... TIHE HULL AND DON CASTER LINES. I HOUSE OF COWMONdi-FRIDAY, MAY 23. a The select committee, this morning, commenced their1 inquiry into the merits of three different bills, having g for their object the shortening of thedistance by raitway between the port of Hull and the South -namely, the 1. Lancashire and Yorkshire (Doncaster, Goole, and Hull Junction lihes) bill, the South Yorkshire ...

... A CREoA political oration, that requires a icond speech to explain its true meaning, is ~ifle times out of ten a blunder, and is 'tId4rs, bettered by the explanation. Mr Dl'FA^LL1 on Monday Light felt it necessary to elaborate explanation of the speech With erich he startled his party and the cou- ay a fnrtnigbi ago, and though the explana- ion wat very ingeenjuo wve confess it is not a- al . ...

... I ?? . . ?? . ?? - ?? ?? . * -E H HULL -iSTIPHENDTARYr : LOCkVa-t.D `U P . ~ . . . i. . - ?? . . .1 I : ,! , . The :title of this 'aitiqle'wift`6t d'ubt 9ia'iori-e' the reader not a. little, yet2 t must b!e ted'1r, 'act which is3 not, to be in any.way: gaitsaidthat o0le Pfthe bighes'' loeal ,funntionaries coa medtedwithtib'goocl od town'' .L-iirieli': the 2lesafnIed Stipeuniaty:.gisft'ite, ...

... WEST RIDING, BULL AND GRIMS3Y JUNCTION RAIL WAY. EXAMINATION OF MR ALD MOSS. On Tuesday the parliamentary committee, presided ever by Mr ?OLLEfl, which was appointed to consider this bill, brought their laboura to a close after 20 days' hearing, and the preamble was eisreed to. On Monday Mr Aid Moss, of thistorwn, was examined, and the following is a report of his evidence. Mr WILLIAM HENRY ...

... PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO I DR. PEIRSON, OF BRIDLINGTON. j On Monday, the 12th inst., the friends and patients ni of Dr Peirslon presented him with a very elegant anod a] valuasble silver tea and coffee servioe, as a token of their cc High esteem for that gentleman, who is about leaving hi Bridlingtou Quay and' going to reside ait Scarboro'. ni Also, at the same time, the Dr and a ...

... LADIES- BY-PUIRCHASE. A transaction of a- very questionable nature is announced as likely to take .place on the out- skirts of the fashionable' world. The public wiU be'aatbonished 'to learnithatf a lady of''lhigih title is ready, for the modest'sum' of g£ 000 to'&ly'the part of Tar eiia, Vid'to deliver over the gates of 'thbeCapital to any of the fair barbarians vwhoiare ciamdnuriingitoiind' ...

... ! I l FRANCE. M. GUIZOT AjND THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS; M. Gnizat.'ccdupyinghtbe chair at the annual meeting o~f the Protestant Bible Siciety of 1Paris, has just de- livered his address. After speaking of the ?? progress of the society during the last twelve months, he said-` Historically, ?? Testament and the Gospel contain a fact-a spectaole- without parallel. It is the history, if I may'bhe ...

... WHo will tell us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, concerning the progress of the American Civil War? Every mail, no doubt, brings us news of miii- tary and naval operations, but what we corn- iplain of is that what is new is not true, and what is true is not new. There is a censorship exercised over the Federal press in matters naval and military far more severe than that ...

... CHURCH IMISS1ONARY SOCIETY.~The follow- ing is the result of the collections made at the services and public meetings recently heldin connection with the Ilull Auxiliary-of the above society :-loly Trinity Church (two services) £1 5s 10d; St. Mary's Lowgate (two services in Trinity House Chapel) £38 is 3d; St. John's (three services) £49 9.7d ; Christ Church (three services) £61 1s; St. ...

... jIPI1ERIAL PARLIAMENT.1 HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, MAY 16. The House met at five o'clock. lord RICIDDALH moved that no private bill nor any bli cu.i- flxesifO provisional orders Qf the Board of Health, nor reports of rac sre Commissioners coming up from the House of Corn. ahel edse cond time after the lst ol July. Agreed to. mons tumion of Lord REKD45ALs an addition was made to Ondicroodi~rn^, 79 ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGEN CE. We are glad to learn that the Hull and Horusea, Railway has passed the com- maittee of the House of Commons on the most lavossrable terne. and is webelieve, the onlY line which 'has ever obtaineel a differential rate of carriage Oil some aeticlee, the charges on which in other railway acts are mot adequate to the expenises of conveyance. GREENLAND SEAL FisHING.-Thle Alert, ...

... IAMUSING SCENE IN THE HOUSE i OF COMI5ONS. MIR VINCENT SCULLY LOOKING AFTER IISH !INTERESTS The Freeman's Journal has a special report of a discuesion in the House of Comulons late on Friday night, or rather early on Saturday mtrning, in which Ur V. Scully played a prominent, if not very dignified, part. Sir Robert Peel laid a bill upon the table to continue and emend the Peace Preservation ...