... N EW-Y EAR'S-D AY AT THE WORKHOUSF. The poor in the Workhouse, Anlaby-road, were made to rejoice at the close of the old year ald opening of the new. On Christmas-day they had, roast beef and plum-puddiDg, for which, we under-. stand, they appeared to be grateful; and well they might, if they reflected how much botteroff they were in that respect than many of the out-door poor, and also, it is ...

... IST, LUKRE'S TEA P.ARTY.| St. Luke's Church having been opened for a-year, a tea-party of the members and friends of the congre- gation was held in the St. John's School-room, Waltham- street, on Tuesday evening last, when a large and agree. able party of upwards of 300 persons were assembled. The composition of the party was as qatisfaotory as its kind and genial spirit-clergy and laity-rich ...

... T TDlKI2Y. CO'T813PANTINoPLE, Jall. R. ! The Porde goes on collecthig troops and sending off stores with great ardour and perseverance. Ahbout 45,000 men have arrive lat VarlaL. Three othrersteaseresv, with ?? Facha, lra ve here this afternoon on a secret t i s.:on, ?? voyapg Or tois inslividnal is lot so Unin i- Irpoitant as many pretend to believe it to be. I. have 3 heard strange reports ...

... THURSDAY EVENING'S TELEGRAPHIC EXPRESS. Console closed at 91k. London, Trrsday Evening. With the rumours of ministerial dissensions the English funds opened at a decline of a per cent., and remained throughout the day without recovery. The desponding tone of the leading journals, and a continued pressure for money, had also an adverse influence.- Railways receded slightly from an excess of ...

... To the all-absorbing topic and intelligence of the Crimea we sacrifice to some extent a report which we had prepared ofthe doings yesterday of ?? Council as a Local Board of Health. The following is an outline of the proceedings :-The Mayor presided. Tle salary of Mr. Peasegood, clerk in the surveyor's office, was authorised to be raised to not exceeding Z100 a-year. The council ordered the ...

... | HEDON. MrECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-On the 2nd and 4th inst. W. Parsons, Esq., assisted by Miss Wilton, as vocal utratress, gave to the members of this society two ectures On the poetic writings of Hood and Thomas Mobore. The hail was filled to overflowing, and had not sze lecturer been previously engaged for Monday and Thesday at Keighley, the committee would have secured another evening's ...

... II FRENCH AND ENGuLISe WORgs.-A Frrencs officer 2I writes as follows to the Presse :- The lst of January X finds us before Sebastopol in the same position as we were a month ago. Oar works, however, are now finished, and we can unmask our batteries when we please. The English, it appears, have pushed their 50( approaches much nearer to the city, some of their works lo( being only 2.50 yards ...

... = ?? = -- I~~atp~ete I BLIND BEGGING IMPOSTURE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. SIR,-In your paper of this day I see noticed the circumstance of two men, one being blind, making a begging circuit. They appear from the time they have been out to have taken a considerable round, as, from the descrip- tion which corresponds exactly, the same two men paid me a visit last November twelve ...

... vret Otto isait~et AND EAST RIDING TINES. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1855. I THE TIMES AN] LORD RAGLAN. a MucHE painful excitement has been occa- sioned in this country during the past fort- t night by the daily appearance of powerfully c written leading articles in the Times, charging T the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces t in the Crimea not only with incompetency, but c with a criminal ...

... I I The Duke of Cambridge has recovered. 1r seee Napoleon was still suffering at Constantinople Ol the 18th. Admiral Lyons succeeds Admiral Dundas. TsLael Pacha takes the command of the army of the Danube diring the absence of Omar Pacha ill the Crimea. A new explosive machine has arrived at Constanti- nople. On the 18th December the allied armies, in concert with the fleets, intended a great ...

... I The Sultan has presented to Admiral Dundas the highest order of merit in his power to bestow. Rear-Admiral Lyons has now the comlmand-in-chief of the Black Sea fleet. The fleet in the Black Sea under Admiral Dundas consisted to a large extent of nearly worn out and clumsy sailing ships. The government is now crowding that sea with steam vessels. The Hon. Major Maxwell, of the 50th, who was ...

... I (From the Press. The last sandalous job of the coalition, the appoint- ment of Mr. Digby Seymour to the Recordership of Newcastle (that name again ?? has been decisively con- demned by the electors of Sunderland. Pablic-opinion, in the place where Mr. Seymour is now most known, was too potent for the organisers of that clandestine system of politics under which Mr. Stonur was made a judge, ...