... Q1?orre0pOfl?tflcc, B3RISTOL CATHFDRAL. To thte Editor of the Brittol Mercury Sii-I observe a paragraph in your paper of the let t headed at Hints to Restorers, in which reference is inad ci' elegant shafts of Purbeck marble which Support the vau'U the tile above Cathedral, disfigured, the writer says, by tile elfti9h' the linmebrush. It may not be out of place to observ or'ti interior of ...

... AN AME RICAN FORTUNE-HUNTER. THE following narrative has been published in the American papers. It is dated from Genoa, where the two chief actors in I the transaction detailed, viz., likoff eand Vannaud, the courier of Miss Gamble, are now undergoing an imprisonment of fifteen months, to which they have been recently sentenced by the tri- bunal of the first instancet- This (Genoa) being the ...

... f7ar ?? _ra_ InIgA I HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY, July 3. The royal assent was given by commission to the following and other ?? householders; highways (South Wales) ; prevention of offenses- Great Western railway (arrangement to purchase Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth railway); Stroud and Gloucester road; Briton-ferry docks and railway; South Devon railway; South Wales railway; Mid- and railway ...

... MIS C E LLA N E 0 U S. WORTH A, RusH.-When is a rushlight like a tombstone?- When it is set up for a late husband. - 1 TsoTlrxivGc A TRADEa.- Do you keep matches ? asked a 9 wag of a retailer. Oh yes, all kinds, was the reply. Then g I'll take a trotting-match.b I SPECIMEN OF ILL NATCRE.-A bachelor once said that wives D who are good needie-women are like the enemy spoken of in the 1' ...

... |FA.TAL RAI.WA.Y 'ACCIDENTI ON THE BRISTOL -AND GLOUCESTER LINE. A fearfal collision took place on Wednesday morning Dear the NMinsgtsfield~station of the Bristol and Gloncebter railway, Lbetween a detabhed engine returning froos Gloucester (to whiich P city it had gone thhspreviouzs night to. help on a liesovllk-48deu goods train) and the, morning down mail, which ?? in thisy city at six a~m. ...

... BRISTOL AND CLIFTON HlIBERNIAN SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the abovesociety was held on TYpesday, at the Victoria-Rooms, Clifton. The audience, as usual, con- siated for the most part of ladies, The chair was occupied by The Rev. J. EBSWORTH read a letter from the Rev. E. Totten- ham, rector of Bath, stating that, owing to the unexpected and dangerous illness of his father, he was obliged ...

... First Somerset ?? Cornish Henley, to be ensl n. North Gloucester ?? Jones, Gent., John Frederick Lees, Gent,, to be lieutenants. Glamorgan ?? Erame Abbot, Gent., to be second bieuteluant.' Commissions signed by the Lord-LTentenantofCornwall.-William Morshead, Esq., and William Carpenter Howe, Esq., to be deputy. leutenants. BANKtRUPTS.-FRIDAY, FEB. 11. John Gurr, Chatham, butcher, to surrender ...

... T: ii i , l I - - ?? - I- - I .. X-SATIURDAY; Aurdusr 14, J852.-: THE NORTEI'AMERICAN FISHERIES. : I 4 .11 1 . . i; i S A 'QaSTIoN has arisenibetweern the gover'nments of Great Britain and the United.States 'of America which threatens to involve them in some serious misunderstanding. What is worse is; that Lord Derby's ministry appear to be really blameable in the matter. They have the text of ...

... I RETURN Or TIri ROYAL FAMILY FROM SCOTLAND. After a sojourn of about the usual period at Baimoral, Aber- I deenshire, her Majesty, Prince Albert, and those of their ohil- dren who liad visited the north with them, set outon their return to England on Tuesday last, amidst a drenching rain. They reached the Stonehaven branch of the Aberdeen railway at half-past one, the weather having by that ...

... BlAN WELL.,Our annual fair on Tuesday last was the most brisk we remember for several years past. The supply of fat stock was tolerably good, but not at all equal to the demand. Mutton yielded from 7d. to 7id, per lb., and beef from 46s. to 545. per cwt.; lean stock was also on the advance, End every- thing at all saleable was speedily bought up. The light-fingered .gentry were very busy on ...

... jlA ,A i _CU T1'I * * , ~ I ?? em'' rOPQ'1-4. of Russia, Fog~sho~ld Eur~wpetrmltj th'xerfatin i of i a epe yaoar' it isnt, probably, disposed to lesv e' -tofi waste these three hundred thousand square miles ofcies te~ the most favoured by heaven-of territory the most fertile pal -of coasts therioihest 'n roadateads and. ?? prohipe-, Sho logos the most odninlierelal--of strnits ...

... THE B AB I tA D. -~ A 'l~OY. -the SFxsodtxO=%.- which he~tadpfpr part linduced' yhy~sisown im- '~Jai litdn,'i teast inowid~,iantot lndrt,.hi~fd. th rtl~l IUitO ebejs sd- disitess the ?? of Mr. Bruce' at ihe timef wvhtitwe are about IIt to ntrdue temtote eadras th patte i vtoeotti history'-thc -fpils' Ig'k remarfskable incidents took Place.- lr trice siiiof; eottleh origin.' but' had for ...