... LAST NIGHT'S PARILiA4MET., I HlOUSE OF LORDS. R.TUALISTIO OOMBUfSSION. Their Lordshfps met at 5. o'clock. In reply to Earl RUSSELL, The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that he had declined to be placed upon the Ritual Committee on the ground that no one of extreme opinions, or who was l held to be of extieme opinions, ought to be a member of that committee, and for this reason he also objected to the ...

... THERB BRIGHTON BAiL, WAYo RfB EPORT. The report of thed Committee of investigation appointed at a special meeting on the 16hf Ma last t(omp inqure into the position of thedtrghtoa Re°ailwhihahy omate lisacompleeted its labours, and ~therepr which they neareo about to issue will affordanoether wsad and meanageoly of our railway system. Nothing which has yet transpired of th poceedangsul of ...

... |LAT;EST n ?EWS. Rougse TsL~oaII 4 FRMOZE. PARms, 17th June. - a The .Aoaiteur, giving ani account of the departure of (d the Ring of Prussia, says it was the desire, of His tb lajesty to leave Paris 'without ceremony. The K~ing 1 warmly thanked the Emperor for the reception he had A had~ inl Paris, and the 'twgo sovereigns parted on mos'tp affectionate termts.' The Emperor .being slightly ...

... ?LGTOLo?1? FRANCE. No Sovereign entertains guests waith mnore~ 3ags j17, no one whether Sovereign or private person eges those w~io approach himu with more grace! ul sanddih ve courtesy than the Emperor Napoleon. Among tianed who have sought audience of bim I have know so YA .but a short time before were, conscientjeusl1y' I ?? Eunfriendly to him, but I have known no one wa dieV come away, not ...

... CON?3I?RVATIVE I?E1WONSTRATION IN LONDON. bISGBACEF1UL PRQGE:EDIWGS, (SPEOIA TnlcoW lrnoK oun LONDOoN RicrODs c.); , LOcNDON, Mlonday Night. To-night a meeting of the Metropolitan Working M~en's Conservative Association was heldd in St. James'a Hell, for the purpose of enabling; the friends of law and order to express tho attach- mcent of all ?? of Her Majesty's ?? to the Moner- ehioal and ...

... 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 ...

... ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MECHANIOSs : . INSTITUTE. - I a_ TXTr2 ,_ . I I . OnWednesdayevening the annual general meeting of the members of the Mechanics' Institute was held in the long room of the Institution, Mr. J. 1). Sollitt, the president, occupying the chair. The Chairman read the forty-second report of the committee. In presenting their annual report, the committee had muchf pleasure, and ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I I THE CRETAN INSURRE CTION. Telegrams received at Florence frop Athens, dated the 12th instant, assert that Omar Pasha has failed in his expedition against Sphakia and Apocorona with great loss.. His junction with Mehemed Pasha is said to have been prevented, and the latter, twice beaten in the province of Apocorona, had been' compelled to retreat to an entrenched camp. The Turkish ...

... ~YRMIINGIIAM RIOTS. Bcsrsrqcnr, Tuesday, 4 p.mn. The riot last night will long be remembered byc the isibabit sits of Birmingham. it was more fearful even gtnan anticipated. Nearly eighty persons were taken into ,,stody yesterday, and the wounds of some of them, ?? well asecf those taken home end to the hospit6ls, are very serious. Late lent night the troops telegraphed for from Weedoli end ...