... -??Il ? tALTEST- 0- NEWSO Ulaigvn'5 TELsOnAJX.) PRUSSIA. TEE CHhINESE EMBASSY. BaroNy, Deo. 2. The Cbiieas Embaesy was received in an official audience lyjexidg this fternooa. Mr. Burlinghamae presented toe rdenties, and most friendly sentiments were ex- oged between iing Williami and Mr. Burlinghime, iu coelue O the Erperor of China. SPAIN. MADml4, De3. 1. is to.asy'8 sitting of the Cortex, ...

... RAILWAY MLAPD m aTUBNS. Belfast & N.Countles Brjotol anu Eixeter . Caledoniau ?? (Imriabln ?? Cookrn¶t,s11.P (Vorrtwll ?? ?? COrk Dandon. & Kin Daln& B 40tt~n Dubin and Droghed Dub. & IUnset. &W E~rndes a.8 great ?? Gal ow &&S.Weater dto. l7orth of Scotland Great Northern ?? iGt. thim. & Wooten :GreatWeStmrn ?? HE1Hgbtnd. ?? Irsth North-Western. llanell ly. & Doot Lca[se ?? London and BrDhtor ...

... THE LEkDS MERCURY. ITr was rumoured in Paris yesterday that I LB Foux, the Minister of Commoroe, had radgned, and the Gadois etated that the resignation of M, DIt L. TOUs D'VAuvaXoaH had been accepted. TEE decision of the Third Party not to inter- pellate the Government on the postponement of the opening of the session was confirmed at a farther meeting of the party on Monday, under the ...

... LEED S, DECEMBER. 4, 1869. The Grand Jury were discharged yesterday. At the close of their laboura they handed over to the trea8srerfl of the Leeds General Infirmary and the West Rdinag Induetrinl Rome for Discharged Femala Prisoners the unu of L11 each. We are requested to state that the address qf Her MajeBty's Inspector of Mines for Yorkshire in fdture is Send el11ous e, near-Wakefield. to ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MEROURY. GuT LuEm ,-in, your leader of to-day (18t December) you say Mr. Best puts it that denominational instructioU is eesentially a bad thing, whioh it would be for the public advantage to root out; nay, Mr. Boat is even afraid that religion might be regarded as of more im- portance tban education. This language is not mine, but yours; and It does not express ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. THE EMPEROR OP 4USTRIA anive¶ at Vienna yesterday morning from the East, and the EhrumssI left Trieste on Sunday night for Ancona, on her way to Rome. Tim Continental papers continue to speculate on the terms of the despatch addressed by the SurTAN to the Knnxvn ow Eovrr, but they simply contradict each other, and really throw no farther light on the subject. IT is stated ...

... OUR LQNDON LETTER. LoNDOW, Friday Afternoon. The state of Ireland has attraeted the general attention of the political world during the week, and many rumoun have been current with respect to the probable course of the Government. Some idea of the manner in which the current of feeling runs here may be gathered from the lyVme, which lisa suddenly joined the alarmist party, and is louder than ...

... THE PROSECUTION OF MR. VOYSEY FOR. HERESY. e udgment was given in the Chancery Court of York yesterday en the proceedings which were heard the previous day as to whether or not the long series of articles of charge, or any of them, drawn up against Charlee Voysey, B.A., perpetual curate of Healaugh, for heresy, should be admitted to proof. Mr. Anonrxnx.8 and Mr. Cowiu, barnisters, appeared for ...

... FATAL BOILEB EXPLOSION. WorVmnuame , Friday. A distressing accident happened about four miles from this town, at eleven this forenoon, by which three men are already dead, four more sre expected to die, and several others are injured. At Bradley Messrs. Brereton and Co. are the proprietors of the Britannia Ironworks, where they have thirteen puddling and other furnaces, and sheet and bar mills ...

... YORKSHIRE WINTER GAOL DELIVERBY. WEST RIDING DIVISION. LENDS TOWN HALL, RIDAY. (Before Mr. Justice LUsH,) THE FORGERY AND BURGLARY AT BRADFORD. ROBERT KILVINGTON (32), butler, and PETER DUNCAN (40l), butler, who on Thursday were convicted of having forced a testimonial to character, and the first mentoned prisoner with having also committed a burglarj in the house of Mr. Angus Holden, ...

... LIOENSE AMUNDMENi pEAGUE. Ou Mobduy evening a meeting was held In the theatre of the Meebanics' Institute, Bradford, under the auSpicM of the above League, with reference to the licensing sstem, The attendance was numerous, Ur. Aid. LAW occupied the chair in the early part of the meeting, and subsequently it was taken by the Miyor (Mr. M. DAY oN), who had been fulfilling an engagement at ...

... To M EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GE19TLEmwl,I1t is much to lie lamented that in the furtherallce Of the same great national object, the eleation of one nillion Of poor children from almost the isottomless Pit of ignorance and its oonsequeioe~s, the earnest men of England abould enlist themselves under two separate banners, The League and The Union. According2 to your article of this ...