... LEEDS, DECEMJBER 14, 1869. LI1S A1mD WRITAHALL-ROAD,-We under- stknd the Corporation have served notice upon the trustees of this road appointing an arbitrator, and salling upon them to do the same within fourteen days rwhich they mst do, or the atbitrator appointed by the Corporation Will proceed et pasi in the mattel, CoNSIDERABLE FAILVAES IN TLE WOOLLIN TEAnn.-A circular was issued ...

... LOCAL AND GENERL. LEEDS, DECOENBER 10, 1869. TnE COLtmIsrAw Cau n MxsioN.-At a meet- lug beld yesterdayafternoon at the Leeds Church Institute, under the presidenoy of the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Colunsbia delivered an addrces on the Oolumbian Mis- sion, describing in more detail than he had done at the meeting in the same place on Monday evening its wants and prospects. At the close, ...

... LATEST Ale RSg 2BrO'u T a~) FRANCE. P4e.7 The exact number of votes obtained by M. Glaise0r, the elected Member for the fourth ?? °a 16,680. M. Barbes polled 3,197, and 1,027 votes We at W&I in tavour of other candidate. ;°Bia It Is asserted that the Spanish Government Etia a the candidature of the Duke of Geno0. THE LEGISLATIVE BODY, PARTS, Dec. 7, Hve In to-day'6 sitting of the Legislative ...

... iil (FnOM TM SpI GOoMMEWe o zm TMc Timm.) Bwxrae, Nov. 27. The land system of Antrim and Down, considered on the side of the oceupiers only resembles 'that of Formnagh and Londonderry, and Indeed, of almost the wholeof-Ulater. Exactly as tho case in the Scuth,. the tenancies are for the most part, at will, and, with honourable exceptions, what has been done on the laud re has been done by tho ...

... MANCHESTER RECIPROUITY ASSOOIL- TION. A Manufacturer writes to a contemporary- I wonder if tbh outside world will notice that, at the meeting of the Manchester Reciprocity Association, there were five Membersof Parliament present, and that of these five three were barristers, one was a civil engineer, and the other was nothing, it not a great landowner. The chair- man, however, Wr. Haworth, ...

... 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. 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... LOCAL AND GENERAL LREDS, DECEMBER 11, 1869. We understand that Mr. Archibald Ramsden, of this town, had the honour of attending on the Princess Louise, at Windsor Castle, on Wednesday, for the purpose of submitting for her approval one of Dawes' patent melody barmoniumne, with the patent pedal bass actions. Mr. Itameden had the honour of explaining the construe- tion of the instrument to Her ...