... Great ignorance prevails in many quarters on the subject of the Irish Church and its revenues, Of coarse the Liberation Society has been diligently spreading exaggerated statements as to its property and income, and as we find that even the Right Hon. Robert Lowe ba8 unintentionally in the House of Commons given expression to the com- mon belief when he stated that it possessed one- tenth of ...

... IMPERIAL; PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. There was a morning sitting,-at which the Mutiny Bill and Marine Mutiny Bill were read a third time. In the evening another sitting was held, at which the royal assent was given to those bills.-A discussion took place relative to the part taken by England in reference to the Cretan insurrection. The conduct of Lord Stanley was eulogized by Earl ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PRUSSIA. BnlApril 8. The Zollverein Parliament will not meet till the 27th inst., which is a week later than was at first intended. If the first session of this new Chamber passes over smoothly, it will hardlv be from any overweening attachment to PmFsia or the North German Bund on the past of the eighty WMenbers returued by the Southern States, as it is calculated that ...

... L NM ILAST NIGH:T'S MEETING. W e: _ - 1_-. *jjt1 Wn make no apology for odccipying so esks, large a portion of our space by the report of 127 the proceedings at the meeting at the Town- S. ball last night. If some of the speeches .TB, might advantageously be curtailed, we- must .remember that they are, for the most part, Id the speeches of those who differ from us in opixion, and we' are ...

... LEEDS, APRL L1, 1868.I At a meeting of commanding officers of the West Riding Volunteers, heldyessterday, in the grand jury rosin at the Town H-ell, Leeds, Lieutenant Colonel Lord Whurneliffe in the chair, it was resolved that it is not expedient to hold a Volunteer review for this Riding during the present year. ANAWEITR GYMNASTIC FEATS AT TaE LEEDS ?? Scroors-The fiet of two evenings' ...

... THE HU1JRRICANE IN THE MAURITIUS. - . ?? . I The Dfuke of Bnckingham has received the fol- lowing despateh from Sir 1H. Darkly, Governor of the island of Mauritius:- Mauritius, March 17, RIMS. My Lord Duke,-It is with the deepest concern I report that one of the most violent and destructive hurri- ,canes ever experienced in these latitudes occurred here on the I 1th and 12th inst. 2. The ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. TalE montbly statement of the public debt of the United StateB shows a decrease, on the let of April, compared with the preceding month, of 6,000,000 dolk There was also a decrease of cash in the Treasury amounting to 5,600,000 dols. TInE Republican success in New Erampshire has been balanced by a Demooratio victory, with an increased majority, in Connecticut. According to ...

... On Friday last the foundation stone of a new chapel, belonging to the Methodist New Connexion denomination, was laid in the presence of a large gathering of spectators. For some years the above denomination have had a small chapel at Stepney, in addition to their larger places of worship in George- street and Osborne-street. In consequence of the rapid growth of Stepney, the want of a much ...

... ; . I _ _ _ _ - _ THE VESTRY CLEIhR. A meeting of the parishioners of Holy Trinity was held last week, under the presidency of the Vicar, the Rev. Canon Brooke. 'Mr. Councillor Richardson at- tended the meeting as auditor. Some doubt arose as to whether Mr. Barton was or was not entitled to act as vestry clerk, after a meeting had been held which dismissed him from ?? Vicar stated at once that ...

... THE LDS MERCURY. A FEW days ago a letter was published in the IPacZl 3fct Gazette, alleging that a number of Turkish and Egyptian muleteers, engaged for tha Abyssinian expedition, after being daily flogged in batches, had been stripped of the clothing they had received on entering the British service, and sent away absolutely in a state of nuditv, their old clothea having been destroyed. The ...

... On Wednesday evening, a lecture of groat in- terest and of remarkable excellence in its treatment of the subject, was delivered in the Temperance Hall, Sheffield, by Mr. John Holmes, of Leeds, on the invitation of the Executive of the Organieed Trades. There was a large and very attentive audience. Mr. S. Prxmsoas presided, and introduced the lecturer to the meeting.-Mr. HoawaS went very fully ...

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