... The Paris correspondent of the Times says :-The definitive answer of the Berlin Cabinet to the lest appeal made to it with a view to a pacific settlement of this un- I fortunate question of Luxeinburg is expected here to-day ] (Friday) or to-morrow. Thereis no doubtwhatever that both Russia and Austria, as well as England, admit the illegality of the Prussian occupation of the fortress, and ...

... 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 ...

... OFFICIAL REPORT. Copies of the reports of MAr. Dickinson, in- spector of mines, on the Oaks catastrophe, and of the report of Mr. Inspector Wynne on the explosion at Talke- o'-the-Iiill, have been presented to Parliament. The report of Mr. Dickinson, which is mado to the IHomse Secretary, is dated Ilendloton, Manchester, Feb. 7. After somie explanatious le 6nys:-Of 3GI lives which were lost, ...

... LATEST NEhyx ?? TerLEon.x1,j THE LUXEMBURG QUESTTIr IMPORTANT CHANGE IN TJI SITUATION. Prussia accepts the invitation te a -. will not agree beforehand to the condition. re, the neutralieation and razing of the fortrcis rT burg and the withdrawal of her troops conference, however, settle the altore tern Prussia would also agree to them on their execution be placed under European - PAnas, April ...

... We are informed that although the engine drivers on strike in the Leeds district are as determined as ever not to retuln to work until their claims are conceded, they are desirous that sone of their brethren should suffer in auy way by their action, and that they, at a mieeting held last night, passed a resolution discountenianing the project of a gencral strike. It is also stated that the men ...

... TITE CHAMPIONSHIP FIGLT. EXTRAORDINARY OCCUlRERNI I Another blo-w to the fnallig fortullM or tl. prizc ring. Every arrangemuet had been rad ii ho .iiu Or the light for the championlship oui Saturday, a id afti a special train had started from Lonidon brailge, aiI travellud as iar as Bcigate, calling at all stact lls, th Irish Giant (Baldwin) was not ?? I lpwar'; Gi hundred tentlemei, who had ...

... LIEUT.-COL. AWIROYD, M.P., AND THE OOYELiNMENT flEFORIM BILL. The following letter hais been pnlolishoc[- Ho31tel. Bedford, flue de l'Areade, Paris, 41April 23',rd, 1567., Vi My dear Sir,-A short timec befero Relster I received ecn invitation from the secretary of the Halifax branch of the Reform Leaigue, invitin me1 to attend a public meet- ing,ito be convented during the Parliamentary ...

... LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF TME NEW PARISH CIhURCH, 13OLTON. Qil Stitirdly Ittlo collier stnoo (if the 1e'v Pnrish Clhurcbh of 13oltonl wvs hldi iii the presnce. of thoe Bshop of Ahlilchenter alid sevelati thousand sqpectators. Tho ne1VW structure, the cost ef which (about £Xo,U00) will be do- Irayed by tho prilicely nuntilicelreo of Petor ormoroed, &Eq., wvill occupy the site of the old chuich ...

... GRAND VOLUNTEER BANQUET AT HE'ECKINONDWIIRE _ bSPEECICHES. BY EARL FITZWILLIAM AND LORD F. CAVENDISH, M. P. On Saturday last the handsomle end commont1diolus building known as tio Volunteer Artillery Barracks, and erected in Heckmondwike at the solo cost of Lieut,.-Col. Firth, was opened by a banquet given by that Officer to the 1st Administrative Brigade of West Riding of York- shiro ...

... ADDRESS TO THE ARCHBISITOP OF YORK I I IN REFERE~LNCE TO RITUALISM. The following address to his Graee the Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropoli- tan, has been numerously signed by the clergy and chareh- wardens:- W we, tho undersigned clergy and churehwardeas, in the city of York, desire respectfully to approach your Grace, ancl to tender our thanks for the ?? and ...

... TIHE INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT IN I ROME. I RoMn, April 20, During the night of Saturday-Swinay, Aprili6-7, while I was absent from Rome amongst the mountains, a very remarkable manifesto, containing the programme of the most advanced section of Roman Liberals, whose leaders have formed themselves into a board of direction, styled, l I Centro d'Insurrezione, was posted up in conspicuous ...

... SHELL EXPERIMENTS AT SHOEBURYNES.S I - . - .1 _ The few experiments which toolt place on Friday under the direction of the Ordnance Select Committee in an exceedingly quiet manner will, nevertheless, rank as the most important of all that have been made upon this class of missiles for rifled guns, and will be in years to come a memorable stand-point in the history and progress of modern ...