... ~~~i1 RIEie NOElMtE 1,at79t. FRIDAtY. NOVEMBER 14, 1879. WE rejoice in the fact that the little conspiracy of Messrs. STUART and POOL with regard to the Corporation committees was not entirely suc- cessful. The Council declined to accept the decree of the newly-formed clique. The facts relating to the whole affair are briefly these. Many members of the Corporation complain, and with some ...

... Lord Cranbrook left London by the midday train on Saturday for his residence at Hemstead Park, Kent. WINDING UP OF A SOCIETY. The Master of the Rolls has made order for wind- ing up the Mutual Society, in which fraud is charged against a director. ,e 1g REDUCTION OF RENTS. ,n The Earl of Chichester and the Right Hon. J. G. a Dodson, M.P., have both allowe'd their tenants on i Sussex farms ten ...

... | IC.I TO-DAY'S LONDON PAPERS. he MBR1CUJRY-OFFWEB, Tuesday, 5 a.m. LORD BEACONSFIELD AT GUILDUALL. il Tue Timies remarks that onl friends and foes alikc the first. impression produced by Lord Deaconstield's speeck alof yesterday, at the Lord Mayor's banquet, will in probably be one of disappointment. A spoeech fromt the ~i i'relntir has not often been awaited wvith more be interest-. Lord ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . . ?? T. ' I . BUCKINGITA-MSnIUIE.-Tt is not improbable that Captain Purefoy Fitzgerald swill ancept the invitations held out to him to contest the county of Duckingain atnt the general election in the tenant-farimers' interest. CAnDi1r.-It is not the intention of Aid. Davis to come out as an indepcndent candidate for Cardiff, He hns decided to support the Conservative i candidate, Mlr. Guest ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MIERCURY. GENTLMMa N,-I was pliesed to see the letter of Canis Afinor iu this morninig's issi ?? your itpor. Like your correspondont, I have read very carefilly all reports of denth from hydrophobia for somo ?? past, but have failed to discover any reference to the vapour bath havinig bleel tried as a remcdy for this d(readful disease. It wvas in the Lreedq ...

... LEEDS, Thle annual election of representatives to the Town Coiiucil took pilace on Satuirday. Last year eleven Liberal and five Conservative members retired, and thle election thien showed at gain of One seat to thle Conservatives. Onil this'coasion twelve Liberal and four Conservative meni- bers retired, and the resuilt of the poll shows that thirteen Liberals and three Conservatives have ...

... 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 ...

... |THIS MORNING'S NEWIS.I TO-DAY'S LONDON PAPERS. 31ERCUJY-OFF ICE, 8cdaerday, 6 a.m. MR. GLADSTONE IN MID-LOTHIAN. IThe Ti~uecu ?? I1 which Mr. Gladstonec PVl1S to his constituents respecting the present Govern- mcnt is naturally suggested -it1i reference to himeilf. Is this the way, aud this the spirit in which tlie couutry desires that it should be govelied ? Doecs it wish thle conduct of ...