... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ANOTfIR T NE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFtE D.ATw, -TO BLOW UP A MANIUFACTOMt (Front. on C,.rpnv J . fi ~EFIEI~l , Suit day u. While the horrible details of the outrage' in ACorn-street are still fresh in the public siond, another deed of lawless violence has beeu comruitted, which will throw fresh disgrace upon the town. The outrage we are about to record, however, has not resulted in injury to life, but ...

... LOCAL NE WSe XXWEDNEISDAY, ])ECEjqTp,y,1{ p IC Tj11 DuKE, OF DEVONSILeRZ8h GUFSTS. TIle feb- 50 lowitog visiters were on S~atasday last stayiingat Claatsswortla l~t-fu -Lord and Lttty Rivers' ; Hoits. BINhlcheand Alice Ly 1 itt; lord and Lady George CaenisI ia, and thle Mtisses 'II £aveuds', Ia ; TII a. and Lady F1anny Heowtvardl, anti tile Mjisses le 1Hossarat f Sir Augustus Clifford ; Hlon. ...

... , - ?? ?? . ?? (Freour (Yrrspnenj The nomination of representatives for the new n liroughi of Bii-kenlhead took place yesterday, in the C Market-place. in the presence of more than 5,000 persons. ti The cai;lidates wvere IMr. Thomias Brassey, Liberal, son of b tileeminenit contractor of that name, who has large works F at Birkenihead: anti Mr. John Laird, Conservative, the ex- w tenisise ...

... THE FEVER AT HEADINGLEVN. TO THE EDITOES OF THE LEEDS M6fl I a heatlingley Hill. 17t10 L' c- ?? (I}NTLEMEEN,-Tlie piublc, avid parr- illioli ti1 t 11 atadingl y plublic, ought to i>o sufiii ut v ?? by n dangers of vitiated air and sacet. \ -ir m R as wvalkg 3u. n garilen, yeqtcr-.ay, al-.t t -it *JC , sa lily ilose vas assauilteui by wlhat, in rlain licon.-ly r .i ] will ca I a vile stink. ...

... a r ?? . f ?? ?? T. fX a_ ?? ?? MEETING YESTERDAY. THE I,1NTIIWAITE COLLECTOR AGAIW. The fortnisghtly meeting of this B3oard held yes- terday, was ?? over by the chairman, Mr. EwDsNVp j) CLAYToN. There was a fill attendanlce of Guardians. The CHAIIAIAN said the Guardians would all remember the case of Mr. Barrett, nud that at their last mectinu a resolution was passed requtesting tile Poor ...

... NAVAL AND MIILITARY INTELLIGENCE. a -. t= I The regulations for the Royal Naval Reserve are published in last night's Oz:elte. The total officers are not to exceed 400; viz., 130 lieutenants and 270 sub-lieutenallts Each class to rank with, but after, corresponding rank in the Royal Navy. There arc to be also 100 honorary lieu- tenants. consisting of mnasters of merchant vessels who are above ...

... THE THREATENED WVAR WITH AMERICA. I I rfr A ?? A ,r-nn a-nfl-vT Ajr4 I . en xrfn ?? I GREAT PRAYER MEETIING AT EXETE R HALL. Anl aoggregate prayer meeting of Chllrisltian1s of all denomninations, convene( by the colmolittee of the Evan- t golical Alliance, was held on Thlursday, at Exeter Hall, for the purpose of uniting ill prayer to Almighty God to avert fronm is the calamity of war with the ...

... LATEST NEWS, -- ?? (BAy MaVrnetic and BlaCti'iC Teley'aphs.) AMKERICA. THREE DAYS' LATER NEW.S. 1H lE PRESI-DENT'S FO)RPEIGN' POLIOey. Wi i~oNDONSEiRitY, Tnnisdoy Is>*ZRv The Camiadian sti'anics' Bobemlia., from Portland oo ?? 7th: has arrived. She brings 12 cabin and 24 steerage pissengo ra. Landed all mails except Liver- pool, an~d lmroceelecl. The steamier Bxlvaria and North Ainerica rhave ...

... AN APPEAL TO VORTSHI~lla,: ONCEIlmorc let us lift a Warnling voi., o al, thei . thinlking and earnelst mCII of York.ll. t a stare,, us in the face, war is openly advocated in tci i Jriiatd 1 war is louidly demanded by many -ho clai: tle ch 1 racter of Christians and of patriots. The flittjl hour may Soon strike-an houir that may 6w, inihe deith i kncll of many a noble heart-that miav c:.,e ...

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