... TIE EIRA SEARCH AND RELIES EXPEDITION. The commit-tee for drawin g up the instructions to ETAllen Young, composed of Sir H. Gore-Booth, 11r. W. A. Grant, Mr. Clements R. Markham, Captalin SirGer are.; ti. Nares, IRN., ?? Sir Allen Young, C.B., and tvwo T. V. Smith, have drawn usa the following instructions i dl Sir Allen Young's guidauej:- 'Tle objedt of the despatch of the screw stenam Whale5 ...

... TiE LEEDS MERCURY, TIIURSDAY, June 22nd, 1882. -- - --a - :i. As announced in our later editions yesterday, tl t Ragheb Pa.sha has succeeded in forming a Ministrvin T Egypt, Arabi Pasha retaining office as Minister of War. The policy of the new Ministry, it is said, includes-the maintenance of the stateus quol. Wn learn from Constantinople that Lord Dufferin again brought the subject of the ...

... THE FRENCH FEELNG ABOUT EGYPT. (FROM oun OWN COunRSPOwnsrNT.) ZAris, Saturday. The French Chamber is a capricious body, and 16 rapidly acquiring the reputation of blowing hot and cold in the same hour. About a fortnight ago it was ready to sacrifice M. de. Freycinet when not a d±op 6f French blood had been spilt in, Egypt, and now in full recollection of the rising at Alexandria the same ...

... METHODIST NEW OONNELXON I CONFERENCE. Yeetexday this Conference concluded its sittings, at Zion Chapel, Batley. TISE SIDAY SCHOOL COZIITTIE . The Rev. S. Wnsran (Lindley) presesited the report of the Sunday School Committee, from which it appeared that there are 449 schools, 11,166 teachers, and 80.446 scholars, being an increase on last vear in each case. Pre- paratory classes for teachers ...

... On Saturday the Prince eanl Princess Of Wales, af ter a i brief inspection of the Church Institute Bazaar in St. I t'eesrge's Hall, concldded their visit to Bradford. --There Ii seas again a. great desire to see their Royal liighneessaii and !iio ronte along which tule procession ~assed wa thcly b, hiued with spectators, while in some of thle more faviour- aI able positions the streets were ...

... [THIS MOPRNING'S NEWS. TO-DAY'S LONDON PAPERS. MERCURY-OFFICE, Thurssay, 5 a., .THEI EGYPTIAN CRISIS. * (DAmy TELEORAPH TELEGRAM.) VIENNA, Wednesday.-The hitch in the Conference negotiations render it improbable that the Ambassadors will meet to-morrow. The difficulties that have thus suddenly' arisen are to be accounted for by the categorical refusal of the Porte to take part in the ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY, SATURTDAY, June 24th, 1882. TrnI Presse (Vienna), which stated on Thurs- day that Germany, Austria, and Italy declined to I. . ?? ?? ?? __ ?? ?? *. ?? .. I. enter the Conference on Egypt without the partici- pation of Turkey, now announces that the Ambassadors of the Powers have received the necessary instructions, and that no obstacle now stands in the way of the sittings ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY.', GEsNTrm-ti,-Your paper of to-day contains a letter from Mr. Hudson, the Deputy- Registrar of the Diocese of York, in reference to what took place at a meeting in Leeds on the 14th inst. with regard to parish registers; and, as the object of the writer appears to have been to deny the truth of a; state- ment which I made at the meeting, I trust you will ...

... PtARLIAMENTARY NOTES. HousE oF Commoans, Thursday Night. To-day the House of Lords set for an hour, and in that brief space glanced at quite a number of subjects. Among these were the recent fighting in Zululand, the J proposed amendments to the Irish Land Act, the Con- stantinople Conference, Cathedral statutes, Scotch I education, and ?? (le se interments. Their Lordships 1 tire fettered by- ...

... '.ARLI4MENTARY. NOTES. . ?? sousa or CoLmoNs, Tuesday Night. To-day the House of Lords sat for twenty-five minutes. They had nothing to, do, and they did it well. Lcord Fitzgerald took his seat ?? appoint- ment g6 a Lord of Appeal, but beyond this event and the introduction of a bill to enable Judges of the superior courts to sit as Judges of Appeal at the request of the Lord Chancellor, ...

... - WinsDsor CASTLE, Thursday. The Queen, Princess 3eatrice, aild the Princesses Elizabeth and Irene of Hiesse, drove out yesterday after- noon, and Her Majesty, with the Princesses, drove out this morning. Earl Granville, K.G., had an audience of the Queen to- day. The Hon. Horatia Stopford has arrived at the Castle. Captain Edwards, C.B., has left, and Captain A. Bigge has arrived at the ...

... bare - _ .- WiNDSOR CASLE, Saturday. The Queen and Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday Afternoon, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Rox- burghe. The Priucesses Elizabeth and Irene of Hesse went to *laremontyesterday forenoon, and visited the Duke and ,Ncess of Albanv. The Princesses returned to Windsor it the evening. MdIlle. Norele was in attendance. The Hou. and Very Rev. the Dean of ...