... IENG&LAND AND CABIJTL. I The Standard's special correspondent telegraphs from Dom bay as follows:- The commencement of hostilities may take place at any moment. Four of the Ameer's infantry regiments, with six guns, are stated to have arrived in front of Ali Musjid, a short way up the Khyber Pass, and have advanced to within three miles frout Jamrud, at which place a detachment of British ...

... I LATE ST1' NE tS. | HULL, Friday Meorning. THE EASTERN QUESTION. THREALTENING ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA. REPORTED RETURN OF THE RUSSIAN TIWOOIS UNDER THE WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE. Thle Times Berlin correspondent telegraphs that in consequence of outrages committed against the Chris- tian inhabitants, the Russian troops have re-occupied Chekmedje and Tchataidja, and remain under the walls of ...

... - FLIGHT OF THE AMEER. LON THE SHAH OF PERSIA AND: SHERE AL. ALT BAGHAN, bec. 19. The Ameer, Shere Ali, has fled from Cabul to Wh Turkestan, having released Yakoob Khao, and left Barle him in charge of fafirv. Sir Samuel Browne reaches Jelalabad to-day. LEI VIeNNA, Dec. 20. diate The evening edition cof the Prese publishes a note. ley e) worthy telegram :from St. Petersburg. Whl According to ...

... FUNERAL OF THE LATE JOHN HETX, ESwO OF BRIGG. On Friday last the mortal remains of this muich;' respected gentleman were interred in the quiet and pus: turesque cemetery of Wrawby-cunm.Brigg. The body came by trairifrob London via Betford at one shortly afterwaids the funeral cortte started from ti4e kailway-station in the 'following ?? rnd- assistants; Heas'se, containing the body; Pall ...

... THE HRELTH OrTSF R~URAL DISTR1OO lation 20i. MIelton Birt death. population 187. Ferribylly birth. deaths 3, dath a3irts li 25, bith-re th-rat 6,Ppujation 43' 25, birth-rate 26, deaths 14 death 9561 Suttona with Stoneferrt y *thrs y: irthA deaths 27, death-rate 16.- poiultioI Births 18, birth-rate 37, death8 16 d lation 481. Welton with ?? ; ratte 27, deaths 21, de Ith derth rat 28 r Westella ...

... local Intellgencm. I ROYAL TNSTITUTION.-TOmorr)w (Saturlay) tit s threeo'clock,J. J. Harris Teill, MA.,wF.CS. will lecture on The Structure of M'Tatter and tnergy, being the introductory University Exteneion locture l' on Science. HULL CLERGYMEN AT THE CHURCH CoGsoa 8ss- The follow'v2g are the names of some of the local clergy who were present at the Sheffield Congress :-Rev. J. McCormick, ...

... OPENING DINNER. The inaugural dinner of the'above club was held on Wednesday evening, at the Cromwell Hotel, Wallmsley. street. Mr. Coancillor A. Rollit, president, occupied I the chair, and Mr. E. B. Maroney the yice-chair. The company numbered about fifty. An excellent repast was provided. Letters of apology were received from Lie=tenent-Colonel Saner, Dr. Gibson, and other gentle- ?? loyal ...

... ARALIY SCRIPTIl~E 1 E, The first annual meeting. OF 800 hhe~ ~ ~ ~~~u te1 the A~rmny Scripture Readrs an nl -4il Socitywas i thed to' n n de rrs'~ nt a. et b .3 iet -as held to ?? at the ReS0ldn 4r, of Col. Wilson, of the Brigade no Yal aaw 8r8Iad and Capt. Kirvan (late 7theROtl Imyrl bey utpio King's Own Borde rr) the .ihe. 1 the North of Englad atna.i~iU e the parent society. Amongstad a ...

... e TRAMWAYS.-In reviewing the events of the past o month, the investor in tramway securities may be con- gratulated upon the stability of his property, for while almost all stocks and shares have been subject to violent c fluctuations tramways have steadily maintained their values. Those who study the present position and s future prospects of tramways are shrewd enoigh to see that the ...

... I . - A- - . I . 5. Aud so they went plunging and staggering and bo3unding onwards, with the roar of the water all around them, and the foam at her bows, as it sprung high into the air, showing quite white against the black sky ahead. The younger lad Duncan was clearly of opinion that his master was running too near the shores of Colonsay, but he would say no more, for he knew that Macleod had ...

... A meeting 6f the Grammar School Committee was held yesterday, at the Town Hall, Alderman Wells presiding. A letter was read from the Rev. G. OhIson, tendering 'his resignation as masttr of the Grammar School, as lie had been elected to the head-masiersbip of the Eiotvherham Grammar School. He stated that during the ten years that lie had occupied the post of h-ad master the number of pupils ...

... FR3IENDLY SOCIETIES' NEETINGS. THE DRUIDS. .,'The business on ?? 13th was to consider applica- tions from lodges wishing to secede from the distric: which they are already connected with and to forn ser districts of their own. The meeting then proceeded ta the election of the grand officers for the ensoing year. Bro. Gill, of Sheffield, nominated for Grand easter, Bro. Charles Griffin, of ...