... LOCArQZL IN=TElLI GENCE. ?? HULL AND EAWST RBDiN LAND MORTAGE COM.- PAllY. -The first annual general meeting of.the Hull and East Riding Land Mortgage and Investnment Company (Limited) was held at the offices of the company, No. 3, Land-of-Green-Ginger, on;Monday, Robert Waller, Esq., in the chair, when the direc- tors' report and. balance-sheet were read and un- animously adopted and approved ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE I DE X! i OF WILLIAM STEPHENSON, ESQ.-We regret to have to record the death, of Mr. WM{. STflPHENSoN, the proprietor of the Eastern Counties Hlerald and Hull News, of both which npapers he was the founder. Mr. STBzrnNsoN's connection with the local press, however, extends n over a longer period than is embraced within the existence of the above newspapers. He was 'Y ...

... PROPOSED WORKING MEN'S TESTIMONIAL TO DRl MILLER. A letter appeared in the Daily Post of yesterday, signed Artizan, asking the working men of Birmingham to meet the writer in the Provident Rooms, Ann Street, for the purpose of organising a working men's testimonial to the Rev. Dr. Miller, rector of St. Martin's, who is, as our readers are aware, about to leave the town for Greenwich. In ...

... PRIVATE CO9RESPONDENCE. LoNsDoN, Saturday, The rumour of a moderate Liberal or coalition Government, to which I adverted last week, has acquired an unexpected prominence since I wrote. Many right hononrable gentlemen on the Ministerial benches view with doubt and misgivings the approxima- tion in political ideas which is taking place between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Bright, It ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. All letters nsended for p2mbicstion must be aecnsparenied by the name and address of the 'writer, not necesarily for publication, but for the isforetion of the Editor. CoresPondents who set any specmt value upon their corn. iunications must keep copies ofthern, as we cannot under ta/e to return unwued contributions. A. A., Brierley Hill. can order the work from any ...

... CORRESPOIN i\ R ?? - - COM.11-UICATION 1A7TWJ1 AIW d PASSENGERS AMN-) (U g TO THE EDITORS OF THE JIv~FLreo0L JrL1 re Gentlemesi,-Noticing fin your palhcr of , lts letter having reference to Collirate ?? L0 senigers and gnarrds of rafiway trails, ~5Irs * )rpared myself for sonic time to ploideW 01 e een DIe. is fll sytpooeltl i's.01 toay . 3f II ofthstQ, le t erfo n e i O rto t ?? I olu l ?? ...

... in- HOUSE6 OF LORDS. tier The Jamaica Government Bill was read a first time. on, The Duke of 8SO1ERsIET made an explanation with respect ?? the case of the dockyard voters at Devoeport. stating that no application had ever been made to him in the matter. and he knew nothing of It whatever until he saw the notice which Irle had been given by Sir ,John Pakington. He had then made in- inquiries, ...

... QUEENSLAND-TRE CAUSES OF ITS PROSPERITY. A short time since an article appeared in the P Times on the new colony of Q aeanslaud, based upon h certain facts taken from the Queensland Statistical d Register, and adduced by the governor, Sir E. F. 81 Bowen, in his speech on proroguing the parliament ai in proof of the progress of this new colony. The advancement of Queensland has indeed been u ...

... THE, IRISH UNIVERSITY EDUCATION | QUEION. TO TEI EDITOR OF THE DAMT NEWS Sm,-The following facts win at once show that the contemplated change In the charter of the Queen, University in Ireland is wholly unncessary, It not mi . chievous1 To obtain the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the DUblia University isie onlynecesgary to pasA matriculationexamin nation during one day, and two term ...

... (nox OUR OWN CORMPONDITr.) [The following appeared in our Evening Edition of yesterday:] PARIS, TUpSDAY Evzmu. The government, which very naturally likes to, encourage the idea that there are independent members of the majority able to contend with the opposition apek-bra, did not put forward a tqking. minister yesterday to reply to M. Thiers. The Count de la Tour occupied 'the remainder of ...

... I RUAIOURED RESIGNATION OF EARL RUSSELL. I I 'Tsh rs ?? 'PI.1 J. W 1 A - - s __1.1 1. _ - .11_ . The Tiies of Wednesday says- It would be idle to in st disguise the fact that the course of Government sjiie sI the mneeting of Parliament has bcen such as to excite in the grarest anxiety among the friends of a Liberal Ad- ji ministration. People have gone about assuring one oJ another that ...

... IMPERIL PARLIAMENT. * I [BY TELEGRisir.] . I--- HOUSE OF LORDS-YrESTZRIy. TEaM lordships met at five o'clock. TEE TELEGRAPH ACT AMENSDMENT BILL AD TEE CATTLE DISEASES BILL. The Royal assent was given, by commission, to the Telegraph Act Amendment Bill and the Cattle Diseases Bill. The lords Commissioners were the Lord Char. cellor, the Earl of Bcssborough, and Viscournt Sydney. THE FISHERY ...