... LATEA ST,'I N'EWS.- FRANCE. PRE .As, April 3. The ltcndaid of this evening announces that the conversion of the arns of the infantry regiments actively continues, and that a large portion of the army will soon be provided with the Chassepot rifle. The Prince Inperial is said to be fast recovering from his recent Illness, and the Empress Eugerie is quite restored to health. The Lesins of this ...

... jj'1PERJ:AL PARLIAMENT. * (By Y'ikg~rapk.) :j OIUSE OF COMM. ONS, YESTERDAY. - te cil took the chair at twvelv c, 'clock. ;I 1 jli to lDr. BRAxiY, 1 . 'exrE state(d tfl;at thel, Mercantile Marine luill ei ijtmuosled in ?? o11use of Lords soon after ASSESSMI:N'I0T OF MINES. ?? 1I W NI:-)ITM itved the second reading of the ?? Assessmelt Dill, alnd explailled that its object II tj' the priricitle ...

... 1I'IE. JAMAICA PROSECUTIONS. The Lord- Chlief Just ice caine down to the Central Ciii inai Co urt yesterday m11orn1ing ?? for the ?? ee i' chargfinig the grand jury in thie so CZolonel Ne son aid Liautetriut Bfrand, who are chaiged with the iniid re of Mr. (ordoit, anti the prcceliings anppeared to create very great interest. Colenel N'elsonb and Lieutenianit BraniId were ioth present. 'I'he ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. AN official organ of the Russian Government says that thero is no danger of warlike oclplica- tions arising out of the Lxecinburg question. it IS confident that the Eurrnoa NAroanoN will shortly dis. pal any such apprehensions by an energetic disavowal of warlike intentions. It is now pretty well under- stood that the matter will not be allowed to go mauch further for the ...

... EXTENSIVE FIRE &T HUDDE3RSFIELD. Yesterday morning one of the most destructive fires that aver happened in Huddersfiold occurred at the large goods warehouse of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company at the Huddersfleld railway station. The warehouse was a large stone edifice three storeys high, situated at the end of the IHuddersfield station nearest to New North-road, and it contained ...

... H[OUSE OF COMMONS, YESTERDAY. The- Ilouse met this (ay for tho first timue afterthe Easter holidays. The Sertam took the chair shortly before four o'clock rii. LArTo-CeIs'ns toeh the oath and his seat for Middle- sex in the eoom of the late Mr. itR Culling Hanubuly. 3Ir. Gladstone ewas not prcleiit in the House duricig the evening. THE REFORM BILL. Mr. LAING gave notice that iu comimittoe oui ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. I Tim aspect of afnaiis on tih Continent be- ICome more and more warlike. The J)?ily Ne's' Paris correspondent, who is anything rather than an alarmist, says that warlike preparations are really going on most rapidly, and M. DE GoInAcDIN'S paper, the Lifer-t:, declares war to be inevitable. Every day, says the Fretch journal, that passes without the evacuation of ...

... LEEDS, APRIL 23, 1807. LEEDS EiFLEs.-ENIIIELD CLUB-The first con- test of the year took place on the Mfiddleton range of the Leeds Rfilles, on Saturday, the 20th. The shooting corn- xnesured at eight o'clock a~m. There was a drizzling rain snaful nleey three o'clock', butl the weather notwithstrund- lug9 was favourable for ciflia shooting, the target being distinct, and but little wind or ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T. (By lTelegraph.) HOUSE OF LORDS, YES5TERDAY, The LOIT( CesANsc.oorti took his seat on the wool sack at live o'clock. I'EP.SONAL EXPLA-NATION. The Meiquis ot WVESi'TEAT11, in a psrsoiail eidLiiSa- tion as to; the mainer iu which lie brought forwv cr3 a charge against several bishops oni Tuesdav, ?? of their ritual.stic hirtti00, piatest-d agein;qt an imnplitation which Lad ...

... REPARATION DElMANDED. The ?? Goverinlent is getting into a serious difliculty with this eountsy. One would have thought that thie Cabinet of Madrid had ample dangers of a domestic nature to encounter, without wilfully incurring anl external difficulty also, Nevertheless, it persists in refusing justice to this country in regard to the illegal seizure of the BDitish vessels Tornado and Queen ...

... LllEDS AN D ITS 'OPERATIVE CONSERVA- TIVE REPRESENTATIVE. TO THIE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. G0EI3VI'lMYN,-Ifl these days of Conevervativo I Liberal profession and of Whig Conservative aotion-it is N ver y ?? to say whhll, is which-and still More to say 'who is wlho, in 1867. As one of the several Johl Holmes's of Leeds, I am often attacked for both political i and SOcial ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. 4 ThE news from the Continent h has suddenly become much more pacific. Prussia has accepted the I -1 1- A - AA 1- A AAA.- 4- A I; 8 proposal for a conference, and has agreed to abide by its decision, on certain conditions. It scorus that a neutral Power-we believe England-had proposed that Prussia should evacuate and destroy the fortress of Luxemburg, and that then a ...