... THE SHEFFIELD TRADES UNION OMySlSION. i FIFTH DAY, FRDAY.' Before the Exarminers:-Mr. OvER100, Q. ., MXr. CHANCE, end Mr. BAnsrow. Mr. CrANDnls for the Outrage Committee; Mt. Suao for the Defence Committee. On the opening of the court yesterday morning, Joseph Thomtpson, the secretary of the Scissor Forgers' Union, who made some singular disclosures on Tuesday in regard to rattenmg, was called ...

... The above was the title of a lecture delivered on Wednesday night to a numerous audience at the Stock Ex- change Hall, Leeds, by Dr. Wylie, of Edinburgh. On the platform, in addition to the rev. lecturer, were the Rev. 3. CLBLLANl (who occupied the chair), the Rev. R. Horsifeld (who opened the proceedings with prayer), and the Rev. J. Mitten. Trhe CnnxAN, in introducing Dr. Wylie, spoke of the ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships.met at five o'clock. TEE RITUALISTIC COMMISSION. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY stated that the report which had appeared in some of the public papers with respect to the proceedings of the Rubric Commission, were totally unauthorised, and for the most part devoid of truth. There was an under- standing amongst the members of the Commission, not to afford ...

... THE SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT WASHING- I TON COLLIERY. l TEN MEN KILLED-RECOVERY OF THE BODIES. The accident which we (Newcastle Chronicle) described in our impression of Saturday as having taken place at Washington Colliory on Friday evening7 was proved by subsequent examination to have resulted in the death of ten persons, that number being one more than was at first supposed- and stated. We on ...

... The first of the numerous divisions in the House of Commons on Monday night on thep Reform Bill was on the motion of Mr. Holden, requiring that when the quali- fication for a vote consisted ?? of a tenement and partly of land, the house or other building should be of the clear yearly value of £5, independently of the land. In this division, in which the proposal of Mr. Holden was defeated by ...

... IWEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUQEH OF LEEDS. I 26TH 'WEEK, 1867. In the week ending last Saturday 4,07, births and 2,000 deaths were registered in ten large cities and boroughs of England, including London. The births eiceeccd by 484, while the des were 662 below, the average weekly numbers in the ten years 1851-60, corrected for increase of population to the middle of this ...

... DISEASE AMONGST GROUSE ON THE YORK- -LSHIRE MOORS. I TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTUEIVEN,-I read a paragraph in the Leeds lercury of the 28th ult., which had been taken from the Zland and Wittr paper, containing a report from Mr. John Neat Lord as to the serious character of the noew disease among grouse. As I am one of the persons who accompanied one of the keepers of his Grace ...

... OF M rlCH A NICS' INSTITUTES. The t]hirtieth annual Ieneeting of this Union, rh which tool' place yesterday at Castleford, proved to be a c hqhy j~ecstig oe.At eleven' o'clock the proceedings P dihl wnesith ail co rence of the delegates, held in the coullaeuced ?? cirbigoccupied by Mr. s utitatmon e hirben ~feh5Uri ?? of the Union, who was b,~yIix., th 1 h institution by Lord Hough- O 5Mol.le ...

... THIRD 1VEMBER FOR LEEDS. P1UBLIC MEE]TING IN THE TlOWN ElALL; ?? night a meeting of the inhabitasnts of r Leeds was held in the Viotoria Hiall, to petition Par- a 3iamnent in favour of conferring a third Member r on the borough. Considering that only a few hours't notice h ad been givea of the meeting, the attend- nnce was very good. The audience was a large and con- ate ntly increasing one, ...

... OlAiTTCOON T'O ORGIAIfSTS, CHAPEL-XEP!ERS, &e3. I TO aE EDITORS' OF THE L@EEDS ME1ROURY.Ig GE?TL1lMEN,-Perm't me through the medium of your journal to call the attention of organists and others to a person who, during the past few days, has been going about this locality professing to he an organ builder an?l tuner, but whose conduct proves him to be either an impostor or a maeiac,-rn either ...

... THE EMPEROR M&AXIMILIAN. EFFORTS OF THE PRINCESS SALM-SALM, SAN Luis POTOSI, Monday, May 29. To. morrow Maximiliau and hisprincipal generals -Miramon, Mejia, and Castillo-may very possibly be sentenced to be shot. On Tuesday, the 21st, the Emperor and Prince Salm-Salm had an interview with Esoobedo, at his head-quarters at Queretaro, The meeting was brought about by the Princess Salm-SaIm, who ...

... :THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL. D EPUTATION TO S COTCH MEBERS, * (Ftohr atlm LUN.UON PIlnrOSTae,) X ;LONnONr, FiasY.y -This afternoon a large deputation from nearlyr all the corporate bodiec and many public meetings in Scotland waited on the Scotch Memobers at the Westmiun- ster Palace Hotel, for the purpoose of expresaing tha opinion of the country in regard to the Reformn Bill aiffect- irg them. ...