... irk ,political juirror. FREE-TRADE PROSPECTS.-We need hardly say that we entertain no fears of the upshot of the bill. Instead of uni- versal ruin among landowners and manufaoturers, we look for- ward to a measure of prosperity greater than that which was enjoyed by the artisans and labourers of England forsome years before the new tariff. We will not indulge in those bright and poetical ...

... aB Tani cry is still-they come !-and, we suppose, ac- ,cording to the natural order of things, should all go well, t that princes and princesses are likely to continue to f come throughout many succeeding years. a There are two classes especially perturbed by this I natural order of events. Servile loyalists are thrown into t a fever of excitement at every addition to the imperial stock, ...

... PRIVILEGE OF PULPIT. zest IN refusing a new trial in the case of Gatbercole v. Miall, the learned in the law, though differing in details, Ily appear to have decided in substance, that what a clergy- anan n says in his pulpit, or causes to be inserted in his an- c ules, are to form exceptional cases to the present ,esrule of liberty of comment on the part of the press. In )ut words, Mr. ...

... BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. ,y. A special general meeting of ehareholders in the above comn- pany was held on Mi1onday, at the White Lion litel, Bristol, J. Gibbs, Esq., chairman of the board, in thle chair, for the pur-| rn pose o givng formal assent to the drafts of the North Devon in railway and Cornwall railway bills, and of that for making a D, railway from the Yeovil branch of the ...

... Iorreoponvence. TAXATION IN BRISTOL. To the Editor of the Bristol 3fercurgy. Sia-In the month of August, last year, a statistical table ap- peared, showing the progress of our local taxation, which had r increased, in the course of eight ears, £27,000 per annum I Is this monstrous evil remedied? letussee. I have my half-year's assessment sent to me from St. Peter's Hospital, for a house rated ...

... REPEAL ASSOCIATION.-The weekly meeting of the assosiation wae held on Monday, Mr. O'Dowd (barrister) in the chair. Mr. D. O'Connell, jun., announced the rent for the week tobe £140 las. Id. The meeting was signalised by a tremen- dous ',row, and a split betwveen the O'Brienites and the O'Cou. nellites-that is, between Young and Old Ireland. The Morning Herald states that Mr. O'Connell is ...

... MR. PUNCH has received from that eminent railroad authority, Mr. Jeames Plush, the following letter, which bears most patheti- cally upon the present gauge dispute You will scarcely praps reckonize in this little skitch the hallered linimints of 1, with woos face the reders of Your valluble misiny were once flmiliar-the unfortnt Jeames de la Pluche, fomly so selebrated in the fashnabble ...

... Volitical Afirar. COALITION.-An important bargain was struck Friday night in the commons by two great political capitalists. It was not quite a partition of empire. The high contracting powers were not the COsar and the Por:pey of tile legislature. Did not respect for the character of one of the parties restrain us, we should be led to an earlier and a darker page in the story of Rome, where ...

... The annual meetint of the' Baptist Missionary Society was held il ?? evening, in King-street chapel, J. EO. Lunell, REq, In the chair.,5 The 168th hymn having been suing, the R0ev. E. PROEonRT * offered up a prayer, imploring the divine blessing on the pro- t ceedings of the society.. cie Tho CHAIRMAN said such annivermarles'as the present were ri calculated to excite in their minds serious ...

... The annual meeting and examination of the pupils took place at the Victoria-rooms, on Tuesday, when there was a very large attendance, especially of ladies, and the utmost interest was manifested in the proceedings. It was expected that his grace the Duke of Beaufort would have presided, but it was stated by Dr. Kay, that his grace had most inadvertently mistaken the day on whsich the meeting ...

... -FOREIGN I. INTELLIGENCE. UNITED STATES. Bly the New York pincket-ship Lierpool,: Captain Eildridge, if papers to the day of fer sailing, thle 23rd nit., inclusive, have be~eh received, At Washington the Hdouse ol'epresenftativeiiadreiejetid the C amendmentst made- by the Senate on the Oregon resolutions, by a vote of lila to 87, `an It wee eent~back to-thte Senate,w*ho at once refused to ...

... * The Bath waterworks bill has passed through comn. mittee, and will be forthwith reported. BURtGLAUY.-Ofl Sunday morning the rectory house at Cornbehay, the residence of the 11ev. - Haynes, was entered by soine burglars who have lately been visiting this part of Somcer. gietahire. An entrance wee effected by means of a newv instra- ment for honsebrealing, by whichi wood or iron is easily out ...