... I - - -HOUSE OF LORDS, TaURSD.4Y. Lord LYTTLETOX moved the second reading of the Sub. Division of Dioceses bill, the object of which weas to modify the machinery by which dioceses are at present divided, and to assimilate the system of the Church at home and that adopted in the colonies. After some discussion and a division, the bill was read a second time, The reports of Amendment on the ...

... I I -I PORT PICKENS AND PENSACOLA, Ir Russell, the Times' correspondent, has this week sent home two iaterestin lettdr's -iving aecriptn of bis 3isit, fo#'the' '5c050. qf. ibnpendmg hostilities on the Galf oE'Meiics. .He.qbtaired t passagb from Mobile in asmall schooner, namedithe, Diana, whose' -reaw eon- sisted of'.three mlen, aw-negro cook, -and a wild haired' ybui'g'man as eaptain. . ...

... I AMBRIAL-PARLIAMENT.I - HOuSE OFLORDS, FRIDAY, JuN-14.. a' The Earl of HARDWICKX cilled-attention to the respective ?? me6rits of bars of Iron and plates of iron in resisting the force r of apflno'L . The Duke of SoVse'SE said a scientiflC committee had been h appolnted, and WAS still sitting on the subject. The Public Offices Exetension bill, Burford Charities bill eading Chari ties bill, ...

... D DISTRICT GINTELLIGENCE,. - , I. * A iLDBOROU4MfI ' U; :4r A Capt. Hudson is here for tbe week, giving nightly, mesmeric' lecarreel and' demonstrations. ' Hlis operative' feats upon those nander mesmeric influence oausa much ni mirtb to his audience. Severali fielfts of ?? wheat are rapidly Ict bursting out into the ear. The rains of the9tab, 10]t, 111 anil 11th b ave;made a wonderful ...

... i) ST{RICT INT'ELTLGE'NCE. BrEV ERLEY. RussiAN IRtPgUIAL BENEFICENU5.-Many years ago, at inarred cotiple, natives of Beverley, were in the service of the ?? of nitssijiin thellairy'depart. neet of one of ?? estates. Upwards of twenty years have elapsed since these parties returne i to their native town, where they engaged in a smail husiaeas. Recent instructjons were received at the imperial ...

... CURIOUS iLECTURE ON OYSTERS.. LAUGHABLE SCENE.: About a forteight ergo, the good folks of Preston were surprisedby adviertisements announcing that. Mr Robert Blezard was about to deliver a lecture d. On Oysterse their ?? qualities, and excellence as an article of food. Mr Bleiardas practical acquaintance with the subject was admitted, as he has been many years exten- sively eligaged as a ...

... THE QUESTION OF A NEW OEMETERY I FO HUULL. l Yesterd~iy (Wednesday) Dr Holland, Government i Inspector of BuriA Grounds, arrived in Hull to receive ai the various statements that might be made, in order to enable him to report to the Secretary of State as to the 11 new cemetery which the parishioners of Holy Trinity wish to have for themselves, and to which the board ofn health, as the burial ...

... I I DISSENTERS'FEELYNG TOWARDS THlE CHURCHl. TO THE EDITOR OP THE HULL PACKET.3 Sia,-! was resding the other day an acecount of the last meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, and I there found that the feeling of Dissent towards the Church, and of the Church. th towards Dissent, wae becoming everyvthing that could be an wished. To look abroad over the reltg 005 world was to look be upon a ...

... FIRE IN Ha LDERNESS YETEDA Y. g serious Ore broke oI t Xeay at tbe.armsteaa knowu as Turner's Farm, near Benninighulme, forming, part of the pramises occupileo by Johll Lee, Sraith, ERq,. of Benningbolmae, and his don Mr Tomaas Smith. NA singular circumstance in c4unexion with tie fire is tbat itt origirated at tlqe top of nF oat saelr wvhile two rmen were, engaged in thatching it*.. -Twq ...

... Joseph Somes, Esq. M.P., has forwarded to the committee of the local Sohool of Art, a donation of MORAVIAN MISSIONS.-A sermon on behalf of the Moravian Schools in Jarnaica, will be preached in St. Mary's Churob, on Sunday morning next, by the Rev W. Knight, M.A. MP. SEXnTON's GRAND CONCERT. - Last evening the Music-hall, Jarratt-street, was crowded with one of the most brilliant audiences ever ...

... j C HRISTMAS IN HULL. A green Christmas maketh a fat Church-yard. Tbose of our readers who are partial to raking up old rasyproverbs, will no doubt be familiar with the above. Proverbs, however, do not always prove true, nd we are hopeful that experience may shew that the result of the Christmas of 1861 may be another excep- tion to the rule. Certainly we have seldom passed over such a ...

... PRBESNTATiON TO JOHN ELLERTHORPE. Last Wednesday evening an event took place in Hunl, which will hereafter be remembered with feelings of very great pleasrer namely. the presentation of several testimonials to a ?? of toil, one of the true sone of nature's nobility. The Music-hall, Jarrattestreet, was selected for what the large posters on the walls fore- shadowed for the demonstration to John ...