... S PE CIAL CORRESPONDENCE. (By PRImATB TEmoEGRAH.) LONDON, Wednesday Night. The Local Governacnat Board is busily engagnd working up the materials for thc Rating Bill to be introduced by the Government next session, ft is understood that the measure will contain soene features not embraced in the bill of last year. The now bill will be the chief feature of next session. The Free Trade League, ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. IT is announced that the EMPEROR oF GER- I IEANT is makingI uninterrupted and satisfactory pro- gl'CuS. According to tho stinnS tologrmn Anwsaisnoe 3LnuouCowmsc iS at prcsont staying at Berlin. TIE DUE OF EDINBURGHIr arrived at Berlin yesterday oveninag, and proceeded at onco to the palaeo of the IMPEIRIAL CRoWN PRINsx. WE learn from Calcutta that in tho famino- threatened ...

... REElVLATIONS -OF PARENTiAL NEGLELC. I Yestorday, at the Blackburn Borough Police-court, John and Mary M'Grath, husband and wife, wore placed in thi dock charged with noglecting to provide food and clothing for their three ehildren.-s'wurifidtif licusetsovdl said that on the previous dayhe saw the prisoners' son, thirteen years of age, crossing the market placo. lie wse nearly naked, had a ...

... WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTIiS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS. 52in WErE., 1873. InI the week enlding last Satarday 3,711 births and 3,108 deaths were registered in London and 17 other large English townls. '1lle births were 894 and the deaths 117 below the average weekly nunihers in the ten years 181-70, corrected for iucrease of Population to the middle of this year. The deaths showod a ...

... TIlE LERDS GENERAL INFIRMA.nY.-ThO quarterly meeting of the General Board of Trustees was held yesterday at the Infirmary. Mr. Win. Brown, treasurer, presided, and the other memiers prcsent were Messrs Cooke, Dixon, Kirkby, Dibb, A. Liepten, Dr. iesten, amid Dr. Eddison. From tho ininutes, which were confirmed,it appeared that the weokly bo;rd had con- sidered an1d granted certain special ...

... TLE LOSS OF THE VILLE DU HAVRE AND LOCHEARN. . The official inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of tlie above vessels after coining into collision, was resumed yesterday morning at the Greenwicli Police- court, before Mr. MAUDE. the magistrate, and Captains 1AsRmiS snsd WxLsoN, nautical assessot'S. The first witness called was Carl Berygc'n, an able sea,- manl, late of the ...

... THE WEATHIER3. WYDr;ESDAY,-Tlehc decrease of pressure noticed in the south of Ireland yesterday afternoon extended rapidly, ndtl travelled quickly to north-north-eastward, so that tho lowest readings nre still found off the nortis- west of Scotland, land a recovory has ?? place during tho night onl our soluth-west coasts, The highest readings are still in the south of France, and 1he gradient ...

... THlE NEW BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL BOARD, S(rlCIAI T'ELEGRAM.) Bhara mara, Wednesday Night. The Liberil majority on the Birmingham School Board hi ave now nearly completed the revolution which they promised to offect in thoe educational system hitherto car- ried out in Birmingham. To-day, in the course of an unusually long sitting, they passed three resolutions, ?? of the most vital charactcr, and th ...

... AIR. HEBLE ON OONFESSION. Mr. Thomes Koble, Jun., in a letter published by the Guar'eiaiv yesterday afternoon, writes :-I have lately found the enclosed draft of a letter amongst my nucle's papers. It may be of value to some of your readers as serving to indicate what part he would probably have taken in the present controversy. Hursley Vicarage, Winchester, Nov. 21, 1863. Dear Madane,-The ...

... LOCAL AND GENERAL] THE NEW YEAR.-The depiartureofth cear and the adlvent of the new, has bessgatc eeds, as elsewheoe, withl thle usual variety ofobees. In miost or thle Methodist chapels throulghout rite t.4 wvatch night services avere held, whilst inl O man do ,e ; circles the occasion was celebrated with festivity. Th&, was also on all bands the genial exchange of goalwihit customary at this ...

... Captain Tyler, ili his report oir the collision on the 22nd of November, near the Kirkeonnel station, onthe GlasgowY anul Southl-Weetersi Resihvay, after describing the panrticular eircumsntsulees, conlcitidos:-' The whole history of lids collisionl, mid the cironnstances which it brings to light of the runnling of the various trains referred to, point strongly to the colclusiosi to wvhichso ...

... I GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS, a(Rwn'.S TaEnGMlS.) T:IE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. BEin]ab, Wednesday Evening.-llis Royal IHiglmness ihe Duke of Edinburgh. arrived here at eight o'clock this ovening, and awas received at the railway station by the Imperial Crown Prince, the Crown Princess, and thl British Ambassador. ll.R.lH. drove at once -with the Crown Prince and Princess to their Palace. THE EMPEROR OF ...