... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... LB -- ,. ' . . BEV*ERLEY.. at FIRE..Early on Saturday morning a fire occurred h on the premises of Mr. John Stothard, pawnbroker, of 1 Fleming-gate. The engine was quickly got out, and. 3 Supt. Knight and a strong body. ,of helpers were soon on the ground.' Through their exertions the: Rames' a were got unrder but. not until the back part of. the it prem~iseswere ?? destroyed. A large quantity ...

... Digtrict Bebas. ALFORD. GREAT SALE OF SHEEP.-On Tuesday Messrs. Mason and Son, of Louth, offered for sale at Thurlby Grange the prime flock of pure and carefully bred long-wool Lincoln shearling rams, eighty in number, and 300 shearling ewes, the property of the trustees of the late Mr. F. S. Kiemp. The late Mr. Kemp was an eminent breeder of long-wools of the pure new Lincoln type, with fine ...

... NOTES OF A, TRIP TO FRANCE. (BY A HOLIDAY. q0,TRBUTOR . In writing a' few notes of a recent pleasure trip to the Continent,, I am not going to enter into any. lengthened descriptions .of what I saw and' heard.- And this for several reasons, amhng others, that I met; with no extiaordinary adventures, that many of 'my' readers will have had' similar eiperienuss, and that' most of the maryels I ...

... - 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 ...

... TM- Corrfspanunct, - I I I I CORP ORATE AFFAIRS. Ij tTO. Tfl~1WjIT04 O91?5 ME'~I5 UL~L;4) Axmi,, ' I ratepayers of Hull,'f i it sme interestn:A ' the result 'of the tria' o orpiatin and Messrs.Ilaw sa sb oughI el ,have to pay ¢some iportioierof ' eZ , I heartily endorse the statenent of one of our town councfflora that it isirel worth the cost. to put the saddleupon i -'the'iight'horse, and ...

... I spire THE COLLISION IN THE SOLENT. the At the resumed iuquest on the mate of the Mistletoe, yesterday, at Portsmouth, the principal le 40 witness examined was Staff-Commander Sullivan, captain of the Victoria and Albert, who stated that ssionhe followed the Alberta at about 500 yards distance ance and saw that the Mistletoe altered her course, thereby has producing the collision. He did not ...

... | 'Give mo, above all other liberties, the liberty to know, to utter, and to argule freely, acordliue to conscience.,--Dr.Tox. The Newington Local Board is attaining an unen- viable notoriety. Its members use nnaughty language,1 and it is even insinuated that some ot them get drunk ! An explanation of these mournful facts was made at the conclusion of a meeting of the Board on MIonday, ...

... 1 On Saturday a Cout was held in the school- room, Waltham-street, for the purpose of electing five guardians of the poor for North Myton ward in the place of those retiring, who were-Messrs. J. Booth, E. J. Cook, G. Norman, Jarvis Jackson, and C. WV. Cheesman. More than customary interest was show'n in the election, orange placards having been issued by the Liberal Association of the ward ...