... On Monday evening a lecture was delivered at the Royal Institutioa, Albion-street, under the auspices of the Hull Church Institute, by Mr W. BODHAu DONNE, Her Majesty'sExaminerofPlays, on lBenJonson. -The chair was taken by the Rev. a. Walsham, B.A., owing to the unavoidable absence of the president (Rev. J. Scott, M.A.) during the early part of the meeting, and there was a crowded ?? ...

... IMPERI AL - PARLIAMENT. I HOUSE OF LORDS.-FR1DAY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving that the Higlh Court of Jedicature Bill be re-committed, explained some alterations which he had made in the bill to meet the objectioris made on-the second reading. After a brief conversation, it was decided to post- pone the committee for a few days. The House adjourned at 7 ...

... I 1 FIXNAiNCIAL poSl'jfilN uf i'.E HULL; |- CORPORATION. The Property Committee of the Corporation met in the Town-ball on Monday; Ald. Bannister ?? Borough Treasurer (Mr Bolton) pre- sented the annual statement of accounts, made up according to Act of Parliament, for the year ending 31st August, The income of the borough fund amounted to £37,572 Os. ld., and the expenditure to £34,913 J.3s. ...

... IMPORTANT CHANGES AS TO OFFIJERS, ENLISTMENT, AND HOME DEFENCE. MINISTERIAL statements, in laying before Parliament the Estimates for the Public Services, are not usually very cheerful read- ing. But there are some points in the long statement made by the War Minister, in submitting to the House of Commons the Army Estimates for the year now current, which should have special attention, and ...

... . ?? QOKE NUISANCE. .A QULL. SE.D CRUESHMR PROSECUT'ED. A setd crusher, named Wmn. Lowe, carrying on business in Thomas Street, was summoned at the Police Court on Friday for allowing amoke to issue from his mill ?? Todd, clerk to the Local Board of Health, appeared for theprosecution, and said that in this case the defendapt was charged ?? that on the 16th of August his mill chimney did send ...

... I s~ -tn. run - THS CORN TRADE.-The bright weather of the mre. 1 VUS week has beenfollowedbyacontinual tropical h The meadows have once more lost their green, nc3 a0t Who deferred cutting their graswtthe e l;tl0e of s, berter galheriag ?? had about h.dfa laiil, to acie instead of a quarter, as experienced Ivy til.lth novilstead) of wbr. mowvedi ealrl~ttY, but the pri'dune is omiue ii.e o thaib ...

... The monthly meeting of the Board was held yester. I day at the Town-hall, the MAYOR (Alderman Witty) t presiding. I Mr GLOVER was appointed a member of the Finance I Committee in the place of Mr J. C. Pettingell, I deceased. f THE PROPOSED BOULEVARD. t The MAYOR moved the confirmation of the minutes I of the Town's Improvement Committee of the 6th instant. Ald. JAHESON asked if the ...

... The Councilof the Church Association has elected Mr Joseph Hfoare, of Child's Hill, Hampstead, their chairman, in the place of the late Mr Colquhoan. The recently appointed bishops of Chichester, St. Asaph, and Zaluland were consecrated on Sunday in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. Although the mandate of the Archbishop of Canterbury had been issued to the Bishop of London and two other bishops, ...

... i __ ti riii in rei :a ti LID vit 41i .ib ItE Iie 511 iv r lia pit .ti 'a is )01 .ti tir hi bil di er ioi rii a] -tit ti La it bC it Ila ust ?? -it tii ~is Wif ri iti 01 En Iif IlE 013 ,i. t'C ,re he tit IC if cy d. id ts ire ?? I. 5e Ifs THENORTE BRIDGE DRINKING FOUNTAIN. Of TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PCKET he SIR,-Before the old North-bridge Was removed ud there stood on the south side of ...

... I ST. MANIeS NATIONAL SCH0.5b, -:ADMbBgst 11e list of successful competitors for QueenVs Vh61%ehips at the Government Examilnution, held n tuthelstmas week, are the names of Mr John A. Mason, had Mr Henry Rowntree, late pupil teachers in this school. THE LATE PERVORMANICE if3 THFE MESSIAH. The receipt> of the recent perfornance of the Mes- siah'1 by the united vocalists of Hull, after ...

... .EARL DERBY AND TiHE LEADERSHIP Oh kp THE LORDS. .e ?? 1THE uncertainty in connection with thel )f Conservative leadership, so long a moot point, a - has now, so far as Lord DERBY is concerned r-,been settled; and although his lordship'sj ?? is a negative, there is, we trust, sufficient' ?? for inference that no lengthened time' ?? elapse ere we shall again lookuptoa AtLord DERBY as the chief ...

... I m- . . In I I There were not less than a hundred mounted - warriors, and a large number on foot. About a mile WI from the inn, Rhodes's horse seemed to be giving twh out and he struck off from the road to towards off the mountains, followed by all the mounted Indians. we The Mexican had escaped to the Reventon, and to thence to Tubac, but he said that Rhodes must have been killed soon after ...