... TEE YORK AND RIPON DIOCESAN TRAINING COLLEGES. A mettimg of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Education was hold yesterday at the Leeds Church Insti- tute, to take into consideration a propoisl from the York Board that the two Training Colleges-the female institu- tion at Ripen and the male institution at York-should in future be maintained and managed exclusively by the dioceses in which they are ...

... LEEDS, DECEMBER 20, 1869. ComiasjsioNs.-The following commiesions are ?? of the Countylof York, and of the City and County of the Cityof York.-Edward Hil- stone, EEq., to be deputy-lieutenant; Henry Richard Farrer, EEq, to be deputy-lieutenant; Dec, 3. 2ndWest Regiment of Yorkebire Yeomanry Oavalry.-Thomas George Jobnson, Eeq, late captain 13th Haauars, to be adjutant with the rank of eaptain, ...

... 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, ...

... THbPATOH F.OM EARL GRANVILLE ON OUB COLONIAL kOLICY. The follo'wing is a copy of a letter sent by Lord Granville to the governors of those colonies to which tha itter of Messis. You], Blaine, and Sowell of the 13th of ?? been addressed:- Downing. street, Sept. 8, 1869. tir,-1 have received a copy of a letter purporting to bg addre5sd on behalf of a cormnnittee appointed by a meet- gO jof ...

... 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 ...

... REMNANTS OF TEII SOUTHERN CONFEDEBRAY SOLD AT AUCtION. t2,269,709 IN CONFEDERATE BONDS SOLD. FOR ?? Albert H. Nicolay, the auctioneer, on Wednesday sold at public auction attIheo^EzbangeSnlesroom, No, 111, Bte~adviy, several millions of dollars of bonds and notes issued by the Confederate Glovernment, and by different State and county authorities duriug the rebellion. The . sale Was made under ...

... 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 ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY.; 0O1o0 more there Is a rumour,. whloh the Ionaeitutionne/ balleves to be well founded, that tha Fauh I Mtnisttr has resigned. It Is stated that this step was . decided upon on Saturday, that the rebignatiou has beau 7 accepted, and that M. OL=rvns has bean definitively entrusted with the formation of a new Ministry. Tics PNule of Friday publishes a list of the new Cabinet, ...

... A BIRMINGHAM SOLIO1TOR DUPED BY AN OLDHAM SWINDLER. Mr, Henry -Davis Woodward, solicitor, of 47, Paradise-street, Birmingham, was the victim of a heartless swindle during the past week, and the circum- stance formed the subject of an inquiry before the Stockport borough magistrates on Saturday, Mr. Wood. ward having been apprehended on Wednesday through the forgery of a frau.ulent olient. On ...

... LENDS GENERAL INFIRMARY, ABE ANNUAL COLLECTION SUNDAY. In accordance with an invitation from the weekly board of this institution, a large number of the ministers of religion of all denominations in the borough and its vicinity assembled yesterday, at the board-room of the New Infirmary, for the purpose of considering the beet time and mode of obtaining a general, and, as far as possible, ...

... A srpeoie meeting of this Council, adjourned from Monday leut5 was held ?? MAYORn the chair-for the purpose of considering the clauses of the gas bills promoted by the Corporation, and for other purpose G AMD IMPROVENEW DILM. The Council, in the first instance, proceeded to consider the clauses of the bill, of which the preamble was adopted at the last meeting, for the emotion of gas works ...