... DILPEMIAL PARLIAMENT. - Is .3 T FIIYATE TELEGiLRPH ?? OUR OWN HOU;SE OF LORDS, THURSDAY. Their Lordships met shortly after four o'clock, when I ?? RUyal a1sseut was given to a number of bills, amongst them being the Consolidated Fiund (N1o. 4), Customs and Iulanjd Revenue, Racecoucees Licensing, Habitual 3 Dlunkarcis, Grantham Extension, likley Gas, Houghton- 3 ?? District Gas, Blackburn ...

... LEEDS SCHlOOL BOARD. A meeting of tiis board was held yesterday in tHI Offices, Park'row; It.r. Jow1TT tt h C hairtn ,, presiding. TilE AUDIT. It was stated that Mr. Ellis, the Government auditor, ?? certified that he had found the whole of the volndlun- out accounts of the board correct, ?? exception. T Te proceetings of the Finanee and General rurposes COmmittee were laid on the table, and a ...

... IGEANlRA I()J 'OIGIN NEWS. I - THE IP SLNATE AND THE F ii,3RY BILL. ig THRE& TEN ED RUIPTUR{E. tl LiS (Sl'EciAz TELEGRiAM FROMx con OWN ConnaSeo0-71EX.) he to PARIS, Tuesday N~ight. COI of There are rumiours of impending disseeusions stil ed between the Seniate and the Chamber of Deputies th he onl the Ferry Education Bill, anld on that clause of i 11, the bill. providing for the return of ...

... WEEK LY RETURN OF BIRTHS AN 1) DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS. 29TEU WBEEK, 1879. t In the week ending last Saturday, 6,240 births and c 2,418 deaths were registered in 20 of the largest English t towns, estimated by tha Registrar-General to contain a e population of nearly seven and a halt millions of persons t in the middle of this year, The births exceeflee by 68, c whereas the deaths were ...

... THE WE6LEYAN CONFERENCE. DitimiNoeuxa,l Friday. The session was resumer ti fj mrruiig it, cle ?? Chape. .Th11 usual devotional eaercuses acre followve by the readinug Of tile Conference Journal. 'io Rtev. OrsAS. GA-RRETT (Liverpool) reuestedCC ?? ?? to alopoilt aL commsittee lo Consider lie eltiova- ?? of seatsi during the sessions3 of the ~inibiiterial Cont- o fercuce. The present nsore ot ...

... 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 ...

... Yesterday Dundee was risited by the most severe thunderstorm which has been e*ixrienced in this district (or time back. one o'clock rain began to (all in torrents, and continued without intermission (or a considerable time, accompanied thunder anil lightning at short intervals. The streets, especially those in the higher parts o( the town, soon asMimed the appearance large streams, and ...

... WEDNESDAY MORNING, In the of Lords yesterday a large ■amber of bills were advanced a stage, among them beiag the Public Health Act, 1875, Amendmendment Interments) Bill, the second reading wnich was moved by Lord .Stanhope. The bill, which is in three clauses, provide* greater facilities for the construction and maintenance of cemeteries by Local Authorities. Lord Granville moved its rejection ...

... (rtou COKRKsroKDKRT.} July 26, 1879. Br*,—ft be able tn get from Australia to England in .IS day*. That say, the idea i* pleasant, but some people iniuht prefer tn take a little more time than we have done, and not he so completely the merry of arrangements for * peril. To give instance how quickly one may get over the ground, rather the water, 1 poatcsd letter on June in Melbourne, the inail ...

... MONDAY MORNING. Jci.* 28. The British mission to Cabal made it* formal entry into that city on Thursday, in presence of a vast assembly of the people, who condacted themselves in a most orderly manner. Major Cavagnari was accompanied l>y large escort of cavalry, and he was received with military honours nine regimenta of infantry, a regiment of cavalry, and two batteries of artillery, a salute ...

... THE 'VICTORIA HALL. t The Directors of the Victoria Hall Company, baving refe e0 come into poseession of the building by the expiration of at t le the lessee's tenancy at Ladyday, have taken advantage of froi 5o the opportunity it afforded them to carry out several much hay f needed improvements. These are now nearly finished, and viPI it the HOll is to be re-opened on Monday evening next with ...

... When Christ was born into the world, very cheering was the strain which woke the night watebes, Peace on earth. ?? yet I the follower of Christ a man of war from his youth. r Weireceive thie child into the congregation of Chriet's flock, e and do sign him with the sign of the cross in token that here- after he shall aigbt manfully under His banner, and continue iChrist' faithful seldier ...