... FRDYt OCTA 18atBtt. FRIDAY OCTOBER 1, 1875. THE speech of Mr. CROSS, at Owell, the other i day, on the present aspect of the education ' question, has excited, as was very natural should I be the case, a very considerable degree of atten-E tion, and has won from the speakers and journals1 of the Liberals a suspicious amount of commenda- c tion. Mr. FORSTER, speaking at Leeds a few c days ...

... Bi- R. WILSON, M.P., AND THE HULL * FISHERMEN. I - O, AND On Tuesday evening last, Mir. 0. H. Wilson, M.P., presided over the annual meeting of the Hull Fisher- men's Widows and Orphans Society, which, we are informed, was originated about a year ago, chiefly through the exertions of Councillor A. W. Ansell and Mr. Sims. The meeting had been preceded by a tea, at which a large company of ...

... I ? fifyrtigll Flux do Ilalliat itU115. Id The Challenger surveying ship has arrived at Val- )fparaiso.haarie al Prince Bismark had a lengthy audience of the Emperor of Germany on Monday. e The Liberal party in the Impelal Parliament of Ger- many are said to be preparinga measure ensuring secrecy at Parliamentary elections. ; Letters from St. Petersburg report that districts on 1 e the right ...

... 39iotrict xcws. BEVERLEY. EI r RIDING CHAIIB3ER OF AGRICULTURE.-The mont'-- tv meeting of this chamber was held at the Glob Inn on Saturday; the president (Mr. W. Baii; su, of Beverley Parks) in the chair. The Chair- niall n-.led a memorial on behalf of the chamber to the '-poration, praying that body to consider the ,lesh--!.-.ness of providing better accommodation in tlhe -. i, butter, and ...

... .Di5trict xew,5. ,n BEVERLEY. PRZSENTAT'ON.-On Wednesday Colour-Sergeant dUsher, of the East York Militia, who served 21 years - in the 94th Regiment of Foot, chiefly abroad, and who has been 13 years olour and pay sergeant in the ?? York, two years of which he acted as assistant sergeant-major, was presented with a gratuity of £15 3 for being in possession of the long service and good conduct ...

... 1l4ugllaneous. His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught will return to England on Monday next. On Wednesday a train from Cardiff for Bristol was thrown off the rails near Newport, and the passengers were severely shaken. John Wrigley, manager of the Bolton Corporation Waterworks, was on Wednesday apprehended on a charge of embezzling £5,000. At the Old Bailey on Wednesday, Fred. W. Drake, aged ...

... THE FALSE, MIRACcLE OF THE HOLY FIRE. 3yal Lh A SPECTATOR.] set, and Many are the solemn thoughts suggested by a visit ton the Holy Land. Two things, however, were the constantly uppermost in my mind: one, the greatness lso of the work which our blessed Lord came to do, and uth the reality of what He has done and is doing, the ilts. other, the hindrances placed in the way of the progress of ...

... On Tuesday evening a meeting, of the Hull Guar- dians took place, at. the Parochial Offices, Posteregate, with reference to the subject of the paupers' ChOribmas beer. The chair was occupied by Mr. W. Adams, and there were present nearly twenty of the guardians. The Chairman observed that they were aware that a resolution was abeat to be proposed at the no.st Board meeting, that the 36-gallon ...

... CONSERVATIVE BANQUET I IN HULL. aL !The aninual'dinner in connection with t~m. 'West be Eaulooates Conservatirve Assocdation took place on n 'Monday evening lat, at the Public Booms, Jarratt- In street, when about 20 of %he members and their p fredsst dwuer the presidency of Mir, C. S. s, Backls. The vice-chairs woe occupied by Counaillurs 1u Larard and Peasegood-; anid amongst the cop~an~y F ...

... corropntleartc. FEMALE PREACHEfEl TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. SIR,-During the past week Hull has been favoured with the edifying spectacle of a female in the pulpit, and an opportunity offers for a few comments upon the system of female preaching and of employing female speakers generally. Many goodly-sized volumes have been filled with panegyrics upon the holy influence which attends ...

... 3ELocal Intetgllcto. I )KS ?? 7 Falal, Yorkshire, by an attack of nlumbago.' The Earl (la Grey, M.P., left at lew days' ago~ for Egypt, and is not expected to return to his Farlia- ery snentary duties till after the Easter recesg, IhY At the late Board of Trade examination Mrz. G. W. lacfy Lenuard passed the examiners at Hull, as first masted '2 and J. W. Atkinson, as at second-class engineer. ...

... LATEST - NEWS. I e T TLE REPRESENTATION OF BLACK'BURN. t The polling took place yesterday amidst much ex- e citement, but without any actual violence, though the n importation of 200 strangers into the town on the y previous night created some alarm. Several mills in ' the town were closed, and little work was done. As V will be seen from the following figures, showing the_ L close of the poll ...