... THE MARTYR OF ANTIOCR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. SIrs,-The performance of the above Sacred Musical Drama, by the Vocal Society at the Public Rooms on the 9th inst. was really so excellent that as an ardent lover of good music I feel constrained to suggest that it may soon be repeated, in order that those who could not fail to have been delighted on Thursday may have in ...

... LIBER EONSTRETION AT ~~~GAINSBORUH On Monday the Liberal Association of Gainsboroughl inaugurated its first rdunion at a banquet, at which Lord Yarborough presided, supported - by Lord Monson, Messrs F. J. S. Foljambe, MAP., F. T. Mappin, MtP J. S. Leadam, M.A., Saville Smith, J.P., Mayor of Louth; J. Bennett, J.P., Louth; Alderman Bennett, Grimsby; and others. The banquet was held in the Old ...

... - ti (From the Live Stock Journeal.)s3 THE COTSWOLD SHEEP.-Since the time when Edward S the First made' a present of (Jotswolds to Alphonso, a, King of Spain, these long-woolled sheep have held their si pre-eminence. On the bleak hills, with an eight ir months' winter, and four too cold for summer, the Hill flockmasters claim for their favourites the first position it for hardihood and ...

... A CONVERTED FELON'S ADDRESS. The soldiers of the Salvation Army held high festival in London on Tuesday. Despising the criminal fascina- tions of the playhouse, they assisted at pantomimes of their own. Hosanna services were celebrated in sundry quarters of the Metropolis, and at Woolwich, Manches. ter, and numerous other points up and down throughout the provinces. The meeting at the former ...

... THE SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC IN. TTHE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE PROPOSED CLOSING OF THE SCHOOLS. Bit the ordinaiy meeting of the Hull School Board on Wednesdas, Mr Stratten presiding, the Board went into Committee for the purpose of considering the resolution passed by the Sanitary Committee with respect t~o the closing of the schools for a fortnight lafter the usual Christmas holidays in consequence ...

... HULL PAOKET OFFICE, Friday Zorniinxq. BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY. A Board of Trede inquiry was held at Cardiff yeater. day in reference to the loss of the steamer Cygnus, of Newcastle, which left Cardiff in February for Port Said with coal. The court was unable to find the caue of 10s8. MEETING OF YORKSHIRE COLLIERY OWNERS. An important meeting of the colliery owners of West and South Yorkshire ...

... mifstrict News. I Castle Howard is in future to be known as a teetotal estate.' Since succeeding the late Lord Lanerton, MIr George Howard, M.P., the heir to the earldom of Carlisle and the Castle Howard estate, has closed the well-known Castle Howard Hotel, and another at Welburn has just followed suit; whilet at Malton on Saturday Messrs Boulton and Constable sold by auction the brewing ...

... THE CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE - BILLS. l I - e . .. .. .. _ . , . . . Some dissatisfaction, says the Daily Chronicle, is felt hea among a section of Liberal members of the House of thi Commons on account of the 'indefinite postponement of to the second reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue rei Bill. lat PAYMENT OF ARMY PENSIONERS. an ' In consequence of representatiens made by Baron oo. ...

... r An ordinary meeting of the above Board was held on Wednesday at the Town Hall, the deputy-chairman L (Alderman Chepman) presiding. SCHOOL STATISTICS. n Oa the 80th ult. the Clerk reported the following 11statistics to the Bye-laws Committee:-Number of y children on the register, 13,334; highest number present 11 at one time, 11,259, number in average attendance; s, 10,708; per centage of ...

... 9 INQUEST ON THE BODIES. SEVERAL ARRESTS. Lord Frederick Cavendish, the new Chief Secretary of Ireland, and Mr Burke, the Under-Secretary, were assassinated on Saturday evening, in the Pbonix Park, Dublin. No outrage of recent years has created any- thing like the excitement manifested in the city as the facts of the dual murder became known. So atrocious seemed the bare rumour of the tragedy ...

... THE VICTORY OF IGNORANCE OVER KNOWLEDGE, AND MISREPRESEN- TATION OVER TRUTH. HULL has distinguished itself, but unfortunately in a wrong direction. It has set forth with a trumpet voice that it is not in favour of education, that it is indifferent to the elevation of the working-classes, and that it has no more interest in Public Libraries than it has in the Mikado of Japan. Twice before have ...

... HI1ThL EXTENSION AND IM3:PROVEMENT BILL. I THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE WARDS. On Friday a special meeting of the Parliamentary Committee of the Corporation was held at the Town Hall for the purpose of considering the question of the proposed division of the extended borough into new wards. Aid. Waller ?? Town Clerk pre. sented a report on the bill, in which he stated:- The old borough, as is well ...