... 03flural qefm Another snowstorm has passed over Scotland and seriously impeded traffic upon the railways. The definitive treaty between russia nd Turkey has been ratified by the Sultan. A Constantinople telegram contradicts the rumour that the plague has broken out at Eskidje and Senikhova. Severae cases of spottod typhus have occurred at Dunse' Parish Church was completely destroyed by fire ...

... 41 I . I Co wa :RAIAI? SOS,, ?? * A- g ; _ F; E -. - . . A lh~~t A~~NtTAL1 lfETINO. i ?? annual meeting of this society ws 'held on Tuesday~ afternoon, at the Toawn Hall. IThe Mayor (Alderman R~. 860Wailer) presided, and amongsttoepeen eeM H. Wilson, M.P., the Rev. J. McCorrmick, the iEev.. Ca onon Page~t, the Rev. john Deck, the Rev. J.,Lister' the Rev. H. W7. HQ11and,. Dean. Randerson, the ...

... , , I a IcIU exe. ..I .. . ?? l f l ,~ , ROYAL INSTIToTeOe.'-Oig Saturday,- at 4three o'clock, Tlbomnas Hairison, Esq., ?? of. the.Post Office Telegraphs,, will lecture on Sir Charles Wheatstone as an electrician (with experiments). Mr. Robert Carriok, of Hedoss, who passed-his final examination at the Incorporated Law Society's Hall in November last, was on Saturday last admitted a solicitor ...

... MULL TOWN- COUNCIL. t The meeting of the Council yesterday was not one of the most exciting or interesting on record.L t The business partook of dulness and at no time was anything approavhiug to great importance reached. The memrbers, too, did not appear to have viewed the meeting as being of the greatest consequence, as there were about a dozen vacant ohairs. The various minutes hid all been ...

... I THE BULL STAGE OF THE PAST. (SPECIALLY CON'IRBuTED.) (Continued.) The new' Amphitheatre, Paragon-street. was first opened to the public on the evening of October 12th (Hull Fair night), 1840, by Air. Cooke, who had entered into arrangements with Mr. Kirkwood. A grand military spectacle was presented, entitled The Wars of the Pun jaub ; there were various arenic exploits, and the farce of ...

... LEEDS HfOSPITAL SUNDAY. The medical charities of Leads make their nnual| appeal to the Christian congregations of the town eaad (ii-tliJt to-morrow, when we hope the collection will sur- prL88 ia liherality tlhose of previous H~ospital SaUndays. Thce total rmociunt received list year from this source was £2,710. It might, perhaps, be feared that cxistiug com- morcial depression, anl the ...

... y0opKSH'IlE JOINT TARIIFF COMMITTEE. I A ume'tidn of tie Joint Tariff Committee of tie York- ' a - tremaiw),rs ot Commer!e wvas i,eld in tie roorms of thie r ?? C; ( ani/ er, iii th- Exceange, yestcrdtiy. rJ. c .rr~Ni'(Preselout) oltdie coat:, tnt WAs eiippl~rted ut if. Bitchelltra tor i; !iessrs. E. Wadsiworth, I Law. and John Giil, Cleckheaton; Mr. W. LIX -es .L s Mesiri. Somi.tI h Hr , try ...

... PARLIAMENTTARY DIN-NEIRS. The Earl of Beaconsfield gave a Parliamentary dinner - > .A+- Vn- h AG ?? .. {\t . 1.4 G ?? Hera csenht I The Earl of Beaconsfield gave a Parliamentary dinneu last evenlng at the Foreign office. Tniere were presenA the Dute of Camubridge, K.G., the Lord Cbancellor, Le t Duke of RTdhmoud aui Gordon, KG., tse Duke oA Northumberland. the Dule of >;oriolk, the Duke op ...

... a* The liquidators of the West of Enelanrd Bank intend 1e to make a first call during the next fortnight of £10 per n ct share, £5 ?? it once and £ 5 in June. The depositors it to will be paid Gs. Sd. in the pound in Maroh. n to t The first statutory meeting of the creditors of n or WIlliam Asxin, farmer, Brierley, near Barnslo, was held t gs at the offices or fr. Rideal, solicitur, vesterday. ...

... SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCpI. (BY PIUVATE TELEGRAPH.E LoNnoN, Wednesday. Out of the half-dozen Burials Bills before the IIous, not fewer than four stood on the paper to-day for second reading, The one which had precedence was that introduced by Mr. Balfour, who in a quiet speech endeavoured to induce his ?? to accept it. In this he did not succeed, as the bill wvas talked out after a debate lasting ...

... T Z ?? WAh. THE RORiKE'1S ManF DIS3ASTER. Lo, An A ~~~(HrxunBx's 1tELEGnASX.) W g OAPxTO-WN, January 29th, Noon.-The public mind has 'Si f S ow become calmer in reference to the disaster ast Ro~rke's offi Be Drift. It appears from later reports, which have now De: ~h come to hand, that the Zulus first attacked Colonel Dura- Ste. efford's column before reaching the encampment where Colonel ...

... THE HEOKMONI)WLIE AND LIVERSEDGE ILOOAL BOAVRDS. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLATxEN,-In the Leeds .Aercury of the 18th inst. you published a report of the meeting of the Heokmond- wilce Local Board, held on the previous evening, and In such report you say, with reference to a letter sent by me as Cleric to the Live:sedgo LocalBoard to the Heckmund- wike Local Board, and which was ...