... RWEST nARPTREE ASSOCZA.TON. On Monday last, the West Harptree Association for the Protection of Property, consisting of forty- four members, held its seventh anniversary at the Crown Inn, in that parish, when the general business of the society was transacted, and the report of the past year read. Since the last yearly neeting, four persons have been transported for 10 years, at the expense of ...

... Como allbrutt. - p THE BRISTOL CHARITIES. LETTER Vii. To the ldfitor of the Briatol Weroury. ?? appears, from my last letter, that when the cor- W. ration' bought the feb.farrm renlts from the revolutionary vternistett hi 1650, although they vrife paid for out of the Y ai thy'funds, they wrere c onveyed to the mavor, burgesses, s:; d comnmonalty, as inl their own rigidt, and without anly trust ...

... 2Diabosical Plot against e umae 2,1fe at 2Ladstock.-TWelve ldves Lost. Friday morning, at 4 o'clock, one of the most awful ca- lamrities occurred at Badstocik Wells-way Pit, which it has been our melancholy duty to record, by which the lives of 12 lunoffending fellow creatures have been sacrificed. At about that hour the following individuals, namely: Richard Lang- ford, aged 44, Farnham ...

... Qlnorreopo nb etcc LIGHT SOVEREIGNS. To the Editor of The Bristol Mercury. Sma,-I have several times, since the plague inflicted on tradesmen by the sovereign tax, been put to much inconvenience and suffered some loss, all which I have eude,%voured to bear with as little com. plaining as possible; but, a few days since, the followvingcircuintstance made me feet very much Inclined to murmur -ln ...

... (From the Morning Ad1vertiser.) E A more frightful picture of the state of society. in ti a country calling itself civilised and Christian, can fi hardly be conceived than that proved at the bar of C the Court of Justice, on Saturday last, in the case of Beresford v. Easthope. N An action was brought against the Morning ti Chronicle, by 'which Beresford, for a paragraph fk charging him with ...

... Ainnual Meeting of the Church Missionary I Society., On Thursday, the annual meeting of the above society was held-in the Great Room, Prince's street, which was densely crowded in every part by a most respectable audience. 'The meeting having been opened by prayer by the Rev. Charles Buck, JoHiN S. HARFOrtD, Esq. (the Chairman) said he was too well aware of the duties of a chairman to detain ...

... 11 ? IsTfto, bv? -tbt- LOUDOU. VOW ? I OVSR1BND :XPEISBSS EPS~ON: ZSIDZA. X m CHINA.s m , im :if BOMIBAY, Tanuay 1.-There is very little noticeable alteration in the posture of affiairs this month from that which was presented on the departure -of the, last mail.; .That little, however, is, unfortunately, of an unfavourable description. The strength of the force at Chusan has been ...

... 7&ONW2WVTN VOUZNTV- blF.ZECWION.i Contrary to all expectation, the electioni for this county has terminated in favour of the Tory candidate, Mr. Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan ; the HJn. Hanbury Tracy, the Liberal candidate, having withdrawn from the contest. ,Thelatter event was first made known to the'public cii Monday last, and produced quite as mduch ?? as did the .appearance of Mr. ...

... PARLIAMENT.-At a privy council held on Tuesday afternoon, at Buckingham palace, parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Thursday next, the 10th instant, until the 26th of January; and a proclamation was ordered to be issued, summoning the parliament to meet on the 26th of January for the despatch of business. THE NEw HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.-The walls of the new Houses of Parliament ...

... BR1STOL DOCKS. L ?? IV. Talthe diltor oif the Bristol Wgorcury. Szit,-'1'h'e task I,-presi'ibed-'to iryself in this letter is, 1st, tofofer a few suggestidli s tco which of the modes proposed by Ar.' B~runel wvill be most advantageous to B~ristol ; anti, 2tidly, to direct public attetitioti to the serious question, to Fwhait board or'co uncil-the great undertaking, now contem-. Pl~ated, shall ...

... 71nOVZNCIALS ZXNTnXLZGENCE.; SOMERSETSHIRE. ANTI-CoRN-LAw M ?? inbabitiants of Taunton, having been invited to attend a meeting, in oppo- sition to the corn-laws, at the public hall in that town, it seas held at 6'o'clock oil Thursday last, attended by nearly 700 persons. The meeting' was addressed solely by W. Beadon, jun., .Esq,, who, in the course of his remarks, read letters from Sir T. B. ...

... HOUSE OF COMNINS.-WEDNESDAY. A great number of petitions were presented for and against a: alteration in the present system of beer-houses, for and againstte corn-laws, &c. / SALE OF BEER BILL. ' Mr. PFcnxrGTos rose to move the second reading of this bid The house would no doubt hear of free trade and of the odios system of monopoly which might rise up under his bill, but h. begged to say that ...