... -RIAY G Eube ,t 1h88. I F RIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1882. ?? ~ ?? _ WHICH WILL WIN, INTELLIGENCE| If 1 OR IGNORANCE? I That is the question the ratepayers of Hull will have to decide on Satuiday. The intelligent working-men, their leaders, and the philanthropists of the town will vote as one man for a Free Public Library, and confer upon Hull the same literary and intellectual privileges that ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... A MASTER OF HOUNDS CAUTIONED IN I IRELAND. It1> Xt _ A ?? y Mr Robert G. Watson, master of the Carlow and g Island hounds, was yesterday served with a notice, f i by 190 farmers in the Carlow district, caution- d ing him against trespassing on their lands during the t present hunting season. MILL DESTROYED NEAR ACCRINGTON. Early yesterday morning Church Bridge Spinning Mill, Church, near ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ' | I _+ I CAPTURE OF ARABI'S CHIEFB MILITARY ADVISER. 51 -t AN ATTACK BY MOONLIGHT.El tli BRILLIANT CAVALRY t CHARGE. o c CRUSHIN0,DEFEAT OF THE hi CR ~ ~ ?? The following telegram was despatched by Sir G hi Wolseley to the War'Office on Sunday:- ISMAILIA, Sunday. } Have just returned from outposts and find our m actions of 24th and 25th have had far more important results than I was aware ...

... 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 ...

... a RADICALISM AND THE IRISH QUESTION. TO THIE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET.. Sil,-Your correspondent, Mr Dibb, charges the 3 Radicals with disloyalty to the best interests of the country by our opposition to the Crime Prevention Bill. a In making that charge he is assuming that he knows what o are the best interests of the country, and the bill ntmed will conduce to those interests. We do ...

... THE NOMINATIONS. The time allowed for nominating candidates for the vacancies which will occur in the various wards of the town on the lat November expired on Monday evening. The following is a complete list of the gentlemen nomi. nated. It will be seen that there will be contests in nine wards out of the twelve into which the town has been recently divided under the Extension Act NEWINGTON ...

... I;OCAL DIVORCE SUITS. In the Divorce Court at Westminster, esterday, ty before Sir James :Egnuen, the CAe of Herd v. tr Herd came. on for hearing. This was a ?? in' De which the wife, Cecilia Ainne Herd, mued for t a judicial separaion by reason of the adultery of ' her husband, Job'n Herd, a corn merchant, of LiverpsooL The suitb wae originally one for divorce on the 'ground of adultery and ...

... 0 Tim Conpoanos Aurunse ExnmiTioS.-Wed- 5 oseday was the 77th day on which the Corporation Pk Exhibition of Pictures in the 'Walker Art Gallery I ' 'ad been open. Since the opening there had been j p 26,946 admissions at one shining, 11,967 at sixpence, i c( and 21,136 at threepence, the amount thus yielded jT being £1910 ls. 6d. Two hundred and seventy- IVj eis pictures hare been sold, ...