... I The annual public meeting of the Hull Auxiliary hl Tract Society weas held on Monday evening, in the Public-rooms, and was numerously attended, the 11ev. \ John King, M.A., incumbent of Christ Church, in the chair. A large number of local clergy, dissenting ministers, and laymen appeared on the platform. es After singing and prayer, al The CHAIIRMAN briefly opened the proceedings, observing ...

... |tITERARY AND PHILOSOPHIAL. I I} SOCIETY.l his The adjourned meeting took place on Saturday even- ing ing, Charles Frost, Esq., the president, in the chair, an- d between 30 and 40 other gentlemen present. It use will be remembered that a meeting was convened about .me a month ago, to receive the building committee's report nal and that it was adjourned, as it was considered desirable ons to ...

... ON SWEEPING TURNPIKE AND I TOWNSHIP ROADS. The following is the report of Mr. Lambert Ellis. surveyor of Turnpike Roads, referred to in our last ?? Sir,-Two small treatises on the managemnt of turnpike roads have lately been circulated amoupt the trustees of several trusts; one of them recommetntdie all carriages bearing heavy weights to be furnished with broad wheels, having flat tire and no ...

... ALDBRO'. unt SERIOUS AOOII)ENT.-OnImonday, an accident of ;a Ins5 serious nature occurred to a Mr. Hodgson,. Who, we pro understand, is in the service of the Hull Corporation, the and who was on a visit to his frieudahepre. it appears he was out riding in company wilds Mr. Edward 'ar Petchell. Mr, Hodgson's pony, being of a high spirit, became restive, we suppose, from the slippery state of ...

... THE WAR,. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHIES. The following are among the latest telegraphic des- Patches received: _ BBEBLI&, Dec. 22.-The Russian loan has been a cemplete failure on the Bourse, notwithstanding great efforts made in its favour by and froin influential quar- ters. About £25,000 is all that has been actually sub- scribed for. The Russian Grand Council of War is re- ported to have ...

... DINNER TO THE GOVERNOR OF I THE POOR. I A complimentary dinner to John Fountain, Beq., on like Irie having been elected a third time in succession buil Governor of the Poor, and having served the office of Cori guardian. for twelve consecutive years, was given on tbei Wednesday last at Glover's Hotel, where about fifty bail gentlemein Bat down, under the presidency of the mayor and (A.. ...

... GENERMAL INTELLIGENCE. I I icr (as), TgE. BILLETING, SYSTEsr.-A dputation from the for, Ljenged 'VictUalleta' Society of Bristeol had an interview' 'up ?? with Lord Panniure, to pressn a menmori l, rp setting forth the grievances tbey suffer~ inl eunn a.-n with 7the billeting 'syst'em. Lord Pansiure said there was bmuch hardship in'their case. The legislature never bb:intended that men ...

... ' R. D. WYATT'S LECTURES R . D . 'les. AThe ?? offurlourso thle Fine and Industrial Atse ofthea Pahibtiand Pcaet , with especial reference to 155 hetr of thniera REahibition at aris, was delivered in the theare f te Roal usttu'on on Tuesday evening, by~ Mr.I DiyWyatt, F.S. A. The subject of tbe Ile cture an- wa thle Fine Akrts of the Past. After some intro. . ductory observations on thle im ...

... I was (From the New YorRk Herald.) rred ARE THE CZAR AND HIS PEOPLE TIRED OF THE !ncy WAR? .-RUSSIA AND HElIt MILITARY RESOURCES -CONSTRUCTION OF NEW FORTS AND THE mas, STRENGTHENING OF OLD ONES-SEBASTOPOL, the CIIONSTADT, NICOLAIEFF, ANDSWVEA3ORG-TlIE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF RUSSIA-THE TRANS. ale ORTATION OF PROVISIONS-ARE THE NOBLES eral O SERlFS D)ISCONTE:NTEiD? &c lich Among the passengers ...

... TOR I ti On Tuesday evening last a complimentary dinner was di given to Sir H~enry Cooper, ex-ma',yor of this borough, at W tbe Station Hotel, it, testimony of the efficient manner t in which he bad filled the civic chair during the precedl. ing two years. Eighty-five gentlemen eat down. Thle 1 Mayor (Anthony Bannister, Esq.) presided, having oi f his right Sir Henry Cooper, Major Wand, Ron. ...

... i THE KING1DOM' OV' SARDINIA. I I 1. I I , I ?? A In geographical pdsition, the kingo ?? o- may be said to begin where ranc dend on the ir South side, find, ;to advance;forward: towards the e, plaios of Lombardy, having its left pressed upon 'ir by the Lake Oft 'Geneva. and the' nio-untainis of Swit- 2c zesiisnd, while its right is a ese b.th edtr 06: ranean, from ~Nice to Genoa,. with an' ...

... Ws recommend Mr. DoBsoN at once to inform Cardinal WtSEmAx of the gross outrage upon the civil and religious liberties of the Roman Catholic children in the Hull Workhouse perpetrated by his brother Guardians of the poor. We can assure Mr. DoBsoN that by such a course he will render a great service to his Eminence, who is just now rather in want of instances of Protestant persecution to oppose ...