... I An adjourned meeting was held yesterday; the SlAtOR inl the chair. Several freemen were sworn. The Borough Treasurer presented accounts of convict expenses to be transmitted for the usual allowance from tLie'.Treasury. The trustees of Chapimarn's charity having lent Mr. C. S. Clarke £1000 oln mortgage of land and houses at Withernsea, the same was approved. Some money orders were passed. The ...

... . VENISON FOR THE CRI;MEA.-C. M. Phillipps, Esq., of Garendon park, Leicestershire, has presented the Crimean Army Fund with 50 doer (doo venison), which B have been sent to Gunter's to be preserved. 01 Admiral Hamelin has arrived in Paris. General Niel, aide-de-camp to the Emperor of France, e set out from Paris for the Crimea on Friday. It is inferred by some persons, from the fact that S ...

... . I PROSPECTS OF THE SIEGE. As to when we shall be able to re-open fire, none, not even Lord Raglan himself, can tell, for it depends i entirely upon the weather, If we now have four or five i more fine days, wre should undoubtedly be in a condition 1 to commeoce at the end of that time; hut if on the contrary we have heavy rains, it may be a fortnight, 1 three weeks, or even a month, before ...

... I I_ - - - - In the present article we propose to notice some old guilds in Yorkshire, and chiefly those of Kingston-upon - el Y~K.A to this city, a Local Guide states that A great S number of guilds or companies anciently existed in York, for 21 the extentien and regulation of trade, but these are now almost f all dissolved. The Merchants,' Comnpany isof very considerable P antiquity, and ...

... The first public performance of the Hull Subscription Musical Society is aunounced for the 6th of February. TESTIMONIAL OF ESTEaa.-Yesterday week the members of the Sutton Friendly Society presented an elegant silver inkstand and a gold pencil-case to Mr. Leng, senior, of Savile-street, as a thank-offering for his valuable services through the long period of fifty years. Mr. Leng was the ...

... T:OUSDA Y EVENING'S TELErGAPhzC s.PBEsS. Consols closed 922 to buyers for account,. and 921 for money. The English funds showed some heavinesa, but recovered again towards the close of business. There was no feature of importance to influence prices beyond a steady call for money in the earlier hours of businrs. R ailways were tolerably active throughout, but ill some instances prices closed ...

... MEMORANDUM OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFFICIEMtS SENT TO THE HEAD-QUARTERS OF RE'GIMENTS OF MILITIA TO RECEIVE VOLUN- TEERS FOR THLT LINE. 1. The officer will be allowed the usual travelling expenses from his regiment and returning thereto, the claim to be preferred on the prescribed form, and he will also be allowed 5s. a-day for the period he is away from his regiment on this duty. These allowances ...

... LOCOMO0TIVE ACIDENT ON THE NORTH[ EASTERN RAILWAY. On Monday evening last an inquest was held at the a Hull General Infirmary, before John Joseph Thorney, t Esq., the borough coroner, on the body of Henry I Stamford, a stoker in the service of the North Eastern Railway Company, who had died in the Infirmary on j Sunday night from the effects of a severe scalding which f he received upon an ...

... SIEGE OF; SEBASTOPOL. - | (From the MornAing Heraeld's special correspondent.) in ENGLISH CAMP, HEIGHTS OF SEcnAssror'oa 05 December 12. tl Hardly. anything has occurred to break the monoctoii SC of cuii lives since my last letter. Onl the night of W Sunday, the '10th, two desperate sorties were made upon a' the French linesi; both were signally repulsed. The tl first. occurred at half-past ...

... . THURSDAY MORIVING'S TELEGRAPHIC EXPRESS. I 7T1T - - TU E CRIMEA, MENSCHIKOFF'S LAST BULLETIN. A despatch from Menschikoff, dated Sebastopol, Jan. 2nd, says- Nothing new had occurred. We continue to annoy the enemy by night sorties. In one of these we made 10 Zouaves prisoners. MAPJSEiLLEr, WED N DAY.-The Thtbor has arrived, she left Constantinople on January 1st. The despatchee for ...

... NORWICH ELLCTION.-Sir Samuel Bignold, the con- servative candidate, has been elected to the seat vacated. by Mr. Peto, by a majority of 270 votes over the ministerial candidate. . Aye ELECTION.-The ministerialist Mir. Oswald, has been defeated by Sir James Fergusson, a firm oppo- litionist, who is absent in theCrimea, while his country* men, without his knowledge, have returned him to ...

... I 5--- ?? ?? ?? S, a} ric a TckranhsjaZ, fron the I ?? !d1K pa's C ow)'pes2ondenlts.) ; *. 'rlo Monitcinr gives letters from i 190t, to the effect that such is the or I',achlathe last transports, conveying *':flO to the Crilmea, sailed for their desti- ?? ' i'tc by the Sin ai arrived from Con- ' i rc only awaiting the arrival of the I' ?? Enpatoria, in order to act with effect. 'f a ...