... RESCOGNITION SERVICE AT£ SALEM CHAPEL., L.EEDS. Least night a tea party and public meetinlg wvas held in the school-room of Salem Chapel, Leeds, in recog- nition of the Rev. Henry Torrent, late of Sheihlled, and formnerly of Derby, as the eneccessor to the Rlev. William Rudewell (who in cosseequenlce of increasing infirmity resigned in September, 1866, though he still maintanis Ins connection ...

... LEEDS, NOV. 2, 1867. AssrE..nLING OF PAARLIAMENT.-No ?? aniouncement has yet been made as to the day on which Parliament is to meet; but the belief that it will be sum- moned for the 19th iuct, is confirmed by the fact that Earl Russell lies invited his former colleagues to dinner on the day previous, the 18th, which is according to the custom of the leader of the Opposition on the meeting of ...

... THlE ENGLISH PRESS AND THE ORDER FOR THE ITALIAN TROOPS TO CROSS THE FRONTIER. The Times says this is a just and wise no less than a bold stop; a necessary step, which may also turn out a fortunate one. The King's Government acted, we are told, in conformity wvith the declarations previously conveyed to friendly Powers; consequently to France. It was an open and deliberate deed. Its authors ...

... MISCELLANEOUSO The Farnhani Workhouse inquiry was resutmed on Thursday. The evidence so far bears out the report of the Laned Commissioners. TiHE TELEGIRAPHS AND POST-OFFICE.-WE believe that the Government, at the lest Cabinet, held on the 12th inst,, decided on entering into arrangements with the principal telegrephie companies of the Unitod K~iugdom with the view of placing the various lines ...

... THe LEEDS MERCURY9 TlIrE Judiciary Committeo of thec united| States Congrese have presented areport, on behalf ofi the majority of the Committee, in favour of the im- peachment of Poasrauxr JOrHNson. The fact itself is important, but it is very doubtful w hether the report will be adopted. The recent elections have been so adverse to the extreme section of the Republican patty, who have ...

... SUMMERGENCE OF THE ISLAND OF TORTOLA. LOSS (F 10.00Q LIVES. A New Ycrlc telegrnim wits received in Londou on Friday night, alnunolcilng that the islaud of Tortola, il the Wiest Indies, hail beli suibmerged, and that 10,000 lives Were lost. We havo ili lator nows, but the following particulars N; ill be intorosting to our readers. 'l'l 1-nid 1 '1 Ctttchpeedt thitus describes the island If ...

... JMYEIJAL PAR]LIAMENT. I (By TedgwrpA.I HOUM? OF LORDS, YESTERDAY. Their Lor~dlsips met at five o'clock. WORKHOUSES. The Earl of DEVON gave notice that on Thuraday noxt be should move for the report of tho special inquiry into the State of gill worksbouses in cortain districts of E1nglaud. RITUALISM AND IE BISHOP OF SALISBURY. Lord PORTMAN presented a petition from a considers able number of ...

... I BURGLARY Ab A RECREATION. - { Wj tnay read in many of the cheap periodicals of i thoay glowing accounts of the heroic 7 deds and deeds of darings of celebrated highway- I men of the Dick Turpin and Claude Duval type, I who, the faithful historians tell us, plundered, not for the value of the articles they might secure, bat, it would appear from the source of their argument, I for ...

... A fl., - - 44- 1- - - .. h A Conservative banquet, under the auspices of the London and Westminster Working Men's Con. stitutional Association, took place on Monday at the Ciystal Palace. About 1,500 were present, in-; eluding deputations from Chatham, Rochester, v Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Portsmouth, . Norwich, Preston, Lynn, Waterford, Bolton, Fal- mouth, Bristo], Tynemouth, ...

... - - 'E I . LOCAL INTELULIGE NOE. COLaISION.-On Saturday e-enh1tW a coast-trading brigantine, lying at anchor off the Corporation Pier, was run into by a passenger steamer from New Hol- land, and had her jibboomn, bowsprit, and bulwarks on her port bow carried away. AFRIVAL F10HI YsILsnMNuTON.- The first arrivdl from the Southern States of America since thle dreadful civil war took place on ...

... THE PRISCE OF WALES IN WOROESTER- ITRSIRE. Tile pleasant little Worcester town of Evesham 'wns on 'Tuesday quite en Pltc on the long-to-be-remembored occasion of the first visit to it of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who is now visiting lis Royal Highness the Due d'Aumale, at Wood Norton. Perhaps in all the kisigdom there is no fairer spot than the Val of Evesham, which is no loss ...

... LORD DARTMOUTH oiq THE IRISH CHUR1CH AND EDUCATION. Last right the annual festival of the Rudders- field Church Institute was held in the Gymnssiam. Hall, Huddersideld, and was well attended. Amongst others present wore the Rev. the flewn of York (who presided), the 'righit Hon. tho Earl of Dartmouth, the Rev, the BIbehop of CapetownI the Rev. W. B. Calvert, the vicar of Hccddersfield~ the Rev ...