... VIt¢ j'1ull JBajcutt AND EAST RIDING TI[ES. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1855. WINTrFI has set in with almost Siberian severity. During the past week we have had keen frosts, piercing cold winds, and heavy falls of snow. At this moment our streets and quays are covered with snow to the depth of one or two feet, and there is no prospect of an early improvement in the weather. Under these circumstances ...

... LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S APPOINTMENT. I EVERYBODY is puzzled at the appointment of Lord JOHN RUSSELL to represent England at the coming conference at Vienna. What can it mean ? is asked on every side. Why it is barely a fortnight since this very nobleman received, if the Times is to be credited, an autograph letter of rebuke from Her MAJESTY, and now he is selected as the representative of Great ...

... Tes mills continue closed and closing-the workmen insolent and starving-the rabble ora- tors braling and fattening on the spoil, and the Union in ftll mischief and malignity. In a few instances, the strike conspiracy has been defeated, but the 70,000 weavers and spinners of Preston and the neighbourhood walk about, with their idle hands in their empty pockets, waiting for the next remittance ...

... IDISTR ICT INTELLIGENCE. ?? ?? HEDON. rioI Onl Sunday last, at the afternoon service at Si, alltC Augustine's Church, a sermon was preachedforthe Bible deb Society, by the Rev. F1. B. King, M.A ,vicar of Burst- wick. The collection amounted to £1 9s. 7d. On Friday night last, sonie miscreant stole from the HO Westlands, Hiedon, a valuable nutmeg grey mare, about nor three years old, belonging ...

... ?? joull catiftt AND EAST RIDING TINES. HULL, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1853. THE play of The Hypocrites Unmasked, or the Young Pigeon Plucked is still proceed- ing in our Town-Hall. And if popular interest in the performance has latterly abated, it is simply because the veil has been completely torn from our local 1Tartuffes, and nobody but those specially deputed for the task, thinks it ...

... At the fourth quarterly meeting yesterday 39 members were preHent, bhe mayor (Dr. Cooper) in the chair. Several freemen were sworn. WATCH RATE. A watch rate of 4d. in the pound was ordered to be levied. Mr. DRANT said he believed a surplus remained from the collection of a former rate, in consequence of the increased value of property. The TOWN CLERK said the overseers might, if they could, ...

... In three several trials, wislich have taken place within the last week, and have excited an unusual degree of public atten- tion, the question of responisibility on the ground of mental . ability to discern between right and wrong was the main point on which the decision turned, In the first of the three eases O alluded to,-the great will cause of The Earl of Sefton v. 6t Hopwood, the issue ...

... | I SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. OPENING OF THE BOMBARDMENT. APRIL 10. The Times has published the following despatch from Vienna, dated Monday evening :-Onl the evening of the 9th the bombardment of Sebastopol commenced. The cannonade had lasted twelve hours when the courier left; and the advantage appeared to be with the allies, but no signal success had been obtained. The Morning Herald of ...

... I FRANCIS. PARis, Nov. 17.-It appears from an official report that the yield of the lasat harvest is about 10,000,00§ lhectolitres below the average yield, and that up to the present time 3.600,000 hectolitres; ?? haebe imported into France, r aebe M. Drouny de L'Huys has replied to the lasi note of Count Nesselrode. His friends say that he professes to regard the note as pacific, but remarks ...

... AND EAST RIDING TIfES. [REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD.] FRIDAYS SEPTEMBER 7, 1855, OuR Protestant church is a part of the recognised constitution of England. Its Arch- bishqps and bishops, as such, have seats in the highest councils and courts in the kingdom. Hence it has always happened that in nearly all social meetings of English gentlemen, the eccle- ...

... The ollwin isthetex ?? of Alliance betwee her Majesty, ?? of Austria, and the Emperor of the French, signed at Vienna, Dee. 2, 185' (presented to both losioes of Parliament by conmmanr& of her Majesty), and laid on the tables of both houses om Friday night: (Translation.) 4 Her Majesty the Queen of tile United Kingdom of Grea, t lhritain and Ireland, his Majesty thle Emperor of Austria, andr~ ...

... UniUe Yesterday, an adjourned quarterly meeting was held, he -b the mayor (W. -1. Moss, Esq.), in the chair, belie- .The minutes of the proceedings of' the various committees, befor badl, in compliance with the resolution of the last meeting', with been placed in the hands of each member, toso days prior to the notic mneeting, Maya THE PROPERTY COMMITTEE AND TilE CLERK c00nvS OF THE PEACE. ...