... SATURDAY, MiRar 12, 1853i Muon has been said of late in Parliament on the subject of the Canadian Clergy Reserves They are certain patches of land distributed over Canada, the produce or profits of which were destined to support the Protestant rel'ion in that country. They were originally, and er aps some of them are yet, little better than waste lands, doing harm to- adjoining properties ...

... SATURDAY, Mincir 19, 185.3. THE second reading of the bill to allow Jews to sit in parliament without taking an oath by a faith in which they do not believe, was carried in the House of Corn- mons on Friday night week by a greater majority than X that which affirmed the resolution on which the bill was founded. In the one case the majority was 29, in the other 51, showing that the measure ...

... The forty.third anniversary of the Bristol auxiliary to the above institution was held on Thursday last, at the Victoria- rooms. The morning meeting was under the presidency of C. riniey, Esq., and was most respectably attended. On the plat- form we noticed the Rev. Canon Hall, the Revds. H. Allen, Mansell, Day, Wood, Davis, Singer, Brice, Page, H. I. Roper, P'earsall. and Blissett, Colonel ...

... I i +, , (VI . ?A-; a FRANCR.i The tfoniteur announces that the squsdrou now at Toulon has received orders to proceed to th Grieek waters. The French legislative body received the budget on Friday from the minister of state. The amount of revenue is set down at l,528,0o00,00o s., thatof theexpenditureat 1,510,000,000fs. The Monite h bas announced the nomination of the Marquis Targot to the ...

... Cornwall and Devon Miners ?? Martin Williams, I -Cent., elaider St. Aubyn, Gent., Second Lieutenant Philip Sandy Tom, to be first lieutenants, Second Somerset 3ilitia,-Ensign John Frederick Nicholls, Alfred Waring, Gent., Isaac Williams, Gent., Samuel B. Coates, Gent., Ald. A. Harris, Gent., and WalfingtonCoates, Gent., to be Lieutenants; Robert It. D. Marshall, Gent., and Henry Lionel ...

... HISTRIONIC ASPIRIATIONS N BOARD THE ?? GREA4T ZBRITA. -- .I. . Atnoligot the various sources of ailbsement resorted to by the I voyagers in tbh Great Britain to beguile tbe wearg hours, it'ap- 'pears thgt'dramahti represpntati0U ,wss not soe sightof. Yowards'tbe olose of their' los u ponn the ocean a playwas re901ved1 toO Sit - Balwer Ltvtton's comedy bSf Money was 'ehgsen 'and the tifipe ...

... 'WAItotet. SATURDAY, MArvW 19, 1853. tIF FREE LiBnARY AND TEE BRISTOL LiBRARY SOCIETY.-It will be seen from a letter amongst our corres- Fpoun ence that a new feature is about to be added to the dia. s1tns with which the society ocapying the city library remises in King-street has been promisently mixed up. - Our readers are aware that the projct, of a Free Library, for the benefit ofthe ?? ...

... *FZOE EZLECTION. Y. EON. 006LONEL BOYLE UNSPATED. eC The se~lect cmmlitte eppointed to report o~n the petitloet against the return for the ,Igsi election for' thei borouigh of ~jFrdme, mnetfor ths first time o ba~aturday; Mr. ?? Hamill, Iol chiran. Tlhe peille I 18'-Mr. Robert westiey' Ial tg Dare, of wenuningtooi-hOUse, Essex; 'the sitting mhember being' ofCOL the Hon'. Robert Boyle.' Mr. ...

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... SACRED RARRONIC SOCIETY. The memblersan of ?? gale on Tuesday last, at thle Victoria-Rooms, a performance of Haydn's ever freolt and beautifuloatori of the wCrea.tion. Theattendance, we regret tonsay, wabynomeans what it oughf tonhave been. Toeiprin. cipal vocalists were Mrs. Sunderland, soprano; Mr. Lockey, tenor; and Mr. Weiss, bass. The choruc was a full one; some what weak, perhaps, nt the ...

... TilE H BRISTOL POLICE-TiiE DISCHARGED MESHEiERS. e To the Editor of Thie Bristol Mercury. d Sin-Myself and many others have been in the Bristol police force ever since its first formation; I, as well as many others, d have got injured In the service by having had my arm broken; others have been Injured in other ways, some from being exposed to the weather, so that now we are past labour (I ...

... We noticed a few months ago a new manufactory, which had been called into existence in our city by the discovery of the Australian gold fields; and, if anything bad been required to show the extent to which the exodus to the auriferous colony has been, and still is, going on, it would be found in the magni. tude to which that manufactory has attained. We refer to Mr. Hemmlngs's works at Clift ...