... THE LATE FATAL BOILER! EXPLOSION AT BATLEY. THE ADJOURNED INQUESTI. The adjourned inquest upon the bodies of Robt. Butterworth and Elizabeth Priestley, who were killed by the explosion of a steam boiler at Carlinghow, Batley, on Thursday week, took place yesterday, before Mr. Jewison, deputy coroner. Mir. Johns Mfeadden, surgeon, of Batley, who had been called in to the sufferers shortly after ...

... 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 ...

... JAKAOA UNDER THENEW N ROEGP: ;TO TH EDITORS OF -THE LEEDS ?? lIE POTED ; FRIENDS,-It .is abont'eighlteen months since the Legislature of Jamaica, in despir at the r accumulated consequences of its own ?? and corruption, committed political suicide, and bequeathed to. c the Colonial Office the owersnitadsor woan grievors c misusced, Pendiof the loyal Commission of Inquiry, and for some time ...

... 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 ...

... ITHE WESLEYAN CONNFERECE. - The Committee of Review oni Bome Missions met on Tuesday morning at nine o'dock. The Rev. G. T. PDirs, MI.A., treasurer of the fond, stated that as the balance-sheet could not be made up till after conference, he could give only a proximate estimate of the financial position of the society. The debt at the beginning of the year was £2,043, The committee trusted that ...

... FOREIGNNANDC T'K'TT i . A. A INDIA AND CHINA. The Calcutta and China mails arrived , morning with advices from Calcutta to june% S td June 14; and Hong Kong, Mtay 30. The uews9; Maid; outta has been for the most part anticpedb itar CAI. advices from Bombay. The report that Sir John & t wae about to resign and return to Eughnd hgdes f bad ft tively contradicted from Sirmla, where the Vcr d ...

... 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, ...

... MIDLAND AND GLASGOW AND SOUTH- WESTERN AMALGAYATION BILL, REJECTION OF THE PREAMBLE. (FUo oul LONDON Rwoao a ) LoNaorr, Tuesday. The Select Committee of the House of Lords resumed consideration of this bill this morning; Lord Psanurx in the chair. Mr, Vwmsezzs continued his address on behalf of the promoters of the bill, He took up several of the arqa- ments of Mr. lope Scott with regard to ...

... 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 & ...

... THE EARLY YEARS OF THE PRINCE OONSORT. Yesterday was issued the volume which has been ge0n time announced, 'entitled The Early Years of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort.'* The work was originally compiled under the -Queen's direction solely for privatecirculation among the members of her own family, orsuchuother persons as, from the relations in which they had stood to Her Majesty or ...

... FILIBU13TERING EXPEDMTIONS TO I WMEXIGO. TheAmnerican papers with dates to the 13th inst, contain accounts of projected filibustering expeditions to Mexico. The Newv Yorl Tribuntwsays:- ?? The recent events in Mexico, resulting in the executing of Maximilian and the capture of Santa Anna, have boon used to foment excitement in the large cities of the United States, as evinced by the placards ...