... I I TO-DAY'S LONDON , PAPERS. MERCBUY-OFFICE, JMonday, 5 a.m. THE GOVERNMENT AND IRELAND, The Tines ?? meeting of the Cabinet on Saturday was occupied with the critical questions upon which the bief Secretarywhllto-morrow have todiselose the & cisions of the Government. The deliberations of thL Cabinet on Saturday led to no immediate conclusion, and another meeting will be held to-dry, when it ...

... COICAGO, ST. PAI., MINNEAPOLIS, AND O5AHAA.-This important and growing road is a reorganisation of 'the West Wisconsin RaIlway. consolidated with the St. Paul and Sioux City in 1S80. It is ill the form of a curve, com- mencing at l'lroy, in Wisconsin, extendingL to St. Paul and Minneapolis, and thence to Sioux City, with various branches. From Sioux Citv to Omnaha it runs over the Sioux City, ...

... IGENERAL FOREIGN .NEWS. 9RuThrn's TEGRGMWS.) MASSACRE IN ALGERIA. DESPERATE FIGHTING. F PARIS, Saturday.-A despatch from Oran states that - two companies of the Foreign Legion, under the command of Colonel Castries. while escorting a topographical . expedition with a convoy of two days' provisions. were 3 attacked at Tigri by a body of 6,000 natives on foot, D accompanied by 1,800 horsemen. ...

... i LEEDS, Monday, May 1st. Oar London Correspondent ?? is stated, ?? not on official authority, that the Government havs decided to release the political suspects, and it is highly probable that this step, if not at once, will very shortly be adopted. The objections to such a eourse are strolg and obvious; bat, on the other hand, reasons stil more powerful may have decided the Cabinet in ...

... VOLUNTEER MOVEMENTS IN LERDS. THE ARTILLERY. There was a good muster of the members of the Leeds Artillery uteers (Ist W~est York) on Saturday after- noon at the Armoury, Fenton-street, for the first full- dress march out of the season. The weather being so unfavourable, the march out was postponed until Saturday next, and the men were dismissed by Lieut.-Colonel T. W. Harding. THE ENGINEERS. ...

... 1TlJE LE-EDS NPERCURY MIOND14r., May 1st, 1882. o Tnd death is announced of the Princess William of Wurtexberg, eldest sister of the Duchess of Albany. WE learn from Constantinople that Princes Albert Victor and' George of Wales arrived at Damascus on Friday. They will proceed thence to Baalbee and Beyrout, arriving at the latter place during the present week. LIEUTENANT DAwiERHAUER, of the ...

... THE RESIGNATION OF EARL COWPER. The Dublin correspondent of the Observer ?? Castle circles the retirement of Earl Cow-pr was not at all unexpected, and it is attributed more to private than political reasons. It is statec that his Excellency felt very deeply the death of his cousin and heir, to whom he was much attached. No Lord-Lieutenant has held office in recent years who was so utterly ...

... THIE ANTI-AGGRESSION LEAGUE. TO TILE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCU1R:Y1T. GENFTLE'LMX,-The mnemorable appeal to the naDe2 it 1880 turned mainly, as we all of us remember, on the li!:? of our policy abroad, and not on our policy at home. Th:e great issue was peace and justice on the one side, carret- Sion and war on tbe other. We all know whi, theo nation chose. But the necessity for a barrier a- ...

... 1REGLMT'S PARK COLLEGE. . ?? ?? On Friday morning the nnnual breakfast of the above institution was held in the City Terminus Hotel, London. Mr. J. BAmI2RAN, M.P., presilded. There was a large gathering of friends and ?? prayer bv the 11ev. Dr. G(3 sEw, Dr. ANGus, Principal of the College, made a statement dealiug with the posi- tion , prospects, and necessities of the college. Re said no want ...

... SHIPPING DISASTERS AND LOSS OF LIFE. A Lloyd's telegram, dated Swanage, April 29th, states that during the hurricane a large full-rigged ship was observed from St. Alban's Head. at 4 p.m., to strike the shore between Winspit and Anvill Point Lighthouse. end ten minutes afterwards she had totally broken up. The rocket apparatus from the' Head of Swanage was on the ground within the hour, but no ...

... 'T1{E WEEK IN PARLIAMENT. BY A LOOKER-ON. ABudgetynight can never be altogether uninteresting, but there are degrees of interest, and only a very 2 4imited number of people could have indulged largely in the pleasures of hope over the financial statement of 1 Monday last. The weekly returns of the national i revenue enable any person who cares to take the trouble to settle the framework of a ...

... - SPIRITUALISTS AND .MATERIALISTS. (FROM OUn OWN CORRESPONDENr.) PARIs, Friday. The battle of the Spiritualists and Materialists is being waged to-day with all the ardour of the classics and romancists of half a century ago. The scientists are in great dismay at being thrown over by M. Pasteur, although the report had gone forth that such was to be tjhe case. They endeavour, however, to ...