... LATEST NEWS, [REUTER's TrsronAmrs.] THE ROMAN QUESTION. RUMOURED WITHDRAWAL OF FRENCH TROOPS FROM ROME, PRnts, Nov. G. The Pays of this evening ?? intellience we have received, we are enabled to announce that the French troops will not pro!ong their stay at R-cme. One division will, however, still remain at Civita Vecchia, to await there the offect produced upon the party of action by the ...

... WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATXHS IN THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS. I 44TI WEE K, 1867. ?? the -week ending last Satulrday 3,800 births and 2, 68 deaths were registered in ten large cities and boroughs of England, including London. Tho births exceeded by 209, while the deaths were 204 below, tho average weekly numbers in the ten years 1851-60, cor- rected for increase of population. Th deaths showed ...

... HUTL, 8AILORS' ORPHAN INSTITUTION. Last night, a public meeting, in aid of the Port of Bull Society's Sailors' Orphan Institution, was held in the Leeds Town Hall. There was a good attendance. The MAYOR OP LsEnS was i ll the chair, and, in opening the proceedings, said lie believed the chief object for which they were drawn together was to consider the claims of the orphanage of the Hull ...

... POLITICS IN MUNICIPAL DIATTER$ TO THE EDITORS OF TIHE LEEDS MEIRCURy GENTLEMEN,-YOUIl Courtesy in the treatriceat of my letter of the 14th inst. emboldens me to write agai, on a branch of the same subject. In my former letterI dealt exclusively with the question, , ought politics t) have anything to do with our municipal matters 1' I toas the affirmative against the opinions adivallnd frome ...

... ENGLISH CHtll 1CH uNION. 'yest lt day, tl' nlnlluttld mecting of Iheo York t ?? oi this Uniou ivas hield in that city. Xervice took ulace il tile church of All Saints, North-street, When i .'irion Wias preatchied by tI ie -iv. J. Ii. Littin, of Marton- .Uii-rC, I tOtI, il thoe uo lre (Jt whicit he arglued that titi lisn could not b u ?? il ,r s rseded by any ?? holt I o i lie oelolitiull ,i ho ...

... TO T~IE ElDITOR01S OF THE LEE#DS MERdlCURY. GxiN¶LrEwE,-In reference to the advertisement which tins appeared in the Mercurlry concerning a tour to the Holy Land and Egypt under the escort of Mir. Henry szco, will you nermit mec to cay that I have sollicisut personel knowledge of Mer. Gaze, and, of his faculty for organisinlg and conducting excursions, to enable me to recomlmendu gentlemnen ...

... FIRE AT THE IMPERIAL GAS WORKS, I LONDON. Shortly before twelve o'clock on Thursday night a fire broke out on the premiers of the Imperial G is Uompany, which are situate immediately behind the Great Northern ]{isilway Station, iMug's-cross. In the yard at the rear of the eahaiqster cngine-house is a tar well, 20 feet deep and about 15 fuet in oircumference, This took fire by the fulling of a ...

... ORANGE FESTIVAL.-ROYAL NASSAU LODGE. On Tuesday evening the annual tea meeting in con- 31nuJio with the Royal Nassau Lodge of Orangemen of England was held at the Protestant Institute. Upwards of 350 persons partook of a sumptuous tea, provided by Mr. Jenkinsen. Apublic meeting W*6 it`rwards held, presided over by Mr. Anthony Atkinson. The Chairman, in opening the meeting, said they could not ...

... I - i , ~ I On Monday evening the annual meeting of the Hull branch of the above society was held in the Roy. I l Institution. The chair was occupied by the ll. itor (Alderman ROBERTS), and the hall was well filled'. The meeting having been opened with singing and prayer, the Rev. J. ELLAM, the local secretary, was called upon to read the report. The past year had been a very encouraging one. ...

... - On Wednesday his Grace the Archbishop of York held two confirmations-one in the morning at St. Mary's, and the other in the afternoon at Christ Church. On both occasions there were crowded con- gregations. The total number of candidates for con- firmation was about 250, and his Grace was assisted by the Yen, Archdeacon Long and Canon Paget. At St. Mary's the service commenced at eleven ...

... oENIN G OF PARLIAMENT I T'le winter session of Parliament was opened on Tuesday by Royal commission. The last occasion aPO, hich Parlianent assembled in the winter was la 1857, when the monetary crisis rendered the weetiig of the Legislature indispensable. The jimediato cause of the present assembling is the necessity of proceeding for a vote in sup- l for the expenses of the expedition to ...

... The anchorage in Ansiesley Bay is considered excellent. There is said to be accommodation for almost any number of vessels, in six and a-half fathoms water, with sandy bottom, the vessels being able to anchor within 300 yards of the shore. The land is described, by a coc- respondent of the Xoen/wy Gazette, as a saudy plain, with some brushwood bat no forest. Drinkable water is not procurablo ...