... (By Teleyrapp.) HOUSE OF LORDS, YESTERDAY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock, SALE OF LAND BY AUCTION. The Commons amendments on the Sale of Land by Auction Bill were agreed to, after a division, in which a motion of Lord Sr. LaoxAnos to throw the responsibility of altering the original bill upon the House of Commons was rejected by 60 to 9. MISCELLANEOUS. The County Treasurers (Ireland) ...

... TIE TARIFF WOOL ISAMPLES. (Frowr the United States' Economfst, of June 22.J Considerable uneasiness was expressed by wool growers on the passage of the new tariff bill by Congress, t that the samples provided for, to be used at the custom S houses, would not fairly answer the purpose intended. A f orrepondence was opened between Dr. Randall and the P eeretsry regardin the matter, when the ...

... WARRINGTON, Monday. Up to the present time the number of victims to the earful accident which happend at Walton Junction tn Saturday boo reached seven, five of whom m ere either tilled instactly'f y the collision or died before they could e removed from the scene of. the disaster; ono died yes- iteadoy, and the seventh at half-put five o'clock this morning. oA searchingn inqiw' into the ...

... TURKISH MISSIONS AD SOCIETY. On Monday night a meeting in connection with this society was held in the lecture zoom of the Philo- sophieal Hall, Leeds, underthe presidency of Mr. F. BArNEs, and it was attended by the Rev. C. H. Wheeler, as Ameri- can missionary from Central Turkey, and Colb Lawford, in the interests of the Society. - The Unma¢we, in opening the proceedings, said they were met ...

... ESNAITH AGRICULTURAL SOIHTY. The thirteenth annual exhibition of this society took place yesterday. The weather was extremely fire, the sun Ehining brilliantly iR, an unclouded sky, and the exhibition ground being a charming portion of the grounds attached to the residence of Mrs. Shearburn, of Snaith Hall. The exhibition was one of the most successful that this society has yet held, the ...

... I f[nurxn'8 1TBGA.1t FRANCE. ARRIVAL OF THE SULTAN. 'Tovnouz, June 2D. z The Torkish flotlla entered the roads at 6.65 a.m. today. The Sultan, after resting for a few houre, will leave here for Paris, where he will arrive to-morrow at ,20 a.m. prA=4 June 29. £ A letter from the Emperor to the Prefeet of Police, iated June 20, has been published, in which His liajesty says:- The presence in ...

... ALBERT ORPHA, X ASYLUM. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF DINING HALL AND CRAPEL BY HER MAJESTY. ' On Saturday afternoon theinaugrattion care- many of laying the foundation stone of a dianin hall and 'chapel for the Albert Orphan Aeylum for Destitate Chil- dren, situate at Co~ngwdod Court, near Bagphot, Surrey, wes performed by Her Majesty the Queen, in the presence of a ?? and fashionable assem ...

... MIDLAND AND GLASGOW AND SOUTJ-HI WE8TERN AMALGADNIATION BILL, (FRoM owB LONSoN REPourTER.) LONDON, Thuraday. The Select Committee of the House of Lords resumed the consideration of this bill this morning, Lord PnrucNmN in the chair. The most important witness was Mr. Rotsbotlsams, the late manager of the North British Railway, who was recalied. In the course of his evidence he spoke of the. ...

... TIHE LEEDS MERCURY. a 8 TnE1 telegram received by the Austrian 1o Government respecting the EmnBBoiz MAXfhrImLvN ' o states, on the authority of official debpatches from the 0 0 Austrian Minister at Washington, and from the Cap- 8 tafi of the Austrian steamer Elizabeth, stationed at s4 ?? Cruz, that Maximilian was shot on the 19th ult. no 0The story rests entirely upon the statement of the 8 ...

... THlE COUNCIL AND THE WATERING OF TEE ROADS. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GwIsLEMIBN,-MoBt of your readers who have crossed Woodhouse Moor by the turnpike road in dry weather in summer will have remarked that the portion of the road between Reservoir-street and Hyde Park Corner is never watered. It cannot be that dust in so exposed a nlece is expected to be less, or less a nuisance, ...

... RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETU-M 26Tn WEES THIS HALF-YEAR, -ota -Sam In. W- 55.-OAvIL i 1807. I 1888 I Zlavei. I IN I Deco ffm180475 Bristol and Exeter, 8184 7450 - 10808i - 184 121 Caledonian _ ?? - _ 573 815 Cambrian ?? 2053 2528 - 56081 180 0ucrerm'th,&.,&Pen 627 544 - - - _ 1 - CorkBandon,&K}i. 448 5S5 - _ 20 20 Dee aidi ?? - ilO. _ -1 17 17 Dublin&BelfastJuo. 10D2 144 - - _ .0_ 3 63 Dublin & ...

... LEEDS, JULY 4, 1867. A meeting of the Schools Inquiry Commission was13eldon'Tuesday, at 2, Victoria-street. Present:- Lord Taunton (thechairman), Lord Lytelton, Rev. Dr. Temple, Mr. AoA ad, M.P., Mr. Baines, .P., Mr. Forster,. MY., end Dr. torrar. In the House of Commons, in Mr. Dodson's committee, on Tuesday, the Rameden Estate Bill was passed through. In the House of Commons on .Tuesday a ...