... JaENxy ?? understand that an attempt has been made, but unsuccessfully, to obtain the services of the emi- nent Swedish vocalist for an operatio performance in this city. The manager of our theatre had an interview with ldlie. Lind a few days since, but found that her existing engagements ren- dered it utterly impossible that she could visit Bath, prior to her departure for the Continent. ...

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... SATURDAY, Mir 12, 1849. WE have devoted a portion of space somewhat inconve- el niently large to the discussion in the House of Peers on 'I the second reading of the navigation bill. This was done, si not by reason of any new stock of arguments, nor for the t impressiveness of any novel illustrations brought forward be to expound and to illumine the question, but because the w state and the ...

... FRANCE. In the national assembly on Saturday a disoussion took place on a proposition of M. Selvatier Laroche for the abolition of the penalty of death. A division took place, when there appeared ?? the proposition, 183; against It, 400. g Tiiers has been obliged to demand leave of absence from Iduties in the assembly, in consequence of severe illness. lie has been suffering for some days past ...

... VI be 'kirtotol , -vblercurj-)+ SATURDAY, D2cw2nEn 15, 1849. MAEsteNESS PEnSONIFITID.-The remains of the Queen Dowager were consigned, ol Thursday, to the resting- place for which she had long prepared. Agreeably to her wishI, there was no manifestation of pomp or cere- al nonial parade, at the idea of which her humble nature apparently revolted She felt, one may conclude, that long ...

... TUE GREAT BRITAM T. To the Editor of The Bristol Mercury. Como-villa, Portshead, Oct. 6, 1846. SIs-In Captain Claxton's letter of 28th nlt., to M~r. Bennett, giving a detail of the circumstances which preceded the unfor- tunate occurrence of the Great Britain, it is stated, that, 1 on examining Captain Hosken's chart, which was bought by him when going out on his previous voyage in June, as ...

... DO1?STX?i Z?T?LL?GENC?J. IrPartIALI PAsrr.lzsxoesr.-At the Privy CounIcil held ois M\onda~ry at Windsor, it weas ordered icy her Majesty in Council, that the present parliamnent, wvhich stands pro- rogucd until Thlursday, the 10th ultimo, be further pro-. roguned until Tuesday, the 14t1h November next. The Earl of Derby's estates in Fliutebire are to bei brought to the hammer at the close of ...

... The foufdatoia-stone of a building, in which the above schools are to be conducted, was laid yesterday morning, by Robert LeOnard Req. in the presenee of an exceedingly numerous com- any, who had assembled to witness the ceremony. The site hosen for this erection adjoins the chapel, with the gallery of thr will be a communication. In addition to the bene- voleset and useful purpose to which it ...

... jarlitamentatn -)ntelligence. HOUSE OF LOEDS-TIUnRSDAY. fc TIHE GATMS or SOMINATJT1I. t0 The Marquis of CLANRICARDE submitted a motion con- C temnnatory of Lord Ellenborough's famous proclamation relative to those gates, also censuring his conduct with re- V spect to Lord Auckland. rt The Duke of WELLINGTON defended Lord Ellenborough. ri The Bishop of LLANDAFF did not think Lord Ellonbo- a ...

... note ObotubatOr. NO0. X. Idem stp licium lainjctor optimis civibus, quod ego do scele. ratissitnds sumtpserim.-CItCCrRO. Of what character are we to consider the Itat prosecution, ycleped, forsooth, The Queen v.Ltcy ? This naming thio Queen prosecutor is, of course, a legal fiction ; let us not be led into error by it. If it be admitted there was much that was kingly, certainly, in looking at ...

... CONSERVATISM, CORN LAWIS.18, AND CHARTISM. EXTREMES MEET, says the adage, and never was the truth of the saying more strikingly manifested than in the relationship in which the extreme Tories and Chartists have for some time stood towards each other. The ulterior aims of the two parties are wide as the poles asunder, and yet that has not prevented a series of the most singular coincidences ...

... I I ra 0 1 ??z x ?c I ?&L ?Zlq ?Tr- ?? L ?Z?Gr- x ?Clr- - ? SOMEIRSETSHIRE. ?? Mayor of Bath, in compliance a L requisition, has convened a public meeting of the habitants of that city to petition parliament to repeal the cased taxes, more particularly the window-tax. WST SOMERSET REGIMENT OF YEOMAN?UY CAvALRT. The Spring meetings of the different droops of the regi- !t have commenced ...