... TEHE MINISTERIAL PROGRAMME. It is reported that a deputation from the lIsini- i oipal R1form League, headed by Mr. Firth, M.P., had an interview with the Home Secretary on Thursday night in reference to the introduuc- tion of the long-promised measure of municipal reform for London. The Daily Chronicle understanids that an arrangement was arrived [at, according to whioh the League abandons the ...

... POLITICS AND SOCIETYL LEEDS, Friday, November 30th. Our London Correspondent ?? appears to be no doubt that ir. Goschen has been offered the Speakership, and that the proposition is now undez the right hon. gentleman's consideration. A few days ago I stated that it would be a great public advantage if he would accept the offer. Mr. Goschen occupies a commanding position in the House of Commons ...

... THE LUFTHER COMMMORIATIoN.) OiRiN 13Y THE ARCHBISHOP Ok' YORE. I Yesterday a service wast held at the Church of SL. dichael-le..Belftey, York1, in connectioss with the Luther r 0ciele ration, at which the preacher was the Anonaussuop or Yoruc. There was a crowded congregation. Hirs Grace tool, for his text fiomans vi. 22, Now being made freea ,,thm -ini and become servants 'to Go.1, ye have ...

... [MI SCELLANE OUSe MR. GLADSTONIe-Duiing the past few days the Premier has been visited at lawiarsiet Castle by Elarl and Countess Derby, Ladr Frederick Cavendish, Mr. Bright, Lady Catherine and Mr. Gaskell, Lady Stepney, Sir Reginald Weldy, Mr. and. Mrs. Osborne Mlorghn. and Mr. L. Harcourt. On Saturday morning Mr. Bright left tor Kelso, and at night Lord and Lady Derby for ICno sley. lMr. ...

... THE ALLEGED FERAUD BY DIRECTORS AT IIALIFAX. I To. -- ?? L . X A. An T- P IA rl - l h IN iE CmrnmEs DNHIAt AND CO.-In the Chancery or Division yesterday, Mr. Justice Chitty gave judgment in n id this important case. The point involved may be stated as ?? the articles of association of i company or have been so framed as to invest a single director with or the sole managemsent of its affairs, ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. FRIDAY, November 23rd, 18S3. Tim uncertainty as to the fate of the Soudan ExpeditiO31 is set at rest by ?? of the defeat AE T-T A1^A AD.-.l-nr7i A1 {71,- l+; nT lA. li--v~ian of Hicks Pasha and the destruction of the Egyptian army. The news has reached Khartoum by a Coptic official, viid Duem, and is confirmed from other sources. The englagement which resulted in this ...

... b. FRENCH VIEW OF THE SOUDAN I WlSAbTER. I (Bllou OUR OWN COR3ESPONDENT.) PAnts, Friday. The defeat and annihilation of General Hicks's force in tho Soudan is considered here as likely to reopen the Egyptian question. Will England, it is asked, remain indifferent to this check to an enterprise under- taken under her auspices? Can she allow Egygpt to be dispossessed of two provinces which it ...

... THrE EXTRAORDINARY MUNICIPAL ELEOTIUNS. I 14 ~~THE ZNWMINATIONS. Yesterday was the last day for receiving nominations as for candidates to fill the four vacaucies in the Leeds Town Council, caused by the election of certain members of the Council to the Aldermallic bench. Two gentlermen j. ofopposite political views have been nominicated for * . etch of the four wards in which vacancies have ...

... I I TO-DAY'S.' .LONDON PAPERS. MER tURY-OFFICE, Viursday, S aim. SiR C. DILKE IN SCOTLAND. The Daily News observes that Sir C. Dlke cons tixned yesterday, at Greenock and Paisley, the seie., of political addresses which he began with his remuirk.. able speech at Glasgow on Tuesday night. la address at the opening of the Junior Liberal Olub at Greenock yesterday afternoon, followed as it WvS at ...

... |TIE REPRESENTATION OF YORK. I The contest is being conducted with much energy on the Liberal side. If hard work wili win tbe seat, Mr. Lock- wood is certain to he victorious. Yesterday he addressed about a dozen meetings. His object at one and all was to state sinsPlY and frankly the conditions .on which he is lighting the Liberal battle, and to exhort hsis supporters to personal activity on ...

... EGYPTIAN WAlu PlIOTU RES. It has been reserved for tbese days of mechanical helps to temper the inatginativo side of historic painting with something like photographic accuracy. That the two phase of style can be nildo to blend harmoniously has been bhown over and over again. And here we have still another proof in the four pictures which Mr. Alexander Xassed is ?? exhibiting at his gallery in ...

... _G -r1- o1 mutt -1 T.'Dn ?? TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLEYVN,-AS this subject is now ?? VecltrL attention, ada Will probably interest many of your readero, I bavo taken the liberty of sending you the result of my , expernments. Early this year, having perused MIr. I-lenry Woods' I pamsphlet, and being struck with its practieal utility, I determined to try the system mysel , and ...