... WEEKLYE BTURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS. d r 4TH WEEK, 1872. In the week ending last Saturday, 4,66G births and 3,351 deatha were registered in 18 of the largest English towns, including London. The births exceeded bv 1.30, and the deaths by 173, the average weekly natbors in the ten years 1861-70, corrected for increase of popal L ticn to the middle of this year. The deaths ...

... ' ROCnDAIu, Monday.-During the past week several wholesale buyers visited this market, with the view of makig their' arrangements for the coming season. In fi plain and dyed goods the inquiry is almost exclusively confined to qualities under s. per yard. Above this prics buyers report that they are mnoderately supplied, as, in consequence of tie advance of 3d. per yard which is now asked both ...

... I A meeting of the policy-holders and shareholders in this society was held last night in the Grand Jury Room at the Leeds Town Hall. There was a good attendance, and considerable interest was taken in the proceedings. Mr. Ald. Carter, MP., and Dr. Horton were present. Mr. GEORGE WILsON was voted to the chair. Mr. Ald. CARTa, Mf.P, said that Dr. Horton and he had called that meeting because ...

... GENERAL NEAL DOW ON THE PERMIS- SITV BILL. A long letter from General Neal Dow, of Portland, Maine, U.S., on the subject of the Permissive Bill, appeared in the Titmes of Thursday. In the course of this communication the General ?? my knowledge of English affairs I am led to suppose that there is no ques- tion in the country of so pressing importance as that of British poverty, pauperism, and ...

... Some additional correspondence on this subject has been Dublished in obedience to an order of the House of Lords, on the motion of Lord Stanhope. Chief Justice Bovill, having Eeen the letter of Sir Alexander Cockburn to the Lord Chancellor, wrote to Lord IHatherley on the Nth of December to express his concurrence in what the Cuief JUhtice of England had said. He felt bound, he said, to do so ...

... LONDON, lriday Evening. A reduetiof of upwards of £1,000,000 has been made in the Army asud Navy Estimates. This very considerable decrease in the national expenditure has, I have reason to believe, been effeoted without in any way deereasing the efficiency of either of those two great braiches of the public service. The result has been aebieved solely by carrying to their legitimate issue ...

... T THE SANITARY CONDITION OF' LEEDS. Dr. Robinson, the Medical Officer Of Health, has just issued his report on the sanitary ?? of the boroughL of Leeds for the year 1871. He ?? the year ending December 31st, 1871, the numbor of deaths regris- tered in the borough of Leeds was 6,881, being 452 less than in the preceding year. The births numbered 10,401, or 28 ?? then those in 1870, and yielded ...

... The following appeared i'1 a pordion of ouir impre asion of yesterday , TILE ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY. Vzas=,rnES, Feb. 1, 9 p.m. The debate to-day in the Assembly upon the Anglo- French Treaty opened wth speaches from X. Wozowairr against the withdrawal from the treaty, and from other Deputies in support of the proposals of the committee. M. im RhmrskT then addressed the House, and crd the ...

... ROUNTDRAY PARK. The following petition against the project for the purchase of Roundhay Park is in course of signature, and has already received the Panses of a great number of influential ratepayere*- To the lilayor, Aldermen, andi Burgesses of the Borough of Le eds. We, the uindersigida ratepayers of the borough, by this metnr beg to express to you our grave obj actions to the projected ...

... LEEDS HOSPITAM SUNDAY. On Sunday the example of simultaneous congregatioual collections for medical charities which has been set by the other large towns in England was taken up for the first time in Leeds. The result will not, of course, be ascer- tained for a few days, but we understand that the collec- tions were pretty general. In one or two instances, as in the case of the Parish Church, ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURiY | TnE text of the letter addressed by XpI GrADSrToNE to the London representative of tie N,.I I York Wled has been published. The Right E..; Gentleman says it is an entire mistake to sappo;e he ever said that every rational mind must se ti; orb meaning in the Washington Treaty. He believe; ti meaning of the Treaty to be clear and nnam!iienic, .. but, at the same time, he ...

... THE WASHIINGTON TREA.TY. - I ?? - - . Lord -Granville has received a telegram from Mr. Howard, British agent to the claims at Washington, stating that all the memorials of British elaimants must be filed by him on-or before the 26th of March next. The Ayew Prussians (Cross) Gaaztte of Feb. 17 contains the following article on the Alabama Claims:- In March of last year the attitude of England ...