... AMMRICAN ITEMS. EDUCATIONAL AND INDIUSTBE TFROGQES T iHE BOUTUMN STATES. As a specimen of the in8tituition8 raised up by the Northern Associations, in the chief towns of the late Slave States, we give the following brief account of the Btorr's ,chool, Atlanta, Georgia, a plae0 famous for its prominence and destruction in the war. The building contains in front four rooms, each accommodating ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLEMEN,,-It having been recently stated in several of the public papers that the directors of the Mid- ?? Company were in negociation with the directors of the London and North-Western Company with a view to the repeal of the Settle and Carlisle Rrilway Act, and these statements, if uncontradicted, being calculated to lead to misapprehension, I am ...

... B - F AUOTRAIAN BOILED BEEF. TO THE EDITORS OF. THE LEEDS MERCURY, GEIsTLEMEX,-YO0U reprint to-day a Report of the Lancet Sanitary Commission on Australian Boiled Beef, from the Lancot of Saturday last. A little further information on the subject ought to be made public. Firstly, then, the Lancet Sanitary Commission is Dr. Haseall, and, as is well known, cDr, fassail is a gentleman who ...

... LATEST NEWSo IHEUTh' TxGnAE.8 THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. BEDan, May 6. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, 31err von Der Heydt introduced a bill for allowing the Government to postpone bringing forward, until the next ordinary session, the report in explanation of the extraordinary money demand of the Government occasioned by last year's war. The discussion upon the draft of the North ...

... LATEST 1'i|w I ?? T=ZGRES.I AMERICA. RELEASE OF MR. DAVIS. (By Atlantic Cable.) NEW YouR, Ez The Court of Richmond has relessed Mr. Davh bail to appear in November next- The Sipreme Cq c hae dismissed the appeals of Ge3rgia and hiZ on the ground of want of jurisdiction. rlbs P German Lloyds steamship New York, and tl3324l burg and American Company's steamship IlRar,1 arrived out on Saturday; ...

... - TIE LEEDS MERCURYo I T: . E'xiiew from the Continnen, 6ontinues to I be favqorable to peace. The offlial ard aemi-official n 1 b e,,annr -U I press of Patis and Berlin speak in sueh a manner as to Ishow- that-their respective Governments have good- hopes that the negooiations now to'be epmmenoed will be successful in preserving peace. The Mfonit ear asys that'while the peace of Europe seemed ...

... LMEDS, MAY 17, 1861. The Leeds Coaporation Water Bill was read a third time and passed in the House of Commons on Wad- nesday; in the House of Commons a petition against Sunday trading was presented by Lord Hotham, from tradesmen of Dewsbury. Mr. Chichester Fortescue, on the 24th, will call the attention of the House of Commons on the present position of the Queen's University in Ireland. Mr. ...

... RAILWAY TRAFFIO BETURNS. 18TU WEER TIS IALF.-YEAU Total Same Ino, or Mileage AMWAY&. 1837. 23CC. i-year. 10CC0 Dee, 1807 108i Bristol ond Ereter.. 7410 0002 120772 110210 4500 131 121 Caledonian ?? - - - -. 57 bl3 Cambrinn ?? 2441 2220 29425 S9114 11 130 IS0 Coekerm'tb,E.,&P0n 278 435 - - - 31 - Cork,12andoul,&l0in. 602 b18 - - - 20 20 ?? - 102 - - - 17 17 Dublin &BeliastJnDe 1401 1409 - 03 0o ...

... GENERALs LEEDS, MAY 21, 1867. T.E MIDLAD RA}wWAY,-A preliminary meet- iag of shareholders of this company was held on Saturday, at the office of Mr. James Shepherd, 10, Old Broad-street, to consider the propriety of taking steps to op pose the passinst of certain bills promoted ?? Compsuy. A statement was made showing that tho additions mode to expenditure had been at the rate of 2,000,000 ...

... (PRom the Engineer.) Everyone is, of course, avare of our vast in- debtedness in every possible way to railways. They have been the most powerful engine of development and progress the world ever saw, and have done more for the advance- ment of the material and social well-being of the com- munity than any other, and perhaps every other cause, When a railway touches a town the change'is ?? ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF THE 'LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLELMfil -I beg to call your attention to the following letter of April 8th:- To Mn. Eramu Fncin, SECRETARY Os TnsH Yo axenraz DunanTR r OF1 THi Rurono Lxn&cu . ?? been identified with the Liberal party in this borough, some of us for very many years, and othenr for a shorter period, and anxious all of us for the settle- ment of the Parliamentary reform ...

... mIALIFAX AND OvrENDEN JUNCTION RAILWAY. A special meeting of the shareholddrs of this company was beld on Saturday, at the Town Hall, Halifax, the president of the directory, Col. Akroyd, MY., in the chair. The The object of the meeting was to conasider the provisions of thcompany'sbillbefore Parliament to enable the com- pany to vary the line in course of construction, increase the capital, ...