... D | The condition of the Mierchant-Seaman does not often appear as a public topic. Per- haps this may arise from that peculiarity of human nature which leads us to treat our greatest necessities with indifference. Perhaps the sailors frequent absence from sight is one of the reasons why his comforts and well-being are so generally out of mind. However this may be, it is certain that whilst the ...

... -INF1RMARY CEARITY BALL - - LAST week the annual Charity Ball in aid of the funds the Hull General Infirmary. was hold at the Public Rooms, Jarratt-street. About 160 persons were present, but in Ipoint of numbers presentt the ball was not equal to some of those which-'have preceded: it. In other respects it passed of most satisfactosily. Mr, Acey's quadrille band 'was in attendance, and layed ...

... RAmrwA&Yl Bristel and Ex. Caledonian ?? Canrbrian ?? Cesserrs'th, 1U., Corb;l3ar don, Deseide.. 1Subi4n&13e50a Dlsblin & Dlrog Dub. &Uiangstn Frl-ness ?? ?? Great Eastern Glategow& S.Ws GO.3Sorthof Sea Great N orthela 3t. Sthrn. &W, Great Western Biglhland ?? Ihish North W, Lanceashire & I L ondon &1Blpeo London & Brig Lon Chat., &k 13O.,Nietro. Est Do., lient Coast Losidon &N.Wi London & S. W ...

... I MR. LOWE AND T'iE WORKING CLASSES. I The ?? correspondence has been pub- liished: 10, Clarsndon-gardens, Maida-vale, IV., Jan. 1, 1807. Sir,-Believing you will kindly pardon the liberty I take in this addressing you, I venture to do so, not with the presumptuous object of questioning theviews you have seen lit to take on at subject of profouiid importance to the present iuterests and ...

... TElE BlSISOP OF RIPON ON CHURCE MISSIONS. a The Bishop of Ripen presided last niight at the Ic annual meeting of the Leeds Association of the Society y for the Propa'gation of the Gospel icn Foreign Parts, held in the Victoria, Hall. In opening the proceedings, the Bisuoop said the meeting had been held for the purpose of a hearing what had been the operations Of the society a dulrinig the ...

... LorDON, Monday. There is a passage in the tolegraphic news from America to the effect that a chatge is expected in the Mexican policy of the Federal Government. I do not think there will bo any real change in the course to be pursued. But there is a new fact in the situation. The Emperor Maximilian, disgusted at the treatment he has received from the French, and surprised that having beou a ...

... In accordance with our rule onl previous occasions we gjivo below the trallic increases or decreases on the prit- cipal lilles ilt the kingdom for the half-year, or such portion it the half-year ais is included ia the returns of last week, together witth the additional mileage and per ceutage of ilailic increases or decreases for the same timlo:- lRtilsays. ilseeaws T.itc. Porcenta3e. Belfast ...

... On Futurdlay aifternoont Lord Elche,M,. ?? t a public nilcetig cit the somier's of IMidiothiari ill ac Corn .Etxch;.iige-, Dalikte itli. inl enolinliance with tin icr- s-tationl t-uo as couimittee of thattbody, ;i whadz' re'luestec 1dm to give thorn an address onl the law of master Rant ,rervant. Lord Etoiro, whou wats receives5 with, cut iusitisr by thre miners, commenced his address by ...

... A GLIMPSE AT THE[ MORMONS. E' WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON the editor of I the Athe~meon, has recently visited America, and I has included the settlement of the Mormons at the n Salt Lake among his travels. The result of his ,r observations appears in two volumes, which have not yet made their way into'the provinces, but in .Saturday's Atheneum appear two extracts from the y work, one of which, ...

... On Wednesday the Rev. C. Walsham, M.A., vicar of Sculcoates, delivered a lecture before the members of the above Institute, at the Royal Institution Albion- street, subject: The genius of Shakspeare. There was a very large audience. In the absence of the presi- dent (Dr. Bell), the Rev. F. F. Goe, M.A., presided. The rev, lecturer remarked that the genius of Shakso peare combined the ...

... THE LIGHTS AT WITBJRN. AN inquiry was opened on Friday in the South Shields Police-court, and extended over Saturday, into the circumstances attending the loss of the bark Margaret and Jane, of that town. The Mayor and Alderman Glover were on the bench, and the assessors of the Board of Trade were Captain Harris and Capt. Height. Mr. Hamel conducted the case for the Board of Trade. The ...

... TORCHILIGHT REFORM DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE RESIDENCE OF I MR. JOHN BRIGHT. Last night, a somewhat novel scene was witnessod on Cronketshaw Common, Itoehdale, nearly in front, and within a stone's throw of the rosidouce of Mr. John Bright. Many thousands of persons, chiefly of the workiug-class, had assembled on the common, under the auspices of the National Reform Union, to show their ...