... THlE WARWIV KSHIRE LABOURERS' STRIKE. (Srncmnr TnLEcrsnr.) Yesterday the Executive Committee of the Warwick. shire Labourers' Union met at Leamington for the transaction of business. A letter was read from Mr. Suffolk, Secretary of the Warwickshire Chamber of Agri. culture, renewing the offer previously made by ths Chamber for a conference between representatives of the Chamber and the Union, ...

... LOCAL AND GENER& L LEEDS, MAY 13, 1872, PETITONS. -In the House of Lords, on Friday, the Marquis of Ripon presented a petition from Ripon, signed by the Mayor, eight ex-Mayors, and a majority of the Town Council, and mauv other inhabitants of the city and neighbourhood, in support of the scheme of the Endowed Schools Commissioners for the Ripon Grammar School.-Iu the touse of Commons, on ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. ITiE mnunber of lives lost by the floods in i Vellore is now believed to be 1,000, and it is added. I1 L- }An ?? - - ?? - - ?? ?? z 1A - ?? that 12,000 persons are homeless and 3,000 destitute. A CALCUTTA telegrami says that LORD NArIEG, late Governor of Madras and acting Viceroy, embarked for England on Tuesday. THE illness of PRINCE BISMARIC is confirmed and it is ...

... LOCAL AND GENERAL LEEDS, MAY 10, 1872. ,ahal an Mres Sir H. Johnstone, Mr; Leeatham, and r Peasker were amongst the Hon. Members present at thle Speki' sixth Parliameutary full-dress dinner On Wednesday. VOurTES OF YoRtHsTtt Mg~rTgRS-._In the House of Commons on Wednesday, there voted with the -Ayes. (47) for the motion that no committees should sit Ofl Ascension Day until two o'clock-Mr. ...

... aA1LWAY ERAFBFl £BTURNBNS 18TIn wa TM B ?? Aml 2S72. S. Ballast & N. Counties 2511 Brecon and Morthyr 1441 B3ristol and Exete. 9020 Caledonian ?? 41S00 Cgnabria ?? 2881 Cockertn'th, K. .t Pen. 0O8 ?? 2142 Cork, BarIden & ?? 001d Dunbhn & ?? Jane 15055 Dublin and Drogheda 2088 Dub. &c Singet. & W 1225 ?? Great Estern .4bO90 Glazgow & S. Western- 14871 L . Nooth of Ecotland 4241 Grear Northern. ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. TIM Washington correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the negotiations concerning the Indirect 1 I . . - Claims are proceeding more favourably than most of the newspapers in New York would lead the public to believe, and it is thought in authoritative quarters that the result may be a satisfactory termination of the difficulty which has arisen. TimE diplomatic ...

... LEEDS PUTBLIT LIBRARY. - 1 - - . . - - - - - - As the Lending Department of the Leeds Publio Library has now been open fir a month, it may not be without interest to note the class of Literature which the appended return shows to have been most in demand. It will be observed that although the return is for the month ending April 30, it only shows the demands upon the Lending Department during ...

... THlE NEW ROAD DOWN THE BRADFORD VALLEY. I The Corporation of Bradford is about to have the beck covered, in order that Canal-road may be made 18 yards nide, and the road carried down the valley to Frizinghall, where the mill unfortunately prevents the completion or j the junction with the Shipley Old-road, but this obstacle may eventually be surmounted. Canal-road starts from the heart of ...

... ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMEALS. The annual neerting of the Leeds branch of this esci ty was htad Yesterday ,sfternoon, in the Philos9ophical Ecull There saot oly a small attendance. In the ?? of the Mayor, whob had been announced to preside, bat who seras picvanted by imeportant municipal business, Zhe chair was. occupied by Mr. AeRrsiuRt LuPToN. Amongsart those ...

... G3ENERAL FOREIQN NEWS. I (Rp.fun5e' B Trasol-ErnA.) TIEE INSURRECTION iN SPAIN. BARCErONA, May 1, Evenilng. In Catalonia Cabecilla Taento R. tora has been killed in an encounter with the Royal troops, and his whole bard have given in their submiassion. The band of P ogoly and RoBeta have also submitted. VITTORIVA, MAY 12. Marshal Serrano, with the Army of the North, his arrived in Biscay. It ...

... TIHE LITERARY FUND DINNER. Hie Majesty the King cf the Belgians was supported in the chair at the Literary Fund Dinner on Wednesday niuht at St, James's Flail by the Duke of Edinburgh, Pi ince Aithur, the Duke of Cambridge, Count B1 ust, the Ministers of Btlgium, the United Sbatns, Italy, Swveden, and Norway. M., Van de Weyer, the Nawab Naziln of Bengal and PTiuce Ali Bahadoor, the Archbishop ...

... iO A LOOCORRSPONDEN. jtj~Vlu- -- - ---TOLovo~ Friday. it 0ne1 be confesscd thiit this year's debate onl the Per- missive Bill was about thb ler,;t in terestifl~ which that sub - let has originated. Sir 'Wilfrid LaWsofl made a good jpe',and Mr. Molly bpoli:s with some force, and Mr. 33ruce was excited to a degree which that n~iually pon. eerous and unemotional Member rarely displays; but there ...