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... CONTINUED SUCCESS TO THE ALLIED FORCES. The tide of success in the Crimea still keeps ad- vancing. Not one ebb, as yet ; not a single recession ofthe wave, but a continued progress towards the high-water mark of complete triumph. Fortunate it is, for the national honour, that the current of events has turned ; for the spirits of our people had been long enough at the lowniost point. Many had ...
... HUDDERSFIELD COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES. The midsummer disttibutiou of prizes took place at the Huddersfield Collegiate School on Wednesday morning last. The school-room was tastefully decorated with flags, flowers, and drawings. One of the banners bore the words, A Yorkshire welcome to all; and another, Long life and happiuess to ail kiud friends. The room was crowded with ...
... At length the Amended Budget of the reinstated Ministry is before the country ; aud though the improved measure will not establish the fame of Sir Charles Wood as a first-rate financier, it would be a departure from truth to deuy that the Second Edition of the Budget is not a palpable improvement upon the first. Though it is far from being what the position of the Chancellor as to the ...
... ASKRIGG. Death from Burning.âOn Monday last, a child the name of Thomas Wetherald, four years of age, Whilst alone, had, by some means or other, become accidentally burnt. On the return of his grandmother be was found leaning on a chair, unable to speak, and most fearful condition. The face and arms were quite scorched, and after lingering in great agony for six hours, death terminated his ...
... London, Wednesday . This has been holiday, not a political week. The Queen Windsor, and the Ministers at their countryseats, have been celebrating Christmas ; and convivial festivity has been the order of the day. In two circles the haul ton, the usual ayremens of the season have be-cn interrupted by the stern hand of death. The Marquis of Dalhousie died on Wednesday, at Dalhonsie Castle, Mid ...
... THE HOPED-FOR REVIVALS OF RELIGION AMONGST THE POOR When the preaching of Whitfield and Weslet shook the drinking and gambling parsons of the Established Church from their proprieties, during the course of the last century, we had in England what waa truly denominated a revival of religion. For a considerable time that movement was ignored, laughed at, or persecuted, as it suited the whim oa ...
... HUDDERSFIELD BOROUGH REGISTRATION. The annual Court for the Revision of the list of persons entitled to vote in the election of a Member to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Huddersfield for the ensuing year, was opened on Thursday last, at the George Hotel, before Wm. Gray, Esq., revising barrister. As a preparatory test of strength for the coming struggle, the proceedings were ...
... (Continued from our 7_ page.) Temperance Meeting. — On Monday evening a lecture was delivered at the Baptist School-room, by Mr. J. Pollard, temperance town missionary of Huddersfield, on The evils of drunkenness andthe chaiges against teetotal ism. The attendance was rather numerous. Mr. Joseph Wild occupied the chair, and after a brief prefatory address introduced the lecturer, wbo in an ...
... YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Young Men's Chiistian Asso- ciation was held in the Philosophical- hall on Tuesday even- ing last, when there was a good attendance. Amongst tho gentlemen present were— The Rev S. Holmes, M.A., in the chair; the Revs. J. Haigh, M.A., J. Bardsley, M. A , J. W. Town, R. Bruce, J. Hanson, K. Skinner, J. Collier, R. ...
... general dissatisfaction. mixed with a certain amount of surprise. The circumstance, however, tends still ftu prove the fact that the action of the ment with respect to the relief ?? taken place to a great extent in the dark, id that the authorities have been their way and carry out fchei dance with the course of events. well the troops under Lord Woi at the present time have tx it l\ toum or ...
... PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE BOROUGH OF HUDDERSFIELD. A certain section of the liberal electors of Hud- dersfield are again on the move, in anticipation of the new Reform Bill which Lord John Russell is to introduce into the House oi Commons on Monday night. The nature ot that move, and the gentlemen who are taking the lead therein, will be gathered from the following circular, which was ...