... LOCAJL AND GENERAL. LEEDS, AUGUST 21, 1867. THE REFORM AoT.-We give to-dav the text, together with the schedules, of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, which was issued on Monday. The Act consists of 61 clauses, and is divided into three parts, viz., I. Franchises; II. Dietributionofseats; Ill. Supplemental provisions. The schedules are eight in number. The first four give the names ...

... The following extracts are taken from a letter in the ?? Gattolisa, of Turin:- It is impossible to form an idea of the terror which struck the gay and smiling Albano on the night of that day (August 6) and the following morning. The city was unprepared for the terrible blow. Snow was hardly to be got, nor acid fruits, nor was there a sufficient eupply of remedies in the druggists' shops. One ...

... (Born the £esr021nistJ The Peers have not abolished proxies, but they have made it extremely improbable that proxies will ever be again employed. A Select Committee appointed to inquire into the mode of conducting the business in the House has reported that the privilege of voting by proxy, being inherent in a peerage, cannot be abolished except by an Act of Parliament, but has recommended ...

... SATURDAY.-The pressure of the atmosphere has increased on the south and east coasts since yesterday, but is now decreasing in Ireland. Winds have backed to- wards south-west, and are fresh in the English Channel. Weather is overcast. Lgns.-The weather yesterday was of a very encouraging nature, so far as the prospects of the harvest are concerned-there being a high bracing wind to dry the ...

... O]I'FICIAL LEGISLATION, ?? ?? Tall Zall azeue,) The existence of judicial legislation has long beet recognised by every one who is at all accustomed to look rather at facts than at names, but a procees i ailently going on which appears to show that not only the judge, but come of the public departments also must be regarded in the light of branches of the Legislature. It has been stated, and ...

... MR. BRIGH1T AND MB, MILL ON THE FUTURE POLICY OF THE REFORM LEAGUE. The following letters have recently been received by Mr., E. Beales, the president of the Reform Leagne, in reply to the announcement that the league would use its organisation, coneisting of 430 branches, for the purposes of registration, educating the people in the use of the vote, and promoting the return to the next ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. TmnxI is a calm in Continental politics, but it is a calm which produces a general depresian, and a fear that it is only the hill before a storm. The EXsEaRoDS NAoPaoLN III, and Fwaous JoMPrH have met at Salzburg, and the French and German papers, in the absence of facts upon which reliance could be placed, have for several days past been indulging in all kinds of forecasts, ...

... ?? REFORM ATO The following is a copy of the Reform Act just issued by the Queen's printers:- ANyO TDucasimo AND TualcEsimo Pso Vioroiseus CAP. CII. Am AcT ruiRME TO AlMND T'cn LAwS UBLATING TO THE ]R1l5E,5]mTATION OF TEL] jl.U~ INi ESGLAND AND WAIS. [15Tii A-UGoST 1867.] ?? it is expedient to amend the laws relating to the Representation of the People in England and I1ates: 13e it enacted by ...

... BRADFORD TOWN COUNCIL, A quarterly meating of the Oouncil was held yesterday in the saloon of St. George's Hall. The MAYon occupied the chair. TnE CATTLo MASKET.-Tho TowN- Cixen announced that a license had been received from the Privy Council, authorising the opening of the Bradford Cattle Market for the reception of cattle from any place in England, Wales, and Scotland, and consequently Brad ...

... On Saturday morning the discovery was made that three shops in the centre of the town, adjoining the principal thoroughfares, and in immediate contiguity to the Low-Btreet Police-statiou, had been entered by a gang of thieves-for the extent and nature of the depredations Ehowed that more than one practised hand had been at worbd The three shops are those of Messrs. Joplin and Tuer, drapers, ...

... WBIAFEDALE FLORAL AND HOBTICUL- TUBRAL OOlE0TY. IThe ninth annual exhibition of this society was held at Burley,. near Otley, on Saturday last, in a field adjoining the parsonage, which was kindly lent by Mr. Fison for the occasion. There was a large number of ex- hibitors this year, and the variety and quality of the dif- ferent plants and flowers exhibited quite approached, and in snany ...

... LEEDS, AUGUST 17, 1867. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the oflaieal residence of the Bari of Derby, Downiog-. street, Civia HoPITAL1TY.-The Mrayor of Leeds (Andrew Fairbairn, Esq.) entertained the borough magis- trates to dinner Yesterday evening. LEEDS TOWN Couxon.-THa IMPROVEMHNT xit C.Atro-toAD.-The following letter, addressed to Mr. Aid. Stead, by Mr.T. Fenwicic, on this ...