... 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 ...

... I IIULL BOARD OF HEALTH. re OPPOSITION TO TVM 'DOCKS BILL DISCONTINUED. St On Tuesday afternoon a special meeting of the ,h Local Board of Health was held at the Town-hall; mn the Mayor (Alderman Loft) presiding. The meeting a was convened in pursuance of a requisition'to the Mayorr signed, by Alderman Atkinson and other aldermen and councillors, who last Thursday voted for a continuance of ...

... IWINDOW GARDENING FOR THE WORKItNG CLASSES. I ' . . . I .. .. . - . I On Friday a meeting in connection with the win- dow gardening movement was held. The secre- tary read the report of the sub-committee, which recommnended that the following prizes should be given at the show to be holden in the Park on Saturday, July 13th :--Class A. £1, given by the Mayor of Hull, and Ss Gd adjded by the ...

... MONDAY was the great night of the session. Important things have been said and done since the opening of the present Parliament, and the future of the population of the United Kingdum has been materially influenced reeither for good or for evil. But progress has ir hitherto been limited to carrying out old. mn principles; even the compound householder Is is not a novelty 9 and if the question ...

... The annual meeting of the Hull Auxiliary to the ibove important missionary Society was held on Mon. day evening in Albion ChapeL On the precedin, services in aid of the society were preached to'i'. congregations at the ?? congregationa chan the Rev. Newnman Hall, ?? L. L.B., preji in Afbion; Chapel in the society's behalf in tb afternoon. The meeting was opened with the nsr, devotional ...

... rev - .. - . I - .. . .. _ Last Thursday night's proceedings in the House of ng Commons were wound up by a personal difficulty rt, between Mr. Layard and Mr. H. Lewis. Meeting in 'ed the lobby during a division, MIr. Lewis, nettled by the asr. term traitors which Mr. Layard had applied to the el, seceders homr the Liberal party in addressing his con- ice stituents, called the ...

... 0-- w~ , THE HOUSE OF PEERS ON RITUALISM. rII M A THE debate on Ritualism which took place in the House of Lords on Tuesday night ?? of the most important character. It not only secured the opinions of most of the leading Church dignitaries, but it pointed to a clear and direct mode of settling the ques- tion. The strongly expressed opinions of the headt of the Church, as well as those of the ...

... AND EAST RIDING TIMIES. REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE FOP TRANSMIssIoN ABRoAD. FRIDAY, MAY 24. PERHArS now the Reform League are beginning to be a little ashamed of. their violent hostility to the Govermnent Reform Bill. If, indeed, they are really anxious, as they profess to be, to have a liberal measure of Reform passed, this must be the case. They could never have hoped at the ...

... THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO LONDON.-THE I HALL OF ARTS AND SCIENCLS. I, iT-. - - . . I In accordance with the announcement made some time since, her Majesty came to town from Windsor Castle on Monday morning to lay the foundation stone of the Hall of Arts and Scieuces, which is intended as a memorial of the Prince Consort. Her Majesty left the Castle at half-past ten o'clock. The weather, which had ...

... ~ - - .- -JJ 3.2 I I T E IGHTJiUL..R JWAY ACCIDENT.. ! . r , i ; I. ' . i . I .. ?? I The fow.d iqg account of the railway accident whic4hoccurred iu.the.Nsorth, near C4rrpn, on Mon- day, is. foni . the . &otMan .- Thp ' acqident occurred'to'the- gobds ?? leaves Perth at half-pasi five id'the afteinoon, and which -*as co] i posed on Monday of fifty-three rwaggons' andttwo- vans-one- alof the! ...