... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I ARilt DISRAELI UN. ruR ItEgMOA BIL. |j Tuesday was Speech day at Merchant Taylors' School, and Mr. Disraeli being present at the.din. ner which followed the speeches, improved the occasion to defendctheelleformBill. The right hon. gentleman said:- We have iometimes been asked why we. who opposed a measure that was brought forward last yeAr, and in some respects was limiters in its character ...

... AND EAST RIDING TIMES. REGlSTL-Rr AT TRP GENTEAL POST OaPIoE FOP TRANSMISSIOw ABROAD, . FRIDAY, JUNE J. |. THE WHIITSUNTIDE RECESS. IT cannot be denied that the House of Commons has fairly earned its Whitsuntide holiday. And, indeed, however rejoicedcall of us -who are not professional agitators must he to see the question which, for a dozen years past, has been the'chief hindrance to useful ...

... THIE NEW GAOL WORKS. A mecting of the gaol committee was eldc!( on. Ionday, at thL 'Town-hall, Mr. Councillor Ioxsinr' I in the chair. Attention was called td the fact than thd committee had ordered a large quaintity of seft brick.s off the gaol grrolud, and upoll tc visiting esec- tion going a wee;k afterwards it was fou'nd tat the- had not been taken away.-)fr. Syfyonws understo(dl that the ...

... BEVERLEY AND. EAST-RlDING POULTbY I I SOCIETY. I . ; Lim The tenth exhibition was held on Wednes. )si- day, in the Assembly-rooms, Beverley, and adja- ge. cent grounds of Charles Reynard, Esq. The poultry, gh. both as regards quantity and quality, was an excel- lent show; and the canaries nod pigeons were t d samples of some of the finest birds that were ever on- brouht together here. The ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...