... TOTAL' ABSTINENIJ 'SOOCITY. The annual Whitsuntide'festiVal 'of this soiety took place o Tuesday, in the Zoo1lo ial-gardens. V¶ar~lous'causes contrsbuted to diminisbh ithe numter or the company;- but thereWaB, nelver` theless, a large 'aisemblagb, some 80OO t sr~ooot persons ,being present. Theweather proved-hap, ?? tle 'greca sward havinig, during the rains of theprevious day, beenII trodden ...

... SATURDAY, SEPrEMBER 10, 1853. ei' The SUPPLEMENT to this day's Mercury contains Foreign and Irish Intelligence; the Royal Fami4y; NewActs of Parliament; the riehest Aeqieto ?? Army; the Secession of Lord Charles Thynne;,Mr. Msacaulay on Jenius;` a Day with Pitt; the Lawson Observatory; Mr. Roebuck at Sheffield; Departure of Mrs. Beecher Stowe; Bristol County Court; Law, Railway, and Market ...

... WESLEYAN REEORILMOVBMENT. A public tea meeting, in aid of the funds for the erection of a New Wesleyan Reform chapel, in Milk-street, took place at the Broadmeiid-lROOms, on Tuiesday evening. There wes a large attendance, the room being filled in every nart. After, tea a pulcmeigwee held, at which Mr. J. Wf. tlall presfded. A h~ymn having been aung, and prayer offered, , The .CHAIRMtAN in ...

... 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 ...

... ITALY.-Rather startling news was sub-mannred from Paris on Wednesday stating that the French governmenthad received a telegraph fromliasle announcing that an insurrection took I place at Milan, the chief City of Austrian Lombardy, on Sunday. It said, The people rose suddenly in three parts of the towi- five men were killed, An Austrian proclamation announces the rscstebllohmeit of order. ...

... A. meeting in furtheranse of thle objects of the 1ate Pence Coniferen= at Manchester, was !beld at the Broadmlend-Roomsa on Thurfsday evening. W. D). WILLS, Esq., aecupied the LS chair, and~here werel'eli the ?? oasEq, it Robert lCbarleton. iE8q., R1ev. H. Richard. df L~ondon, Rev. George H.'Davis,,,&a. The attendance was'ut ifrst somnewhat 'e Psoulnty, ;but the room became graduallY pretty ...

... SECJOND EDITION. P. ~ ,,8Y.EIEOTRIC TELEGRAPH. B t ' , . * El:l~si t, HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY, May 13. V ?? Of theslluhteot pubic interest came belore the houae thii eveningr ., . .t HOUSE 07' OMMONS.- RIDAY, Hay 13. My. Twscr.E ave notice that when the bill was brought ie to dis [a firinchise thevoters Invdiok-yards, he should move as an amn - CItat eofthoeprtle should be taken by ballothear). ...

... . f -1- IHOUSE 0OF LORDttS.-F~iDAY, April 8. T~h lari of ELLENI5OROU01H presented a petition from the urnerO Ilartlepsol, complainsing of the proposed alterations ,,ier portion of British and foreign seamen employed in i th p bou~ft service, and praying that those alterations might the ?? nitted to become law. The noble earl warned the housc ris alienatinlg the affections of British seamen by ...

... WESTON-SUPER-MARfl HORTICULTURAL FETE. The annual show of the Weston Horticultural and Floricul- tural Society took place on Friday last, and passed off most satisfactorily. The weather was delightful and the attendance numerous. The tent under which the exhibition took place was manufactured by Messrs. Watts and Son of' Bristol, expressly for the Gloucester show this week, and is, we believe, ...

... (Dnnn?uc? le y To the Editor of the Bristol Mercury. r ?? been a resident in Treefield-road, Baptist-mills, srfor several years, I fully expected that I and my neighbours it would be partakers of some of the benefits which the health of towns act was intended to confer; but the parties in power ap- :h pear in no hurry in respect of doing anything for this locality, 37 which induces us to place ...

... Isby BY ELECTRIC TELEGRApH, elflen 'ad i HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY, June 17. well- The Marquis of WEBTRENATH Movad the appitetO abeCommittee, to Inquire Into certain sedhtloas language uteg a select orm- been used by Mr, Keoqh, Iridh Solicitor-Gen Sleaal -Tege 014ohv fto opposed the motion As . frivolous and vexatious-' and LaorO~ernatet in & aid heirforships could not eatertainathe maltter, si ...

... SATURDAY, M4 r 21, 1S53. Tap, ospf wS r has talken a variety of excursions to o ab t unknowh'parts of th. world. He has forsaken ' e countries where he dwelt so long, and planted his; feet in comparatively novel territories. He has just had a run-over Kafirland ; made a call in Burmah; paid a somewhat prolonged visit to the interior of China; and his 'a notion of accompanying the Americans to ...