... MELA?OROLY IDENT AND LOSS OF? Tausnn, Friday. A profound feeling of pain and regret has been occasioned in this neighbourhood by. en accident which occurred yesterday evening, in Ctstleinaine Bay, end by whvich Captaini Townssend Blennerhassett and a boatman named Costello lost their lives. About four o' clock yester- :day evening, Captain Blenenrhasaett, with a large party of ladies ...

... L--l - AN GEN ERA J ,OCAJ; ~AND GENERALu LEEDS, JUNE 28, 1367. PETnTIONS.-In the House of ComOnmns, on V; dneedoay, petitions were presented by Mr. W. D. Fore- ter (23 petitions), from various religious bodies at lrad folid; by Mr. Wickbam, from Eastbrook chapel, Brad- iold; and by Mr. Baines, from 300 inhabitants of Both- well LBeds, and a public meeting of working men in the Tower ilmniets, ...

... [Fnozr onn LoNmoN REPORTR. | LoNDoN, Thursday. The adjourned half-yearly meeting was held to- day at the Victoria Station, Lord HARxrs in the chair. There was a very large attendance of shareholders. The Noble C nr=Norsoe, in moving the adoption of the re- port and accounts, referring to the company's bill now before Parliament, said that although that bill embodied the views of the directors, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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. ...

... Yesterday afternoon Mr. Noble's monument of Cobdesi was formally unveiled in the Peel Park, Salford. Thie is one of the three parks thrown open to the people as recreation grounds by the munificent subscriptions whioch were raised more than twenty years ago. The park already contained four other statues by the same sculptor -one of the Queen, which Her Majisty has visited and greatly admired; ...