... FROM OTUR LONDOy COIZEO NDEH | LooDoy, Thur;Iy, At the risk of beinlg utterly rnditedl b~y it event, I write these few lines about tile political iu 1l. . as the meeting. at Mir. Gladstone's to-moroass iwer l bably leave it. So far as I can gather, thoa, tre., hava another instance of a council of war tint ?? l more manweurring and not promlpt aud d~icsivelI, 1Whbether Mr. Gladstone or any one ...

... WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROURH OF LEEDS, 16Tc WEEK, 1867. In the -week ending Inst Saturday 3,473 births end 2,228 deaths were registered in toe large cities and boroughs of England, including London. The births wore 1'S, end the deaths 334 below, the average weekly numbers in the ten years 1861-60, corrected for in- crease of population to the middle of this year. The fact ...

... TEE UPE lCAL COMMISSION FOR ENCLISH FT1HERIES. CAR.rISLEi, Saturday. The Comnissioners resumed thoei inquiry this n'orning at lO..YO, Mr. P.ruersox in the chair, the other Ccn.rniseioners being Captain Spratt aud Major Scott. 'The Coumissioners have at length got through tbe list of claims for poke nets in the Sulway Frith and Eden. Sevcral other Claims were put in last evening after the dis- ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... TILE POSITION OF THES' LIBERAL PARTY, (Firom the 'Timls$.) Mr. Osborne nmay express his regret that Mr. Gladstone did not press the Instruction to a division, ovesi thosigir he had been left in a miserablao ininority;' but Mr, Gladstone exercised a wiso discretion in declining such rush counsel. Tllo deserters ironm his ranlzs would hay; altogether disproved the easy assumption that they ...

... WAREFIELD WO1RK1ING MEN'S CON- SEIRVA'TIl ASSOCIATION. Oil Tnefduy nighct, thle Wvakelioid Working Men' C(nisevvativo Asoeniatioti wals ilnagligratote by it public, baniluuut inl the Corn E.NCccLLwge. bitle associationl Wats feorted about R-lee nictlii. ago sald it is sail to coisist of tiwltde (if 1JPQ florabure. A ~t thle banqutot there 'WOre ?? Of CO( Per'sons presuint, cossisttilg chiefly ...

... THIE CESSION OF RUSSIAN AMERICA. Tlhe treaty -which hns just heell -alified by tho Senate of the United States, by which Russia gives uip her American poeseesions for a pecuniary consideration, tioes not appsear to have heens received on its first announlcem~ent witll tnytllitg like eisthnsinssm by the miore respectable of the New York papers. The 11CD s'o, Pt 'Tias s, which is on ithos whole ...

... Ii FRANCE. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. PIAms, April 1. The Paris Exhibition was opened to-day by the Emperor and Empress in person. Their Majesties were received with loud cheers. The Emperor con- versed with several members of the jury. The Prince Imperial was not present. PRUSSIA. Banna, April 1. The Crown Prince of Saxony has arrived in this city to-day. THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. Bmrans, April ...

... AlR. P. A. TAYLOR, M.P., ON Tl 1F REFORM CRISI S. Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., has addressed the following letter to the editor of Lcicestcr Free Fecess:- San,-I have received various communications from LeicEstr r ill regard to tie state of the reform question, and lo me ?? pist and future, thereon; which I should lilfe, ivih 3 our permission, to respond to by frank explana- tions in your columns. ...

... TBlE L I CMES INO ,i SEEI. A measure klnwiw l as the LiverpOOl Licensin1g Bill, but which is really a bill aipplicablo to tics whole upuntry, is likely to bce brought to-morrow nright beclre the Ilouse of Commons. The present systeln of licenia, lc has clraimed of late a large a0uount uf gelcc attlcitl u. Its evils are felt to be very great, scsid we believe tc ?? iiois is becomhg rips for ...

... ELECTION OF CEHURCHWARDENS. LEEDS.-LitUC lIo0bocA -Onl Eftaster M(nday, a meeting of parishioners was held in the vestry of St. John's church, Little oolbeck, for the purpose of electing church- wardens for the ensuing year. After a cordial voto of thanks to the out-going wardens, Mr. John Richardson and Mr. William Nichols were unanimously elected. eolbert. -A meeting of ratepayers and ...