... AMERICA.- -The Atlantic arrived at Liverpool on Thursday. The fugitive slave bill Continued to excite difficelty and agi- tation, the negro population becoming quite in a ferment; and the trouble was much deepened by the feet that several churches had divided (each as the Methodists and others), tilt points regarding elavery, the southern portion lielditig its general and ciatiorial convention ...

... The South Devon Railway Company, in the view of therdirectors being in a sufficiently prosperous condition to allow of their paying the dividend on tihe preference shares, the an- noucentent was made accordingly of their intention topay it forthwith; hut Mr.Charles Stephens, a holder of £70,000 in the original stock, having applied to the Vice-Chanoellor for an injunction to restrain such ...

... GREAT WEISTItN AND BILS AXD EXETER. UtP THAIN4S. Grea, ?? Raiao y. B' istol& E xeter Railway. iL ~ ~ c 0 ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIG ENCE. ue FRANCE. , - The French government is about to erect a monument to 1i Marshal Ney, on the spot where hie was shot. It will represent .t the marshal d presenting his breast and opening his heart to death. 9 There was an animated discussion in the national assembly If on Saturday, on one of the clauses of the public education bill. e The discussion arose on an ...

... FROM OUR COREESPONDENTS. WFSTN.8P RUAR--Aa meetingof the inspection committee of the town comimissioners, held on Saturday last, It Was agreed that Mr. James Parsons ebould perform tbe duties of policee officer and toi1 colleotor (vacaat by thle death of Mr. Robt. 11111) until Friday, the flis February, when the ordinary monthly meeting of the commissieoners would',take place and a successor ...

... rh - ?? nve,,i n -it, i ?? ale ?? Gazelte.] osv sometimes nature will betray its folly, i Its tenderness, and make Itself a pastime To harder bosoms. -_lSakspere. A few weeks ago the following appeared as asn advertisement in one of our local papers:- MATR5l!ONY.-A respectable young man, of very ancient family, liberally educated, of excellent character, and with tolerably good ...

... wbe STUAtoY J eu l0u150 SATURDAY, Jir~VF 29, 1850. | As much justice as space would permit is done in the columns of this day's Mercury to the debate on Mr. Roe- buck's Foreign-Policy resolution. Though sug- gested by Lord Stanley's Greek motion, adopted last week in the I-ouse of Peers, the resolution of the Member for Sheffield is of larger scope, takes a wider range, and therefore, ...

... The thirtieth annual nmeeting of the Bristol Seamens' S Friend and Betbal Union .Society was held on Wednesdaya evening, in the Floating Chapel. The attendance was not so eS numerous as could have Been desired, and (in the unavoidable Absence of Col. Crawford, who had unexpectedly been called tII from home), the chair was taken by U~r. Thols. Fethick. A hymn having beau song, and Mr. SOLOMON ...

... eroroepon~ence. To the Editor of the Bristol Mercury. SIR-In your paper of Saturday last there is a report of state- ments made before the magistrates respecting the supposed drowning of a man named Bryant (on the 5th o Dec. Iast), late in the employ of Mr. Rankin, and residing in the Old French- vard, Guinea-street. MSr, Rankin is reported to have said that ie had found, since Bryant's death, ...

... varliallialtarp procabingo. IlOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY, F eb. S. STANId ST gave notice that lie would bring forward thre Dli) rau frap'irs on the 18th instant; eind Lord Broughamn intr5.h~c,, bill for thle consolidation ofthle criminal law.- eI AdjourneIOIMONDAY. 5DRtTtSt CLAsSI ON GRIEECE, EadSA .~wshed to know if the papers relative to the wil ?? with the government of Greece coere 11lput dre ...

... WRECK AlT JILEUE.,& LOSS OF NINETY-SIX LIVES. The Livierick Reporter contains the following melancholy ldetails:- Otte of the most disastrous shipwrecks we have ever had the painful duty of recording occurred in the Bay of Kilkec on Tues- dav night lnst. The Edmuensd, of London, sailed frotu the quays of himerick, with two hundred and sixteen souls onl board, on Friday last, and proceeded to ...

... tJ teryoof of the admira- VEriY GOOD GENEBRALIUP.As another , General Hayn, we may mentiont distingot ahed the career of a ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? not h is intention to tviait London this ?? . NEW MODE OP ADVEeaTIOINO.-The Builder ?? 5., slightly elevted Exhibition, i. a conv etl edace stand in a row until claimed. t ir told CAUSE AND EFFECT.-ir.Oswald with a triumphantair, told Lord John Rusell that ...