... | STRANDING OF THE HIDALGO,. g A Board of Tradejnquiry into the lose of the H.s. g Hidalgo, stranded in the Gulf of Finland in Novem- b her last,'commenced at the Hull Police Court on . Tuesday, before Mr. T. H. Travis (stipendiary magis- trate), and Captain Steele and Captain Forster, R.N, 0 nautical assessors. Mr. L. V. Hamel appeared for r the Board of Trade, and Afr. Hearfield represented ...

... POLICE. -Thursday: Before the Mayor, Mr. John a Brigham, and Mr. A. Crosakill. -Johx Steel, one~of , the sergeants of the borough police force, ' was e charged by William Dearing, gardeper, with unlaw- e fally assaulting him on the previous Saturday. e Complainant amid the sergeant told him he kept a l disorderly house, and seized him by -the arm and dragged him to the end of Wood-lane. This ...

... I LATEST KEWS. I THE MORDAUNT CAS2. The flnet step towards bringing Sir Charles Mor- daunt's petitin for a divorce forward has just been taken. DASTARDLY ACT. A woman named Mlayes was ahot yesterday morn- ing, near Tipperary, by some one firing at her from outside the window of het own home. THE KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION PETITION. Justice Mellor yesterday deilared 1ir. Graet un-, seated. THE ...

... BROCKLESBY STEtPLECHASM MEETING. cl- - - ' - W4 . - .s gn . : .: _ _- I Melgisandih Sig-Jht Ho h Earl of Yarborough, Viscount 5 Melgnd~ Si JohdDugdale Astlay, ]art., M.P., Mr. H it. Boucherett, Captain Pox, and Mr. J. R. Kirkham. Caiux a, Ow THis CouRS11-Mr. Wil~litim iledley. STAnRisa- Mr.' a Nimrod Long. CLiaRZ OF THIC ScALiis-Mr. NV. Graburn. r, 1HON. Sac., AMtD TizAumauxR-mr. Geo. R. P. ...

... TIE PROPOSED NEW BOULEVARD IN To, HUL tin, of the Park Committee was held at the A met on Friday, under the presidency of Alder- Town 11 D The following report, prepared by ran3 clhaPn; ,dd (the law clerk) and Mr. Sharp (the Dir. C. S read :- Agreeably to your resolution, surveyo)} eport on Mr. Garbutt's letter, dated the me beg tI fo]jlowo :-lst. That the site of the drain 7th IJLt ?? ...

... .. . . . . ?? .. .I ?im F A RAILWAY COMMISSION.- Are the causes of rail- way accidents so far to seek that we need a Royal Corn- mission, postponing, of course, any action for another year, to discover them? It is easy for directors to assure us that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. The pessimist public, with its lively recollections of the last season, and its fearful ...

... NEW MEMBERS OF TIHE HOUSE OX . COMMIONS' f 11 r LORD CHARLES WILLIAM DE LA POER BERESFORD, M. P. for the County of Waterford, is the second son of the late Marquis of Waterford, and was born in 1846. He entered the Royal Navy in i859, has served on board several of Her Majesty's ships, became lieutenant in i868, and flag-lieutenant in 1872. He is a Conservative.-JoHN CHAPMAN, Esq., sits for ...

... NEVW GO VERNMENT OFFICES, WHITEHALL THIS building was originally intended for the Foreign Office, but it is now said that the War Office will be removed from Pall Mall and located here. The architect is Sir G. G. Scott, but his design has suffered considerably from modifications on the score of economy. The square blocks of building at the angles were intended to have been carried up as towers ...

... .c o l~ W jn I CIVIL WAR.--Carlists of the nobler sort may well hang their heads at the massacre of Valfogona, so graphically told by the correspondent of The Times, in mingled shame and fear lest Europe should insist that such things should no longer be. Unhappily, the end of a struggle, hardly worthy of the name of war, seems almost farther off than ever. Scant reliance as may be placed on ...

... be/1, ?? ?? THE PUBLIC WORSHIP BILL.-The friends of the English Church Union held a meeting on Tuesday, at St. James's Hall, to protest against the Archbishop of Canterbury's Bill. The principal speakers were Dr. Pusey, Canon Liddon, and Arch- deacon Denison, all of whom were loudly cheered. Dr. Pusey said that the fact of the Bill having been introduced would show that the Ritualist party had ...

... 0 ~,,jTHe GoURTC N THERE is little of public interest to record in the Court life at Balmoral last week; the Queen, with the feminine members of the Royal family, walked, drove, or rode to various places of in- terest in the neighbourhood, whilst the Duke of Edinburgh spent his leisure time in deer-stalking, and slew eight fine stags, the first one shot down was a ?? Sunday the Queen, with the ...

... THE ASHANTER WAR. The &cudard says that the Earopean, which has. nrrived at Southampton, with five marines aul 20. blue jackets Invalided from Cape Coast, also Captai Crease, R:M.A., brings news that Inter- mittent fever in prevalent among the Weat Indian regimenutr. The following offoers will pftoeed In the Steam- phip Nebraska. frorAt Portsmouth, for serlope at the Cold Coast -Staff.surgoon ...