... I At the Countess of Derby's reception on Saturday night Sir Henry Edward'sM.P,.Leady Edwards, and Mr. to. Edwards, and MOss Edwards&,were present; so0als was Chtistopher Sykes, Esq. M.P. The Hon. Mrs. Arthur Dtincombe and-the two Misses Duncombe were also among those constituting the brilliant assembly. Sj~rR--nMnam A 'AIUV oF A OF Ew SNEW -On Mondaymorning the screw steamer Niobe, 799 tons ...

... I On Saturday, at the Police-court, a special meeting of magistrates was held for the purpose of granting a licence to Capt. Morton Price, the new lessee of the Queen's theatre. The Justices on the bench were the Mayor (Aid. Loft), Mr. T2. H. Travis (stipendiary magistrate), Ald. Lumsden, Mr. W. B. (Jarriclr, and Mr. T. Ward. Mr. Summers applied for the licence on behalf of Mr. Price, who was ...

... MASTER TAILORS' ASSOCIATION OF THE I - UNITED KINGDOM. An adjourned meeting of the above trade was held at Hanover-square Rooms on Saturday after. noon, at two o'clock; 'Mr. R. Lewis occupied the chair. A large number of members were present, and the Chairman commenced the proceedings by calling on the hon. secretary, Mr. Landen, to read the report, which congratulated the trade on the ...

... NCE. BEVERLEY TOWN COUNCIL y The usual monthly meeting of the Town Council and Local Board of Health, was held on Monday, at ?? Hall, the Mayor (Mr. It. E. Silvester), presiding. The minuted of previous meetings were read and confirmed. The following recommenda- tion was agreed to without discussion, viz. : That the North Eastru Railmway Company, having consented to give lup) to the i five ...

... I AM OF LEEDS The following account of this extraordinary piece of Americanism is given by the New York corre- spondent of the 'Times :-The Ingraham family on 24th of July met at the Astor-house, in New York, to assert their right to the possession of the greater part of the land on which the town of Leeds is built. Some 200 Ingrahams, representing various branches of that family scattered ...

... PARis; 9t1i October, '6 ?? can be Dn question: about it, Frane6 is at present passing through a grave crisis. France is drifting in her politics, and hence the present unsettled state of public feeling and incipient alarm. The black points which the Emperor in August last, at Lille, saw on the political horizon, seem to be coalescing into threatening clouds. Up to the present the Emperor's ...

... HULL RAGGED AND INDUSTRIAL | SCHOOLS. 0 Notwithstanding the absence, through o illness, of Sir CHARLES ANDERSON, who had 0 undertaken to occupy the chair, and of ADMIRAL DUNcOMBE, who, since the death of o his 8on-in-law, Mr. J. A. SYKES, of Raywell, has filled the office of President of the Executive Committee, the anniversary meet- ing of the Hull Ragged and Industrial Schools on Tuesday ...

... . 'LOCAL IELLIGEN CE. THE CASE OF HOUSE ENTERING 1si THE PARK.- James Ward and George Jones, who have been brought up at the Polce-court several times, charged with breaking into the house of Mr. Daunatt, in the Park, and stealing therefrom sundry articles, were on Tuesday committed to York assizes. THE BuihARY IN COLTNAN-D;STUEET. - Thomas Wriley, charged with breaking into the house of Mr. ...

... THE POSITION AND P)OSPEOTS OF OUR i I DOCKS. Burl - We have been favoured by Wi 11am Wright, Esq., chairman of the Hull Dock Coinpany, with the fol- lowing statement, showing the position and prospects of that comcpany. '1lshe statement is illustrated by a plan of the docks .- Hull is the third port in the kingdom ; it is distant about twenty-one miles fromn tile month of the Hurmber, where ...

... DRITISHR AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. On Tnesdayevening the annual mneetingof the -Hull I auxiliary of the above society was held at the Royal Institution, Albion-street. There wras a very good attendance, the hall being Nvell filled, and the chair was occupied by his worship the Mayor. The meeting having been opened with singing and prayer, the report was read bv the Rev. F F. GoB, which, after ...

... The disease of the patient was so mortal, and his cure so utterly hopeless, that the melancholy event of Saturday last scarcely needs comment, much less a lengthened obituary notice. But though the mortal coil of the Reform League certainly ought never to have been assumed, its shuffling off was so peculiarly rapid as to demand attention. In noticing the last Demonstration' we found that ...

... LAST NIGHT'S PARILiA4MET., I HlOUSE OF LORDS. R.TUALISTIO OOMBUfSSION. Their Lordshfps met at 5. o'clock. In reply to Earl RUSSELL, The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that he had declined to be placed upon the Ritual Committee on the ground that no one of extreme opinions, or who was l held to be of extieme opinions, ought to be a member of that committee, and for this reason he also objected to the ...