... A NlCEgjLITTLE BILLy - IT s not an usal practice with writers and speakers upon municipal matters to !ignify the Town Council with the title of 'Local Parliament..: The phrase isnot alto- gether fanciful; for its debates are' a wearisome, its passion Sas violent, and its d`hijoins as Won- derful as any in the legislative. ails at West. min~ter. Besides it has its JOsEPff HUMP, as f every ...

... WEST SCULCOATES WARD (YESTERDAY). The vacancy in this ward was caused by Mr. Henry Blundell's elevation to the office of aldermen. Mr. Geo. Lawrence Shackles, solicitor, and Mr. William Hodson, brickmaker, were the respective candidates. After a severe struggle, the election has placed at the head of the poll Mr. HodEon, who, without any disre- pect, we cannot but consider by far the least ...

... CLAY AND GODERICII 'rE-S'iMONIAL. James Clay, Esq, A x-Ni.P. for Hull, and Viscount Goderich, M.P. for Huddersficld, attended the meet- ing in the Public-Rooms, on Monday evening last, appointed for the presentation ot the tankards which had been purchased by a subscription, stated to have been wholly originated and conducted by the operative classes, and consisting of tle pence of eighteen ...

... GENERA_ INTELLIGENCE. rr 1 ORD MAYOR OF YoRK.-Several membersof UPo the yolk corporation dined together at Harker's hotel, thb tSt' Heillr'ssquare, on Wednesday week, to celebrate the eirction ot Geo. Leeman, Esq., to the office of Sh yoai AND RIPON DIOCEsAN TRAINING SCHOOLS. ..~The pupils of this institution underwent a lengthened a eti~izatirl or, Tuesday last, by the hev. W. Busfield, Of ...

... Oust fellow subjects on the other side of the Channel are fond of complaining. A grievance is an essential to their comfort and they always make the most of it; and the grievance is more valuable to them, the less substantial it is. The Irish are a people of imagination, and what is imagination when bounded by reality ? A Mr. STANLEY has been lately assailing Lord PALMERSTON with lamentations ...

... fforresponeell . - I TO THE EDITOR OF THE ULL PACKET. DBAn SiR.-Your correspondent Cathollpes, in his lucid, but somewhat psiurul statemoent, inserted in the Pack-t last week, infornms the public Ihat only rour replies ha I bee received to the treastiver'o circular, which bad been sentt to upwards of a hundred of the principal inhabitants of the tunown and neilihbli rhood, soliciting ...

... T HE STRIKES. THE number of idlers from the mills in Lan- cashire now amounts to about 70,000. Of 6ourse the orators are busy, if nobody else is; and if speeches about the rights of workmen could feed and clothe the workmen, or put fires in their .grates, or pay their rents for them, nothing could be a happier contrivance: but, we doubt the effect. We see that the funds for supporting the ...

... AND EAST RIDING TINES. HULL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1853. THu election of Dr. COOPER, by an almost unanimous vote, to the office of Mayor of this borough, for the ensuing year, cannot fail to be highly gratifying to him, and is, for the town, a circumstance of just congratulation. Self-pos- sessed, intelligent, and well-informed, eminent in his profession, an earnest sanitary reformer, and not ...

... INDISPOSITION OF Loan LoNDESBOROUGH.-Our townsmen will learn with much concern that the state _ of Lord Loudesborough's health is such as to prevent his lordship from presiding at the approaching anni. e versary of the Ragged and Industrial Schools in this town, in a letter received this week by the honorary secretary, the noble writer says A- It is with sincere regret that I Wust request you ...

... nDISTRICT INTEtLLIGENOC. BEVERLEY. LcTVuaE.-On Friday evening last, the 28th ult., r Mr. Joseph Hind delivered a lecture in the Mechanics' Institute, Register-square, on Centralization.- The g lecture was delivered with reference to the introduc- tion of the Health of Towns Act, and the speaker de- picted the evils arising from ' giving an irresponsible board in London exclusive ...

... T'he birthday of the youthful heir apparent, the Prince of Wales, who completed his twelfth year on Wednesday, was celebrated with some gaiety at Wind- sor. There was a parade of the Fusilier Guards form- ing the garrison, public dinners by the inhabitants, and the event was celebrated en faosi!!e at the Castle in the evening, when the young IPriice, as usual, received presents from his ...

... WE were unable last week to do more than simply direct the attention of our readers to a letter with which we had been favoured by the Rev. REGINALD GUNNERY, Curate of St. Mary's, in this town, adding, that we might probably advert to the subject this week. We do so most cheerfully: the subject is, indeed, no new one in the columns of the Hull Packet. As we were among the foremost to ap- prove ...