... REFORM OF TIHE BOARD OF CUSTOMS. An influential meeting of the merchants and ship- owners of Hull was held in the Exclhange-rooms on Monday last, to receive a deputation from the London Committee for obtaining a reform of the Board of Customs. Amongst the gentleni present we observed Alderman Thompson, and Mlessrs. H. Blundoll, J. Blundell, John Foster, J. Atkinson, V. B. Brownlow, Win. ...

... THE DETENTION OF THE EMIGRANTS1 TO PORT NATAL. In answer to the summons which was obtained on Wednesday last against Mr. Joseph Rylands, Lieut. Lean appeared at the police court on Saturday, when letters were read from MIr. Robert Bean, the managing clerk of Mr. Rylands. stating that as Mr. Rylands was then in London, orders had been given that the victual- ling of the passengers on board the ...

... corme pollbelixt. I TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. Si ,-I cannot help regrettingthat Mr. Overton, in his lecture, as reported in the Hull Packet of March 21, should have taken up the untenable scheme of Mr. Elliott, in his interpretation of the heads of the first Apocalyptic wild beast. Such crudities, in which the work of Mr. Elliott is pre-eminent, serve oly, I fear, to expose the study ...

... I1 nle rc, BEVERLEY. ir- SEHMoNS On Sun~day last, sermons on behalf of Fog. 0 land Mission and the Model Parish, with its model cot* g tages, schools, factories, &c., as follow :-At St. John's ny Chapel, in tho morning, by tile Rev, W. Wright, M.A., lt and, in the afternoon, at the Minster, Both places were t largely attended, and the rev, gentleman's stirring appeal Y to the synmpathies of ...

... DISTRICT INTELLIGENCEJ.] !e, ~~HEDON. ur Monday last being Holyrood fair, there was a good oi su Poly Of horesmoat of Which, of good quitlity, were ksr tseof at reunerative Prices. There was a good attend. orac fbyers, mostly dealers anid shippers, for the ono- Se tinlent. As usual at the close of the fair a great number 5' of very inferior horses, of the carting kind, anid ponies, ?? nero ...

... vQ orresjonbenue.| MR. HENDRY'S EPISTLE IN REPLY TO OPPIDANUS., TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL, PAcICET. SIR,-In reading over the pages of your journal of last week, I stumbled upon a comnnunication signed J. M., in reference to another of tile preceding week signed le Oppidanus; both eonmunications atrenuously advocat- ing the construction ofacanal extending from the Huil docks to the ...

... LECTURES ON ANDREW MARVEL i Onl Moriday, evening last, the Rev. Newma .,dts hisl second lecture on the Life and WrithngsofH~llder~ , at 'he Mechanica' inttsitutle. The room 10Wa odrew ,,e very Yespectabsle audience, ?? tldiod Wih end friends or the Hull Temperance League. Th ~hels lecturer took sip Marvels history at the Bor twrevih, lefthim n hi lut lecture, and, for tile sake ir ca' he bd ...

... eorrc~pol~enbn I KINGSTON COTTON MILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THEl HULL PACKET. 8sIR-Having seen in your paper a few weeks [go an adverisement in which an offer was made of exchanging, to the number of ?? shares, of one hundred pounds each, in the Kingston mill, for ?? of the eaams amount in the old company; and hbaving also learnt, upon inquiring in the proper quarter, that NqO OVE ?? availed ...

... jFROM THrE LONDON GAZETTE. I I ?? . _ PRIDiAY, DEC. 81. JANES, Janrei, WOrthing, tinlen-draper, to surrender Jan. 8, at I o'clock, Feb. II, at II, at the BaukruptS' Court: solicitors, Messrs. Linklater, Slse-lane, BucklersburyI otdaial assignee, hir. Cannan, Aldernmanbury. UGH, James, late of Jerrnyn-street, now of Lyndhurst- qUaref, Pesciham, tailor, Jan. 7, at I o'clock, Feb. I 1, at 12, at ...

... I H U L L 'TOWN COUNCIL.! At the meeting yesterday, the Mayor, El. Blundell, Esq., presided, and forty-one members were present. PROSECUTIONS AND PRISONERS. The Borough Treasurer read the following acoounts, aas paid by him, and they were ordered to be sent to the Lords of the Treasury, for the uasual allowance. For criminal prosecutions at the York summer assizes, July, 1852, £392 14s. Id.; ...

... ELECTION OF CHURCHlWARDENS. I HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. The annual election of churchwardens and sidesmen -at this church took place on Monday morning, at eleven o'clock, in the vestry. The venerable Vicar was in the chair, and there was a rather large attendance of 5 parishioners. ,4he VICAR, in opening. the proceedings of the meet- r in alluded to the defective condition of the building, and ...

... V10wul vacdrt AND EAST RIDING TIMES. HULL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1853. THE inquiry into the electoral malpractices at this borough,though noininally only adjourned,is i virtually at an end; and the Commissioners, though jaded and worn, are now, we presume, busily drawing up that report which is to embody the result of their prolonged investiga- tion. Whilst they are thus employed, it t may fitly ...