... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... - 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 ...

... | RUSSIA. When the four principal English merchants of St. Peters- burg attended, according to request, the hotel of the minister of finance on the 15th inst., the following communication was made to them by that functionary :- Gentlemen: his majesty having learned by the English journals that grave disquietudes existed relative to the persons and pro- Derty of English subjects whether in ...

... 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. ...

... To the Editor of the Bristol Mercury. SIB-I forward you the subjoined paragraph from a contem- porary journal, in hopes that it may, in some quarters, Induce the attempt to do away with that smoke nuksance from which our city so grievously suffers:- I OPERATION Or THE SMOcKE-CONSLMING ACT IN LONDON.- The committee of the House of Lords on the Whitechapel im- provement bill, the Earl of Derby ...

... 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 ...

... I The aceounts from Dublin represent the ceremony of iuanlgu-' rating the exhibition as having been most magnificenti At the hour of opening. the number.of persons wlthin, the building could not, have been l6ss than about fiftepn thousand; the gentlemen were for the most part in evening aostume,; and the ladies in full dress morning ,toilette, and the appearance of the company was brilliant in ...

... '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 ...

... 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 ...

... OREIN AND DOMESTIC. TURKEY AND ?? was In a state of joyful etroitement On the I10th Inst., When a bulletin Wagn published announoing that Om~ar Pecha had defeated the Runs- sians at Oltenitza. The Ottoman statement was- On Nov. 4, the Russian general led 30,000 men against the position which the Turks had taken up on~ the 2nd and the .3rd on the left bank of the Danube. The combat lasted six ...