... LOCAL AND- GENERAL. THE MEMBEU roF WEsT LEEns.-We under- stand that Mr. Herbert Gladstone, M.P., has been unable, owing to other engagements, to accept the invitation to address a meeting in Tyrone, and'that it is not his intention to visit Ireland at present. ,X I DEATH OF THE UNDE1'SHERIFF OF Lu0oLo - I mnsc.-A telegram was received at Lincoln yesterday announcing the death, at .'Nstbourne, ...

... iNEW 'YEAR FPROSPECTS. (IAOX OUS OWN. COR-roNDnns.) P4nsJ, Sunday. - A brilliant winter's day has ushered intheanew year in Paris. With fourteen degrees of frost it. is difficult to be extraordinarily happyi unless ono is an ardent skatei, but the bright sun somewhat tempered the sharpness of the air for-promenaders. The newspapers are full of retrospectivo-notices of the old and antioipa- ...

... HuSxsTLET TE=tPElANcI.-This club met on Saturday, at the lake Vimw Cocoa-house, Hunelot, when twelve members starte4 ,n the path. The hares, B. J. Thorntoa and 33. bSrath, -4eut cft at. 3.410, and thi pack, with J. Field as acoe and A. S. Ruddack no whip, Iol- lowcd at 3,43. 'rbo halrcs trrived hormeat a quarter to h oo'cloek, lizd the pack at live o'clock, after a ran of nine miles. ...

... ?? STATE OF IRELAN. ARREST OF AN IRISH MEMBER IN LONDON. Mr. J. R. Cox, Member of Parliament for East Clare, D 'W0se arrested in London yesterday afternoon, by Detective i Littlechild, of Scotland-yard. He was walking into the It Golden Cross Hotel, Charing Cross, in company with Mr. . J. Deasy, M.P., when Mr; Littlechild walked up and, ! touching him an the shoulder, asked, Are yo lMr. Cox ? ...

... MR. GLADSTONEBAND HIS CONSTITUENTS. I ?? Executive Council of ' the Mid-Lothian Liberal Unionist Association, being all elecotors for the county, recently forwarded a communicatioa to their represntea- tivo in Parli aent, Mr.5 Gladstone, observing with regret that, aontrazy to their axpoetation, he had failed to recom- mend obedience to the Crimes Act ?? as it remained the law'of the land, ...

... GlENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. (ENUTZs' TutLEsRAm,) QUEEN VICTORIA. ,oamOE, Monday.-This morning the Queen remained in the gardens of the Villa, while the Prince and Princess xenry of Batteqberg went for a drive. In the afternoon the Queen and their ltoyal Highnesses, attended by the Dowager Lady Churchill, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, Sir Henry Ponsonby, and Major Bigge, drove in the Casoine, where Her ...

... DBRADFOD FULL-DRESS SUtaSCRIPTnO CONCERTS. -X :|I At' their fourth assembly of this, season the Bradford Full-dress Subscription Concert Committee last nght presented the following programnme in St. George's Hall:- Overture . . ?? La Vestalde ?? amat Cavatiu a ?? i: ?? e bel coentelos y(Nieb) ?? Slguorla, Elvima Gambogi. Cocetohck n .Op. 79 ?? .w ] (Larghetto tea non treppo, allegro ...

... -LEEDS AND THEtLOCAL GOVR0N- II I I; I.ME1NT BILL. ?? : Yesterday a meeting of the Parliamentary Comiiiteeo oi fcu the Leeds, Corporation was held,'tho CEMnXR2 (Ald. l Emsiey) presiding. The Local Governmsent Ull wasu referfsed to, and it was stated that a meeting of the council of the Municipal Corporations Association had been sum- p moned for io-day (Thulrsday), in London, to consider tis ...

... ITHE LEEDS .LERCURY WEDNESDAY, April 11th, i888. - AccoRnrNo to a telegram from Florence, arrangements are in progress for the departure of Queen Victoria on the 19th. -The telegram adds that Her Majesty -will proceed to Berlin by the Brenner Pass. A Berlin telegram says Her Majesty will stay at Charlottenburg, where preparations are making for her reception. On the, other hand, the Press ...

... LOCAL AND G(ENERAL. THFB BIs8o P or RIPON.-The Lord Bishop of :Ripon and Mrs. Carpenter, who during the pust few weeks have been resident in Leeds, held an at home at the Masonic Hall, Great George-sHtreet, last evening. There were about a hundred ladies and gentlemen. present, the clergy and leading Churchmen of Leeds being well represented. The rooms were prettily decorated for 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 ...

... -71H' :^.GROSENR :ALL3EY. PEOOND' NOTIOII ' - 'Tlie interval which elapsed between Reynolds's death f21.792 and that 'of Constable neiarly-forty.years' later. was marked by a display of more tliiaverage excel. s lence.in both landscape and figure painting. As might a have been antioipated from the teidenoy of even aeynolda's later works, the era of smiles aand simpers, of pss and costume, was ...