... INour last we mnade a few observations oo Chinese affairs, to the eff'ect that, should the war be likely to : akie a favourable turin, the conscientious Conser va- ui'es w oald, in all prob~ability, endeavour to obtain a little, credit fromi it under fialse pretences, We hazarlded the supposition from long acquainitanice with the trickeries of the 'Iories, and from a knowledge of tbejresent ...

... AGRXCUY&TJlURA1 ZNTZLLcENCEj. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. At a montlely cooeecil, held on Wednesday, the let December, preseut, Henry H-andcley, Esq., presideset, in the chair, Duke of RilroeEarl Spenicer,. Col. Austen, David Barclay, Esq., AliP,'Ilso= o Raymond Barker, REq,, Hleasr Blsatshard, Esq., French Burke, Esq., Col. Cheallnr, time ean,, Esq., Humt- phrey Gibbs, Esq., ...

... I e dci hear, from all quarters, that a dastardly aid vin- f dictive spirit of persecution is abroad, and tqlat nu- a merous admirers of the constitution, as by la esta blished, are turning off their workmen forliaving d dared to exercise their constitutional rights onl Tues- f day last. Such persons are unfit for freedom or a d free country 'Whey have nothing English about them. Il They are ...

... TH?i I?W mJUWfl'E. IMr. G. Us}-. Hir. delivered, on Wednesday last ,r ?? lnstiltitiioi, P,,rk street, a lecture on the means of pro.l misting vegetable growth with reference to the products of l agriculture, in which he made the first public disclosure ofl the principles of the new manure, discovered by bar. Danliell, of Twerton:. and on Thursday the lecture was redelivereil, vwith some ...

... SIMSTOMI CO5L:ELtGE. * The annual examination of the above institution took poce son t Thursday and Friday, the 25th' and 211th ult. The subjects, both Classical and Mathematical, read daring the year by.the senior r claisses, had been numerous ;and difficult, and gave ample proof both of the abilities and assiduity of the students. t After the usual recitations on Thi-rsday, hefore the ...

... SATURDAY, MAnicir 19, 1842. X;APORTANT TO ADVE3X.TZSERS, .THE latest PAILLAMIENTAitY RETURNS of Newspaper Stamps show that the number supplied for the use of the I BRISTOL MNIERCURY, during the Six Months ending December, 1841, was, with the exception of One Thousand only, EQUAL TO THE NUMBERS ISSUED, DURING THE SAME PERIOD, TO THE MIRR OR, JOUR1NAL, and -TIMES! *The MErcuty's supplies, FOR ...

... WO.rZGN XNT1EMIcNCE. FRANCE. The French papers speak of a serious difference between the government of Morocco and the Ame- rican consul at Tangiers, Mr. Carr. Tile latter was recalled, and was about to take his departure. when the Moorish authorities refused to permit his de- parture till the Emperor had given an order to thatI effect. Mr. Carr sought to embark in despite of ob- struction, ...

... Rh.U?WAY ZNTmrJ1r?NaB. itO In the Railway Times, by way of preventing railway slips, J. P. Bartrum, Esq., of Bath, suggests that cuttings and ciii- bankmente, wherever susceptible of the thing without injury to rei the road itself, or to the neighbouring laud, should be planteti ?. with shrubs or valuablotimber trees, preferring oak and walnut Ca in all lit spots. Shrubs (he says) would ...

... ;VtotoI. SA TURDAY, APrL. 2, 1842. lS BRISTOL SUGAR-MIARKET, Friday, April ?? he done in our sugar-market during the week. In Lon- don, the prices have declined another is., and of the n, large quantity brought forward for sale the greater part was withdrawn, principally for want of buyers, but also to prevent a further depression. ar INooME-TAX.-A memorial against the Income. 15 Tax, ...

... The shopkeepers and tradesmen of Leeds met on Wednes- day last, at the Court House, under the presidency of the chief magistrate, to make known to their Sovereign and the Legislature the deplorable circumstances ii which they are placed. A more respectable assembly of these important classes, or one more dispassionate in its temper, and more per- fectly unhanimous in its views on the subject ...

... political juirror. TAXATION.-There is a double system of taxation in operation amongst us,-a government taxation of known amount, and collected by ostensible agents,-and a class, or monopolist, taxation, of unknown amount, and which every- body collects for himself, ill virtue of laws passed at a time when few understood that every dutyimposed upon a fbreign article in general use, raises the ...

... TI-E REPEAL, QUEFST'ION. ill AXD has it come to this, that the Repcal of the S- Union between England and Irelaml has notually become tbe leading qucstion ot lthe dlay ?? Heariien) - to the way in which thle Irish Repeal press thun- dlers forth its resolves. And nowY, Enlglishmenl, listen to uis Theugh youl were to- nuorr ow to givre as tlhe boast tenures on eartbalstouglu you w cre ...