... X,,0ral JXIlfallt al . HULL AND SELBOY RAILrAY.-TraffoC i'etnrns for the welk ending August 2lst, 1841 Passcaetg's (o6-17), parcels, &c .. £4G-3 1l 10 Goods, cattle, sheep, grai, &c 333 9 5 rotal . T1027 1 3 FLOATINOG BxTiis.- These lonig-wanted desi- derata are at length established in this townvi. They are at preseat situated in the Jaunction Dock, as will be seen ...

... FRANCE, As the period for opening the French Chamber ap- proaches, the usual reports of conspiracies are rife; and the recent discoveries made by QUESINET give to them a fearful and serious import. It is certain, that there is great alarm at the palace; and a passage is constructing, to ena- ble the King to pass to the Chambers without going through the streets. In an article on this state of ...

... Tire Stars, in their coarses, fight against SISEnA, said a whig-radical dissenting journalist, quoting Scripture, as a certain personage is said to do, to suit his purposes. The quotation was made introductory to an article, pro- fessing to shew, that the ''very Heavens frown upon toryism, rebuke its presumptiou, and threaten to crush its power ; and that the reecnt unsettled weather was a ...

... General or~sbjre gecos. BEVERLEY, DEC. 16. AN IMPUDENT THIEF.-Onl Saturday night last, a little boy was going down the street with a cheese on his head and when opposite Goforth-lane, a fellow seized the cheese, and ran down the lane. A man who saw the trick, pur- sued the thief,-but the night being dark, he succeeded in making his escape. A REMARKABLE PEAR-TfREE IN THE PARISH OF LOCKINGTON. ...

... The London papers of vestcrday mr.orning contain no news from the continent, tle Frenull express not having arrived. 'ihm Quecn and the Duke of Cornwall are in excellent health; and, in a few day-, it is expected, that the patent will be issued, crcating his royal highluess Prince of Wales .. The gloom -which thi illness of the Queen Dowager threw over the country is now dissipating; and ...

... - - ----- ----- -Il ocal Ellidlinflift. HULL ArND S;EL1Y RAILWAY.-Traffic returns for the week ending November 20th, 18411:- Passengers (2841), parcels, &c .. £ £377 11 7 Goods, cattle, sheep, grain, &c 348 17 3 Total .. £726 8 10 Same week last year . £473 8s. Sd. A sheep was slaughtered in a field on the Bever- ley road, in the night between Saturday and Sunday last, ...

... IN our 6tk page we give a precis of the news brought by thismonath's overland mail,-from India and China . IL its not very important. As regards the former counitry; there ha5 been very littlhcha;nge since the. last accoutnts; and from China, the news derives, inmportanca:solely from the knov ledge it imparts, that the policy of Sir HENnY POa~WINGE, ,ill be the very reverse of that of Capt. ...

... - .- - S- W _ I :~~ ' ''=~ tsuo Iitaie, -~~~-~-= DOMESTIC AND METROPOLITAN. THE COURT.-On Thursday morning, her Majesty walked for some time on the terrace with Prince Albert, and looked remarkably well. The Queen is said to have much wished that her accouchernevrt might take place at Windsor; but the many inconveniences which wonuld attend this arrangement forbid it..On Friday, the Queen ...

... Galzral VorRsfwre Aacws. DRIFFIELD, AUGUST 12. TILE LATE GALAS IN lIULL.--Tho exlhibitions of fire- wforks, which last M eek took. place in the Zoological and Botanic Gardens, in Hull, were distinctly seen at Ditfield between nine and ten o'clock in tlto evening, so far as regards the rockets and balloons, which wvere clearly observed to ascend and afteravards to explode an~d separate. The ...

... I TnIAT renegrade to the interests of ships, colonies, and commerce, the Shirpping Gazette, in its paper of Friday, the 1I ilh inst., has made an attack upon Mr. CHrAMP.1A;, the able and constitutional member for Whitby,-*.vhich is re- mrtrkable alike fur stupidity and malice. This London scribbler and free trader, with that self-sufficient vallity which is part and parcel of the system of ...

... I(orresponbence. Y 2' THE SBDzOR OF THE BULL PACKET. , iS,-You have frequently directed the public attention j heretofore to acts of gross and unblushing partisanship committed by the reforming worthies of our Town Council. Permit me now to draw your notice to a recent feat of those dignitaries, which in some respects may fairly be con- .s sidered their masterpiece. , A meeting of aldermen, ...

... CtI wtoll Inauue HEALTH OF TOWNS. WE are glad to find, that the government have intro- duced a bill of practical legislation, which must have a beneficial effect,-we allude to that introduced by Lord NORMAN13Y, for regulating the buildings in, and effecting the proper drainage of, towns. We regret, with Lord ELLENBOIIOUGH, that it has not a retrospective operation; for not only is it ...