... WM. FORSTER, M.P., ON TEn COUNTY FRANOHISE. (FROst Owls OWN REtPOReTER.) cin sir 'Under the auspices of what is called the Metropolitan in ~tiberal Emergency Committee, an aggregate meeting of et Ithe Metropolitan Liberal Courtoils was hold last nigiht in ( !the large hall of the Caunon-street Terminus Hotel, Itondon, to consider certain resolutions on the subject of tr 'thle proposed London ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY.. ?? ab 1 THV'RSDAY, Nov'ember Sth. 1833. A mesTiaO of Nihilists is reportedato have. Ibeen held in St. Petersburg on. Friday, at whichbbt. the Socialist and Terrorist factions were represented. The subject discussed was the measures to be adopted against the Government, and it is stated that the viewI' an of the moderate party prevailed. an INTELLIGENCE has reached Teheran ...

... THIS MORNING'S NEWS, TO(DAY'S LONDON PAPERS. ti . E2?OURIY-OFFIC'E, Thursday, 5 a.m. RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN. The ChroniCle ?? alarmist report whielh comes 'from the capital of Persia relative to Russian .v designs on British India must, we think, be accepted f with a considerable amount of reserve. That Russia ' has not ceased to intrigue In Turkestan and Afghanis- B tan we have the best ...

... LEEDs To',vN COUNOIL.-THn ELECTIOI X OF co ALDEicME.-A private meeting of the Liberal members Sw of the Leeds Town Council was held yesterday afternoon ins at the offices of 'the Liberal Association, South-parade, tact for the purpose of deciding who shall be nominated in Pa the interests of the party for the vacancies on the aldermoauic bench, at the mneetin~g of the Council on Friday. Aid. ...

... LEEDS, Thursday, November lst. Our London Correspondent ?? the columns of political oratory with which the papers of yesterday are filled, attention is really concentrated on one sihnihfeant declaration made by Lord Salisbury. This statement will probably sober some of the more enthusiastic members of the Leeds Conference, and will certainly excite a strong influence on the policy of the ...

... ]ns, 'Wednesday, November 14th. th Our London Correspondent ?? speeches 9 will be delivered towards the close of the present tl wronth which will be read with keen interest by the ti public. Mr. Chamberlain speaks at Bristol rno November 20th, and Lord Hartington on the follow- c' ing day at Manchester. Before that time it is h highly probable that Ministers will have 13 settled among ...

... Tho Flying Mid-weight Plato (handicap) of 100 CS; certain winners eoxtra. Fivn fuliongs. 9 I Mr J. Camreboll's Libation, 4 yrs ?? 1 0 0 Ifer W. 0. Stev ens's Donritian, 3 yrs ?? 2 S. 2 Mr W. Buxton's Donld Caird, 4 yrs ?? * Nina ran. The Totteridge Nursery Handicap of 100 gs, for two-yeur-old,; certain wrineri extra. Nearly six furlongs. 7 0 Wr.T. J.Tieags, join.'s, Hermitage ?? 1 7 4 W rE. ...

... ' I CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT I ~~~GRIMSBY. A great and important gathering of the Conserva. t ives of Grimsby took place in the Town Hall on Thurs. b day week. The principal object was to introduce to f the constituency Mr Robert Yarburgb, of the Inner % Temple, London, who is the accepted Conservative g candidate at the next election. The chair was occupied I by Colonel Hutton, and there ...

... Ivatto-gualt valiticalt -3.0 6acral. I MWile on our way In friendly chat We talk of this and then of that. New brooms sweep clean. The venerable adage has applicability to the Town Council, which, with the new blood circulating in its veins, yesterday effected a clean discharge of a rather dropsical agenda paper. Let us hope that this new blood will not supply an equal incentive to the ...

... MOtTiCt XCbJ5. I I The Bishop of Ripon has appointed Dr Tristram, Q.C., V'hancellor of the Diocese, in the place of the late Dr Swabey. A petition was filed in the Scarborough Countytbourt on Tuesday on behalf of Hugh Gordon Henry, of Picker- ing, farmer, the liabilities being 2600. Lady Fitzgerald, wife of Lord Otho Fitzgerald, and formerly Lady Londesborough, died in Paris suddenly on ...

... H I ELECTION OF MAYOR & SHERIFF. The annual meeting of the Hull Town Council was held on Friday for the purpose of electing Mayor and Sheriff, and transacting other business. The retiring Mayor, Alderman Leak, occupied the chair, and there was a fall attendance of councilors. There were also present as spectators, Mr Robert Jameson, J.P., Mr M. Samzuelson, Mr Tate (ex-councillor), Mr J. ...

... TOWN AND VILLAGE SKETCHES IN I LINCOLNSHIRE. No. 13.-HIBALDSTOW AND REDBOURNE. Hibaldstow, most probably in ancient days, a Saxon settlement, is situated about half-way on the Old Roman Road 'twixt Lincoln and the Hurnber, and is supposed to have been the Roman station In Medium. Being an important post on the Ermine Street, it would, In far remote times, be the scene of 8tirrine episodes. ...