... BEVERLEY. TOWN COUNCIL MEETING. A quarterly meeting of the Council was held on Wed- nesday last; present: Wm. Crosskill, Esq., Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Brereton and Stephenson: Coun- cilors Crump, Duncan, T. Stephenson, J. Issott, J. Hind,E. Shipaione, Oxley, Robinson, Fussy, Beaumont, and Swailes. The Town CLUrK read the minutes of the last meeting. On the motion of Mr. J. HIND, seconded ...

... I (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. EASTER'N.COUNTIES RAILWAY. She adjourned hsityeariy meeting beld to-day at one Cloek, at tbe flondOD Tavern Room, wras extremely crowded, - an4 directC upon their entry rere received with all sorts or irdantr°'''a. Nuoneroa police wrere ?? IDtheroomn. Mr. cASE, chairman of the Inveeligetion committee, moved tie ollonwing resolation :- That ...

... I WE are not at all disposed to deny that the tl decision of the House of Lords on Monday night a with reference to the Navigation Bill has both a grieved and disappointed us. We must own that l we certainly did expect the bill would undergo some important modifications in committee. When c we remembered that the majority in the House of a Commons had dwindled in one year from 113 to ii 61 ; ...

... MISCELLANEOUS= | A cynical old bachelor defines marriage to be the only lottery not put downyt The America steamer sailed from Liverpool on Saturday, for Boston, with £180,000 in specie. One million Irishmen, within twenty-two years, have been naturalized as citizens of the United States. The Countess of Blessington, accompanied by her neices, has left London fr Paris, where it is her ...

... I - . A_ - S, RiexO DrOCESAN Cnsricn BUILDING SocirTY AND e BOARtD Op EDUOATION.-The Lord Bishop of Ripoa D has, during the last fortnight, been on a tour through. ., out his diocese, and has attended fourteen different te meetings to endeavour to replenish the exhausted funds Fn of the above societies. One of those meetings was held n in the Town Hall, Ricbmond, on Friday the 27th ult. the ...

... CotrespoubeneI. l LIGHTING A-ND 1'AYVIG. TO TAE EDITOR OF THE !I HULL PACKET. Sin, - The *s Voice from -Francis-street, which spee1s j% thej last, Packet, calls atteafion to many things wil,worthy of notice. it is, however, painful to hear tfhat the &`lcoates SCommissio-ners, who -are a mcst re- speotable body oC gentlemenw, should be charged with ngoectinig the petitions and remonstrances ...

... RAILWAYS TO BE WORKED I BY CONTRACT. THE recent very melancholy disclosures re- lative to railways and the utter uncertainty-we a had almost written caprice-which appears to r prevail as to whether this or the other item should I be charged to capital or to expenditure, has r aroused the reflective powers of many share- t holders, and given rise to considerations which X ought long since to ...

... DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. (FtOMt OURL PRIVATE CORRESPONDaENT.) SEVH'E. -AND BLOODY ACTION AT COLDING, IN c JUTLAND, BHTWEEN THB HOLSTI8IN INKSiURt- t GENTS AN4D THE l A&NES., IN WHXCiI THE LATTER WERE COMPELLED TO RETIRE. HkAvao, April 28.-Since my lest a very'severe and in bloody actiqia1' has beena fooght In the. town aknd vicinity of ?? Calding, in which.AlQ Datues have, su1ffered a ...

... SOUTH EA ST ERN RAILWAY MEETING. COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION'S REPORT. RE- COMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY A LARGE MAJORITY-ONLY THREE HANDS HELD UP AGAINST IT. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE CHAIRMAN PASSED. The adjourned half-yearly meeting held at one p.m. to-day, 17th inst.; Jas. Maegregor, Esq., in the chair. There was not a very numerous attendance of proprietors, owing, probably, to the report ...

... LESSONS FOR SUNDAY, MAY 20.-Sunday after Ascension. - Morning - First Lessons: Deuteronomy xzx Second Lesson: Matthew ?? Lesson: Deuteronomy xCi. Second Lesson: I Corinthians ILr HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY COMPANY.. Doubts being entertained as to the present position of the Bull and Selby proprietors in reference to the guarantee, we ha5e made careful enquiries on the subject, from the result of ...

... I (FROMs OUR OWN cOaRMSPONDErMT.) LONDON, WBDwNEDAY. The second exposure of 'Tr. fludson's railway management has created In London even a greater excitement than the first. He is now censured on all hands. The wholesale way in which the accounts appear to have been falsified, and the large sums so recklessly paid out of the capital that dividends might be de- clared, has created not only ...

... , THE GREAT BLUE ROTTERDAM. THE GREAT -, I- We last week publi hed -in account of a terrible confaigra. tion which had occurrid at Rotterdam Mesb s. W. and C. L. Ringrose (whose fiirm, ?? be ieen, are coriider9b0e sufferer,, by the fire) ?? kindly favoured us with the following extract. 'F60m the Amsterdam and RoUterdam Courant, which gives a much more detailed and particular account of the ...