... TE PROPOSED CANGESINTEE MIDLAND RAILWAY. MIEETING IN LEEDS. An influential and numerously attended meeting of *hareholders of the Midland 1ilalway Company' was held =esterday afternoon at the Queen Hotel, L eeds, to con- id er the proposed abolition of ?? carriages and other important changes announced bI the directors in passengerfares. The requisition whioh convened the meeting was signed ...

... FR~,ANcE. PRus, Wednesday.-Lord Lytton and Mr. Wash- burne dined with Marshal ?? at the Elysie yesterday. The Paris Munioipal Council has commenced die- cussing the mode of cleansing the Seine. The deputies representing the Department of the Dordogue have presented an addresI to the Minister of Foreign Affairk, protesting against the arrest, by an Argentine man.oi.war, of M.- Onelie Tounens, ...

... The annual meeting of the sichcribers afnd friends of the Leeds Invalids' Ritcben was held vesterday in the Grand JurV Roote, at the Town Hall. His Worship the MxAYo (Alderman Maseden) occupied the chair; and there was Et icumlier of ladies present. In oponing the proceedlings, the Mneor. said that there WOS scarcely any societv in thse towni which was calculated to do more good than this ...

... I EL I [R£IiEua's TEIErd1Ana.1J S ICOUNT APRNIM. a | ERLMN, Thursday.--Count Arnimn, by order of the -Metropolitan Uourt, is now confined to I his own house. Ile was not, when arrested, 'takn to the policc-station, as at first an. I, :sQLancOO. )e T'ie Count'e physieians, who were imme- diately summoned, certified that the state of their panisnt's health was ?? that his removal . and ...

... be DA.ULINGT Ol'T. MR BRUNTON %I H TEu WErT WARD. : Last night a; meetiig wee called by Mr Thomas Branton, wvhen a large number of the burgesse.s of tbe West Ward aosembled in the large hall ag at the Mechnnics' Institute, Slrianergate. Councillor Sw nunoru, who was ennouncsd to e tslke the chair, said he presided at Mr Brunton'sI re request, and be might possibly do the snme for is, the other ...

... .I - [REuTHa's TZLoRAMBs. FRANCE. PAms, Wednesday.-Archbishop Mannling arrived in Paris this morning on his way to Rome. GERMA.NY. BEaLIN, Wednesday.-The majority in the Reichsrath will nominate on Committee only those favourable establishment of an Im- perial Bank. COUNT ARNMB. BETLIN, Thursday.-The Kammergexicht has disallowed Count Arnim's protest against his re-arrest, and the refusal to ...

... SUIMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS. The Duc de Broglie has written a letter to the Temifs, in which he denies that he sent an emissary to Count Arnim on May 23, 1873, to inquire whether the overthrow of M. Thiers would be agreeable to the Berlin Cabinet. A Daily News telegram from Paris says :-About a dozen or twenty pilgrims to Chiselhurst left the Northern Railway station on Sunday morning, ...

... B3ERUWMAGEM LOY<ry. STU 1T51 bIiluAlL oF IREYNOLDS' 8 EWSpA,,, Srn,-The Prince of Wales has ?? and gone' ATl the citizens of Birmingham WvlM have now to pay atr A few weeks ago (without invitation), the Prince e. pressed a desirr to ?? l2irmingham. The newri no enthusiasm in the minds of our hard working rasle but the daily press, n3 usual, far behind public opinmil~5 turned on the tap, ...

... AIUSTRALTAN WEAT DVNNER AND Mnd. _ SITION AT LAMBETH. On Tuesday evening a company numbering upwards of 600 persons sat down to an A iistralian meat banquet served in the Lambeth Baths, Wrestminster-bridge-road, and given by Mr. Daniel TnIlerman, well known as the introducer of these moats into England. The object of the entertainment was to aid in diffusing correct ideas concerning these ...

... VITAL STATISTICS FOR TE1R B [U)UGH OF NrEWVCASTLE-UPONy-'1-xYWE. For the week ending Saturday, November ; 1l. 18 4L LEGISTRATION SUBD1STIT iic.. 107 births - an * - annual rate of c 410 per 1,000. J CG .J ?? 19 4 3 6 2 . 44 Female ?? 29 9 _ 7 IG 6i 77 deaths- anan- nual rate of 29 6 per 1,000 hale.10 8 5 ?? 3 .37 Female ?? ?? 4 4 .. . O THE DEATHS 1N;CLUDE 'IBE ...

... V~tIlTAL- >T-AT16l'T !Ci FI, ?? ?? ?? , S. - ,ENVC' _'.l-LPO , v 5;t - -it ro . , Ad A.. T Eu1- Sas Si.. ?? ?? For sue meek euluiiag ti~ -'aeiay, ).Hi, 7, 11L 130 birtho. --fan .L annual rate (if 500 pi- 1,000. i S -; . .l .e ?? . 23 ?? 7 ?? Fewuile ?? . .. ?? 4 ; j 72 ?? - .ln ar.- sual ?? ef 27 7 per 1,000 Male ?? 17 ?? 2.. (l ?? 10 Female ?? .. * ?? 5. ?? TaBE D3TATU1S 5; INC:.MT'L ?? ...

... THE ITALIAN ELECTIONS. The Zivies remarks that while the political fortunes of France and Spain are endangered by the rage of party spirit and the want of confidence in either men or institutions, the Italian people show that they are virtually united-that they have the wisdom to hold fast by what they have got, and to work the machine of the State without any longing to break it and to erect ...