... A DuTIPUL WIFE.-It a letter addressed to the 3rayor of LUte, by the orders of the Empress of France, her secretary says ?? also express a wish that her majesty may accompany her august husband in the visit which the emperor appears to be disposed to pay to your ftnetown. tier majesty charges me to transmit to you her thanks, and at the same time to say that if the emperor permits her. she ...

... d HINT TO NEWSROOM MONOPOLISTS.-In a country newsroom t the following notice is written over the chimney:-' Gentlemen 1. learning to spell are requested to use yesterday's paper. ,, SERVANTGALIS 01 Ol, WHAT'S TO BECOME OF TIE MISSUSES. -Servant Girlt -I tell you what, Cook, with my beauty and 0 Sgger . ?? a going to atop in sarvice any longer. I shall be e off to leorsetraylier..-Punch, 4t A ...

... ILONDON SUNDAY-SCHOOL 'UNION JUBILEE | r- , meeting was held on Wednesday evenin last, ?? I aegreen chapel, for, the purpose of receivinig a deputation from the r London ~Sunda~r-Selool Union, conslisthig of the Rev. Dr. Camp- r bell and Mr. 's1 atsou, whose object was to present the claims of .-the! institution on the churches of Bristol, in reference to a ju- ,f bleiddnw tien rinsed, the ...

... SATURDAY, JANtARY 29, 1853. A FRESH aspect has come over the state of affairs in France. The Emperor has resolved to take unto him- self a wife, and at the same time to make a littlepolitical a capital out of his choice. He went the round of Isseveral German courts in the endeavour to meet with a aprincess with whom to share his throne; but the friends Y of the ladies did not like the ...

... '1 SECOND EDITION I ALARMING Fi-t; A little before eleven o'clock last night an alarm Of fire given, which, an inquiry, was found to be at the preinsul i merly occupied by Itesers. Denton, Stopford, and Co Sfor- Stephen-etreet~but now in the possession of Olesers. Bar' nO Co., waterproof clothing-etores. ettd The fire, from the combustible nature of tile Material with amazing rapidity, and in ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-TnurcsnDAY, August 4. The royal assent was given by ?? to the following among other billa:-viz, tbe succession duty, oommon lodging-. houses, convicted prisonersaremoval and confinement, savings bank annuities. coinage offences, colonies, colonial bishops act extension. customs duties, stamp duties, stamp duties (No. 2), turnpike trusts arrangements, sheep, &o.; contagion ...

... PEDESTRIANISM ExTRAoRDiNAwY.-The Cab Strike was Io joke, although it was all Walker.-Punch. THE GREAT NUGGET.-The large Australian nugget Ilel exhibited has been meltedand soldforL£532. Itweightfbefol melting was 1015 ounces, and it yielded 1310 ounces of eihe geol equal to 1423 ounces standard, gd, A NEW EXCAVATION.-We suppose it was Mr. Layard's ,. cess in his excavations at Nimroud that ...

... AXBBIDGE.-At an adjourned meeting of the friends of V Mr, Bruges Fry, coroner, held at the Townhall, on Tuesday last, m it was, without the slightest doubt, shown that the majority of s votes obtained at his election would be greatly increased should C a scrutiny be entered into. Whereupon it was resolved. iu con- T sequence of the measures taken by the friends of Mr. Whitmore G to deprive Mr. ...

... A committee of the cabinet have for some time been b Witb the, details of the coming Reform Bill. This F 'runittce inclides, it is said, Lord John Russell, Sir r James Graham, the Duke of Newcastle, and Lord i .,lmerston. Dr. Merle D'Aubign6, the historian of the reform- tio, has arrived in Dublin. Itis computed that the produce of iron in this country .is vea' will be 3,000,000 tons. ...

... Edward Rayner, a tall young man-anything bat an Adonis in features or general personal appearance-lately a traveller for the firm of Harrison and Singleton, timber-merchants of Leeds, but from whose service he suddenly decamped in August last year, was brought before the Mayor and J. Cliff, Esq., at the-Leed5.Court-house, on Saturday last, charged by Mr. Hol- gate, a gentlepsan residing in ...

... - ma _ §_a2 USE AND ABusE._The cab and the driver,-Pwuch. TOAST WrEcoe..T BuTTER.-The following is described r a neat toast:' Woman I if we may have her for a toast we won't ask for any luther. MAGNA CAueTA NEARLY SiaprD._It is stated as afat that Sir Robert Cotton rescued the original Mfagna Chartafron, thle hands of a tailor, who was on the point of cutting it up fag measures. , PRETTY L ...

... FRANCE.-A duel took place at Pau on the 8th inst. between M. L. L-, merchant, and M. R. L-, advocate. The former was shot near the heart, and died instantly. PAmis, Dec. 14-.A French cabinet courier leaves Paris to-night with despatches for the ambassador at Constanti- nople. He receives orders to proceed by the shortest route, to employ the most rapid means of conveyance at the dis- osal of ...