... . jfcellateous. Tom Hood, the editor of Fis, is seriously ill. Aephalte pavement in London is giving place to wood. A house for the trainingof deaconesses hasbeen opened at Dorking, Surrey. Two chi dren were burnt to death at a fire on Sunday morning in a workman's dwrelling-hquse near Dundee. Sir Titus Salt has given £100 towards the library of the Scarborough Mechanics' Institute. Sir ...

... ILOCAJ, AND GENER'AL- I; TX Vj cy IN TIHE NO1TE-WEST WAND.- ; we undecand that Mr. H. B. Legg will 1'a brought f~orward by the Liberal party as a candidate for the North. Wreat Weard, in room of Mr. Aid. Wood. LEADS SCHIOOL BOARD.--A meeting of the board is summoned for Thursday next. Amone chetr business to be brought before the meeting is a rese. > of !bYe Finance and General Purposes ...

... THE LE, EDS MERCURY.. A Times telegranm from Cawnpore states that I the Parsee witness, W110o knew NANA SAILIm well, declares that thc Gvwalior prisoner is not the Nana. BWF are indebted to thie correspondent of the Now lork Herald for the latest information as to the Gordon expedition. The telegramn is dated ICiar- team, November 10tb, and it reports the arrival there of COL. LONo from ...

... The annual lodge dinner of the Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemenwas held in London on Friday, the Grand Master (the Earl of Enniskillen) presiding. The loyal toasts having beeti given, The great and pious Memory of King William III. was proposej Mr. James Bateman, then addressing the Chairma , said he was deputed by'the Loyal Associa- tion of Protestant Orangemen of Great ...

... 1 . bizirict: News. I ]BEVERLEY. EAsT-RIDING. CHA1sBXR OF AoaRcuLrTuR-.Owing to a scarcity of members ' there was no business done at the monthly meeting of this chamber on SAturday. * GAME TRjspieS- 'At the E~ast Riding Court-house, Hdson, Stday, 'before'Messrs R.'Wylie ad J. A. charedsn Robert Altenb7, of Beverley, brickmakcer, cagdwith committing a' trespass in pursuit 'of game 8at ...

... THE LEEDS M ERCURY. A sPrqr1-- telegram in the Pall Mall Gazette states that Austria and Germany have expressed their I readiness to proceed with the ?? development of t the proposals on the international usages of war sub- c mitted at the Brussels Congress. According to the s same telegram, England, France, and Italy are in negotiation relative to the position which they will take, in common, ...

... LETTER FROME PRESIDEINT GRIANT. The Ci1nriuaafi Gazelle of the 30th nit ?? n letter from Presideiit Gront, preceded bythe followingmeplsne- tions :-In 1872, when: it was found that Grant woulld bo re-norninated, the report was circulated that, in view of the many groundless reports as to his seeking the norni- nation, he would decline to bc a candirdate, So positive were the reports upon this ...

... t.Give mne, above all other liberties, the liberty to know, to tter, and to argsie freely, arcordlinir to coUSesonje.`-3MZrLTO?. The great municipal battle has been fought, and the predictions I ventured to make a week or two since have nearly all been realised. Whether or not any great improvement hias been effected in the constitu- tion of our local legislature, as the result of the late ...

... T HE CARLIST WAR. BATTLE AT HENDAYE. as DEFEAT AND RETREAT Or THE ear CARMLISTS. ,h 1170 are indebted to the editor of thr i)tt, lrwr)S Is, aid for the following telegrams, which were ie received at the London ?? of that jeicrual yesterday le afternoon: feoftajoraysedy 0. HcIxUYnL, Wednesday.-A battle occurred between at San Sebastian and 0yarzan, commencin g yesterday at at eleven, and ...

... h- - ;y TO-DAY'S LONDON PAPERS. le s9 ZMER BCURY OFFICE, Fridaj, 5 a.r2n, rs t REPORTED ILLNESS OF THE QUEEN. (Fros one owx CoRassraONDrEN.) Loxaox, Friday Morning. A ramour, the source of which I have failed to id trace, reached London last night to the effect that the a Queen had been seized with a sudden and severe illness. It was even stated that Her Majesty was dead. I have been at ...

... THE CHURCH DEFENdt lXNSTITUTION.| - ?? --I s A.J.L± U -VLY41. LJ Sir John Kennaway, speaking at the nual'meet- a ing of the Devonshire branch of this institution, held .g at Torquay, on Moifdiy said tha4in 'spite of the great p meeting just held in Mishestemt he thobghm, as far i as atttacks from without, werd' coeceerned, they might ii feel themselves at th&ipi-esent moent in perfect la ...

... One of the most importantreetoratiooe, that have taken place in York Minster is that which has just been corn- pleted in the south transept of that venerable pile. Founded as it washy King Edwin, the first Christian King of Northumbria, in 626, a number of restorations have takeniplaceinthebuildingsinceth-tttime. Theearliest wae undertaken by Wilfrid, who was made Bishop of York 4 in 6619. ...