... 41 I . I Co wa :RAIAI? SOS,, ?? * A- g ; _ F; E -. - . . A lh~~t A~~NtTAL1 lfETINO. i ?? annual meeting of this society ws 'held on Tuesday~ afternoon, at the Toawn Hall. IThe Mayor (Alderman R~. 860Wailer) presided, and amongsttoepeen eeM H. Wilson, M.P., the Rev. J. McCorrmick, the iEev.. Ca onon Page~t, the Rev. john Deck, the Rev. J.,Lister' the Rev. H. W7. HQ11and,. Dean. Randerson, the ...

... I RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY. PAnis, Tuesday. The Chambers assembled this afternoon. In the Senate, M. Parieu, in the name of the Government,' said :-The' Emperor promised that the Empress would convoke you if difficult circuni. stances should arise. We did not wish to delay summoning you till the situation of the country was compromised. We have called you at the first diffi- culties ...

... How THE BUSrNESS IS CONDUCTED.-The Boxian correspondent of the Augsburg A1Ugemeinze Zeit ua7Z gives the following description of the way in which the business of the Council is conducted. The bishop who desires to propose a-change in the text prepared by the Jesuits ascends the tribunal and reads a speech which, as a rule, the majority of his hearers do not understand. He then gives his reso- ...

... ThE ARCHBISHOP OF YOR. ON H EDUCATION QUESTIO.N. TE The annual meeting of the York Diocesan Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Church of England was held on Tuesday, at York; the Archbishop of York in the chair. A report read stated that the total number of students who came into residence at the commencement of the present year was 62, or an advance of ...

... L L E C T UR BY TuHE RE V. J. B. OWEN. I Tf This humourous and popular lecturer, an old n favourite in Hull, appeared on Monday last before the I- members of the Hull Church Institute, *hen the hall e of the Royal Institution was inconveniently crowded, ft and many had to be content wi' h standing at the door d or had to beat a retreat altogether. This unsatisfac. 3t tory state of affairs was ...

... tacal fattiligzart. THE SPR.AKER's DIXNEP..-MrW. R. X. Broadley, M.P., Mr James Clay, M.P., Mr C. Seely, Mr W. E. Wilby, and Mr W. St. J. Wheelhouse were amongst the guests at the Speaker's fifth parliamentary dinner, on Saturday last. RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN FRANCE.-The French vice-consulate at Hull (T. F. Hewitt, Esq.) requests us to say that the following additional donations have been ...

... MD iotti stash IC I t ( I I t BEVERLEY. EAST YORXc MILITIA.-The recruits of this regi- ment will assemble on the 3rd of April for 28 days preliminary drill, and the main body on the 1st of May for 27 days training and exercise. JEwisH MISSIONS.-Sermona in aid of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews were on Sunday last preached in the Minster 'and at St. John's Chapel, and on ...

... D.RALVils' EAILY CLU6,N G ASSOCIATION.. PUBLIC MEETING LAST NIGHT. j ?or some weeks past an association, named the Drapers' Early Closing Association, has taken atepa for procuring a diminution of the number of rE ho=re during which nearlythe whole of the drapers' O usistants of this town are confined and worked in the shops of their employers. Last evening a ,eeting was held for the purpose ...

... ~~ORRESPONDENCE1- CORRESPONDE1NCE. I REVIVAL OF CRICKET IN HULL. TO TEE IDITOB OF THE HULL PACKET. pEAR Sib.-The forthcoming England match pears a favourable opportunity .for asking your aid j- promoting a more general and, consequently, a healthier interest in cricket in Hull. For mauyyears cricket has comparatively languished here, as I believe to the detriment of the true interests of the ...

... REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST OFIXCH FOB TRANSMISSION ABROAD. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1870. Az Birmingham, the other night, Mr. RIGhfti *addressing his constituents, said that -he had often, both in public and privately, -avowed his conviction that within three years iafter the passing of a Reform Bill giving household suffrage, the people would demand -in a way which could not be resisted a ...

... r . DIES: N : X X ?? , 1~ ?? Dsn v ,-N-f :L - - - I S fi J ilon BARTON I and Th. Tombleson, Es. e labourer, ee charged wiibh telin'2it. o hWa, the > its. property of William Smiall, at -loeby, on he 4ch ay of January. Mr Mason defended the accused. The a!, hay had been trussed for a person, named Arm. ng strong, and shortly afterwards the hay was missed, o ig and was'subsequeatly traced to ...

... I - E1.PEPRTY IOMMITTE. This committee. met in the Town-hall on Monday, Alderman Bannister occupying the. chair. The sub. committee, had been, considering the application of Lietuen^,t4qlopel, ?? for the Hull Working. SlnsSx lbtow ? 6uidi stand, to ?? arpsas a drill shednud ,the linutes now read contained a motion of ,Alderman' Bryson'., wbiich motion proposed the granting of the application, ...