... ILATEST NEWS, ?? Trmtaoens. ) . FRANCE. rR N E PAisM, Aug. lo, The Elendard of this evening states that next week an interview will take place at Aix or Ohanberg between Signor Ratazzi and M. Freny, On the subject of the conversion of the Church property in Italy. PAnes, Aug. II, A telegram has been received here by the Govern. ment from M. Dano, the French Minister in Mexico, dated 20th July, ...

... TlHE QUEEys VISAIT TO KELBO. As the time draws near for! this Royal visit, the public interest increases, and from all quarters we hear of armies of visitors to-witness and take part in the scene, for which the arrangemeonts re fast beingcompleted. Her Majestv, aesompanied by the Prince andvrincess Chrietian and their infant son. (Wiasse Christian-oVtor), Prinoess Louise; Princess neatwia, ...

... TIL'Ei LEEDS MERCURY. ?? o - 1 STHE SULTAN has received a visit from PniNmu; |Caias ov Ro0 NiANS at Rusxthuok, and ii said to have welcomed him with great honours. I T' E uneasiness occasioned. by GNERAL hDMONT'S mission to Rome does not seem to be entirely allayed; and the very fact that the ()pinione seriously sets itself to work to prove that France could have had no sinister motive in ...

... VOTINQ PAPERS. The following are the clauses proposed by the Marquis of Saliaburg for defining and regulating the use of voting papers, en which wore last night adopted in the House of Lords, with some verbal amendments:- Any voter for a county or borough may, in complianie with the provisions hereinafter contained, give his vote by a voting paper instead of personally. The ollowing ...

... 0e`REST PROSPECTS. rioTGnrIflO~ E,-The wheat crop in this neigh- th iood is tnly tbhinl uon the trouni, but is very healthy, 25 too 5a Bemarkably good Cead, the crop is generally co Pad Ve Dgud'if we have favoarble weather up to harvest ye bed'Dg, a will prove a ful average one. Barley upon th f iipate r oan vi a g rop in this neighbDurhood, to Isll culh a little affected vrith t we white head ...

... The Select Committee of the House of Commonsg appointed on the motion of Mr. M'Evoy to inquire into the operation of the Ecclosiastical Titles Act and the 24th see, of the act of 10th George IV., cap. 7-the Roman Catholic Belief Act-met on Friday, at twelve o'clock, to consider their report, There were present-Mr. M'Bvoy in the chair -Mr. Walpole, Mr, Bentinok, Mr. Brett, Mr. H. A. Bruce, Lord ...

... ST, PFETERSSu5iz, August 12 While English geologists are warning us not to waste our own coal, by proving to demonstration the exhaustion of the coal beds within an unpleasantly small number of years, and whilo alarmists proceed to assure us that we are therefore doomed in the course of a few generations to sink to the level of a third or fourth rate Tower, mineralogists and engineers in ...

... 3USMJkLANEOUSe The Hon A. F. 0. Liddell, Q.U., commenced . his attendance at the Hoeao-offic on Thersday as Under- 'ecretaqy of Stete, in the room of the Right Hon. Horatio Waddington, retired. .'Hfarvest commenced last week in'the neighbour- hoor of Stamford. Many oi the wheat crops are light, but the barley crops, where the land hus been well managed, aro generilly heavy. Au unusually large ...

... THE LEEDS ,MRCURy. MAinsmt NrEL, the French Minister of 11ra bha addressed a letter to the colonel of the Antibes lpoiinn fit. RnamA W;fh r^af--A sA 4%AA- ?? legion at Rome with reference to the numerous d tions which have taken place lately from that cors Y The letter seems to be chiefly written for the purpose i, of making the members of the legion feel that they are n still identified with ...

... ARRIVAL OF EMANCIPATED SLAVES IN- AFRICA. The Roval mail steam-ship Lagos, Commander George Ccrbett, arrived in the Meraey yesterday, after a very rapid passage from the West Coast of Africa, Teneriffe, end LMadeira. The dates brought by the Lagos are as fol- low :-Benin, July 3; Fernando Po, June 20; Cameroone, 28; Old Calabar, 27; Brass River, New Calabar, and Bonny, July 2; Lagos, 5; Jellah ...

... EARL RIUSELL ON BRITISH SCHOOL EDUCATION. . Earl Russell, on Saturday, attended the opening of some noew British schools just built on Mount Ararat, Ricnnmond. At the luncheon that followed, his health, as president of the schools, as well es of the British and Foreign School Socoety, was enthusiastically drunk. The Noble Lord, in responding, ?? first duty I have to perform is to tend-er m ...

... WORKSHIE AGRICULURj SOCET The annual Show of this important society comn- menced yesterday at Thirsk, and although the auspices under which it is hold are not so imposing as those which accompanied last year's exhibition, it is gratifying to state that it promises to be as successful as any of its prede- cessors. Last year, it will be remembered, theeshow was held at York during a week of ...