... Art mtuerplv fflerturv. SALUV POPUU LEX SUPREMA. FRIDAY , DECEMBER 27, 1844. The present number completes the thirty-fourth in volume of the Mercury, and brings us to a point of time at which we cannot refrain from tendering to our thousands and tens of thousands of friends our pf sincere acknowledgments for a degree 'of support. se which, liberal at all times, and placing us at the head vs ...

... THE WEALTHER. iich set in in thisii ,nih iter Theafrost, which sct inl in this neigltiourhriod on. Wed by nesady se'nuight, seems to hav-e miade its appvarancce had about the same time throughout the country, hut ;with the less severity in the south of ~Eglar I. Ii; london, or ,ted Sundayk,. for example, thle theanrmoeter Only atood at' 2dl- ant- whilist here it wvas tenl degrea lower. Tile ...

... 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 ...

... I (From our special Corresondent.) LOwDOY, SATURDAY EVENING. The double evasion of the law in the importation of a cargo of slave-grown sugar into Liverpool, and passing it through the Customhouse as free labour produce; and the issuing of bills, not stamped, by country bankers, payable to themselves or order, in contravention of the act of last session, were the chief topics of conversation ...

... TFIE ATMOSPHERIC AILWAY. (Eromi a Correspondent of th5 Adienravm.) Dublin 1844. 'So much scientifical opinion upon the Dalkey Atmospheric has been put forth, that perhaps you may like to hear a little unscientifical. Engineers can feel through their beads how a train runs, blut your common travellers feel it through their entire person;; thus, by a strange colisequence, weakness of body proves ...

... THE laTE FIAT.AL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. (To the Editor of the Times.) Sir-A paragraph having appeared in the Times of this morning, stating that an explosion had taken place in Crvm Avon collieries, causing the death of from 50 to 60 persons, I an) desired to state that this company to whom the property belongs, has learnt with regret that an explosion took place there on Tuesday last, whereby, ...

... LADY TMiEVES. A ?? of tha Globes, commenting apon the receat acquittal of MIrS Tyrwhitt, who w7as accused of shop lifting at the Soho B'Ziar, narrates the following as having occurrcd a few years ao0 A lady of highly respectable family and station, resident for the ?? at Bath, cntered the shop of one of the most con- iabicrale drapers of that city, aud purchased some trifling ar- ticies. She ...

... O THE EDITOR OF TiH ME3RCURY MR EDITOR-By allowing a corner in your excellent paper for a few remarks upon resolutions that were passed at a late public meeting, upon national psalmody, you will greatly oblige A Precentor. I cordially agree in those resolutions, and hope they will be properly carried out. The method, as proposed by Mr Mainzer, to provide or build Mainzerian Halls, &c. is ...

... '(From the Dublin Evening Post.) The following communication reached us this morning (Saturday) from our King's county correspondent:- Frankford, Dec. 6, 1844. A great number of the magistrates of the county assembled in the courthouse here, yesterday, to take into considera- tion the state of this part of the county, in consequence of the dreadful massacre of the two Sheppards near this ...

... An adjourned meeting of this body was held yesterday at the Asgembly-house, William-street, Tr The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOn presided. r, The roll having been called over, t Mr. Ford, the town clerk, said he had to report to the meeting that Mr. Thorpe, not being a burgess at the last d municipal revision, his place as councillor for George's is ward became vacant. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. a ...

... I|- . GRAN B JtRY CES.3. I Two very important meetings have been held within the res last few days, having reference to the collection of grand on jury oess in the northern portion of the metropolis. One by was held in the parish of St. George's upon Friday last, and a second upon yesterday by adjournment of the former in he Grangegorman. The occasions for which these assemblages Lill ilhave ...

... CACHrflE QUEEN .VISITING PARTS. It 1, 1tivelyasserted and believed in the best informed Irclet the French capital that her Majesty Queen Vic. loris and his Royal Highness Prince Albert will visit Paris the ensuing spring. Preparations are even said to be mak. for the reception of those illustrious visitors at Fon. rgtleainb and Versailles.- eirt joulrnzat. THE QUEEN AND THE BISHOP OF EXETER. ...