... I ILLNESS OF LORD BEACONSFIELo | ?? I The 'unsatisfactory 'reports circulated on Mouday eveningin referen nce to the conditi on of L ord Beacons field revived the alarm consequent upon the relapse which he had undergone on the previous day, and inquiries yeyterday morning were more m numerous and more anxious than ever. Feverish sym ptoms setting in after a favourable turn had been experienced ...

... MR. BRADILAUGH AND THE OATH. - -1 - L - 4 ?? ?? ?? VA r A ; .1'A.1 A- t n - 1 - ~The further hearing of the case of Clarke v. Bradlaugh, which was a demurrer to the plaintiff's statement of claim to recover b500 penalties in consequence of his having taken his seat and voted in the House of Commons without first having taken the oath as proscribed by law, was resmued in the Queen's Bench ...

... THE HOME -SECRETARY, - ?? r -tJro.6 .>9w t0.rsih Sir Win..Vernon Hlarcourt, hb& -Hbme Secretary, mnade his first public appodrafice iklihsgo~wy)escerday after- wh noonl, when he was. esirolled. as'a burgeiB4 ssd',ra; guil Ear -brotber of the city. Dusing the forenoon 'be *'as fully A aft occupied with offioialbusiness, sirid did not leave thehougoeut Sol, his host, Mdr.Tenn~ant, M.P., ...

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... > ?? ?? 0n -A~*A 1 A . ?? ?? T Search parties scoured the roads around Dun Echt yesterday, and an ornamental sheet of water has been Go drained: but no discoveries have been made. It is said b that the Earl has repeated his determination to offer no a reward for the recovery of the body unless the Dowager ?? Countess, who has not yet been heard from, should, in F her anxiety to recover the ...

... WEATHER FOREOASTS FOR TO-DAY.I 1 The following iB the forecast of tha Lv9%fh3r for twicstr four hours from 8.30 p.m. on MondyLv , 0. ) N } Southerly winds, fresh to frz r 0. Scotlatld N -- fair. t . Scotland E 2. England N.E. I South-easterly to souther s Leeds nad moderate to fresh; iar, cc'. r District . J 3. England E Easterlv'brieze3, moderate to hibro 3 cold, dry. . Counties ...

... TAB !; IS11:10n A`D,0Vtj-1fLAV-LN, esterday a general mneeting of the local subscribers to ie flunds necessary for holding the late meeting of the Brntish Association, far the purpoose of receiving the roport ot the Executive Committee, wns held in the Guildhall,' the LoanD ?? in the chair. Mr. F. AsaEY (the assistant secretary) read the reeort. This expressed the sense of the LOCal Executive ...

... : 3PONT=rBAcT.-Yesterday the statute hirings were hold at Pqutefract, the weather being most uufavour- able. There was a large attendnace. Hiring servants is not so gdieiral now, farmers in this diitrict eugaging ser- vauts on thd ordinary miarket diav. 'There Were plenty of male and female servants requiring situations, azd 'wages generally were lower. I Men servants, to live 'on the pre- ...

... LazR +i~ woF 699WANMl c Voimv~-A- Ohi -~nnd ?? sha Yesterday tho second apunoo' c0rysanthemumn Show, -under the auspicis 6d the* 'York- Ancient. 80~iety of F~oets,- wa eraed in..the 'Exhibitiou Bailding.,aud'ai fa1r as the nube f entrles,,ead ?? be,'6f..qualitylb concerned, was a great vuccess. The wirst show of the kind was hold lnst Year, when. the society received such an amount of support ...

... ?? PARLIAMENTARY NOT a (FIwO OUR OWND CoRnvq I (Faox OUR OWN own CoaE,,, ROUSE OF CONoEcts, O I ight, M Inthe House of Lords this Cvtniog e, Lord Sgluim made his appearance for the first tie tthis ses,50 * looked vigorous to buoyancy. Lords B Craubrook speedily engaged him in COnvesationd, ,i Lord Sandon a little later followed sui tt, is Lort ' 3-0 was in . great demand, and evidoatlY had ...

... ?? ?? e :n he - ?? t co THURSDAY, Mfarch 24th, 1881. lie ?? ?? i~n ' A REUTER'S telegram from Mount Prospect 5 20 states that the conference between the British Generals I a.nd the Boers was resumed yesterday morning. The 1 question under discussion was the representation of the E ,8. Boers on the Royal Commission. A later telegram C says the Boor leaders definitively agreed to all the he ...

... TIHE LEEDS MERCURY. THURSDAY, Marc& l7th, 1881. Igo to Ai DuRBAN telegram from the Timles corre- er spondent says it appears, from an interview between Joubert and the correspondent of the ?? Witness, that the Boors insist on nothing short of the annulment at of Sir T. Shepstone's proclamation, and entire freedom Isfrom British interference. The correspondent says Sir ic. Evelyn Wood makes no ...