... SOCIETY OF4BSW THE NTITE SIN US V4.Jl.6 (FEnox DO Locusoir RlanoarTt.) The 16th annual oonfercnoe-bctween the Counacil of the Society of Arts and the representatives of the Insti- tutes and Local Boards in union was held on Wednesda~y, in the theatre of the See jety of Arts, the Bight Hon. H. A. Bruce, M.P,, in the chair. Although the council had made a special appeal to the loca-l authorities ...

... IMlPERIALI PAIRLIAM'ENT.- * d. .- e * - . ?? Telegraiph.) . . H[OUSE1 OF'ILORDS3, YEsTERPDAY.a Their Lordships met at five o'clock:. LRTSH RAILWAYS. The Earl of :RIDBERLEBY presented a petition from the Corporation of Dublin praying the Government to purchase the Irish railways, and stated that in his opinionI the subject was one whloa was deserving of the considera- tion of the Glovernment.X ...

... PiY-SINTO EAnIg.- Tffg Psurn. Saturday Fveniug-- _psus, bsaturuay rv tUIug. £ IsI exlacly, fifty, three years two months and I It is N olechs the First's great rival made his (ii d the' ~res fyt cpital, fant tha e public, even if d (ber r, ino te chrerhiollvait and rsnl th e u a I re D5t Daturally inclinod to make ctiomasontraso pfgeerS a being. forcibly struck byhen tro st bO arlyt bell Vi)t ...

... - (Acm the lmse.) i , The Emperors of Russin anL Austria, areabou, to be invested with the Order of the Garter, and mission! , will be sent ta iienua and St. Petersburg for that pur- a pose. The saine honour is to be conferred upon the S ultan, who ,will come here to receive it in personl Whether Her ?? will grace the. eoremony by bar own presence we are not in a Position to announce, although ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. IA wEA and apparently senselo~esattempt Iwas on Thursday morning made to invade the apa I Rtf.tR A hand of tw aparlntrA States. A band of two hundred armed nu? observed by the Italian troops to l?e approaching the frontier at Terne. In accordance with their iasttno. tious from Florence the troops opposed ties invading force, and the latter was of course repulsed, Several ...

... THE LUXEMURG NEWOOIATIONS. (.Fom the 2NS8s.) The history of the negociations which led to so prompt a settlement of the Luxemburg question has just been presented in a compendious form to Parliament. It ie seldom that any diplomatic correspondence records equally satisfactory results achieved within an equally short time. The first despatches in this series are dated April 10-16, and afford ...

... ADOPTED ANDRENOUNCED. A RiA NCH OF REAL LIFE. In the early days of the Cornhill lfagazinf there appeared a very extraordinary story under the title of Ibtranger than Fiotion, The late Mr. Thackeray, the then editor, supplemented it with a note, in which he vouched for the good faith and honourable oharacter of his correspondent, who was a friend of twenty-five years' standing. Afterwards it ...

... LATEST I I. - DEWSV a [f}tua''s TEEBGRS,.l AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) NEw Yonx, Juno 12th, 6 p.m, 'The North German Lloyds steamer America arrived out to-day. The steamer leaving for Europe to-day takes out upwards of 1,000,000 dollars in specie. t FRANCE. t Psars, June 12. r The Czar and his sons left here yesterday by rail, 3 at seven p.m. At parting the two Emperors warmly 3 embraced ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. J THE Prussian Government has dismissed from their livings, without pension, the twenty-six olergy- m-e-n of- Northiern Schfoswig wvho refused to take the oath of .allegiance to the KmG 0or PniussL&. The decree was published at Kiel yesterday. TnE KinG OF PRUSaIA is to leave Berlin to- day for France, and is expeeted to arrive at Paris to- morrow. The Qunmm oi' SrAI will ...

... 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 PACIFIC. The following is extracted from the Panama Star and Herald of the 6th instant, dates from Valparaiso being the 18th of May, and from CaUao and Lima the 28th:- IICnis.-T4he departure of the Spanish fleet to the Spanish West Indies is no sooner known than the true policy of the Executive becomes apparent, Nevor caring for cax, they never in reality prepared for it; there was the ...

... LOCAL AND GENERALI LEEDS, JUNE 15, 1867. Rev. Alfred Holden Bles, B.A., of Lancashire College, has accepted a unanimous invitation to the pas- torate of Hoadingley Hill Congregational Churoh, Leeds. LxEDs Towx ComNOI,.-A special meeting of the Leeds Town Council will be held on Monday next, when the question of purchasing the field in Camp-road for market purposes will be re-considered. It ...