... SPRINGG-BANK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH i ?? ANNIVERSARY. SERMONS AND LECTURE. BY PRINCIPAL {CAIRNS. The anniversary sermons in connection with Spring- I bank Presbyterian Church were preached on Sunday by i Principal Cairns, D.D., LL.D., of Edinburgh. The I weather was not very favourable, but, notwithstanding, e good congregatioins assembled both in the morning and t th6;.* evening. In the inorning ...

... TIE SOUDAN WAR: NARRATIVE BY A BARTON MAN. The following further extract from a letter received from a Barton man, who has been in service during the campaigns in Egypt and the Soudan, will be interesting to many of our readers'- Masaowah, April fth. We have left Sunkim and I think the war is over on this aide of the Soudan. You wanted me to write an account of the war; I will tell you a ...

... RANDOM REA)INGS. Gentlemen find but one use for the nose. They use it to hang their spectacles on. But the ladies use it as a ora of hitobinx-post when they tie on their hats with a piece of veiling. ' I wouldn't he in your shoes for a good deal,' said one school girl to another. 'I wouldn't have you in them, either,' was the tart reply; ' you'd stretch 'em all out of shape.' Teacher: Define ...

... To the Editor of the Hull and Lincoltnshire Times.- Sir,-With your permission I should like to say a few 'words to your readers on the above, having taken great interest in the ensilage movement. I last year witnessed a most successful experiment on a large scale made by a tenant farmer entirely at his own cost, and the report of the Royal Agricultural Society's secretary, Mr R. M. Jenkins, is ...

... THE SECOND READING OF THE BILE. I Tr-o -, .- :_ -s A __ _ ?? . - ?? e Last night, in the House of Commons, in replying to Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Gladstone declined to state what points in the Bill the Government would consider vitals but added that the responsibility of the Government for that Bill was precisely the same, and as ftill and abso. lute as in regard to any other Bill ever submitted to ...

... Tall extent to which popular interest in a subject can die out is exhibited in the reception accorded to the news anent the fall of Berber. Vox populi is proverbially fickle, and if Ministers could but maintain their position for another year or so; if GoRDoN should get out of Egypt; if Ireland should be comparatively quiet; and if our foreign relations generally should be not so very ...

... ?? I Wor. Shellets, stonemason, fell Into the Railway Dooec ea Saturday whilst erecting a scaffold. He wau rescued and was but little the worse for his immersion. Gjorge Lenbam, carpentar, has had hs skuU fractured through being knocked down by some deals on board the Whesian barque Kaleva, in the Sir William Wright dry dok. After having his injuries attended to at the In. rnary he was taken ...

... MONDAY. TIrAL SrAKEs.-Silber Horn, 1; Morning Call, 2; esper. 3.l NORT 4BN WELTZ PL&TE.-Miss F., 1; Greek Matd, 2; :Earifa, 3. NORTHERN SELLING PLATz.-Fairplay, 1; Fleta, 2; Glen Ronal3, 3. BATTHYANY STAKES.-Sir Hugh, 1; Tho Wrekin, 2-; Village Boy, 3. TATHWELT, PLATE.-Pegasus, 1; Confiscur, 2. NORTHERN JUVENILE PL&Tz.-Gloriosa, 1; Starting Price, 2; -Highland Schottische, 3. ELSHAN HANDICAP ...

... I 1!Di 'tti . - . t i - Bb~~titct Xtb~o. - George Morland Hutton, of Gate Burton, Esq., has been appointed Sheriff of Lincolnshire. The Hon. Reginald Fitzwilliam and the Hon. William n Cavendish left London on Wednesday for the East. 1 Foot-and-mouth disease has broken out amongst sheep at Armthorpe, Doncaster. Lord Auckland's farm pre- v misee are declared free. A A man attempted to commit ...

... HULL AND EAST RIDING COLLEG4 The nineteenth annual meeting of the Hull and Htu Riding College was held at the Hall of the Incorporated Law Society yesterday. The Mayor (Dr ollit) preSided. The Mayor, In movinK the adoption of the report, (whld has already appeared) said that the college was one of the most desirable, and, in fac, essential, public instti. tions of the town, and it was much to ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. I A-- _ A . v- . I __ Lori Waveney gave notioe of a question he proposed to Ir put next Mk~onday, as to the practicahiliay of examining ob luggage on seagoing steamerza before disembarkation, and hi that deposited in cloak-rooms at railway stations and other publio places. The Earl of Carnarvon commented an the action of VV General Gordon in issuing his proclamation as ...

... CO.RRESPONDENCE-. THE FAIR TRADE CONTROVERSY. To THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. SIR,-A child may ask a question in a few seconds that a philosopher could not satisfactorily answer in a month, just as your correspondent, Reciprocity, auks me to answer a number of questions to his satisfaction. Does he affirm what is embodied in the questions put ? If so, then he should give the public, ...