... THE STRIKES IN LIVE D The labour-strikes have been continued during the past week, and, in most instances, they have been sac cessful in obtaining the advances demanded The cabinet-makers are now receiving 2s. a-week extra. upholsterers 2s., corn-porters 6d. a-day, and Plasterer, fid. a-day. The movement among the nightmen Ira not been so successful, owing to their want of fund5 - must of them ...

... I C, ormsponOence. I S.T MARY AND ST. PAUL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ' HULL PACKET. Slrl,-I have this morningread a letter from Mr. Gar- thorne, inserted in your journal on Friday last. I decline making aty comment on the extraordinary assertions which that letter contains. Mr. Garthorne must have presumed on my being a man of no little forbear- ance, or he would never have suffered such a ...

... 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.; ...

... BRITISH ASSOCIATIONi FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING, TOWN-HALL, HULL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1853. A public imeeting of the inhabitants of this borough, -onvened by the lAYOtr, in compliance with a rcquiSi- tice, was held this day, at one o'clock, for the pur- pose of giving information to the public regarding the Association, the means ?? have been adopted for ...

... HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRELAND, On Thursday morning, Her Majesty the Queue, h:- Royal Highness the Prince, their Royal Highnesss the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, again visiei the Great Industrial Exhibition. The proposed visit to Powerscourt and the Dargle was given up, owing to the state of the weather. The Royal dinner party in the evening included tihe Lord Lieutenant and the Countess ...

... In the Westminster County Court, yesterday week, Messrs. Thrupp, coach-builders, of Oxford-street, sued the Hon. Mr. Norton, metropolitan police magistrate for the Lambeth district, to recover the sum -of £,49 l1s., being the balance of an account due to them for repairs done to a brougham belonging to the Hon. Mrs. Norton, who has for some years past been separated from her husband. Mr. Dodd ...

... 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 ...

... We must say that we looked forward .with. more curiosity to the electoral experiences of Mr. JAMES (LAY than to those of any other of our late members or candidates. His connection with [lull has been longer and more intimate than that of any of his col- leagues or opponents ;. he was known to have been in close and constant correspondence with the most active,-and, as it has since turned out, ...

... THE UR KIISH Q U EiS TIO . I - ?? Although the impression exists in well-informed circles that the Turkish difficulty will give way before the united influence and mediation of the European courts, and the new guarantees for the political re- generation of the Greek and Catholic population of the Ottoman Empire, recommended by our ambassador, Lord STRATFORD DE REDCUIFFE, there is still enough ...

... HULL ELECTION COMMiS SION. I TWENTY-NINTH DAY. FRIDAY, JUNE 24. BEFOR& FREDERICK SOLLY FLOOD, JOHN DEEDES, AND W. D. BRETT, ESQS., Y HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS. v The examination of the voters on Wilde's setting- e down list resumed. Those marked thus * are house- holders, the others freemen. P Norman, John, tailor, Castle-street, voted 1847. i Ruff, Wm., Stepney-lane, ropemaker. S Rutherford ...

... IDISTRICT INTELLIGENCE SUTTON. The fourth annual fete of the Church of Engiand schools, took place on Thursday last, June 30th. when a sermon was preached by the Rev. - Abbott, B.A., curate of Holy Trinity Church, Hull. The ser- vice was admirably performed by the juvenile choir, assisted by the juvenile choir from the Holy Trinity, church and led by the Rev. Mr. Abbott, B.C. Thearrange- ments ...