... LATEST NEWS* - - 0. . rEUTFM'S TEL5EI5IArS.1 THE CONFERENCE. PAuIs, Feb. 18, Evening. The Ccnference met at three p.m. to-day. The answer Ce Greece is understood to be of a satisfactory character. FRANCE. PAusa, Feb. 18. A circular of the Minister M. Foroade de la Riquette, dated the 16th inst., has been published to-day, relative to ibs light of public meeting. The circular says that until ...

... MISCE-JLANEtoJoS The Churnh Association held a great aggregate meeting on Wednesday under the presidency of Mr. C Ooiquhoun. The members were congratulated upon the Kesults of the ?? against Mr. blackonoohie, and it was announced that they were about to take steps to obtain a legal decision in relation to the use oe vestments, besides which it was intended to continue their exertions to obtain ...

... At the present moment, when the subjects of t women's clubs and the higher/education of girls are , attracting considerable attention, a strange little d book which is uovr before us, and which treats of a- both those subjects, seems worthy of notice. The book was parchased some little time ago at a sale s by a dealer, who imagined it was some religious ), work in an unknown tongue, probably ...

... FEJAEFJ.{, SUFFER1N(i,'S OF A SHIP.' WI - . 1WECKED G;RIEW. I The African luaI steamer Biatka, which has ar. rived at Liverpool, brought hcme the crew of the barque Fiorelc! Nigihtinygawle, wlssic Was lost on the Afrioau coast. T1 e Florenace l- ale, Captain J J. Bright, of London, left 3atlhrh -, Gambia River, fom zier3a Leone, on the 2th ?? er, with seven fermale pa'sengers, two priests, tt ...

... PROPERTY ?? PROPERTY COMIMITTESE.I A meeting of this committee of the Hull Corpora- tion was held at the Town-hall on Monday ; Alderman Bannisterin the ?? Borough Treasurer re- ported a vacancy in the Charter House by the death of Mr. R. At. Melbourne.-An application was read from Mr. Beeton, asking the Corporation to reimburse him £6, which he had paid for repairing the footpath on the site ...

... OUIR LONDON LETTER. LONDON, Monday Aftethoon. In spite of the near approach of the session political interest is even less lively than it was a week ago. The umuourB as to Cabinet differences are now at rest, it being generally known that, though such differences have existed, they have been settled; and though there is a certain languid curiosity as to the terms of the Queen's Speech, to be ...

... THlE STORM.e E. IGHT PERSONS KILLED AT J30UTH ire WOODSIDE, T~he Glaggoto Jferald of yestes day says:-it is ormelancholy duty to record a6 dreadful accident which ial happiened at south Woodeide Carly yesterday morning, he and which reaulted f n the death of eight persona. The weather in the city on Satiuday night was wet and j,, boiaterou5, and for some hours af ter midnight it became fro ...

... THlE LEEDS MERCURY. T| E French Qffitcial ?? is anthorisedc to I deny the report thzat PeNal GoBTEoIIAZOrF has I addressed to Russian agents abroad a circular on. the Turko-Greek question, in which he threw upon Turkey the responsibility for the difficulty which has arisen between the two countries. The Press of Vienna says that M. T. DELYANNIS, the new Foreign Minister at Athers, has ...

... TCHE BISHOP OF RIPON ON I DISESTABLIBSHEMENT. lbhe Bishop of Ripon presided last night, in the Leeds Town Bell, at the annual meeting of the Addi- I tional Curates Society, and delivered an important speech on the present condition of the Church of England, Amongst those who accompanied his Lordship to the platform were the Archdeacon of Craven, the Dean of York, Rev. J. Brame, travelling ...

... I Our Ripon correspondent writes :-The search for tbe body of the roneger Warriner was continued during the day on Saturday, but without 6uccess, and it was feared he might have been carried ovor the dam below. The work of dragging the river besween the ferry and the dam was resumed on Sunday morning, and the body was found about eleven o'clock in the forenoon aome fifteen or sixteen yards ...

... NORTH-E ASTERN RAILWAY. The half-yearly mnedting of the proprietors of .the North.Eastern Railway Company was held yesterday lr at York, in the De Grey Roomns-Mr. H. S. TaonsnoN, n the chairman, presiding. The attendanoe was large. a The Curaaewu, ii moving the adoption of the report, which was taken as read, said the idrst point to which he' .t proposed to call attention was the change in the ...

... I 7 The Kansas Legislature has rejected a bill abet- ishing capital punishment. Oysters are sold ten for a cent in Pensacola, Florida. Indiana has 831 aboriginal log school-hoases still in use. r The candy consumed in Chicago ev-ery year is worth $1,500,000. One firm manufactures about one-third of the whole amount. f A two-edigeid dirk, with the handle at right angles to the blade . like a ...