... THE MIDLAND AND GLASGOW AMAL- GAMATION. (Froes tiMD Shefcld Independcendt.) So absurdly indiscriminate has been the late peaicin railway stock that the soundest and beet managed railwais have been depreciated. And seeing how much directors have been led into new competitive undertakings by their own aggressive spirit or by the arts of others, there has been a very decided reaction among ...

... THE LEEDS MERCUYI I IN the Chamber of Deputies at Berlit, Yeeter day, the quedtiou of the North German Co3rtitatYOr -- nnM Ani ?? ?? nA nab c- - again came on for discussion, and was unally Bettled by the adoption of the constitution by a large majority of the Chamber. Tici are generally supposed to cmanage those things better in France, but there are eXcp. tions to every rule. The London ...

... LONnON, Friday. The House proceeds with the Reform Bill in a p very vigorous fashion. The heat and passion of the early e days of the session are quite exhausted, and Members havea long settled well down to their work. There is a more than common impatience of bores, as Mr. Percy Wyndham found to his cost last night-not a word he said being audible to any one, in consequence of the ...

... EPOM DOWNS AND EXE.TER HALL. (From thwefl~gims s Idope; Wont,) London society has just passed through the most exciting month of all the year. But what is London society, and what are the excitements peculiar to May F London society is composed of several elements, principally three- the lovers of pleamure, the lovers of gain, and the lovers of religion. Neither of the former two need to be at ...

... THE RECEPTION OF BELGIAN VOLUN- TEERS. (Rown the ZYmes.) It is satisfactory to find that preparations for the reception of the Belgian Volunteers have begun in earnest. We could not allow ourselves to fall short in hos- pitality on such an occasion. From our institutions and labits of life, this country necessarily appears sometimes in disadvantageous contrast to its neighbours. English- men ...

... The following is fhe division on Mr. Disraeli's nictioii to insert a preoamble iu the Sch clausae sottiug forth the ground for disfrauchising Reigate, Totnes, La.ttastor, and Yarmouth- AYES. Aoland!T. D. Eckoreloy N. Haog A. 3. B. B. Paget B. H. Adsnm W. P. Edwrerds Sir H. Hlothrim Lord Paingortn Sir T. Adderley C. D. Fleeton E. . Howard C. W. OPalk Sir L. AYDoewhir A. Egsrton Huoa W.Hiut G. W ...

... APPROACHING CORONATION OF THE KING OP HUNGARY. FaSMc, May 23. This morning I received a telegraphic despatch from Vienna, informing me that a very sad accident had heppened'to the Princess Matilda, daughter of the Arch- duke Albert, the results of which, it was feared, were so serious as to leave but little hope of her recovery. It appears that, in some manner hitherto unexplained, Her ...

... LATEST NEWSM [REun's Txnaowma. I AMERICA. . I rn QunmsTOwr, May 31, Night. tl The Royal Mail steamer China, from Halifat and h Boston, arrived off the harbour at nine p.m. with New b York dates to 22nd inst. She brings 243 passengers, A 128 saoes mails, and £280,081 in specie. Having tl landed all mails and 37 passengers she proceeded for e Liverpool. All well. U Nvw Yonx, May 21, Evening. ] a ...

... I (By Tieyrayhl.) D HOUSE OF LORDS, YESTERDAY. 'Their LonxSB s met at two o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal assent was given by commission to the Habeas Corpus Suepension (Ireland) Act Continuinco Bill, the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill, the National Debt ii Bill, and a great number of private bills. b The Royal Commiecioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Cadogan, and Lord Colville. U THE ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL FRANCE. PARis May 30, 7 a.m. The Prince and PI'ncess Royal of Prussia paid avit yesterday to the Palais de Justice. They were received bry Al.t do Mamnas, Pcocureur-Gdnzrrd at the Cour Ion- priale, and conducted by him to the various parts of the building, such an the Sainte Chapelle, the hall of the icurt ?? forcivil causes, formerly the Grande& Chamro o th Perianent of ...

... . LEEDS TOWN COUNCIL An adjourned quarterly and Special meeting of the Council wee held yesterday, the MAYOR presiding. THE NATIONAL FINE ALT EXHIaSITION AT, LEEDS. The TowN-CLEEEx read a letter from Mr. J. B. Waring, chief Commissioner of the National Exhibition of Works of Art to be held at Leeds in 1868, stating that the Exeen- five Commnittee Were desirous of obtaining from the various ...

... MR..GLADSTONB ON THE DISFRANOHISE MENT OF, CORRUPT BOROUGHS, On the motion,- in committee, in the Commons on Thursday, to disfranchise Reigate, Totues,' Lancasteq, and Yarmouth, Mr. GumanesoOx said his Hon. Friend (Sir G. Bowyer) was quite right in saying that the principle of the clause was raised by the motion of the Chancellor of the ebhe- quer, not only as to the clause itslf, but as to ...