70 pounds a-year to Magdalen
College, Cambridge, tenable till degree of M.A. has been taken; one
Exhibition of 100 pounds a-year, tenable for five years, at Queen's College,
Oxford, open to a candidate from Leeds school; and four of 50 pounds each, at
Oxford or Cambridge, for four years. There were 174 scholars in 1850. It is
open to the sons of all residents in Leeds, without any fee to the masters,
who are liberally paid. The elements of mathematics are taught. The Charity
Commissioners reported it to be satisfactorily and ably conducted.

The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, the Leeds Literary Institution,
and the Leeds Mechanics Institute, are all respectable in their class. The
Mechanics Institute forms the centre of a union of Yorkshire associations of
the same kind.

Three newspapers are published in Leeds, of large circulation, representing
three shades of political opinion.

The Leeds Mercury--which has, we believe, the largest circulation of any
provincial paper--was founded, and carried on for a long life, by the late Mr.
Edward Baines, who represented his native town in the first reformed
parliament, and for some years afterwards--a very extraordinary man, who, from
a humble station, by his own talents made his way to wealth and influence. He
was the author of the standard work on the cotton trade, as well as several
valuable local histories. The Mercury is still carried on by his family. One
son is the proprietor of a Liverpool paper, and another, the Right Honourable
Matthew Talbot Baines, represents Hull, and is President of the Poor-Law
Board.

Among the celebrated natives of Leeds, were Sir Thomas Denison, whose life
began like Whittington's; John Smeaton, the engineer of Eddystone Lighthouse,
the first who placed civil engineering in the rank of a science; the two
Reverend Milners (Joseph, and Isaac, Dean of Carlisle), great polemical
giants in their day, authors of "The History of the Church of Christ;" Dr.
Priestly, inventor of the pneumatic apparatus still used by chemists, and
discoverer of oxygen and several other gases; David Hartley, the
metaphysician whom Coleridge so much admired that he called his son after
him; and Edward Fairfax, the translator of Tasso. Nor must we forget Ralph
Thoresby, author of "Ducatus Leodiensis, or the Topography of the Town and
Parish of Leeds"--a valuable and curious book, published in 1715; and of
"Vicaria Leodiensis, a History of the Church o