Leeds
a manufacturing town of England, in Yorkshire, on the river Aire, which here becomes navigable and is crossed by eight bridges. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal communicates with the Aire, which again gives water communication with Hull, etc. The town extends technology, and medicine, affiliated to the tion is the Yorkshire College for science, about 7 from N. to S. Among the most conspicuous of the public buildings is the town hall, a massive stone building of Victoria University, Manchester. Leeds the finest municipal buildings in the kingdom. The chief educational institution is the Yorkshire College for science, technology, and medicine, affiliated to the Victoria University, Manchester. Leeds possesses a public park of 300 acres.
Leeds has been for generations the chief seat of the woolen manufacture of Yorkshire. In the wholesale clothing trade several thousand hands are employed, as also in steel works, iron foundries, rolling mills, tool and machine factories. The boot and shoe factories, the leather trade, and the cloth-cap trade also employ large numbers of men and women, and there are extensive color printing works, tobacco manufactories, chemical and glass works, works for making drainage pipes, fire-bricks, terra cotta, pottery, etc.
LEGAL EDUCATION Bartholomew, and part of St. Martin bewere grouped together in one federal col- Those which belong to Great Britain Virgin Islands to the United States. part of St. Martin to Holland; and the Virgin Islands to the United States.
Those which belong to Great Britain were grouped together in one federal colony in 1871, and consist of the five presidencies of Antigua (with Barbuda and confederation has representative government, with a governor, executive, and Virgin Islands. The Leeward Islands confederation has representative government, with a governor, executive, and Federal Legislative Council, though each presidency possesses its own constitution.
The capital and seat of government of the Leeward Islands is St. John, Antigua.
The chief products sugar and molasses. are (luh fänü' or lef'a-nü), an Irish journal- Aug. 28, 1814. Having graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, he joined (1837) the staff of the "Dublin University Magazine," becoming editor and proprietor. He first won fame with the Irish ballads, zine," becoming editor and proprietor. the staff of the "Dublin University Maga- Trinity College, Dublin, he joined (1837) ist and novelist; born in Dublin, Ireland, "Phaudbrig Croohore" and "Shamus O'Brien." Among modern Irish novelists he stands next in popularity to Charles Lever. "The House by the Churchyard" (1863) ; "Uncle Silas" (1864) "Guy Deverell" (1865) "The Tenants of (1869); "In a Glass Darkly" (1872).
He died in Dublin, Feb. 7, 1873.