... HOW TO TREAT FOOT.AND-MOUTH I- DISEASE.I This important question is most ably treated by Mr Henry FReece, M.R C.S., in a recent letter to the Times, which we give ia its entirety as calculated to promote the important object of repressing the foot-and-mouth disease. The views which we have expressed on the subject in the leading columns of our present issue, are not only confirmed by Mr Reece, ...

... 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 ...

... rALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [TlHE LOCK-KEEPER'S SECRE.T. I BY of tHENRY FRITH. Author of the Mystery of the Moor Par2n, Dr Gusenstci's GhoWt Story, Tic., &c. CHAPTER XIL AT THE COTTAGE-THE STORM BRE&HS-KIT'S TERROR -APPEARANCE OF THE DARK PEHANTOM-DEATH OF DAVIS. Mrs Norman lost no time in accompanying Christopher Davis to the cottage where his father lay a-dying. Few words passed between the ...

... 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 ...

... LEEDS SUNDAY SCHOOL UNIONn I S. The annual meetig of the Leeds Sunday School Union gtook place last evening in East-parade Schoolroom. The k- chair was occupied by Ald. Fewru, and there were present re the Revs. J. Gregory, W. R. GoldinfI4 and E. Ra- re Messrs. T. J. Cox, W. H. Binder, J. Long, W. Illing be worth, R. Slade, J. S. Emery, J. W. Hives, and W. S. or. Braithwaite. -Mr. SLAnE ...

... THE BANK FEAAUDS. CONVICTION AND SENTENCE OF WATTEiRS. The trial of John Davis Watters on a charge o9 feloniouly elcalino and receiving securities froia the Itiver Plate Banlrkwaa resumed yeaterday moruing, at the Centrul Criminal Court, betoro lr. Justice ST rULN. TWerden, the leto secretary to the bank, detailed his transactioos with NVatters. Ho stated that au corer was from tone to tine ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. ., . TUESDAY, ATovember 27th, S8,3. ?? -- _ Tnn Times correspondent, telegraphing from Khartouim yesterday, says the news of the Soudan -d {e I A1 Tv ?? _1 ?? -I , s. disaster is fully confirmed. It is also reported that a large army of rebels is close to Khartouma, and that the Maldi has issued orders not to send corn into tiae city. The correspondent adds that there is not ...

... 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. ...

... I GENERA ITEMS. L- The Secretary of the London and San F ° has absconded, his defamcation5 alou~ting to _50 __00 it Mr T. C. Cobbold, the Conservative meg t e£5 o , wieb, died at that place on Wednesday nightcb or Es- A steamer has been destroyed by fire on the ?? River with 3,564 bales of cotton on board. ?? g ?? anaccident in which a train left the line on the at I. M artin's Railway, New ...