... I .3 3. 14L _.2 TV ~.3.J4,Lb kN is . g (Faoat our OW owN CoRosPOTaEqT ) PMrs, Monday. 3 The composition of the New Ministry is welcomed with relief by men of moderate views, who see their tworst fears dispelled for the present. M. Say's A adhesion is particularly grateful, and will be reassuring a 3 to the business world not only in France but through- e out Europe. The political convictions ...

... LMJtJtL.-J. - -- - -- ~ ~ ~~ ~~flI ?? The following report of the Gas Committee will be sub- mitted to the Town Council at its meeting to-day:- a In accordance with a resolution passed by the Council r at its meeting held on the 2nd instant, the Gas Committee present a report briefly but plaunly setting forth the steps -from time to time taken to improve the illumiuat- t iug power of the ...

... rOSTAL DELAY IN VILLAGES, TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTxBaEEsN,-I have lately had my attention drawn to the backward state of postal matters in the smalier villages, and with your permaission will lay before your readers a few striking instances. While the London postal district has froni four to ten deliveries a day, I estimate there is quite an equal population i the scattered ...

... 5--X/ly . - - - - . .. . - , - ?? d The eleventh annual 'demonstration of the Leeds and ?? Wesleyan Band of Hops was held yesterday even- inlg in ths Victoria Hall, Town H-lll, under favourable e auspices. The chair was occupied by Mr. W. D. STrawNaaS, a J.P., of Nwewastle-on-Tynie, and there were present Mr. [t R. TI. Booth, Mr. J. WV. Urawford,' Mr. W. Farrar Smith, e MNr. W. T. Miers ...

... DEPUTATION TO MR. GLADSTONh ON LOCAL TAXATION. 0=101Tro n, ?? PPRIMTM.1 SPEECH OF THE PREMIER. A doputation from the Central and Associated Charn- bers of Agriculture waited yesterday on Mr. Gladstone on the question of local taxation. The interview took place in the Conference Room in Downing-street. The aeputation was a very large and influential one, and included Lord Jersey, Lord Leigh, ...

... GENERAL. F()REIGxN NEWS. -_ (REnTER'S TnrosI Axsg. THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. PARIS, Tuesday.-The appointments of the Ministers forming M. de Freycinet's Cabinet. whose names have aalready been telegraphed, are gazetted to-day. THE PROGRAMMEU OF THE CABINET. PARIS, Tuesday.-In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, M. de Freypilet reada declaration embodying the political programme of the ...

... THE LEEDS RERCURY. WEDNESDAY, February 13t, 1882., TEBH list of the new French Ministry has | been gazetted, and at the sitting of the Chamber of i - I. - ou -. a d ?? - ?? ?? ?? . Deputies yesterday 31. de Freycinet read a declaration r embodying the political programme of the new Cabinet. One idea, the declaration said, dominated the 3 Ministry, namely, to establish a reign of peace r ...

... Week 1882. 1881. Inc. Dec. ending £ £ 4 £ Great Eastern ?? . Jan. 29 .. 49,8a8 .. 39,360 .. 10,50, Maryport and Carlisle.- - 29 . 2,717 ,. 2348 869 Metropolitan ?? - 29 .. 11,473 ..11238 .. 235 North-Easern ?? - 28 ..117,531 ..103,434 ..14,0D7 . BRADFoRD BAXKRUPTCY COuIJT.-Yester~ay, at this court (before Mr. Vincent Thompson, Deputy-Judge), ,Tohn Mitchell ovwburn, innkeeper, Cleckheatou, a ...

... BfjSiA-RDDLKE ON FOREIGNI _ _t A r .AFFAIRS. DISGRACEFUL DISTURBANCE. SrChas. Dluke, Under-Secretatry for Foreign Affairs, and his rlieistt in the representation of Chelsea, Mr. ?? F. B. f'ift, addressed theirosonstitoenteslast night in the Vestrly 11,1 Chelsea. The hail, which will accommoncdate about ~ifi eople was cr dd by an audience whbich showed every dipeosition to be orderly. The ...

... yj1 d e 'TheIoffer BMR. DILLON. t The of Mr. Forster to release Mr. Dillon, M.P., c from Kilmainhanb, on condition that he should leave e Ireland, was not brought about by the interveution of i that gentleman's friends but was the result of a com- e munication made to the Chief Secretary by the doctors of s the prison as to Mr. Dillon's state of health. Mr. Dillon, however, has written to Mr. ...

... 1 LEEDS, Wednesday, Feb. Ist. 'rOrn the ministcrial statement made by M. de Frvefinet in Paris yesterday we gather that the policy ef tihe new Cabinet which has replaced that of MI. CGambetta will be one of prudence and conciliation. The roViSnO of the Constitution is postponed until the expi- ration of the term for which the Chamber was elected, ,id thus the sentence of death which the late ...

... iEPREsENTATION OF PRESTON. .rbXrlfl.nnj0X.NLtXIVN UD rsanosi. MIR. CHAMBERtAIN AND MR. RAIKES. Yesterday morning Mr. Raikes was nominated for Preston, and MPr. Simpson, of Liverpool, was also nomi- nated by a working mnn. Three nomninations were put in on behalf of Mr. Raikes, the geatlemene nominating him being Messrs. W. P. Park (chairman of the Conservative Club), Mr. R. Newsham, Mr. ...