... 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 ...

... CHRIST 8 CHutcn.-The election of churchwardenas took place, an usual, on Wednesday in Easter week, when Meanrs. John Bowes and William Jameson wore unanieou sly re-elected. MARINER8' .CHnuCH SocjBTy.-On Sunday last, sermons in aid of the landi of this society were preached in the Mariners' Church, by the Rev. T. S. Bonsin, M. A,, and the Rev. W. G. Gibson, M.A.; after which collections were ...

... - t -. - M68--i-\s--am-A\ --A ?? canl A deputation on the subject of the Pilotage Bill had an balt interview with the Right Ron. E. Cardwell, on Mondey, tr at the board of trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. bul Turner, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Mr. Henry Bremner, ber Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Hudson, and Mr. Nowall (parliamen- thr tary agent). Th Tus POLL FOR SELECT VESTRYMEm.-The poll for two Set ...

... PROMPT ACTION OF TMIE BRITISHI GOVERNMENtP PROMPT ACTION OF TVIE BRlTiSII GOVERNMENT. We yesterday Ilarnedl another instance of the way ih which British travellers are stopped, without any known cause, by the Austrian authorities in Italy ; which ease also furnishes another satisfactory illustration of the promptitude with which such matters are taken up by the present government of this ...

... d ?? . -, 1 TV -1- A AA . - 0n MtRovly-o0Ic, FRIDAY, ArRIL 16, Two O'CLOCE, AM. WVI )f . W ?? W. .. 50 L(Y ELBCTRIC TELEoGAPIH.] col to HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY, APRIL 14. ae it th: is The speaker took the chair at four o'clock. Ta h A nuinber of pelitions were presented it, favour of repeal of bea advertisoment duty and of the stamp duty upon iewopapers. a e Sir DK LAcY EVANS asked the ...

... . f -1- IHOUSE 0OF LORDttS.-F~iDAY, April 8. T~h lari of ELLENI5OROU01H presented a petition from the urnerO Ilartlepsol, complainsing of the proposed alterations ,,ier portion of British and foreign seamen employed in i th p bou~ft service, and praying that those alterations might the ?? nitted to become law. The noble earl warned the housc ris alienatinlg the affections of British seamen by ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, April 5. of The Bail in Error bill was read a third time and passed. ch The Land Improvements (Ireland) bill was read a second to time. 0' to HULL ELECTION. I ig, A conference was appointed with the Commons, with a s he view to an address to the Crown for a commission Of inquiry n iy, into the proceedings at the late Hull election. A i as THURSDAY, AraIL 7. V SlusH OF ...

... A NEW BILL FOR THE1 DISENCUMIBRANCE I I OF IRISII ESTATES. MtR. WHITI]SIDEl, on Wednesday last, obtained leave to introduce a most important bill, the object of which is to aihrd firesh facilities for thc sale and transfer of encumbered property in this country-in his own words, to extend the machinery of the Irish Court of Chalncery, in ?? to tacilitate the proceedings of the Encuminhred ...

... QUEEN VICTORI.t AN)D THlE SLAVE MISSION'ARY. Till. Rev. Sinunel Crowthier. at native of Yoroha, on the 'West coast of A ;Cia, hvvlign brevn ?? as a mis- sionarv, in conilnexiol a ith ?? ChurCh k\issioiimrv So- cietv at Si erra Leot', wvas ordained ill 1S4.S ll He visited Eng land in IS;I, and hald an illterview oil that OCiasiOn iaith QLlen1 1'iotoilrhl, tile ch cLAlitltliCOS of which do ...

... PURSUANT to a resolution adopted at a private meet in of the Tenant League, on Wednesday last, a public meeting of the council of that body, of members oi' Parliament, and of tile ?? friends of the tetviiit cause, vas held on Thmrsda'v. at the rooms of tbe' League, No. 2, Beresford Place, for the purposeb of considering tile line of policy best to hb adulipte i at thre plesent moment for its ...

... case of a Commission of Inquiry despatched from a neighbouring planet to ascertain ;—we could imagine their report to be composed of such a mass of contradictions as to lead to belief either in the of the reporters or in that of the subjects of their igation. If the Commissioners began their task by a call at Buckingham Palace, as ia duty bound to do, and requested the opivien of Her Most ...