... THE REINFORCENiENTS Recruiting for both services is progressing with great activity and success The greatest enlithusiasis prevails among the militia regiments, and large numbera of the sneI ar eaverly volunteering into the line. Oni Friday 1,3f6 troops of the Guards, 77th Regiment, arnd Royal Engineers proceeded to P'ortnsmouths to embark in the aoyal Albert for the Crimea. Fruom ...

... At the adjourned fourth quarterly meeting yester- day, Sir H. Cooper, mayor, in the chair, and a full attendance. SCALE-LANE BRIDGE. The TowN CLERK announced that Alderman Thomp- son had withdrawn the motion, of which he had given notice respecting a proposed bridge from Scale-lane staith to the Garrison-side. CITARTER-HOUSE, Joseph Richardson was elected to a vacant man's rooms, at the first ...

... FRANCE. The Mon letesr publishes the official return of the receipts of the customs and indirect taxes for the first quarter of 1854, which amount to 196,165,000f., being a diminution of 3,455,000f. as compared with the same period for 1853, and an increase of 10,899,000f. overthat of 1852. The Duke of Cambridge and Lord Raglan, accompanied by the Emperor Napoleen, and attended by the Minister ...

... | | his fi Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and Royal family TI returned from Osborne to Buckiugham Palace on Tuesday. fund The Queen visited the Italian opera in the evening, don Prince Albert at the same time visited the Archbishop T1 of Canterbury,Iat Lambeth Palace. open It is under-stood. that her Majesty's second concert will Geoi take place on Friday, June 2, and the second state ball ...

... DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE., the BEVEELLEY. appi THE * FAS3T DAY.-Wednoaday last being the day Kin ordered to be set apart for prayers for the success of the tion British arms in the coming struggle, appropriate sermons to ti were preached in the churches and chapels, and col- ried lections made on behalf of the wives and families of the A brave follows who have left their native shores to meet ...

... . TREMENDOUS FIRE AT MESSRS. | RYLANDS, MANCHESTER. A fire took place on Wednesday night week, in the large warehouse of Messrs. Ryland and Sons, New Market-street, Manchester, which destroyed that establishment, and caused great damage and loss of property at several other warehouses. Messrs. Ryland and Sons are dealers in Manchester goods generally. Their warehouse occupied the whole of the ...

... WE do not know that we have ever read anything so horrible as the details, supplied by the Irish journals, of the execution of QuIN, GRANT, and COOMEY, at Monaghan, on Monday week, for the murder of the late Mr. BATESON (agent to Lord TEmrLErToN), in 1851. These three wretched ruffians had assassinated a kind and indulgent man, without having received the slightest personal provocation, or ...

... HIUILL ELECTION. IPs_ Iw r - I (Continvcedfroma Page 7.) THE NOMINATION. YESTERDAY (THURSDAY). The proceedings of this day commenced with THE SIHERIFF'S BREAKFAST, which was a sumptuous 010,-given at the Station Hotel by Charles Liddell, Esq., sheriff, to about two hundred of the principal gentlemen of the towln, to which, the whole o the Corporationi, and public officers were ill- vited, ...

... In consequence of a domestic calamity, the reception at Lord Londesborough's, of tbe members of the Nunlis- matic Society, last evening (Thursday), was unavoidably postponed. HULL DISFRANCHISEMENT BaLL.-On Monday even- ing, before the withdrawal of this bill, Lord Hotham presented the following petitions against it, viz :-One from Walter James Reed, denying that he had com- initted any act of ...

... THE BiLACK SEA. Russia has opened the war with the western powers I' by wantonly firing on a, smail unarmed boat bearing a flag of truce. The following comes via Malta:- According to the letters received, the Tiger arrived at Kavarna on the 6th, and the .Reir-ution on the 7th, from Constantinople, the latter bringing the Overland London mail and despatches of the 24th of March; and a ...

... (6onT0jnbeflce. I TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACiTE'. SIB,-Could you inform the ratepayers of Hull if one of the leading apsakers at the meeting held at the Mechanics' Institute, on Tuesday evening, to oppose the Hull Improvoment Bill, was the same person who offered, in London, to give evidence in favosu' of the bill if the Corporation would give him a situation under the Board of Health, at ...

... th; Yesterday, the meeting of the Town Council was very set numerously attended. Co The MAYOn presided. Seven freemen were sworn. bo; CHARTER HOUSE. po Mr. SHACKLES brought under notice a case of non- Eal residence by one of the sisters, and the occupation of 3o] her room by another party, which lie said required Co looking into. Two vacant rooms were then filled up; there being 3a: numerous ...