... ml _1 % . The annual meeting on new year's eye was held in St. John's Church. It was an interesting sight, to see so vast an assembly congregated within the walls of the sacred edifice on the confines of two years; when only a few hours of the expiring year had to run its course. The church was crowded to excess. Even the passages were filled. The meeting w~as commenced by singing a part of ...

... Ir pg :uU 3~ac~et. HULL, FRIjDAY, JANUAtRY 3, 1840. I. .-MON.- WXTH a, grateful sense of the generous support ex tended towards us by an increased number of sob scribers in Hull, the East, North, and West Ridings and in tife counties of Lincoln and Lancashire, not omitting more distant patrons, during the season that has just closed, we welcome in the first week of another year the laborious ...

... | DECK LOADING: E IMPORTANT TO SHIPOWNERS. [We call the serious attention of our readers to the following important case relative to the culpable prac- tice of deck loading. We take the report from the rt Morning Advertiser. Alderman Copeland-unques- e, tionably one of the most efficient City magistrates- ed deserves the thanks of every citizen, and the warmest gratitude of every honest man in ...

... Me lestabifbrl eburcb-. -w I rI PREFERMENTS, &a. The Rev. T. B. Coney, A.B. to the Vicarage .of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, vacant by the deslth of the Rev. H. Gould. Patrons, the Dean and Chap- ter of Wells. The Rev. J. RBwes5 of Chew Magna1 appointed by a Minor Canon of Briiol Cathedral, in the room of the Rev. R. W. Lsibert, preferred to the Living of Fifehead and Swell; Soierset. The ...

... I *TEuT Ministers should terminate their official career by deserting in a body the agricultural interest, and thereby swramping for a cuckoo blast at the hustings national independence and prosperity, is little calculated to excite surprise at a period when the squeezable nature of the Cabinet has been repeatedly exhibited, and while a general election demands agitation to cloak the deeds of ...

... Agricultural c Qbarben Operations. I REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK. c r From Bell's Weekly Messenger of Dec. 30.) E The miserable condition of the new wwheat at Monday's market caused a dull trade for three-fourths E of the supply, such being more or less affected by the state of the weather, and our millers took it very e slowly, whilst the few dry samples were taken off r, ...

... | u - - - I _ I. . HAVING already expressed our opinion on the mo- mentous topic that agitates the Northern Church Establishment, it may be expected that the powerful address of Dr. Chalmers to the dignitaries and eccle-. siastics at large of the Church of England, and through them confessedly to the Coaservatives of this country, should call forth a relinquishment or defence of the views ...

... ne The following letter from the Tiines very clearly at touches the spring which regulates the progress of Protestantism and Popery. It may seem to an unob. tn servant eve the dream of a theologian. But expe- 's rience has proved the truth of the assertion-Thit I, Popery can never be truly foiled by anything but a a simple preaching of the simple yet mighty doctrine, n- ' Juestfication by ...

... LONDON NEWS OF THURSDAY EVENING. Co!1N Du Tx IES.-The duty on Wheat has risen to 20s. 8d. per qr. TnE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S Message has not yet reached this, country. Its delivery appears to have Ta been delayed by long disputes in Congress on the right of certain members to take their seats. The stormy weather has also retarded vessels from the west. COLONIZATION BoARD.-The members of titis ...

... oRV0 . ant, gbontcfti 3E Aln extraordinary sensation provailed in tho diplo- Dmatic circels of, Coltntnp in conlseqtlticfl Of a revelation moad by lbi. Avedicl, tho mean I interpreter of the Capitall Pachl, who, hating i escapeti froml Alexa~ndria, ?? a fewv days pre- viomlyl at Pera. 'II. AveiIc ilinformeli the Divan and the AlbaCsadors tha tlae Coentale at ins btraying the Ttlatisve toct to ...

... DISTRESS OF THE FANCY WEAVERS TO THE EDITOR OJI THlE NORTHERN STARS. SIR,-This is the last evening of the present year. I sit down to write, and trouble younwitb, a very brief notice of the state in which the old year is leaviug, and the new year is finding, those in the branch of trade to which I belong, namely, the fancy weaving trade. Sir, the fancy weavers engaged in weaving fancy waist. ...

... THIE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1840. THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SENSON. TPRI NEW YEARS' GIFTS.-THE BOON. Tasx Almighty force of time-honoured custom Imposes on us and all men the necessity of bidding I Happy New Year to our friends on first meeting with them after the Earth has started on another annual revolution. Enemies to mere compliment, asto everything else unnatural and unjust, ...