... DISASTROUS COAL-PIT ACCIDENT AT DINAS COLLIERY.-LOSS OF TWELVE LIVES. One of those melancholy catastrophes so frequently the concomitant of mining operations in the collierics of South Wales, attended on this occasion, lee regret to say, with the loss of twelve lives, took place on Monday morning, at the linas Colliery, the property of Walter Coffin, Esq. On Saturday night, it appears, on the ...

... zY S CZI>.ZANOVS. it is intended to hove a grand national meeting of the c archers of Great Britain, in the city of York, during the pre- a sent summer. t At a public dinner at Alnwicic, the other day, after the I toast-', Prince Albert end the rest olf the Royal Femily, the band strucok up the air, 1That's the way the money goes.1 RHUBARD_.-Mr. Robert Moffat, of Tvvizel, near Ber- f' wick, ...

... CE. DEPARTURE OF TME KING OF SAXONuT.-His majesty took leave of the Queen on Thursday morning, and quitted the metropolis, by the London and Birmingham railway, for Scotland, wherein his majesty will make a tour. HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT TO STAr- XORD-u5ousi.-On Saturday evening the Dake and Duch- ess of Sutherland were honoured with the gracious com- pany of the Queen and her ...

... MZATMST zINTErLLZOGECE. FRO5M FRIDAY's LONDON GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS, - Thomas Sherwood, Tilchurst, Berks, brick ?? Burgess, Cratfield, SufroIk, ?? Eyre Vardy, Portsmouth, ?? Henry Utting, Newman- street, ?? Jackson, Charlotte-street, paper ?? Blundell, Salisbury,grocer-Jonas Staples, Cottenham, ?? and Ridings, Manchester, cotton ?? Rochester, Hartlepool, butcher-Wil- liam Newton, Bath, coal ?? ...

... SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1844. THlE ITACTORIES' Bird. LoRn ASUnnY'S amendment, for the abridgment of the hours of labour of females and young children in factories, was to come on last night. It is of a limited and pro- crastinating character, and has been deferred to a stage of the bill which will materially interfere with the chance of its being carried. If lost, however, for the present, the ten ...

... ervatoponoence. To the Editor of The Bristol Mrercury. SiR,-Yotu will oblige us by giving publicity to the following instance of ill-judged parsimony on the part of the manager of the Bristol Zoological Gardens :-One of our men being on Clifton Down a few days since, with a cart-load of bricks, ob- served an immense bird flying over him, but with so much difficulty that it wao obvious it would ...

... D03MOBST!C ZN'3LLXzG3NC. ROYAL VISITS TO BRIGa TON-We believe there is very little doubt that the King of the French intends to visit her Majesty some time during September. TIar KING OF SAxoNS.-The King of Saxony will leave Great Britain for his majesty's dominions on the 31st instant. His majesty will embark at Granton pier, Edinburgh, on hoard the Princess Alice steam-packet, which will be ...

... The examination of MIr. Sanders, of Broad-street, Bristol, at the mansion-house, on Monday last, ivill be found in our sixth page. From the Loidon journals of yesterday (Friday) we learn that Lydia Sanders has also been apprehended. All the parties concerned in these forgeries will be brought ( up for examination to-day (Saturday). The following par- ticulars connected with the apprehension of ...

... .bo5trw TLLZG-C.S HER MAJESTY AT BLAIR ATHOL, BLAIR. ATHOL, Sunday.-The sun continues to shine with undiminished splendour upon the royal visiters at Blair Athol, the good fortune which has universally attended her Mnajesty in her travels, and in her progress through her doinliions, has been more than ever propitious on the present oceosicn, and ilhe extreme mildness and beauty of the weather ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The annual meeting of this Society was held on Tuesday evening last, at the Victoria-Rooms, and was very nume- rously attended, the spacious assembly-room being nearly filled. The chair (in the unavoidable absence from illness of Chas. Pinney, Esq.) was taken by P. F. Aiken, Esq: Prayers having been road by the Rev. Edw. Young, se- cretary of the society, Tile CHArbIxaN proceeded to address ...