... - Touching the Midland Railway (I am glad to hear that they have already made £50,000 by the abolition of their second class), I observe that at the recent general meeting, in answer to a question from Mr. Baines as to whether the directors had entertained the idea of running ladies' carriages, the chairman replied that the experiment had been tried many years ago, and it was invariably ...

... COTTING HAM. Loc.AL EBou ?? monthly meeting of this Boardwas held yesterday afternoon in the Board- room, Cottinghanm, Mr. J. Oldnam, C.E., in the chair. The Law Cleri (Ur. C. Bell) stated that at the last deeting he reported that the Local Government Board had given their sanction to the loan of £17,000 for draining the entire district, and the solicitors to the Public Works Loau ...

... A meeting of the Corporation. acting as the Sanitary Authority, ho., was held at the Town Hall, yesterday. In the absence of the Mayor (who was stated to have - accepted the Lord Mavor's invitation to dine with him l at the London Mansion House), the chair was taken by e the ?? (Alderman Seaton, ?? THE DEATH TASTE. Mr. BLACaKouRN, who bad previously brought for- ward the subject, again called ...

... MiRl C. H. WILSON, MiP., ON SHIPPNG AND I. I RAILWAY MATTERS. e SUPPORT PROMISED TO MR. PIMSOLL'S y , ! ! MOVEMENT. e At a dinner given by Messrs. Henry ltiigge, Son, and Co. (Limited) of the Whitwood Collieries and ?? Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company, at the Station Hotel,, on Friday evening last, Mr. C. H. Wilson, one e of tlhe members for Hull, malde some pertinent observa- n tionis on ...

... FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, IsS. TIHE ABOLITION OF THE INCOME-'; THE deputation whieh last week wait. tile CHANCELLOR of thle EXCHEQUER to a:- the entire abolition of the Incoije-_ax W. onlY unluevous and respectable, but ' representative. Not fewer than tweenty In.t! of Parliament, of all shades of politics, and - sentiiag constituenicies in all sections country, vere present, as well asi a vast ?? ...

... f NEW SCHEME FOR THE HULL 7 - TRtINITY HOUTSB. { . ._ . ?? iOU CHARITY COMAMISSION. ese In the matter of the Charities of the Guild or ars Brotherihood of Masters and Pilots, Seamen of the he Trinity House in Kingston-upon-Hull in- Scheme for the management and regulation of the t above-mentioned charities- at The charities and their endowments shall be adminis- he tered and managed by the ...

... This society held their annual meeting on Wednes- day, at the Cross Keys Hotel, Alderman Seaton in the chair. The TREASURER (Mr. Jackson) read the report, which showed that during the year 1874 the total inconme from all sources was £485 17s. /d., and the expenditure £445 12s. 9d., leaving a balance of £37 4s. 9d. The SECRETARY (Mr. J. Leak) then read the 48th annual report, which stated that ...

... I | MR. GLADSTONE AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. Mr. Gladstone has written to the Greenwich Libe. - ral Association expressing his gratitude for their : recent resolution. The right hon. gentleman, in the I course of his address, said :- Perhaps I may be per. mitted, without impropriety, to use this letter as a vehicle for extending my expression of gratitude to the numerous and generous friends in ...

... A special meeting of the Corporation was. convened yiagrday afternoon, when there was a large attendance, a zifr the presidency of the Mayor (Aid. C. Wells). m IThe special business was to pass a resolution th Rthorising the Council (by the Waterworks Com- to mittee) to oppose tke application of the Newington O Water Company (Limited) to the Board of Trade for al a provisional order, under ' ...

... HOUSE OF LOIlDS.-YESTERDAY. CHUIRCH .PATRONAGE.-The Bishop of Peterborough movedl the second reading of thle Church Patronlage Bill, which, he stated, enboclied the reconanelnlatiotss of the comm1littee of last ye lr andi calrried out the views of the two committees of the Convocation of CJanter- bury. The piinciple ujioll which the mleasure Owent was that patronage was the trast, and it mnade ...

... Ittl5fel lalleoub. Archdeacon Bickersteth's appointment a- 9eian of Liclifield is announced. Baron Grant is mentioned among the prob-ole Con- servative candidates for Norwich. On Monday, at Preston, a labourer named Twye was committed for trial onx the charge of stabbing two men. A young woman named Dinah Ann Mlurg;il eyd has been apprehended at Leetis on a charge of c1. - .aurder. The Queen ...

... EIi GRATION.-PROSPECTS IN CANADA. -, . - . . .. . The following letter has been sent to us for publica- tion, and we would call the especial attention of Lincolnshire labourers and others, who are being deluded by paid agitators, into the belief that Canada is the Happy Land, floving with iillk and honey, where the poor oppreseed laboarer will find a panacea for all the ills to which he is ...