... THE NORTH YORKSHIRE FLOODS AND THE DRAINAGE OF THE RIVER DER. I WENT. An influential meeting, called by the Rev. C. P. Peacl, vicar of Appleton-le-Street, was held in the Town Hall. Malton, on Saturday afternoon, to consider the best means of preventing the frequency of floods in the Rye and Derwent valleys, and the great damage arising there- from. The Hon. WT. H. Fitzwilliam, of The Lodge, ...

... I We do not know whether Mr. POOL is trying to rival the notorious Irish members in Parliament, but he is becoming quite a professional obstruc tiouist on the School Board. No matter if only a school cleaner is to be appointed, or how much ES. the object sought by any addition to the staff would result in benefitting the children attending the ,ted Board Schools or improve the machinery ...

... THE LEXEDS-S A1IE1sCURY. LORD AUGUSTUS LOFTUS, the now Governor of New South Wales, arrived at Sydney yesterday, and was cordially received. I-Holeft London on Juno 1pth. A TrTITION which has beotn forwarded to England from Malta, praying for a Civil instead of a military Governor for tho island, has appended to it 8,G61 signatures. The total population of Malta is 162,000. A rESTIVAL in ...

... THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT SnEFFIELD.I - C(otor OURi owN REPORTER.) ye SHEPOTiaD Wednesday Night. in The laoty-ninthi annual meceting Of the British Aseocia as ti~on for th~e Advancement of Science was commenced lei to-night ino Sheffleld, by thle delivery of the Presidential Address. For the first daLY of their visit, the Association ?? had (lull and showery weather'. Under these oir- th ...

... M RNI1NG EX RAES.& TO-DAY'S LONDON PAPERS. MERCUR 8 Y- a PRINCE NAPOLEON, (TXMEs TELEOGRAM) PARIS, M1onday.-Prince Napoleon has spoken at last, at least the Figaro publishes some utterances Of his, and this time they are aecompanied by sueb positive assertions of their accuracy that it seems impossible to question their authenticity. It is supposed that the Deputy who negotiated the ...

... THE ZIzTULU WAll-t ,sIR G. WOLSELEY AT ULUND, THE OUTBREAK IN PONDOLAND. VAaIzRA, Friday, 5.30 ?? Union Corn- pany's steamer American has just arrived here freita Capetown, with news to the l2th inst. lSIECTAL TELEGr.EA TO STANDARD OF Tiris MorsnnNG.) }'ll:'Ts;trATzr1t:It, August 101h.-'I'heroi is very i-;l, netvs from Zululand. Clarke's column is waiting ,; Sir G. lvohsilel at Entonglaneni. ...

... YORKSTUIRf STUbENTS IN CAMDRIDGR HIGHER LOCAL EXAMINATIONS. C^atrsr.hDGE, Tuesday Tile followingare the full results with roitard te; Yz shire students and students passed at the Yorkhiur Cetntro at the recent Higher Local Examination; , telegraphic list of the names of the succesisful candidatte in which appeared a. few days since:- irouap R. IDivinity). Leeds Centre-H. Denham, 173, Belle Vua ...

... LOCAL AND G(E NERAL O. A meeting of the Hunslet United Liberal Association, which lies been formed to amalgamnate thle ~.different sections of the Liberal party in Hlunslet, was a held ori Triursday eveoine atti LbeaCl, r va ~arsliit~le n te cair Ar. Aid. Bower attended. irs COthe course ofth co evening, and said it gave him pleassuce er to belong to an. assocration forined wvith tile ...

... TH1E liJEES NIERCURY. - DES1PATCfE5S, by way of Madeira, bring. Wi ad-vices fronm Zululard to the 15th of July. LoenD he Chc1IMMSrORDn has resigned. The statement is made di ,r otlioially by Sin GARNET WOLSELEY, wche, in a message WI to the War Office, says he has given his Lordship co u ikermission to return home. Oin the day following the th 1' blattlek of Ulundi, GaceTnAL CREALOCE m~ade anl ...

... NATIONAL ARTILLERY ASXOCIATIfO. 5 SctO1DIUEYxZss CAoP, Monday night. Y Shell firing with the 64-pounder Panliser muzz!e.klca S ing gun commenced at six o'clock this morung. Tot r men breakfasted shortly after five o'clock, ar.i rh s detachments told off for the morning competiticii, ocu sisting of the 2nd Middlesex, 1st London, 1st sii.L-n.::a 1st and 3rd Lincoln, 1st and 2ud Hunts, tho lc; a: ...

... ! R{USSIAN VERSION OF THE CENTRAL ASIA EXPEDITION. (Floz m oun owx ConrinrOmuZfl3) PAIS, Thursday. Some clue is given to the object and progress of the Russian expedition in Central Asia by the Nord this lmorning. T lhe stretch of territory bordering! on the east the Caspian Sea, aud traversing one of the most direct lines of ommnunieation between o 1Russia, alld Central Asia, is hero said to ...

... TIHE LEEI)S KIERCURY. ?? -- - ,i lie: A TiELEGnRAtl has been received from DR. hmix HKeu, of Zanzibar, announcing the death of MIa. on.- 1CEsiT1-JOieSTONT, of dysentery, oi thL 28th of June, ait IV Borobero, about 130 miles in the interior from Dar-es- ealaain, from which plaoe Mr. Johnston started on his As mission of eaploriatioun to the head of Lakc Nyassa on WE the 1lth of May last. to 1 ...