... BULL PROPERTY OWNERS AND THE REFORM ACT. ?? . I . On Tuesday a meeting of the Property Owners' Mutual Protection Association, which had been called by circular, was held at the Sailors' Institute, for the purpose of taking into consideration the rate- paying clause of the Reform Act. The meeting was called for half-past seven, but the proceedings did not commence till past eight o'clock, in ...

... THE REPRESENTATION OF1 BIRAADFOP.D. There seems every probability at present that there will be a sharp contest for the representation of Bradfoid. Mr. Ripley and his frionds appear determiaed to persevere, and those who know him well assert that he is not the nearl to give in. HIeis a gentleman of indomitable energy and perseverance, and, apart Jrom his political views, which are fully ...

... IOn Wednesday evening Mr. Sheriff Bryson enter. tained the Mayor and, Corporation, together with the consuls and representatives of the public bodies in Hull, at a dinner which was held at the Town.hall. Mr. Bryson presided. On the right of the chairman were the Mayor, Sir H. CoOper M.D.; Mr. H. E. Silvester, mayor of Beverltey; the Rev. H. W. Kemp, B.A,; the Rev. Canon Brooke, vicar of Hull, ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL, INDIA. TIIE ABlYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. By the arrival of tho Bombay mail we halveaalyice, fjro Bombay to Sept. 9, and from ('alcutta to Sept.; :, The !'i1ixs oflfhsdi, of the 9th September, says that the all-engrossing subject of public attention, in India at pr SeCit, as it has been for some tin-e p'est, is tho pin'p,,q Abyasinian expedition. Formerly the popular feiar ,a ...

... m . . A . - a. I Tim meeting of the leading Conservatives of Hull on Monday night was well attended, the questions brought forward well discussed, and the resolutions adopted unquestionably good. -Now that the Reform Act has given' the working man so large a share of political power, he naturally attains much greater con- sequence than he would possess under a restricted franchise. But in any ...

... THE DjUKE OF C AMIBRIDGE AT FRESTON. OPEiNUN of' TRE TOWN HALL AS'D (1FaDEI OUR OWN fREroIZURm.) Thnsoh, 'Thursday. ''Proud preston, 518 its inhabitants delight to tilfl a 1h0' ti~igh, has to-day, at ainy rate, hfad sonles- thuilg like 11 ?? fair claim to an appellation which may hvbciigirds it, contempt or in ridicule originally, but which iocherished with remuarkable focndness and nlot ...

... tIPORTANTC OON RVATIVE WERTING IN [ H ULL- ?? o - - * , Oli Monday evening a zrrumerously attended meeting jt of the chairmen and members of the various ward;e I Conservative Associations IM's hield at the Protestant Hall for the purpose of ooiasii2erig the desirability of forming a Lienera Wor IIIg en' Conservative, A!sociation after the style of th6.one at Leeds, which L has been attended ...

... ALARMING COLLIERY ACCIDENTS NEAR I . BARNSLEY .ON1E:mAN KILLED AND IAOTER. INJUREDl - : ti ?? On Tuesday morning considerable excitemeninpre. vailed in Barnsley and thedistrict, owing to a re- 3 port that the Strafford Collieries, at whieh:3W0' men 3and boys are einployed, had' exploded.' The roads leading to the pit Were thronged with nrumbers 'of l 3 pedestrians, many of whom had ...

... AND EAST RIDING TIMES. _ 9 REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST-OPFICE FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD. .. _. Y FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1867. Tan dinner given to Dr. ALDERSON last night is certainly some slight proof that there may be exceptions to Shakspeare's dictum that ingratitude is the one touch of nature which makes the whole world kin. It evinces that there are good deeds past 1 which are not ...

... LOCAL AND GENERALa LEEDS, OCTOBER 4, 1867. RProN CATnEDcAL RESToIRATION.-Sir John Lowther, Bart,, of Swillington, ILeeds, has contributed £100, and John Calverley, Esq., of Oulton, Leeds, £100 towards the abovo object. Andrew Fairbairn, Esq. (Mlayor of Leeds), has also offered £100, to bh paid cOnI- ditionally. We are authorised to state that those gentle- men who promised their subscriptions ...

... FENIAN OUTRAGE AT MANCHESTER. MNscnrsT'n, Oct. 3. The defence of the prisoners charged with mur- der, now twenty-three in siumber, comnmenced this morn- ing et ten o'clock. Mr. Fowler presided, and there was a rather full attendance of Magistrates. The prisoners were iunhandouffs and guarded fromthe prisou to the court by a company of infantry. Mr. Co'rriNGnA then addressed the court for the ...

... TIIE MUNICIPAL INCORPORATION OF BIATLEY. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The Commissioners sent down by the Privy Council sat yesterday at the Town Hall, Batley, for the purpose of inquiring into the application for a charter. The sam legal gentlemen named in yesterday's Mcrcury again appeared. Xir. James Tgetheri'ld, assistant surveyor, the first witness called, said lie had been employed senle ...