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THE SILKEN, SLY CONSERVATIVE

... TIHE SILKEN, SLY CONSERVATIVE. I WE gave, in our last, a correspondence between the Incumbent of Bishop's Cleeve and his:Dioceian, relative to some-proceedings againstthe former gentleman, resulting in his triumphant acquit- tal; and,'considering the whole matter, we did think the ?? of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, to say the least of it, not kind towards a clergyman whose offence ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 553 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL & CLIFTON ROYAL BORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

... BRI9STO1. & CLII'TON ?? HORTXCLTZUR.&1 SOCIETY. The second exhibition of this season took place on Tuesday last. From the unfavourable state of' the weather the company was not so numerous as on former occasions; but yet there was a con- siderable ?? fashionablesof the neighbourhood. On the grand stand there were some choice specimens of orchideus plants. Ttie show of tulips was good; the ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 890 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN,

... =`ZXT3ILICT PR0M TIME JOUflNAL Or AN A?.MERWcAN GEJNT1.NLAN' Passenger on hoard etse Great 9eatern,' ine her First Trip L, FROM NEW YORK TO BRISTOL. pri Off Sandy Hook, Monday, -May ?? 1338. pr After one of the most exciting and hsautifnl spectaclessthat has ever been seen in the new world, the Pilot has left us, and the Great Western--alika the admiration and wonder of two thi ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2939 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Postscript

... IPPI'loototript. LONDON, TiOrusDAI, Septembe PIN,.-The Monteur has published the f 1, S legraphic deqpatch-- BAYONNEs Sept. 23.-T TWin commanding the 20th military division to the 9res he Ok council. tistella has made his submission. AI squadro n varrese cavalry has taken refuge on our territory l 1or- Pied de Port; three battalions are in the f *rest of' &r also learn that thefgreater part ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1999 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE SNOW STORM

... THZ SNOW STO?X? 211 (romt Ike Londka Papers of Wedn esday and Thursday.) The heavy fall of snow in and around the metropolis during Christmas nigrht appears to have extended over every part of the kingdom. Never before, within our recollec tion, wvas the London 'or malstopped for a whole night at afewv miles from London; and never before have wre seen thte intei-coisrsebetween the southern Dn ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3294 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE GREAT WESTERN

... T2RH cGSEAW AVSTER3- ThIt noble ship arrived in Kingroad, from New Yorkat half. past twelve o'clock on Wednesday night. She left New York lon the 13th, and thus accomplished her passage in 13 days. Intelli- gence of her safe arrival out reached this country on Saturday last, by the packet-ship Colsnhb1 s. Site sailed from this port on the 18th Ult., and arri'ved at New York on the night of the ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2302 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

The Commentator

... Zt e oancimintator. NO. cxvtt. .VLXTEENTIJ LETTER TO THE M1A. IN THlE MOON. DRAR Mr. MaN,-The people of this country, and I believe, indeed, of all other countries on this globe, as wvell savage as civ-ilisod, 'role once extremely credulous with respect to supernatural affairs. They believed not only in tho appearance of spectres, hut in the existence of witches and magicians. Thsey thought ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1732 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

To the Editor of the Bristol Mercury

... To the SCitor or the Bristol Mercury. S,-nall representative bodies a periodical retiremetoa certairn portion of the memrbers ils great improvement in their constitution; and that ench retirement should be compulsory. at least fbr a ?? periodg woul, tconide, crry the prinlcip'le still neairar to perfection. 'fhr argu- meal5 against it, when they arc! analyzed, apparcnmli destitutleo weight; ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1364 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL ELECTION

... The contest between the friends of Mr. Protheroe and Mr. Baillie has been cotitinued durhin the weck that has elapsed Eilice our last with unabated ardour, aud with a degree ot energy that has seldom been exceeded. We are happy, however, to add, tiat, with, the exception of' a brutal outrage committed ott Mr. Protheroe, onl Friday evening, while he was addressing the collect- t'd mnuititude ...

Published: Tuesday 03 August 1830
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 9786 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE MIGRATIONS OF A SOLAN GOOSE

... TI SE MIGRATIONS OF A SOLAN GOOSE. i (From the Edinburgh Literary JournaL) e Well, Bryce, said Mrs. Maxwell one day to e her housekeeper, what has the gamekeeper sent Y this week from Maxwell hall ? Why, madam, there are three pair of partridges, a brace of grouse, a woodcock, three hares, a couple of pheasants, and a solan goose. A solan goose ! ejaculated the lady; what could ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1831
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1732 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

REFORM DINNER

... On Friday last the reforniers of the parishes of St. James and St. Paul met at the Montague Tavern, Kiugsdown, to celebrate the return of J. E. 13A.%,LIiE and EnWARD PRoTHMieE JaUI, ELsqrs.-'I'. R. SAN- DeS, Esq. in the Chair. Besides a most respectable assemblage of' gentlemen resident in those parishes, the dinner was attended by several other gentleulen friendly to the cause, among shom sse ...

Published: Tuesday 17 May 1831
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 4375 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL MISSIONARY SOCIETY,

... Ia Aidi qi tim London Miasionaoy Scky Esatb/iahcd 19.95. .fe igteenth Anniversary of' this institutinwshl dluring the last we ek. The religiousg services connected therewith commenced tin Sunday, Sept. 19,thand termninated Onl Fridhay, '24th. IOnl '1hursclay morning the Public Mectina~ was held In thle IEbenezer Chapel, Kingstret whnaineosad highly- respectable hotly of sublscribers and ...

Published: Tuesday 28 September 1830
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 5240 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News