... LOCAL AND GENERAL!.I LEEDS, APRIL 24, 1872. Fs prT}0Xq,-I11 t1lle House of Commons on Mon- day, petitions against the sale of liquor on Senday were presented by Mr. Cawley. from the Executive Committee of the Manchester, Chester, and Ripon Diocesan Church XTemperance Society; by Mr. Norwood (2). from Hull; by Mr. Sykes, from North Newbold; ,by Ur. Pease, from Stokesley; by Mr. Akroyd, from ...

... LEEDS ASSOCIATION OF CONGREGA- TIONAL CHIJURCHES. The annual public meeting of the Le!!ds Association of Cougregationzs Churches wves held on Tlhrsday evening, in ilelgrave Clhspel, B,.leravc-str'ot, Leeds. Tho chair ?? occupiedl by Mr. JOWITSr. There wase a -niierous attendance. The Cis[AiiaxAr, in opening the mesting, said that whilst brotherly love lmad been increased and preserved among ?? ...

... SPECIAL C&U2RESPONDENCE. LoONy33, !,n1Aay Night. The announcement made in one of the Qn0rnifg joarnal5 that Mr, Gladatone wvill resign, if Ihis sur ges, ion for Cut- ting Profeseor Fawcett's Irish University Tebts Bill in two is not agreed to, has, as might have been ex4'ected, been almost the soletopic of conversation in the 1i2use to-night. Iuqui'ws directed to the proper quartera euabln2 me ...

... OOVERNMENT AND THE DUB3LIN UNIVERSITY. ANTICIPATED CRISIS. (Trom thc Daily Ntws.) la It is our duty to convey to oun reeders, and to the Liberal pasty at large, the important announcement tlat before the present week haa reached its close, as Itr. Gladstone's Administration wi'l possibly have U8 bcen dissolvcd; that a Conservative Ministry will 'I be preparing to enter upon what mazy prove to ...

... IN^LAYD-AFF CATHEDRAL.- -Holy Communion after morn- vT *ervipe. Services and Anthems.—4th Sunday after ltW -r P-ril 28th.— Morning Best in C Hymns, 142, „1 „V ,fV;'emr»g Hopkins inF Anthem, Awake up my gory, Wise Hymn, 325. Litany Hymns, 185, 320,17. p- ay. Morning Hymn, 4. Tuesday.—Morning: >mn, 182. Wednesday.—Morning Arnold in C d -T1111' 169. Thursday.—Morning Hymn, 183. Satur- }• Morning ...

... (Before Mr. R. O. JûXES, Alderman ALEXANDER, Mr. G. BIRD, and Mr. E. S. HILL.) REFUSING TO PROCEED TO SEA.—John Harrington, Lewis Lewis, John Rowlands, and Thomas Rees, four seamen belonging to the Olive, of Gloucester, were charged with refusing to proceed to sea after signing articles. On the case being called, the men said they were willing to return, and were at once sent on board. — ...

... MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1872. vYE have lately received a large number of letters respecting the spread of what is called Ritualism, and its partial manifestation in connection with Roath Church. Several of these communications have been published in the belief that free trans- mission of thought upon the subject may prove advantageous others, less temperate in tone, and characterised by violent ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S AND PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. PARIS, Saturday.—-In a speccli. at Havre, M. Gam- 13 ta declared his programme to be an educated nation an a national army, and urged that the first reform as the dissolution of the Assembly and the election of a Republican Assembly. ociiAEls' Sunday Evening.—Marguerite Dixblanc is still here. M. Thiers visited Paris ...

... LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.—At the usual fortnightly meeting of this Board held in the Town-hall on Saturday, present: Mr. H. J. Howell (chairman), Mr Rees Harries, Mr. John Randell, Mr J. B. Phillips, Mr. David Morris, and Mr. John Bevan, the minutes of the sanitary com- mittee were read and confirmed from which it appeared that the Surveyor reported that the brick water-tables in Burry-street ...

... Correspondence* The publication of letters does not neccs>ariiy imply Editorial concurrence with the views expressed. ...

... Yesterday the Claimant of the Tichborne Estates was set at large, the bail tendered in his behalf having been accepted. On leaving the prison of Newgate, he drove through the Old Bailey to Ludgate-hill, and thsnoe pursued his course in the direction of Black' friars. A telegram says that he will probably reside a' Brompton until the case comes on. Let us hope tha. for a time, he will remain ...

... IREUTKR'S AND PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. ERSALLES, Thursday.—An Italian barque, laden with Petroleum, took fire last night. She was completely Isolated. VERSAILLES, Friday.—Some members of the Interna- •lOael have been arrested at Lyons. ...