... IHUIL TOWN COUNCIL. I A meeting of the Bull Towe Council was helad yesterday, when every member watspreseut. THE RATE FOR THE LUNATIC- ASYLUM. The Towar CLrhE said he had received a requisition from )se the Lunatic Asylum Committee requiring the Council to lay a in rate, amounting to 2d. in the pound, for. the Lunatic Asylum. ?? said he believed the Council would be obliged to lay it. Dr, ...

... PROSPECTS OF FARMERS AND SHIP- OWNERS. (From Bell's Messenger.j Since the law which repealed the duties on the importation of foreign corn received the sanution of the legiilatare, we have refrained from reiterating our convictions as to its ulti- mate result, as it appeared to be a general understanding that the free-trade nostrum should have a (air trial. But in the face of the facts by ...

... 'A FACT FOR FARMERS. AS, A paragraph, with the above prefix, haa appeared within thesec ed, tew days in the Dubliiin papers, dtilflcientyagifntowrai h.the serious reflection of tine British favrmos. An order, it hi seeems, bas been received by the storekeeper' at the IDublil ofh Custom-hiouse to clear out every article of merchandise that caxn ahbe remoived, to make way for 1a large ...

... LXsSoNS 9OR SUNDA,7ry MAY 27.-WhitSunday. - Morning - First Lesson : Deuteronomy xvr. to r. 18. second Lesson: Acts x. v. 34.-Evening-First Lesson: Isalah mt. Second Lesson: Acts xrx. to v. 21. THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.-The thirtieth an. fliversary of Her Majesty's birthday was celebrated in this town on Saturday, with the usual marks of enthusiasm and loyalty. The day was observed as a close ...

... IPUBLIC DINNER TO THE MAYOR I OF GRIMSBY. -is at Last evening (Thursday) a complimentary dinner was given toW. H. Daubney, REsq., the Mayor of Grimsby, as a mark Of the respect and esteem in which he Is held by the inhabi. le tants of that utlece. The dinner was held in the Preparatory E 34 School Room, Noew-street, which vias beautifully decorated for es 11 the occasion. Upwards of eighty of ...

... AND EAST-8I-DING TIMES. HULL, FRIDAY, JAN. 19, 1849. MANCHESTER has given birth to a second I league. Whether it will be as successful as the t first depends very much upon the tactics adopted I by its opponents. If they repeat past errors f they must expect, also, to renew past defeats. If, r however, they have learnt wisdom by experience, and meet the new agitation fairly and candidly, upon ...

... THE HULL ATHENUM.I Last evening (Thursday) a special general meeting of the subscribers to the Hull Athenaeum was held for the purpose of rectiving a report from the directors on the affairs of the institution, and of deciding upon the course to be pursued with regard to its future management. Mr. T. A. Wilkinson occu- pied the chair. The CRAIRMAW, In opening the proceedings of the meeting, ...

... PEA CE. Tun objection to Mr. Cobden's proposal of international peace commissions is Only half stated in pointing out the fact that such a commission would be, in its very nature, incompetent to enforce its own behests: the plan wholly neglects the direction in which an effective appeal is to be found. it tends to set up a machinery in which any reli- ance must be fallacious, and to disarm the ...

... Uaftap Intelligence. L ma--- 1- - . - RAILnOAD IN AUSTaIA.-The Cologne Gazette of the - 14th inst. states, that the Vienna and flaab Railroad was f opened on the 5th iust., as far as Gliggnitz, in the mifdst of v a vast number of spectators. Baron Sina, who first eug. l gested the idea of this railroad, invited more thrna pj) I persons, amongst whom was observed Prince 4Milosch, to e join him ...

... CO R RES P ON D ENC E. TilE CORN LAW, RENTS, AND AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS. 'TO TIlE EDITOR OF TllE BULL PACKET. Sta,-It is unforturate for tile tillers of tile soil that there are t not a sallicient nusmber or practical ?? to advocate their inter- h1 erts iii Parliament, or even in tile public imeetings at the cattle b shows low so oommnon in Englaird. Thus we hear but little of b the real ...

... Ii We endeavoured, in our last, to controvert some of the 0. positions taken up by the advocates of a Railway Dock, he and we shall now proceed to grapple with others. Ie Mr. Robert Stephenson in his report upon a site for a Railway Dock which we published a fortnight since, alluding to Mr. Thompson's plan of a dock on the west ri- shore states, The impression that the cost of this site ln ...

... 1. of re INrITSMARY.-Mr. Joseph Lambert has become to i- an annual subscriber of £2 2s.-A valuable present of old th( te linen has been received this week from Beverley. WI i Private theatricals are about to be added to vce sthe soiree arrangements at Burton Constable. The first a performance, we learn, takes place tomorrow evening. il1 COUNTY VOTERS.-Conservatives should recol- on of lect ...