... On Monday evening a lecture was delivered at the Royal Institutioa, Albion-street, under the auspices of the Hull Church Institute, by Mr W. BODHAu DONNE, Her Majesty'sExaminerofPlays, on lBenJonson. -The chair was taken by the Rev. a. Walsham, B.A., owing to the unavoidable absence of the president (Rev. J. Scott, M.A.) during the early part of the meeting, and there was a crowded ?? ...

... IMPERI AL - PARLIAMENT. I HOUSE OF LORDS.-FR1DAY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving that the Higlh Court of Jedicature Bill be re-committed, explained some alterations which he had made in the bill to meet the objectioris made on-the second reading. After a brief conversation, it was decided to post- pone the committee for a few days. The House adjourned at 7 ...

... I 1 FIXNAiNCIAL poSl'jfilN uf i'.E HULL; |- CORPORATION. The Property Committee of the Corporation met in the Town-ball on Monday; Ald. Bannister ?? Borough Treasurer (Mr Bolton) pre- sented the annual statement of accounts, made up according to Act of Parliament, for the year ending 31st August, The income of the borough fund amounted to £37,572 Os. ld., and the expenditure to £34,913 J.3s. ...

... FFORI?;IGN AND COLONIAL I Ai~b rtte f Peabody is to be erected at Romse ad y Or'er of the Pope. Thepng: a RMe have renently seized a namber Agof umbrellas enclosing a dagg-er inl the handle. A piano played by tile fee~t has been invented in ew- Cincinnati. the American papers announce that gold has been Ubhe discovered in Alaska. A Memhis ury has acquitted a traveller h irk, shot anI keilledj ...

... IMPORTANT CHANGES AS TO OFFIJERS, ENLISTMENT, AND HOME DEFENCE. MINISTERIAL statements, in laying before Parliament the Estimates for the Public Services, are not usually very cheerful read- ing. But there are some points in the long statement made by the War Minister, in submitting to the House of Commons the Army Estimates for the year now current, which should have special attention, and ...

... . ?? QOKE NUISANCE. .A QULL. SE.D CRUESHMR PROSECUT'ED. A setd crusher, named Wmn. Lowe, carrying on business in Thomas Street, was summoned at the Police Court on Friday for allowing amoke to issue from his mill ?? Todd, clerk to the Local Board of Health, appeared for theprosecution, and said that in this case the defendapt was charged ?? that on the 16th of August his mill chimney did send ...

... I s~ -tn. run - THS CORN TRADE.-The bright weather of the mre. 1 VUS week has beenfollowedbyacontinual tropical h The meadows have once more lost their green, nc3 a0t Who deferred cutting their graswtthe e l;tl0e of s, berter galheriag ?? had about h.dfa laiil, to acie instead of a quarter, as experienced Ivy til.lth novilstead) of wbr. mowvedi ealrl~ttY, but the pri'dune is omiue ii.e o thaib ...

... The monthly meeting of the Board was held yester. I day at the Town-hall, the MAYOR (Alderman Witty) t presiding. I Mr GLOVER was appointed a member of the Finance I Committee in the place of Mr J. C. Pettingell, I deceased. f THE PROPOSED BOULEVARD. t The MAYOR moved the confirmation of the minutes I of the Town's Improvement Committee of the 6th instant. Ald. JAHESON asked if the ...

... The Councilof the Church Association has elected Mr Joseph Hfoare, of Child's Hill, Hampstead, their chairman, in the place of the late Mr Colquhoan. The recently appointed bishops of Chichester, St. Asaph, and Zaluland were consecrated on Sunday in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. Although the mandate of the Archbishop of Canterbury had been issued to the Bishop of London and two other bishops, ...

... HULL PACKET OFFICE triday, 6 a.rm. THE FIGHTING AT PARIS.' ASNIERES CARRIED BY THEII GOVERN- MENT TROOPS. FromVersailles we learn that hI. Thiers announces that Asnieres was carried yesterday morning. The insurgents suffered enormoas losses, and can no longer prevent the capture of Courbevoie. PARISIAN ACCOUNT, The accounts from Paris, of Wednesday, state that the canonade at Courbevoie, the ^ ...

... CQst - Buttl Vathett FRIDAY., JUL 7, 1871.-i IT, lE FRF.NCH LOAN. I Whon a few weeks ago M. THIERs an- nounced to the world that he required a loan in of £100,000,000 with which to pay the first instalrnamet of the Prussian indemnity, finan- a ciers shook their heads and wondered where 1- the money was to come from. The amount to be raised. was so unprecedentedly large, h and the state of the ...

... I 'Youcign 3filtrIfigencr, FRANIWE.: SETTLEMENT or THE ALSAcE TREATY. - The 1 treaty betvcea Germany ard France was signed at Berlin on J,'riday last. It is in three parts, the first I being a tc: tonal convention, the second a financial i one, and th.. third relating to customs duties. By the first Gu'inany cedes to France some small slices of territory. aul France obtains some concessions I ...