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... At the Victoria-rooms, on Thursday, Mr. Lover gave, for the first time in Bristol, a morning and evening entertain- ment, illustrative of Irisi song arid eharacter. The attendance on both occasions was numerous and fashionable, and seldom, if ever, have we seen audiences give themselves up more unreservedly to a spirit of enjoyment. One burst of laughter followed another, as Mr. Lover ...

... Parliammarn Intelliamm HOUSE OF LORtDS.-~MoNDAY, Mtarch 19. The overseers (cities and borougits) bill was read a third time and passed. The outdoor paupers bill was read a second time. This bill confers on the Poor-law Courtniieslonera anti boards of guardians the power of visiting and controllinig establishments for the reception of pauper children. The Endr Of EGLINTON moved for returns ...

... 111 SCELLAANEOUS. LEAIINaD MOTHERa. - Mamma, said an intelligent little girl 'yhattis the meaning of a book being printed in l2mo? Why, my deur repllfd the mother, it means the book will be pub- lished in tw~elve months. m th. TIla i -At Tor;I assize, last 1'TE~Slidi-AHD I ND Thi v BEI AtE. week, a tiglor swore tbat a cettain: evtent obourred'on a Frida Jr. Knowles W Well, now, bo1w,4 ...

... BRISTOLi ATIIENEU2.1 NATIONAL MUIC ?? IRELANDal.-The second lecture on the no, tional siausic of Ireland was d eliverred lay Mar. 1lorcicastle at thle YictOriiLr1ot011 ann I' ac10d1dy elraning, a nat appeared to imlpar't thle most lively eat ifl stio i to ti t li talaus audaidncec. The lectutrer wrent bnack ito the aavg in of Irish toratq,~ gare at short sketch of the hisitory f tie birdas to ...

... SATUDAY ji tol 25,e 1S4 ! ,SATU'RDAY, J~lx.4RYn 2.,, IS45. WHE iCHURCH MILITANT. GOWN VlESUS SURPLICE. They could raise scruples dark and nicQ, And after, solve 'em in a trices As if divinity Icd catcl'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to Show with how small pain The sores of faiths are cured again: %iltblcsglc ...

... THE O1MWN. Ttt~aR was ss cheerful and even noisy evening party in the parlour i of Crofthead, the humble residence of a Scottish laird, who inherited a small eitate from a long line of obscure ancestors. .1 Thre family consisted of himself, wife, and only daughter, and aoui~t half a dozen servants iisetonging to the house, the dairy, tand the form. A good many nekighbours had now been ...

... TOTAL-AB STINENCE SOCIETY's C'flRISTMAS I FESTIVAL. The Bristol Total-Abstinence 'Society held tlrei8' annual Christmas Festival at the Public-rooms, Blroakienad, on Thursday evening last, ore which occasion tire R1ev, W-. Turner, vicar of Banvwell, presided. Tflee CsrAaneRMer, in his opening speech, inaiudngt the attendance at the meeting not being, so large Als on former occasions, ascribed ...

... 71;1;?TL TO?At-ABSTINENCE SOCIETY. sad Wititiettide fetvlof thsnumerous atnd in. Craig~ac'udltid~.and was attended by nearly on o niusual splendaur, ,no envious cloud 'f le t1 y~ nd ati's useemed tO have Put onl her holi. ?? fr tie ant0 By the early railway trains there attreerticer~'l~of friends of the cause tram Bath, 0er *~~iiga'ier lnnoell, Gloucester, and other places, ~eeit eeto be ...

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... I! hi Rig Lie heavy on him, earth, for he exo: Laid many a heavy load on thee. to 1 IV 'TE. SOCt2'rY OP MERCHAYT VBENTURERS, BRISTOL. Ps' ano: GENTLEMEN-HOW profoundly applicable this sarcasm on the dre memory of Vanbrugh must be to your smaller sigaifioance and sti Importance, as local builders and itaproeres, time and truth- ,, telling facts will only too plainly proclaim. Meantime, I must ...

... VadliamentarP )unteItellflctt IIOUSE OF, LORtDS.-~FRIDAY, May I- lth The royal assent was given to the exchequer bills ?? outdoor paupers bill, thle distrainling for rates bill, the petty sessions bill, and several Irishtand pratteibilld Erln CAR5LISLE moved the second reading ofh aei-i Fill, and stated thle circumstances under which the proposal ,wag made and, lie considered. jnustfed. His ...