... JfflJ IbLIN. The annual meeting of this hospital -was held yesterday; the Rev, OCicoac ATLAr, Vicar of Leeds, Presi- dent of the institution, in the chair.-Mr. flaw, the hon. sec., read the fifteenth ennual report, which stated:- ..The aperef ions of the charity for the year 1887 are as fellow:- I17ff pats oles heve been treatedl, iecluding 102 left on the books 4t the cod of l18M Of thee ...

... ONGRESS AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, Monday. This morning Dr. H. W. Rumsey delivered a long and elaborate address on Health. The A Section of the Economy and Trade Department was the most interesting section to-day, in consequence of two papers by Mr. ;muNDrsT,& and Mr. Gmnr=, ex- two papers by Mr. Mundella and Mr. Gilliver, ex- president of the Birmingham Trades Council, on- in what manner ...

... Le.JEDS MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. THE DEAN OF CHICHESTER ON THORES BY. Last night the Rev. W. F. Hoox, D.D., ?? Dean of Chichester, delivered the inaugural lecture of the winter course in connection with the Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society. The lecture was given in the beautiful new hall of the building recently erected in Cookridge-street-a hall admirably adapted for all the ...

... FR&'NCB AND PRUSSIA. (BRwn thes Times9.) For some weeks past the two dark thunderclouds of the political atmosphere have been drawing steadily ?? together, until it seems as if the most sanguine could now hardly hope that an explosion will be averted. France on the one Bide and Prussia on the other are either antici- B. patig wr ordesair~g ?? The King of Prussia has dclare plaily an ho! thathe ...

... THE EARTHQUAKE AT GIBRALTAR, - P . - . - ?? (braws fAC Daily Aews.) The occurrence of an earthquaho at Gibraltar almost simultaneously with a renewal of the action of Mount Vesuvius is a circumstance well worthy of notice. It seems toafford strongevidence in favour of the view that the subterranean forces, whose effects have been exhibited from time to tinseover the whole basinof the ...

... LETTER FROM GENERAL P--- - LETTER FROMr GENERALE PRIMr The L~eriY publishes General Prim's letter 'n .f Emile de Girardin. It is in the following terms-cdl not given:- My dear good Friend,-You address to me in yoc. journal, the libertc,; a letter commenting upon that whil I 'wrote to MIg. Henri de P~io and Edmnond Tarbt directors of the Gcaltois. Although you have omitted tl send moe ...

... THE INCREASED ARMY EXPENDITURE, GENERM, PEEL AND MR. CHILDERS. General Peel writes to the Times: -I have to thank you not only for inserting in your paper the long letter which I wrote to you on the above subject about three weeks ago, but also for the courteous spirit in which you remarked upon it, and I certainly should not have troubled you again if Mr. Childers in his speech at Ponte- ...

... A correspondent of the Times writes:- Th* attempts that the agitators of the Eastern question in Greece and on the banks of the Danube are now making to get up revolutionary movements in the European pro- vinces oi the Ottoman Empire, by sending bands of armed men to trouble the peasantry, devour their cattle, and goad them into insurrection, render it a matter of import- ance to the cause of ...

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... LEEDS, FEBRUARY 3, 1868. Mr. J. El. Sale, son of the Vicar' of Sheffield, has been appointed an inspector under the Factory Exten- sion Act. , The Rev. J. Barclay, Vicar of Rtncorn, hasbeen t appointed rural dean of Chester, in the room of the late b- Archdeacon Greenall.-Jearrnrbgton Guardian. t The Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray, M.P., has m given a fat ox, to be apportioned by the Mayor of Durham ...

... LORD STAN1tLEY ON THE AMERICAN QUESTION. A deputation from the Peace Society and others waited, by appointment, upon Lord Stanley, at the Foreign- edlice, on Tuesday. Among those present were-M!r. ETdward Baines, M.P., Sir Francis Crossley, fart,, MP., Mr. George Haadfield, M.P., Mr. Jonathan Pire, M.P., 1tev. Newman Hall, Rev. Dr. Brock, Rev. Henry Rich- ard, Rev. John Ross, Rev. G. W. M'Cree ...

... aIlaE FRENCH SENATE ON THE FRENCH POSITION. (from the, Spectator.) Is there no friend of peace left in France except the Emperor Napoleon 1' If any of our readers wish to understand bow profoundly recent events have stirred the national vanity and the military pride of France, we recom- mceud them to study carefully the extraordinary speech of Baron Brenier in the Senate, and to remember that ...