... RANDOM THOOUGHIN LEIS BY FCBzs ELIZABBTH D3 B~~ Fw'rczs ?? Ul By FANCS ELZART~i DAVyU Black Ipirit an m~lt~be. II. rea spirits And groy Mingngle, gle, mi blmingle, YOU that 91,81 Do spirits walk the earth? How oftenitha suggested to the thoughts of the olirii qust; nature, but whene sball we find the Sage wh tdn of reov h roblemP Not Pythagoras lea? can t Itt lre, and backed by his fifteen ...

... I Geologints ou ?? shore (And who so 'cute as they I ) Hive ?? resolved to re-explore The far-famed 1 Londun Clay. Yet many hold tbe scheme unsound, For never yet,-they say, lls any veill of Tin beilg found By working London Ciay. No matter-let those laugh that win The project wrell may pass, For London Clay thougl short ot Ti7, Is richly stored with Brass. ?? have reason to believe ...

... kd He ajsyTHE COURT, 'ETC. 8' Hr Maestyand his Royal Highness Prince Albert, a.accompanied by the Royal Family, mnd 'attisnded by a limited td suite, are expected to take their departure; from' Windier for ?? on Friday next, where the Couirt will probably remainf a, for about ten days, In order that the Prince Consort may enO y 10 the sport of pheasant shooting over the preserves of ?? Majesty ...

... et RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION v. LIBERTY OF et RELIGIOUS CONSCIENCE. 6 k- The reign of Charles II will long be remembered in B n- English history, as a period of violent persecution for re. Fv in Thious opinions, especially against the people called x? *. Quakers, who, for being faithful to their principles, suf. w te fered grievous spoil and imprisonment-the ganls in many . ,Igparts of the kingdom ...

... ORIGIN OF THE LIVERPOOL BATHS-, AND WASH-HOUSIFS.-THE FIRST OF! THE KIND IN ENGLAND. , !an ich A correspondent, who signs M. M., expresses the ool opinion that there ought to be raised a fund for- the C of purpose of rewarding Mrs. Wilkinson, in whose ble unwearied efforts to assist her poor neighboursat so. the time of the cholera, the first attempts originated he to establish a public wash ...

... omettic 3Inuteligrence ENGLAND. ELECTION oa Loawn MAYOR-FrY AL CLOSE OF THE POLL.- The poll of the livery finally closed at four o'clock on Tuesday, when the numbers were as follow:-Carroll. 1653---Wood, 1644 --Hooper, 324. Majority for Alderman Sir G. Carroll, nine. THE ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.-A Court of Aldermen 4as held onThursday. Aftersome speechesand motionsregard- ing thereturn of votes ...

... BIAESIINGHAII MUSICAL F ESTIVAL pr'odusced over LADiEs are admitted as members of the British A..,,clati.~ d by the new rules. d LARG4 DATILIA.-1In the garden of the city prison, 1,l a dahlia 11 feet high. tSNUFF - TAKING Is recommended to students Of the French language, as it facilitates the acquiring otfthe proper accent. EGYPT'-.-The Topic, In depicting 1Eigypt as it is,,hwsta threc ...

... TUE GREAT BRITAM T. To the Editor of The Bristol Mercury. Como-villa, Portshead, Oct. 6, 1846. SIs-In Captain Claxton's letter of 28th nlt., to M~r. Bennett, giving a detail of the circumstances which preceded the unfor- tunate occurrence of the Great Britain, it is stated, that, 1 on examining Captain Hosken's chart, which was bought by him when going out on his previous voyage in June, as ...

... CDC it Of WOtL IVA-RID OF ST. MICHAEL. ?? and highly respectable meeting of the IL veri, hi wad.onvened by public advertlsemnent, was ofgee thiy veniflg, at the Montague tavern, to consider held Otiui 31hOald be taken to secure the election of a gentle- hat Seprs eet tse opinions and wishecs of the electors in the Boil.,havingbeen alled to the chair, NVILItJhAX meeting had been convened in ...

... P UN C H IA N A. We select a few of the good things in the PUNCH bowl for the present week. The wit and humour ot our little friend are perfectly exhaustless. CORRECTION TO BE MADE IN ALL GEOGRAPHIEs._ Pyreneea.-A chain of mountains which was formerly the boundary between France and Spain. They were cleared away by Louis Philippe, in the year 1846, on the occasion of his son's marriage with ...

... CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE I- THE HlfqHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. (Continued from ou? last pper.) (From the Times Commissioner.) Dinagall, Ross-shire, Sept. 25. Coincidences often arise from the existence of co-inci- dent circumstances. Trees of the same kind bear similar fruit. Like causes produce like effects. In the per- petual coincidence of starvation and helplessness in Ire- land and in the ...

... Tile rise in the different rivers and streams in East Lothian on Tuesday was greater than for many years. and the destruc- tion of bridges has been unprecedented. Besides the railway bridge at Linton, the one at Beltonford, and the one across the railway, the ChalLyford Bridge beyond Dunbar, near Broxbburn, the Garvald Bridge beyond Haddington, the Lint. mill bridge between Phantassie and ...