... fe~h, Tlnv l, no ?? a, £iJX I I .OI h (Condensedfroom the Jaoeroal of the Coimiaiouoro j I. Patento.) e ArPLIuAONS FOR LCEnsu PATENT-Stoves, H, Deflr, Middlesbrough. Pressing apparatus, J. and S. C. Bu., ley, Leeds. Securing, &c., saws, S. Bastow, Leed!, Ela :d davits,R.Burdes, Sunde21and. Dynarnio apparstu, P, :0 Waller, Leeds. Fastening broocehs, &o., T. Pood, Le sEarrogatc. Glazing windows, ...

... - I- - (R11TsR'S TnEonA,) RUSSIA. ST. PErsTsssnci, Friday.-It is officially announced to- sy that the customary State attendance of the Emperor ad Empress at divine Seovice on Easter Day (O. S.) and the reception of Easter congratulations will not take place this year. Theatres conducted by private enterprise will be per. mitted to reopen on the 2nd of May next. The Turkestanl (;a:ette ...

... A ?? firmn, Messrs. Atkinson Brothers, who do a large Coutisental trade, have just, published a statement shaevisg the serious effects likely to ensue if the new lueich Tariff is adopt d. They contend that the low- Irced table knives noDX exported, and very oxteusively, n,1' ba completely excluded from France should the tariff t ne into iorce, or aiy Commercial Treaty based upon ihat torf-the ...

... l (REUTEn's TRLmGaMA3 1 FRANCE. PARIS, Friday.-The rejection of the &rrutin de Liste t Bill by the Senate is warmly discussed by all the Paris papers to-day. The B~publiqie Fran pise admits the defeat of its party, and compares yesterday's decision to the reactionary proceedings of the 16th May, 1877. It declares that the relations between the Senate and C Chamber of Deputies will now become ...

... ENCAMTMENT OF YOLUNTIEERS. THE 0TH WEST YOREK AT EhUDDERSFIELD. The Huddersfield Volunteers-otherwise known as the Gth West York Rifle- Volunteers-embracing Hudders- field, Holmlirth (formerly the tend), Mirfield (41st), and Saddleworth (34th), have gone into camp this year, after an interval of three years. 'The work of putting the tents up was commenced as esrly as Monday last week, and the ...

... HOWDENSHIRE OHAMBER, OF AGRIOULTURE. The fourteenth annual meeting and dinner of this Chamber of Agriculture was held at the Half Moon Hotel, I ~ l owden, at whioh Mr. JOiNt PnSP1rE, of Beverley l(President), presided, Mr. Wmn. Nottingham occapying 3the vice-chair. There was a large attendance of spembere.l A hat the committee was g read by Mr. H. Cane (hon. secretary), and was as follows:-'- ...

... MXR. SEXT02N, M.P., ON COERCION. MR. H1EALY ON MR. FORSTER. Aland meeting was bold at Swords (co. Dublin) yesterday, and was attended by betweeni3,000 and 4,000 people. The chair was occupied by Mr. PATRicK KETTLE, brother of a Mr. A. 1. Kettle, now in Kjlmainharm.-Mr. SfXTON, M.P., in supporting a resolution coudemning as mean cowardly, and hypocritical the policy of coercion, denied t that ...

... BANI1RUPTCY LAW AMTENDMIENT. TO THiE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MEICUR7 GENTTEMF.,-MaY I beg your insertion of tils follol! ing correspondence with reference to this impnrtaa subject.-I am, Gentlemen, &c., eG J. BUCXINGHA3I, Secretary, National Union of Commerce 41, St. Andrew's Hill, B.C., 16th May, lIs5 Sir,--I have to thank you in tile unlame of the eoieric, of this associatioil for having been ...

... n .I ICEN TJB.1, ' Is dir.- The rougli- raetut G INsmoBuda ?? s'ougli retetusis, as taken from the enumerators' books; show an increase of no less than 3.820i The nu'p~es in 48718 Iere 7,004,,4nd the .Populahion now numbers 10,884.1 RmAesis. Marshall, Sons, and Co., Britannia Ironworks, give employpneirt to Over 2,000 hands, IOicLEY.-The return shows the popdlatiou as 15,041; 1871, 0,600; ...

... Tl'lE CHANNEL TUNTNEL. Sir EDWAnD W1AnrN, M.P., presided yesterday at', adjourned special meeting of the proprietors of tkA South-Eastern Railway, held at the offices, Lond Bridge Station. After a brief explanation by the Ckrs man, to the effect that, owing to the position of the Osil and Groombridgo Railway Bill, in the House of Connomo for the consideration ol which the meeting hod to' ...

... The subject has been frequently mooted as to whe, Darlington, the birthplace of railways and the place connection with which Stephenson's triumph with bt the'locomotive was first achieved, should take any pat the centenary celebration at Newcastle. Nothi4?h 1L ever, of a public nature in connectioxi with the event been attempted, except in the irisortant contributie which Darlington furnishes ...

... IoRETYAND ?? Tg SOSOO0H00-8- trial School scandal is roported from °otser as iu the case of St. Paul's School, the ode 'fre, 'b1505 was due to the energy of a ?? o moer e a member of the School Board of that town' 1ci1t1c ap ointed for the purposo of investigation !CO t5ts the master had inflicted severe punishment d tne authoritv of the Visiting Committee and with- WI-thout t e in the book, ...