... SFECIAL COI{SRE6POYNDENCE, (BY P1uV-AT3E TELEGRAPE.) LoNDoSt, Monday. The Queen has been graciously rpieased to rornizn the Rev. Joseph Barber Lightfoot, DD., Canon Of S:. Paul's, and uargaret Professor of Divinity at Can. bridge, to fill the See of Durham, vacant oy the reiz. nation of Dr. Bsring. Tile current belief is tba' the Government wili take a million or a million and a iladf fror ...

... i 3 ?? LEEDS YOUNG MEN'S CErRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. ?? annual social 3meetingl Of the members and friends of a the Leeds Young Men's Christian Association wee held in the roomis of the association lest evening, being the annii- versary of its fornsation. T Shere was anumerous company present. The evening's proceedings were begun by the comptany poartaking of tea. In thelibrarva ?? painit- a ings ...

... THE LEYCETT COLLIERY EXPLOSION, A correspondcat telegraphs that the three survivors of the colliery explosion which took place at Leycett, North Staffordshire. on Friday, have ail died, makinga the num- ber of lives lost by the accident eight. In two families alone 13 orphans have been made. One of the deceased men, named Rambles, was abou to be married. FACTORY ACT CASF,.-At the County Police ...

... RAIL WAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. Wwek 1S19, 1378, Ina, usc. qndiuig Z E ;£ £ Grand Tmnk of Canada . Sept. G ?? 5,402 ,. 38,022 .. - 2,C20 GreatWesternooCanada ,. - 12 18,811.7.200 ., 1,800 .. - London and Brighton . - 13 43,413 . 4,53.3 .. - 90 South-Eastern ?? - 13 ..At,1 49,C,11 .. . -4,847 PROSPERITY IN THE AAERICAN IRON TBADE.-A striking incident indicating the improved condition of the irou ...

... TIHO WIMBLEDON MEETING. NVIBLeoU CAMr, Friday. Wimbledon this afternoon laid no little rosemblauce to at taco i mengl, for drags were diron upill in long lines w without thu rtopes, on the top of which ilics bad theio luncheon aend drnllk iced clitenpague. Flogs fluttered from many points oil tho green sward, and there were et owds of iai ill alid olst of uniform, ag good judges of horses and ...

... ?? M. Sullivan, mYp., LOUTnr-Mlr. A. M. Sullivan, MY.P., who has of bebn severally spoken of as a candidate for the county of Su Vexford, for Queen's county, and for Liverpool, with the Rl combined support of the Irish and temperance electorates, Rl announces that it is not his intention to seek the suffrages H of any constituency at the general election, except that of touth, in conjunction ...

... SPECIAL CORIRESPONDEACL. (BY PRIVATn TELEGIIAPL.) LoNmoz.. Tivs?:.:v. The Court Circular thus explaills the Q..iAW i:l d1c Queen's journey ?? Gri-t. a fziit d and valued servant of the Qucentull ii theliP. :e Consort, expired yesterday tnornihi, at li(:tli, a. c to Baltaoral, in his seventieth year. li. %u:.i t twenty-five years livad kepcper at llahlmi.rl, ,lal ;i thia capacity was in ?? a;. ...

... PRESTON.-Last night a large and entbuqsiastio mceting of tho Liberals of Preston ras held at the Corn cirrllnge, M~r. Jonathan Seller, chairmnnl of thre Liberal Associrtiorr, presiding. ir. (G. W. DIahr, who will be tho Libernl can didaie for Preston at tire general electiou, maride his tirst publjic appenirarce before tho electorl. On the motion of AId. Sattorthwaite, IWCOnded by Mr. C. W. a ...

... MIR. DENT DENT ON EDUCATIONAL PEOGRESS. e I r'l;U ttisis .,b The thirty-fourth annual soireo in connection withi the I Yecado Mutual Im1provemeniet Soeiety Was ?? on Satmr- d1 *ay evening, in the High-street Schoulroon A pulblic tea l as followd I by a meeting, which was held in tho lo hme r ( hall. The atteudance was not so airge as in scmo previous , years. Mr. JouxN DEr DEXT presided, and ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY, 0 - a FRi'IDAY, November 21si, 1879. 0 TIHE Viceroy telegraphs that five more regi- nr ments from Tarlestan had arrived near Cabal. They I had disbanded and gone home. He adds that the s, remaining regiments will probably follow, having no P prospect of pay. The Timts correspondent says the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the origin and t circumstances attending the ...

... I LO LEEDS CIRCUIT ANNIVERSARItY. A The annual meetings and servicesin connection with Ulia 3, Leeds Milethodist New Connexion First Circuit of tha co! Colonial and Foreign Missionary Society are being held during thoa present weolk. The annual m~issionary ?? TL cd vwas held last evening in the Woodhouse-lane Chapel. In s 1 ;d the uniavoidable absence of Aid. Addyanca lox-Mayor), hi6 ho La ...

... I MPORTANT SMOKE ilo,,; y LE;D.s. E. Ix _ A& 4!.. r, - At tho coeds Police-cc~urt (in Fr'diMr Occupied soine hours in hutnrug 1Ca.QI 0 I ?? ViU uian TI lltons; G rimnslhl, Juty flath;,ti1.i Israei liishwvorth were sutunsonedain r n'lisances. 'Tile'Iowx% Cs.i1~c(t atppeared on beh.ialf of thle Corp rt:I ,a:_ d IN tot.2LErON UllilellrQ1 for tho dcfuie v. The Toiv- C:.icnly. in openill- thc.- ...