... I HOW TO IDESTROY RUSSIAN I | FORTRESSES. Mr. i. C. Slimmonds, in a letter to the Morning 4A vertiser says: ?? are aware of the tremendous explosive panver of deto- Dating silver, being more than fnrty times the strength of guui- onder. This is the agent with which I propose to destroy the fet and fortifications of Sebastopol. m y plan, to make it available without scarcely any risk, is this A ...

... HUMBER-DOCK BRIDGE, &C. I mA VTT . PT'nTTi l A lP 'PTTP*. C' -TTTI.T. 1ACTTt'- C I To THO EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. t SIR,-1 shall feel obliged by your allowing me, f through the medium of your journal, to call the atten- v tion of the proper authorities to an obstruction or o rather obstructions of the public highways that has long a been a most serious annoyance to the inhabitants of ...

... HULL LOCAL BOARD OFI H EALT H. - Yesterday, the Town Council held a special general -meeting as. a Board of Health. Sir Henry Cooper, I mayor, occupied the chair; and there was a large Iattendance of aldermen cud 'eouncillors. we1:s.-- Rv. WELLS, Esq., ths clerk, read the minutes of the proceedings of the Committee of Works, from which itappeared thtthey hdhad an interview with IMr. Calbrey, ...

... I PARIS, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, EIGHT P.M.-The sense of the words addressed to-day by the Emperor to the Deputies received at the palace of the Tuileries is as follows :- I am going to London, and there I will occupy myself with the affairs of the East. We desire an honourable peace, we can only wish for such an one. But peace or war, I always count upon your support. The extensive war ...

... ie I Thle following are the proposals of the Chancellor of I the Exchequer, relative to the new loan:- n 1. The loan to be for the sum of £16,000,0S0. A 2. For every £100 subscribed in money, the con- e tractors to have £100 Three per Cent. Consolidated ,e Annuities, and a terminable annuity for 30 years, end- V, ing ol the 5th of April, 1885. The biddings to be made in the terminable annuity. ...

... lITLT TRINITY CHuRcni-Mally of our readers will eO glad to hcar that the difflculties; which have so long StoOd it] the way of the improvement of the choral ser- viues of our beautiful parish church will soon be obviated by the remtoval and restoration of the organ. Sometime azo a cullimittee was formed for the pur ose of carrying out thce desired improvements, and by dint of much can- rats~j ...

... THE VIENNA CONFERENCE- TuE only thing that seems certain about the Conference at Vienna is that its proceedirgs are altogether unknown to the well-informed gentlemen who are the Vienna correspondents of the London journals. For instance, the Morning Herald's correspondent telegraphs as follows ViENNA, TUBSDkT. The tenth Conference was held to-day. Tue counter propositions brought forward by ...

... NAPOLEON III. ON THE CRIMEAN I WAR. nm Preparatory to his visit to this country the Emperor of the French placed on record, in the columns of the Afoniteur, his , judgment of the conduct of the war up to the present time. ?? reviewing its progress, and especially that portion of it of which the Crimea has been the theatre, tile Emperor Napoleon, as a matter of course, abstained from all ...

... THE HULL GAO.- THIE HULL GAOL. l\-I bog to draw public attention to the sulijoinei report of the visiting justices on the c,;lljition of our Borough Gaol. No one who I rds it can doubt that the building is altogether t ijadcquate to the purposes for which it is a dcvte~l. The justices state that untried f malc prisoners of every degree of guilt are nm .ene~smalily nmilmlncd together, and that, ...

... I Cher, inIO.Mr Brrwethe conservative, lete- the ?? General Hughes by about 400 votes. ,uln- Tar, MrLrrA.&-We see by the different newspapers ,the that the minlitia regiments liave continued to melt away, :eit though in some inistances by the men re-enlisting, and ens- by a envigorou5 beating uip for recruits, an approach has ent, beenj made towards repairing the damage done by the y' to ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. I My DEiARt Sir,--As you have published my name in I your account of the election for a librarian to the Hull I Subscription Library, in connexion with a minority E so low as to have surprised many, and which must be i somewhat discreditable to a townsman, who holds and v has held for years responsible public offices,-and who has not, he hopes, been very ...

... REPORT OF DR. LYON PLAYFAIR, TO TlE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE, ON THB HULL MARINE SCHOOLS. HULL, March 12th, 1855. This school, belonging to and under the management of the Trinity-house, ham recently been re-organised in connection with the Board of Trade and Privy Council. It consists of a lower and upper school, with 40 boys in each. The lower school is taught by Mr. ...