... TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTrzEMN,-What is wanted is P. compulsory half-day holiday. This would be a real boon to all persons em- ployed in shops. Some towns now adopt the half-holiday and find it very beneficial. Other towns have tried it, and have allowed it to fall through oi, account of the selfish- ness of one or two shopkeepers. The compulsory half.Oav holiday should apply ...

... -- C. e I D GENERAL. -- YOisinkm AE D DiR . F=OnEY.-A quarterly Court of the Boyal Masonic 3nstitution for Love wimheld.on.Monday. Captain S. 4G. Homfray, Deputy- Piminctal'Grand Muter for Monmouth, presided, and at the election which followed 'of 15 boys out of a list of 65 candidates for admission to the echooL, the following gons .of local Freasaons werd ?? Herbert Brown, sou of the late ...

... TU LCA GVE~MN- B L i.-UE LOCAL GOERNgMZNBMe. CONFERENCE OF LIBERAL MEMBERS. A meeting of Liberal Members of Parliament was held ir the Cariierence.room of the National- Liberal Club, London, yesterday morning, for the purpose of an inter- change of views upon the Local Goverrneut Bil.. The invitations to attend the meeting. whieh wnere issued on Monday night simultaneously vith those for the ...

... STORMY MEETIN(i AT BIRMINGHAM. A demonstration against the licensing clauses of the Local Government Bill, especially those relating to corn- ponsation of publicans deprived of their licenses, was attempted in Birmingham Town Hall last night. The promoters furnished their friends with tickets, giving them a favourable opportunity of entrance to the hall, but groups of people, organised by the ...

... MR. JOHN MORLEY AND .,LORD RIPON IN DIUBLIN. PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM. Dtmriw, Thursday. This afternoon Mr. John Morley and the Marquis of Ilipon were presented with the freedom of the city of Dublin. The ceremony took place in the City Hall, a, beautiful circular dome-roofed chamber, walled with I hated stone pillars and pilasters, with the carved orna- montation picked out in blue, purple ...

... THE FLOODS IN CHINA, TO THE EDITORS OF THU LEEDS MERCURY. GENTMatN,-The reports from China of the awful suffering caused by the overflowing of the Yellow river must have excited deep sympathy with the vast number who have so suddenly been rendered homeless. The following account, from an eye-witncss, will be read with painful interest. It is an extract from a letter from Mr. Summon, a member ...

... LOCAL AND GENE.RAL. IEnDs GRAMXAE SCHOOL.-The Pious Use Trustees met on Friday to elect to scholarships given from the Poor Estate. The examination was hold in December last, the examiner being the Rev. Maurice Day, I of Wychenford, Worcester, who after naming the candi- dates who did best, reported as iollows:- I consider the results of the examination for the most part highly satis- factory ...

... THIlSM1ORNING'S-NEWS. ITO-DAY'SLONDONPAPERS., THE GERMAN EMPEROR. The Times ?? general grounds the reign which is closing in circumstances so sad has appealed I with unusual force to English sympathies. It has been understood that the general policy of the Emperor bas been to liboralise German institutions, as far as is compatible with pradenee. While he sought peace abroad, he was known to ...

... Il TE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT. THE ELECTION AND DUTIES OF COUNTY COUNCILS. In those days reform follows reform with rapid strides. It is only three years since householders in counties had the Parliameitary franchise conferred upon them, and i *now they have received an equally important privilege in I being, called upon to elect members to Councils which j shall in future transact the county ...

... GENERAL FOREIG(N NEWISV (thn RIB's '1'EOUnAx.) THE EMPEROR' FREDERIC-K. Bmn=N, Friday.-The following bulletin, timod nine o'clock this morning, has been issued:- The Emperor has beon quite free from fever during the last few days, and tho diflculty in swallowing has nearly disappeared. The general condition is now so satisfactpry that hi' t Majesty spends the greater part of the day in the ...

... LOCAL i AND GENERAL' REVISION OF VOTERS' LISTS IN LEEDS.-On1 t Monday next, Mr. T. S. Sodon, Rovising Barrister. will a cormmence the revision of the iats of Parliamentary and Municipal voters in the borough of Leeds. 3,700 general claims and 57 lodger claims will be made, and there will be 2,918 objections in regard to the former and six with reference to the latter, against 2,480 general ...

... TL LE UED$b MRRCIRY. WEDNESDAY. October loth, 1888. T. I Czar, Czarina, and suite arrived at' Michailowo yestbrday, on theiriway ?? . -BmmG to the visit of. the Emperor. of Germany to Rome, the serni-officia1 Jouraal dc 64 Pisteboarg soy, The stippoifticn of some papers that the German Emnperor intends fufing at Vienna and Bame the engagement ?? he entered into with Rimaia concerning ...