... 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 WE&THER. TflZ TzMPiRAqnTur i LaIns.-Droring the last few days the temperature haa gone down remarkably, and yesterday the frost was greater than has been known for several years. On Chlustmams-day the lowest point reached by the thermometer was 27°, being 11 below that recorded on Friday. On Sunday it-sunk still lower, and got down to 230. The mercury continued to fall, and on Idanday it ...

... TBE WEBLEIANS AND TEE EDUCATION QUESTION. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GarsTLxRm,-Your article in yesterday's issue virtually says:- How strange it is that these Wesleyan people, who certainly canuot be charged with anydisregard aof the interests of religion, are, to so great an extent, assumlng an attitude of hostility tothe National Education Union which puts religion at the very ...

... L OCAL AND GENERAL I LEEDS, DECEMBER 10, 1869, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at- tended by Colonel Tyrwhitt, left town on Tuesday evening frr Grimnaton, near Tadoaster, on a visit to Lord and Lady Londeeborough. We are miformed that the principal tea dealers and grocers of Leeds have agreed to close their establish. ments from Friday, the 24th, to Tuesday, the 28th iuet., thus ...

... LBEDS 9AGGED AND OERTIFIED| INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. The annual meeting of the friends of the above sehoole was hold last mright, In the Phllosephloal Hall, under the presidency of the BU~oR (Ur. W. Glover Joy), *The attendance Included Mr. Bainer, M.P., Mr. Wheel- house, M. P., the Rev. T. H. Me~heane, the Rev. W. H. Brigg, Mr. Fitch (one of Her Ma] eaty's Inmpactors *of Bohools), Mr. D. Lupton, ...

... THE LEEDS MJ-W Tim Exraass Euos:er received the congratulallo of the Diplomatic Body, on her return from the Esit, at t the Tuileries, on Sunday. It is etated that Her M ijoll X will not in future attend the Cabinet Councils, IN the Legislative Chamber, yesterday, to r adjourned discussion on the election of Me. GianuD (Opp,. sitio), for the department of the Cher, was resumed, The election ...

... 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 LEEDS MERCURY. Air important statement is made by the Figaro of Paris, but on what authority does not appear. It saya ] that the MrrnisTE oF Justcn has forwarded to the MARQUIS DSc BANNEVILLE, the French Minister at Itome, a note to the effect that the promulgation of the dogma of the infallibility of the PoPB would be inopportune from a religious point of view, whilst politically it would ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. TNh DUKE or EDImNUnIGn artrived at Calcutta in > the Galatea on Wednesday. He landed immediately, and 4 proceeded in State to the Governor's house. The streets were crowded, and the reception of His Royal Highness was most cordial. TIIn resignation of the Frenoch Ministry is at last officially announced, and the ElPEIo has addressed a letter to M. OLr~vinn requesting him to ...

... }NERBCAY ON TBE QUOR TRAFFIC AND PROHIBITION. 'We ie below A more extended reporL of Geneeral Vavry'5 oration on the li uor traffic, in Eset-parade Chapel, Leeds, on l.Iondiil nigh;, than circumstances ten- dered, possible yesterday. The oration Occupied nearly two hours in its deliverY, and the account that we even now present. to Our readers is necessarily in a6 Very' con- densed form. ft ...

... 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 ...