, ST11 WEEK THIS TEA'.FllXR RIsawAOs. 17. £ Bristol and Exeter.. 5888 Caledonian ?? . -- Cambrian ?? 2003 Coskertn'th, 1,&FeC 413 Cork, Bandon, & Kin. - ?? -- Dublin &BelfistJnO. 1310 Dublin & Drogheda.. 147 Dub. &Sfingstn. &W. 2052 Nuances ?? Great Eastern ?? 3186 Glasgow& S.Westelr 9588 GtjNorthof Scotland 2653 Great Northern u , 8176 Gt. Sthra, & Westorn 13131 ...

... LOCAL BILLS IN PARlTATIMENT. THlEl IDLE AND SUIPLE Y 11AILWAY BILL. [Fnom ouut LONDON RlPEOBlTEi ] LO.iDON, Thursday. Tfbis bill is pronmoted by various parties for making a railway iu the West Riding from the Bradford, Eccleshill, and Idle Rtilhvay, at Idle, to Shipley. Tihe Icgth is proposed to be two miles two and a half furluags, and there is to be a braunch Inie one furlong in length, and ...

... LAVLESSNESS IN THE, OUTHEPNSTATES, A Washingtoni letter ?? may bo predicated of the negro as regards his defeneelessness may be predicated with equal accuracy of all whites now resl- dent in the South who have, either during or sirce the war, given evidence of Union sympathies. They may be, end are, murdered, with nil butthe certainty of impuuity. As an exam ple of thl wey things go, I may ...

... ImPERIaL PARLIMAENT. I -4-- (JIg tTee~cycepln) yio:sE OF LOIZIs, Yn;sTRDaAX. Thecir tordehlilsin mt at five o'clock. 'fl1,Oh) sIIAN CE.LLO1 ?? at petition frontk ie i~t(, of thi ty swainb sut aliding, stating that ftrnhi Cajturienco lie found ttte law fec iopreiteiiig fite s 1C of false e~ihtseiii niue aes was IIteltr itive, aind sugge ding 1%ist thu jantd ofthed! ofendes uhouldill future be ...

... -4- SPEECH OF MR. BAINES, M.P. Last nlight a moeting of the Liberals of Leeds was held in the Victoria Iall, for the purpose of consider- ieg the Govcrnment schema of reform. The great Hall was well filled in every part some time before theprocecL- ings commenced, by a respectablo audience. Amongst those upon the platform were:-Mr. Daines, M.P., Alder- pinen Carter, Tatbam, Bllckburnn, and ...

... The sad last rites -were performed on Monday at No. 10, Downing-street, amid a large concourse. It was understood that, according to classic custom, Lord Derby would deliver a funeral oratioin At the door of N'o. 10, Lord Cranborne and General Peel stood as mutes, with scarves and weepers, and the deep melancholy of the scene was heightened by the sobs of Mr. Wialpole and the gentle n onody ...

... LEEDSr IMARItO 1, 1807. RE-OPENING( OF 'Sr. JUnn'S CHIURCH, 11UNSLET. Alter a lapse if live roritirs, ?? which time this church lbis be err closed for the purposes Of inkternal repairs, it was again re.ipeiied yesterday. The most striking fea- tires of the reil~'ioitis iiare ai conilseto chiselling of the whole of thle stoniework, extending eve's to tire mos8t 3alinutc pei:ce Of ornamental ...