... I M. CLAY'S PART IN THE REFORM BILL. The Morning Advertiser of Monday last thus ar( refers to Mr. James Clay :-As for the Tea-room0 to party, with Mr. Owen Stanley and Mr. Clay at their head, they proved themselves - those, at an least, who voted against the Government on the Be occasion, for there were a few who supported the thb Government and the bill-a mere set of Whig hacks. It is to the ...

... LOCAL ANDIGENERAL. LOC0AL0 AND GENER0ALJ. LEEDS, NOV. 13, 1867. TEE LEEDS BAlduimo COMPANY.-We are glad to state that the response to the circular we have already referred to, as having been issued to the creditors of the Leeds Banking Conmpasy, asking them to consent to forego the ansount due as interest, has already been very con- siderable, end that there is now every prospect of the pro- ...

... jJTS NWS. [Rzruvna's TsLEOnhAos.) DEP7ARTUREl OF FR1ENCH TRvOOPS FRlOM ROME. Itotsc, Nov. 26. To-day tvwo Frenceh regiments of thlo line, twro batteries of artillery, ?? IS squtadron of cavalry, loft Rtome for' Civita Vecchini. VeirewA~, Nfov. 2.5, E3vening., Tt is staited that tbe Froenh G;overnmnent has informed the Austrianl Cabinlet oi its inltention tO withldraw a lsortiois Of Iho Frenlch ...

... (From the Datly News.) FnOnXrTCC, Nov. 5. The reason of the scmaty news that reached this city for thirty-six hours after an event of absorbing in- terest which had occurred within 200 miles of it, and on a t line of railway and of telegraph, is revealed to-night. General Garibaldi had, after withdrawing his men and formally disbanding them, and while on his way to Canrera, been seized in the ...

... 7TIIM LTEEDS _MEROi.LOP THE1 Journabl tks Madts is very s&nguino that t the reforms promised by the Emr latex will be orriedI out during the present Eiseion of thc Froanoh U04nlocr5. It argues thiat the Senators aid Depatios, whose devo- tion to the Emperor made them he8itatO last sessica to aecept the new refvrins, are bound by the same deVo- tion to imperiously vamquili their scruples and ...

... LEEDS, NOVEMBER 63, 1867. LBEDs To-WN Couxcirc,-The annual meoting of the Leeds Town Council will be held on Saturday at twelve o'clock, shen a mayor will be elected for the ensu- ing year and the various committees appointed. Amongst the motious ou the notice paper is one to assees a gaol rate of three farthiaigs in the pound, and another for a corn- mittee to consider the propriety of ...

... THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE FRENChj AND ITALIAN GOVERNMENTS. Tle ie1rd of Tuesday says that in adldliti,) t6 tbe official despatch already made public respecting tee intervention of France in the Papal States, the Cabilet ,. the Tuileries has senta confidential despatch to the Italfalj Government. in which it explains at considerable length the objects and scope of the new expedition to iln-ne ...

... TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE.-THIRTEEN MEN KILLED. The Troy Times ?? of October 21st, reports : -A terrible accident, resulting in the loss of thirteen lives, took place at the Central Shaft of the Hoosac Tunnel, on Saturday afternoon last, at four o'clock. Arranged around the mouth of the shaft were a series of buildings, consisting of an office, machine and blacksmiths' shop, saw mill, &c., and ...

... THiE MINERS' NATIONAL CONFEl'EYCE I AT DURHAM. Thu conferenco was resumed yesterday at Dur- bam. Mr. T1oE. IIArLIDAY, Vice-presideit, was again in the chair. The revision of the rules was complated, and they were ordered to be printed and cireulated.-Mr. Jouxr WonnAaa (Farmworth) and Air. JoouN J.cxsox (Worsley), who bad been a ?? to audit the treasurer's accoussts, repoitod that the ...

... TIlE M1ASTER1 CUTLER'S FEAST. EARL FITZWILLIAM AND SIR JOIELf PAKINGTON ON TRADE OUTRAGES. Last night, tihnm annual Master Cutler's Feast was held in the handsome now banquetting-roono of the Cutlers' Hall, at Shoffield, at the invitation of M. FoaIRT, Esq., Master Cutler, who presided, and was supported onr the right by Earl Fitzwilliam, Viscount Halifax, Lord Foley, Lord Milton, M.P., Sir F. ...

... COMPOUNIDED RATES. TO THE EDITORS OF THE, LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLEEIFN,-TO show you how the abolition of compounding for poor rates is going to act, I will just point out how the working class at Wortley aro going to be favoured, after having had this great boon bestowed on them, viz., extension of the franchise. The pror, gaol, cemetery, and watch rates, are all in- cluded under one head, and ...

... LATE ST NEWSo przuvna's Trzor&mras,] TiE PROP1OSED CONFERENCE. PAins, Nov. 19 (Evoning) Theo jlbieic believes it is enabled to state that the Cbli- net of the 'I'bileries is preparing another circular relative to the proposed Confelence on the Rorlln question. Muzsecu, Nov. 19. Tie French invitation to the Conference Upon tvo Bomarl question, addressod to the Bavarian Government, does not lay ...