... The Times remarks that Lord Halifax last night met with a deserved defeat. The Lords will oountenance no abstract resolution nor any motion which can be con- strued as a party device, although the mischievous alteration of the lodger franchise has damped its hopes. The Thies nevertheless ?? to the calmer reason of the Ministry to give a wider scope to their re-distribution scheme. The ...

... IWEEKLY RETURN or BIRTHS AND I DEATES IN THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS. 31BT WEBK, 1867. In the week ending last Saturday 3,990 births and 2,408 deaths were registered in ten large cities and boroughs of England, including London. The births exceeded by 329, while the deaths were 154Mfelow, the average weekly numbers in the ten years 1861-60, our- rected for increase of population to the middle of this ...

... COirEiWsNCB E O - CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATIONS AT YORK. What was termed an aggregate meeting of the Conservative and Constitution Associations of York- shire and of the nobility, clergy, and gentry of the county, was held yesterday, at York. The morning meeting, which was attended by delegates from the various associations of the county, and by representatives from Conservative newspapers, was ...

... ITHE R EPORT OF THE FrmE PROTECTION I COBMTTEE. The Select Committee of the House of Commons hi on Fire Protection has finished its labours. The chief hi recommendations contained in the report are, we under- E stand, to the following effect. To prevent the frequency l of fires from the faulty construction of buildings there El should be a General Building Act for every town or place i in the ...

... OINCAL. AND GENAL LE DS, JULY 30, 1867, TInY HosrpITA. - Week ending July 26th, 1867. Patients discharged, 26; admitted, 23. In the ?? 43, women 33, total, 76. Waiting for admission, 126. THE YORXSHtEtEMAGISTRATPS AND TiE TENANT FScrzEnns.-Tho public mind of the North Riding has been kept in a continued stats of agitation for nearly six months owing to the diametrcally opposite views taken on ...

... I [RI lu eES TE=OUA I FRANCE. PAnTS, July 29. The Alonrdem says:- Several French and foreign journals publish statements calculated to trouble and die- quiet affairs of commerce and industry. It is said that our international relations tend to authorise the presentiment of a conflict more or less removed. The formation of two camps and military preparations is announced. These reports are ...

... I [ I Exuvan's - X r TsnennnM.j PRUSSIA. Count Bismark will shortly return superintend the arrangements foir o h North German Parliament. hi Bsnruxr,? July 30, Evening. The semi-official Northo CGeruan Gaztci, of this Overt I ing says- If French writers are truthful iln thel r reports upon the sentiments which have been aoi in Germany by the diplomatic steps taken by Frand 1 in the Sebleswig ...

... JAMAICA AND COOLIE INMIGRDITION. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. BR PEOsn D FRIEND8,--In My last letter on Jamaica I intimated the belie! that the colony was in no emall danger of a financial catassyophe, and that the ho p of its social and political regenerhltiou was imperilled by its inability to carry the burden of pact extravagance, and to find at the eatme time the necessary means ...

... 2, LEEDS, JULY 30, 1867. L -e Lords' amendments to the Halifax and r (Ovenden Junction Railway, and the Idle and Shipley Railway Bill, are to be considered in the Commons to- day, r- Mr. Thomas Child, late of Airedale College, has Lv accepted en invitation to become, their pastor from the le Congregational Church, Castleford, vacant by the removal of the Rev. H. Simon to Tolmer'e-square, ...

... TEE :REFCRM BILL. THE NOTICES O AMENDMIE1NTS. The amendments cf which notice has been given in the House of Lorins are somewhat numerous, and include some new points, besides reproducing in almost the same form several of those which were debated in the Lower House. TnE LOuoiRn FnAiccsis.-The Earl of Romney pro- poses that instead of requiring that the lodger shall have occupied from the last ...

... TRYE LEEDS MERCURY. Trne French Government has received a I (1espatoh from M. DANO, its Minister in Mexico, con- firming the account of the escape of MltnAousm and other laimportant persons, but containing no mention of any of i, the other events which have lately occurred in Mexico. LETTERS from Mexico give a very interesting account of the siege of the capital. The populace had been reduced ...

... TIuE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AND SIR W. MANSFIELD, The following is a copy of a despatch from the Field Marshal Commanding-rn-Chief to the Commander- in -Chief in India:- Horse Guards, Jan. 17. Sir,-Tho Field Marshal Commanding-in-Ohief has directed me to acknowledge the receipt of the various letters and papers which your Excellency has forwarded from time to time, in explanation of the course ...