... JFO1tEJGNANDCOLONIALS I ITALYo A circular has been addressed to the members of tbe Lower Chamber by three deputies-Messrs. Fanobri, Corsi, end Miasseri-urging tbem to repair to Florence acme days before the opening of Parliament, it being evident that matters of the utmost importance will he brought forward in some of the very earliest sittings. The Left and Left Centre will put forward ...

... OAPTUDE OF 'PilE B18110P OF SiERRA mnn ??Tmrcrr ?? TZTT r nfl nn mrrfl TH[E BRITISH CONSIJE KILLED BY THEE NATIVES8. By the arriva'l at Liverpool, on Saturdlay, of the Royal msnil steamer Mandingo, with the W~est Atfrican snails, we hear of a painful affair which has recently no- corred up the Niger. It appears that early in October Bishop Crowther, of Sierra Leone, went on a visitation up the ...

... GREAT EASTIERN RAILWYAY. The adjourned meceting of E3ast Anlglian jr;- prietore in this companly was beld err Friday at the Lends: Tavern, to receive 3s report from the committee apporari: on the 15th mnst, to conlfer wiith the directors and to c]-~ eider the terms effered by the G~reat Eastern Company:. M~r. L., Smusox50 in tbo chair, The report of the com mittee stated that they had ecr ...

... I MIt JOhN BRIGHT, M.P., TN'1HE IBISH - LAND QUESTION. ~ MI'. horny Dixc Hutton publishes in the Spectatior the following letter received by him from Mr. John Bright:- iloobdale, Nov. 11, 1867, MLy Dear Sir,-I have read your ' Prussia and Ireland' with meuch interest, and, es far as you go, I agree w ith you, hut I think more requires to ho done. Your plan is to help tenants to buy forms ...

... FEIG°blN ECHANIA ?? . (Ieml0L theC Jlsg1zeCr.} English engineers are by this time aware that they have something to fear from thocompetitionof foreign rivals, The ]esson has been very carefullyand persistently taught them at least. To believe some of the teachers, indeed, the moment when England will have sank for good, or rather for bad, into a foerth-rate place in the scale of nations ...

... Yim jj?NIANS ATMANCRESTER. BOF FORTY-FIVE REVOLVERS. SE VrlOLIC~Et EXAM&INATION. tuirrdaiY morning a younlg man, named Cii 'hK~eSOO Thorn;)ofl, was placed in the dock at the WilliLLnie *. oua hManchester, before Mr. MI. Kennedy and City lklisrf~es carged with beinl ocre r h otber ?? on the 18th September; and also wvith ne!,t D ',asmher of revolver~s in his possession which are ha pes g to ...

... L A TESTU EW | [RXaulaR'B Teiosrx.J TlES PR.OlOSED CONFERENCE. Faomniucn, Nov. 30. Theo 1i' refutre the announcement thrat the Itaslian C0evditic(il bas given it3 umreserved adhesion to thse pro- - ed(Cuntecence. Tie (j1, Wf0l;yt'Ir 59V9 that tho adhesion of Italy to tho Ceuferettce mnust not be titterrpreteil iu an ab3olute man- rtC Italv, to secorend the wvishes of Francs, adheres in ...

... IALAEMNG PIT'ACCIDENT IN FIFESHIRE. FOUR LIVES LOST--NARRtOW ESCOAPES. On Fridays afternoon an alarming accident occurred at Osidenden Colliery. near Aucliterdorran, Fifeshire, belonging to Mr. James GecodellI, oa~l- master, whereby four men lost their lives, and many others escaped in an almoet miraculous manner. It appears that about four o'clock in the afternoon, while the workmen in one of ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. | ?? Continental journals havo indulged their| |read ers f rom daby to d ay with auch very contradictory| statemsents as to the progress of the nogociations f or the proposed Conference on the Roman question, that those who have endeavoured to follow the course of events must by this time have found themselves in such a maze of uncertainty and labyrinth of doubt, as to ha in ...

... -I lFETlHER EXAMINATION Ol'4 BURKE AND - CASE1Y. The twvo prisoners giving the namses of George Berry arid JosephI Tlheobald Casey, but the former of whomn is alleged to be Richard Burke, a colonel in the eo-called ] erianl army, were brought up err remand, at Bow-street, on Saturdely, the former charged with treason-felony, and both with assaulting the police in the execution of their Br. ...

... L 1OCaAL1 AN DGENEA 4 Dl. LEEDS, DECEMBER 2, 1867, The Observer says it is geaserally understood thalt Parliament will be adjourned on Friday until theo usual time of the meeting in February. MoORE LIGHlT 1tOR TIlE OUTSKIRTS OF THig Towit7-Several additions have lately been madeby tire Lamp Committee of the Leeds Towrn Council, over whicir Mr. Ald. Keleall presides, to the public lamps in the ...

... I II ED -i AS?OOIATION OF FOUE?E? ENGINEER?S. The annual dinner of the Leeds Association of Foremlen Enlgineerls-a society which is doing an impor- hiunt work not only in promoting a better fesliug hetweson e. capisial arid labour, hut also in advancing that technical .education about which so innebi has bsen said of late- was held on Saturday night, at Wharton's Hotel, Park- in lane, where a ...