... Zbe arillp antf Rabp. s . THE ARMY. a TEr. FoRlTY-SECOND.-The troop ship Sapphire, Mr. d Cole, master, has left Plymouth for Cork, to convey detachments of the 42nd regt. to the Mediterranean, from which quarter the Apollo troop ship is daily expected to arrive. ROYAL ARTILLERY.-The officers of the Royal Horse 0Artillery are to wear the covered chaco on all parades, d except on Sundays, and ...

... facetiff. AN INFALLIBLEr RECIr>E TO MAKE A RADICAL IN FORTY- e EIGHT Houts.-Take of the root of hypocrisy and the r root of pride three handfuls ; of ambition and vain glory two ounces: pound them in the mortar of faction and dis- e cord, after which boil them in-three quarts of dissembling e tea over the fire of treachery till you perceive the scum of n falsehood swim at the top; then strain ...

... - rble W-b-ItIl iontiftm -1 HULL, FRIDAY, DIECEMBER 11, 1840'. PARLIAMENT. PARLIAMENT is to meet for despatch of business, on the 26th of January. A proclamation to that effect was agreed to at the meeting of the Privy Council on Tuesday, which meeting her Majesty wvas well enough, we are happy to say, to attend. PAYMENTS TO THE HOSPITALS. ITv will be seen, by our report of the proceedings of ...

... *Cfence. DEPTH OF THE OCEAN.-The sea was recently sounded by lead and line in latitude 57 deg. south, and 85 deg. 7 mi. west longitude from Paris, by the officers of the French ship Venus, during a voyage of discovery; at a depth of 3470 yards, or two miles and a half, no bottom'was found; the weather was very serene; and it is-said that hauling in the lead took 60 sailors upwards of two hours ...

... I T nNSTT~-E\ - -- I ma .1 . . LUNDOUN, Dec. 14.-The colonial woo] sales, which com- mnenced on the, 3d inst., have been brought to a close. They consisted of about 10,000 bags; of which the following, we believe, are the particulars :-Australian 6563, Van Diemen's Land 2612, South Australian 104, East India 215 ; total 0494 bales. -The attendance at these sales was very numerous, and amongst ...

... mtaterials for IabIe zath.5 It is sometimes best to assume a bold tone, as the , Romans threw loaves of bread into the camp of the Gauls, a, to shew how sumptuously they fared. r, According to the old German custom, the sons were to r, walk to church after their father, but the girls before their mother, to shew that her eye should never be off them' a A wise man's heart is like a broad ...

... AP - THE LATE STORMS UPON THE COAST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL P.4CKET. SiIB,-The very humane and benevolent act of the editors of the public press, in circulating through their columns my letter of the 2 Ist unt. on the means to be employed for the protection of seamen and fishermen upon the coast, from the dangers of sudden and unexpected storms, deserves the wvarmnest thanks of a grateful ...

... IUeting of tbt 901A.T!oullnci. WEDNESDAY, Dsc. 9. Alderman COOKMAN in the chair. 'T'hose marked thus * in the following list were absent. ALDERMEN. Atkinson, S. Brownlow, W. *Newmarch, G. 'Ayre, Dr. *Bowden, J. Parker, J. C. Bean, R. - Chalmors, M., Storry, J. M. 'Bell, W. H. M.D. (Mayor.) Thompson, T. Blyth, R. *Lowthrop, W., Sir COUNCILLORS. Lowgate Ward. East Sculcorles. JNorlh lfyton. ...

... HWe reported, in our last, the proceedings at the meeting which some busy whig-radicals, by a requisition exclusively signed by their own party, had induced the Mayor to call, for the purpose of considering the propriety of presenting conpritulatory addresses to the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, on the birth, of a Princess Royal. .. That meeting was adjourned, Tfir the ...

... orobfntfal Webm I Alderman Thompson has purchased the estate of Undei ley, in Westmoreland; which consists of about 3,000 acres of land with a splendid mansion, and was the property of Mr. Noel. The Town-Council of Birmingham met on Tuesday week, and came to a resolution to oppose, by all constitutional means, the introduction into that town of the new Poor- law system. * Captain Collier, who ...

... . 'Oii Tuesday evening, an inquest was held at the Mansion- house, before Mr. Thorney, and a respectable jury, on view.of the body of Sarah Jd'ne Thistleton, who met hex death -from the injuries she re~ceived on the Old Dock Bridge, on Monday after- noon, from being run over by a ruily.-The jury having been -sworn, the first witiless called was 4T- Kil, of the artilUery; who deposed as follows ...

... Iincoinsbire 3Jehs. I t - tier Majesty's government have ordered the discharge of Mr. James Hitchins, to whose case we alluded last week ache Earl of Brownlow left Belgrave-square early last week, to meet the Countess and family at Torquay jz Devonshire. It is stated, that a matrimonial engagement subsjt between Viscount Alf6rd, son of Earl Browvolow, and Lady Marianne Compton, eldest daughter ...