... ERMSToy x MOCEM-DINC-3. x -ZT.V?jTjq The Queen's writ, for the election of two citizens to re- present this city in parliament, was received by the High Sheriff, HIuigh Vaughan, Esq., by 'rhiursday's mail, and im. mediately upon it proclamation was made in the usual for'm. The nommnatier is appointed to be held on Monday next in N the Gulldhall, and the polling, which will take place on the d ...

... MOT IPO TNT INTELLIGENCE FROM CHINA. CAPTURE 0.lT'HlE BtOWtIE lIORTS AND) THE CITY OF CAN\TON OX' ?? RITISHi. The overland Fitoll fromt India has aeutlteil town ; by which wve have Bombay piapers to thle 2nd of May; anai M1alta joaritals to the 25th. They confirm the cap.- tare of the Btogue forte, onl the 23th of February, and the posseeston of the city ot Canton by thet British, after at ...

... MIZSCE M L ANSOUS. An honest manl's word is as good as his bond, is a trite r maxim. So is a rogue's in nine cases out of tell. His HANDS FUL.,-A man is supposed to be tolerably well occupied when he has a wife oil one arm, a baby on the other, carrying a basket and a call in his hand, a cigar in his mouth, and a e hopeful heir holding on to tie skirts of his coat. A traveller domiciling at ...

... EFFECT:S OF THE BRITISH CORN-LAWS IN AMERICA. -COTTON FACMOaRES.-In Fayetteville, North Carolina, and its vicinity, are now in operation six cotton factories. The number of spindles in them is 11,198; number of looms, 160; number of persons employed, 417; quan- tity of cotton required per annum, 4,222 bales. The capital invested is 299,000 dollars. An abundant supply of unfailing water in the ...

... THE QuEErN.-We feel the greatest pleasure in stat- 'ing that the Queen enjoys most excellent health and spirits. The very important eventof her Majesty's aceouchiemsent may be expected at the end of September, or early in the month of October. Prince Albert, contrary to the rumours that have been so insidiously spread for many weeks, has been and continues'at the present time in the enjoyment ...

... P A .R L X A rqZ E'N T. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURsDAT. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. I The Marquis of NORMA NBY moved the third reading of I the punishment of death bill. The Earl of HADDINoTON moved, as an amendment to the third clause, which applied to the case of rape, that ax exception should be made in favour of the capital punish- g ment, where more than one person was concerned in the If commission ...

... 8BUISTO~M VoXOZ:C o. To the Electors of nristol. The landowners may be dividtle intO those wvho cultivate their olansethose w rent land under them, and the greatladil- lweieands, teos* wblielofhmwfod thsuoe all Aouseoldf lords on whose lands houses a5' btilt 'Indtls sve ouseholes ,s-e landhlderi' to a certalO cuteut, in which are included t, inufactori.sy sipirrlitod' yards, &f . The clergy ...

... I . POSTSCRIIPT. LONDON, TRiESI)AY, Juve 22. PROROGATION'oFIPAMIAMENT BY HER MAJESTY. The doors of the House of Lords were opened this morning about tw-elve o'cloci, and very soon after That time, the galiery approsi a f& t Iaogeis ~Was 1lMd. The Peeresses, Peers; Foreign Ambassadors, &c. began gradually to .arrive, and beforc two o'clock the House presented a magnificent appearance. About ...

... W0OZEZGN INVELZXGENCE. NEWS FROM CHINA. The Overland Mail from Indiawarrived at Marseilles on Sunday. By telegraphic despatches communicated to the French government, and transmitted to Lon. don, we learn that hostilities have recommenced be. tween Great Britain anOdChibaL Thle tmperb' bhaving refused to ratify the treaty concluded between the Im. perial Commissioners Keshen and ...

... To the Editor of the Bristol ThWeroury. SiB,-I am sorry to find such a mistaken notion prevailing amongst many of my countrymen in reference to the decision of her Majesty's ministers upon the repeal of the present corn- lows, by saying that it sprang from sinister inctives, and not from a desire to benefit the starving Population of the manufac- turing districts; bat I am prepared to prove, ...

... To tihe Editor of the Bristol Mercury. Sa,-Please to accept the following answer to the nauti- cal question proposed in your last ?? can be rea- dily demonstrated that a ship, when sailing close to a wind, has made the nearest approach to her port when it and the wind have the same bearing; consequently the solution of the problem consists in so managing the courses that, at the end of the ...

... ,,NATIONAL INCt tBS. 'li lw EPITO , if the RXI:'TER 7 .F 7NG.rPOST. Si ?? lib. 'iluoes reasnsa ousigneld wlty tlis Country Cailitit Coillpete with eth.Ir Nastionls, as ?? (oir Moant- fiuclures; tse lose siglit of a tiecohlty obstacle, in adtlition to tho hlirh price of' foodil-namoilyl, the circutewstan e that Eniglan .nva toti ainnual inhterest of Lteely Thirty Millions stcrlieg to tie 0 ...