... I As Christmas draws near, the shops and stores of the town begin to wear the appearance which seems to be generally looked for at this particular season. There is promise of Christmas fare in abundance, and prices do not threaten to check reasonable desires with regard to its acquisition. Our ancestors, it is said, kept up the enjoyments of Yuletide from Christmas Day to Twelfth Night. We, ...

... TH:E W~pEFIELD CORPORATION WATER- ; 1 I~: WOlRK9-ARBITRATIONr The arbitration case, Messrs. RI. Holliday and Sonis, colliery proprietors, East.Arcisley, vi. the Wakefield Cogr. 'V poration, which opened on Monday. nbrning, was reslumerl I Yesterday forenoon in the Town Hall, Wakefield, before Si Mr. FoaRaST, as UMpire,-Jlfr. josepik ,MuitcheC mining ±5 and civil engineer, Barasley, was calledt ...

... LOCAL AND GENERAL, FAFMSLEY BENEVOLZNT INSTITUTIONS. -The annual meetihg of the Parsley Baptist Benevolent Society was held on Saturday everxiug in the Rehoboth School, Bagley, when 300 persons partook of tea. Mr. Job Isles presided over the meeting. The Chairman remarked on the destitution prevalent in the north of England, and said bow thankful tbey ought to be for their position in this ...

... I WESLEYAN XLNISTERIAL ENGAGEMENTS I - -. LI'OR 1886. - .. I . .- . : The following change, have been provisionally arranged in view of next yeer's Confereuoe:- Adcook G., Portsmouth iVesleA Xqnyon Geore, Ha Aliroyd T.. Manchester I 'ity-ro Eidman W., ?? Baine T.. St. Heler'e Lyon B., Birkenherda ,tllsrd F., ILA., Sverpool lCran. MsswsonT. H.. 8outhport rinty) of i ~mer) MaylOc Aultihl bm- at ...

... ACCIDENT TO Mn. FantDERtio BAINES.-Last night Mr. Frederick Baines, of Weetwood, met with an accident. Fortunately, the immediate results were not serious, nor are the after-effects likely to be an. Mr. Baines had been dning with some friends in Vernon-road, aud at about half-past nine was returning home in a four-wheeled cab, hired at the livery stables of Mr. B lakey, in Lodge-street. Whilst ...

... - - - _ - -- -- _ - _ I - -_ _ *Yesterday afternoon the annual meeting and dinner in connection with this Chamber was held at the Strafford Arms Hotel, Wakefield. Mr. W. S. STANH3OcPE (the President) was in the 'chair.-The CHAIRMAN proposed the usual loyal toasts, after which Mr. W. Lipscormc J.P., of Heath (the Vice-President of the Chamber), reaA the annual report, the substance of which ...

... SUMaM AR1Y OP BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGa OF LEEDS. 43aD WnEs, 1884. In the week ending Saturday, Oct. 25th, 5,086 births and 3,517 deaths were registered in 2S of the largest English towns, estimated by the Registrar-General to contain a population of 6,762,351 persons in the middle of this year. The births exceedod by 2c7, while the deaths were 47 below, the average weekly numabers ...

... LEEDS FINE ART IEXHIBITION. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GaE~rxExmNr-Leeds at length can boast of an Art Gallery under official patronagoe. Municipal responsibility and tardiness have been moved to action, and the result is the first Winter Fine Arts Exhibition, embracing a loan collection of works by the most eminent deceased end living masters, which have been arranged with great ...

... VOLITICS AND SOCIE'rY. LEEDS, Monday, -December 5th. I Our London Correspondent ?? last sitting Di the House of Commons in the autumn session of parliament was marred by an unfortunate incident. Lord Richard Grosvenor somewhat hastily moved the edjoarnment of the House before the questions were put, and this led to a decision from the Speaker which wss of very doubtful correctness. Sir Henry ...

... I Yesterday morning, in the Divorce Division of the I Righ Court of Justice, Sir JAxES HANw=, sitting with- b out a jury, resumod the hearing of the case of ?? The Barl r of Durham v. Milner, otherwise Durham. The petition v is for a decree of nullity of marriage, on the ground that r at the time of the ceremony the respondent, the Countess s of Durham, wee of unsound mind. v z The 8ouion-or ...

... GERLW FOREIGN NEWS. (IIEUTrR'S TBLaGRAMtS.) at IFiE EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL git QUESrION. Kr Saturday-The Egyptian Government have mi r .j:o101stica from Loudon that all the details of., r llancial arrapigement have been agreed on :e- figland and the 10her Powers. FRANCE. thi SaturdN-.Tha Senate to-day concluded the of ndssion of the Budget of Expenditure, and a o atl the chapters of the Estimates ...

... Mr. Napoleor. Argles, solicitor to the French Consulatl ia. London, writes to the Standierti-In consequence of ?? and lawSuitS which have arisen in reference tc certain mixed marriages contracted in Great Britain, the French ana English Governments have for some time pasi been concerting as to the best means for preventmg m future tha evaqion of the formalities prescribed by Frencb law for the ...