... 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 ...

... TIHE MUNICIPAL ACT. It is now admitted on all hands, and by men of adl parties, that the act for amending Municipal Corporations itself requires amendment. We take the fact for ranted on several grounds, the chief of which, as affecting our own town, we shall briefly mention. At every refistra- tion which takes place, thousands of objeetions, for the UT most part utterly frivolous and ...

... THE CORN eAwS. Wd DEARh BREAD AND LOW WAGES.' 7017Octh EDITOR of the ADBZEM ERN HERA LD, SIR.-You often give place o speeches and pragraphs absose 01 thte corn laws, Among theta therb~flal several rtimxesi appaed', th standcar~d argument let favour of these leaws, via., That dealn~A bread must mako high wages. ?? Will you do-us tile faivilur to explain how It ae bu ht el just now, when the ...

... -W I N TE..R. of FATAL ACClDrNT ow riE ?? following account r- aso been fnrnislhed by the seeretary of the Humano rociety :--On 7t, Sunday, abort four ?? ilock, twelve orthirteen persons, playing at gs football, near the bri Igo, birkiretlrouglh the ice in a cluster. In P- less thbl twotninutes therewvere nineof theienrennoftie rociety, *e under thediteetion of: Mr. ilieamnssdhe superintendent ...

... PARLIAMENT.-At a privy council held on Tuesday afternoon, at Buckingham palace, parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Thursday next, the 10th instant, until the 26th of January; and a proclamation was ordered to be issued, summoning the parliament to meet on the 26th of January for the despatch of business. THE NEw HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.-The walls of the new Houses of Parliament ...

... jarts Scienee, 'Zvantions, &C. IMPROVED PRINTING PRESS.-M. Lenormand, a celebrated mechanic, has discovered the means of printing on one cylinder both sides of the same sheet, which enables his mechanical press to act with a quickness double any hitherto known, and can produce 4000 copies in an hour.- Moniteur Indrustriel. BRIDPORT.-TRrAT FOR GEOLOGISTS.-During the late tremendous gales, an ...

... TOXES AND TONATHANS. A littlo nonsense now and tbell Is relish'd by tbe wisest ilee. YANKIEE LAND.-Clin you ride in a cart when the weather is Can you get, every nisht, seat quite tipsy, but groggy? If net, at the fire of al inU cam you flit Rousnd and round, to get dry, like a goose on a spit? In telling a tale cau you ponder and prose ? Can yoe spit through your teeth ? Can you talk througli ...

... tbe The Presbytery met yesterday in St. .ary's Cmpelo; but the tis, proceedings were protractest to so lote ili hour, that we sire Nt lib obligedl to d eier osir repolrt ofs them till ox t week, Mr brat eSON lie psostpririted ?? rnotioti oil tire si ?? of Potrossage till cext This seetirig of l'resbytery. Mr GotnDox gaoe noiceeof a motioti test for iext meetiig, that tlie Prosbytery oivite the ...

... A Frenschwriter has recently compiled an interesting sum- mary of accidents to and by British steam vessels for a series of years, from which also may be gathered the number of steam vessels possessed by this country at different periods. The materials of the summna ry are supposed to be derived from reports prepared some time since by order of the Admiralty here. The small compass in which ...

... THE TOWN COUNCIL AND TIHE POST OFFICE. It will be cbserved, that Bailie RICHARDSON called the attention of the Council to the circum- stance, that there had been no delivery of letters on the recent fast day, whereby serious incon. venience had been caused to several parties. In the discussion that followed, a dif~erenicc of opi- nion was expresse(l, as to whether there ought to be any ...