... FARINlGDON. PoLICE, MAY 4.-Before T. L. Goodlake, Esq.-JTohn Clack, of Faringclo, labourer, was charged with stealing a quantity of cabbage plants from an allotnent at Faring- don, in the occupation of John Kent. The complainant, a few weeks since, sent to Longwortls for some plants of a particular sort, and planted them in his allotment land. On the 2nd inst. he went to see how they looked, ...

... tilt WINDSOR CASTLE, APRnI 27. co The Queen hold a private investiture of the Most tlt( Honourable Order of the Bath this afternoon.I Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, entered ser the White Drawing Room at three o'clock, when the inc ducedin Knights Grand Cross were severally intro- dcdinto the presence of the Sovereign by the Lord- M in-Waiting, attended by Mr. A. W. Woods ...

... . let Froni the frequent discussions. which have within the sta last few months taken place at the meetings of the Local pr Board, a suspicion appears to have risen in some quarters dr that when enquiry was made into the amount of drainage th work completed and its cost, the result would show that a de heavier burden had been imposed on the ratepayers than wi the latter.expected. When the ...

... THEw RESIGNATIONOF MR. WALPON. .- . m _. - At - the No one will be surprised (says the Tezes) to learn that one Mr. Walpole has resigned the office of Secretary of State I for the Home Department. The series of mistakes which ] DUB Ihe, or the Cabinet which in this particular matter he represents, has made with respect to the Reform League, ast and its claim to meet in Hyde Park, have so ...

... DBAT'rrr FIZON SITne STitNosic-Dr. Lraclcester fiteld two iquests on Satardaty flpull persone; iho died very sud- deslywitout rii~t~ti V~titti.Thofirst was held at iloruey, n th bonyof apolio-sstable of tire N visin, wro, fte havng ben eposd to the antil lbs whol ofthe~trvio~ da sudeny ?? dead upon his beat It as fund hat eathhid osuilled from sun stroke. Thel second inquost was oda h wfr Ied ...

... LWOOAL AND GENERAL 'e5 * LUEEDS, MAY 16, 1867. LUrd Milton's pair with Mr. Titt wais erro- - neouslg entered in the list of pairs on the division on a, Thureay, the Pth. Lord Milton paired against Govern- v ment with Mr. Talbot for. - We era requested to state thatithe postal address s of Mr. G. W. Southern, Her Majesty's Government Inspector of Mines, is near Pontefract. k PETITIONS.-In ...

... SPEECHES OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AND EARL DERBY. At the anniversary dinner of the Royal Academy £ of Arts, which took place on Saturday, and which was attended by the Prince of Wales, Prince Tchk, Her Ma- jesty's Ministers, the Judges, the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of London and Oxford, and a large number of the Royal Academecians, The PM=o of WsAis, in ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. Tna EmPmo1n and EMPnESS of Austria left Vienna yesterkayv, on their way to Pe8th, to be erowned King and Queen of Hungary: IT seems that the disinclination of the Great Powers-and especially of England-to guarantee the neutralisation~of Luxemburg is the first difficulty with which the Conference has had to contend. The diffi- oulty will have to be got over, however, unless ...

... 1.LOCAL AN] GENERAL. LEEDS, MAY 8, 1867. ,Pn1TEONS.-In the House of Commons on Monday, petitions in favour of closing public houses on Sundays were presented by Mor. Baines, from the Wesleyan congretions of St, Peter's, Richmond-hill, and Holbeck, Leeds(), and from the Sing-street Congregational Churchortsea; by Mr. H. F. Beaumont, from Wesleyan chapels at Dencnater, Buxton-road, Huddersfield, ...

... ILATEST N3Xr .RTE3' TIB' Aw FRANCE. The Crown Prince and Princees of Pr5a 25, here last night, They were received at the rriv station by General Reilly, the aide-devoam o Emperor. Count von Goltz and the ent pe of the Prussian Embassy were present, a tbe- d Highnesses were conduoted to the hotel of th s I~tl in an imperial carriageb lbs The Crown Prince and Prine we U be receid day by the ...

... THE REAMSDEN ESTATE ACT, 1867. 1Recently Sir i. W. Ramsdenj Bart., announced. his determination of applying to Parliament for powers to grant leases on his estate for 909 years; and now a bill has been introduced into the Lords for authorising leases of the Eettled estates of Sir John William Xtnisden, Bart., in the parishes of Huddersfield, Almondburv, and Kirk- heaton, in the West Riding ...

... REFORM MEBTING IN LONDON. The NatoOnal Reform Union held a great meet- ing on Saturday evening in St. James's Hal Mr. ,EAEr MORLEY presided; and with him on the platform were Mr. Mill, M.P. 11r. Gilpin, M.P., Col. Dickson and Dr. Brewer. ThO C OAN Opened the proceedings by explaining that this ieeting Was advertised before the Government decided to accept the principle of Mr. Hodgkinsonr' ...