... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... '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 ?? ...

... id FREE LIBRARYArD TRIE BRISTOL LIBRARY SOCIETY. 3e a To the Editor of The Bristol Mercury. 5SIR-I have received a document, called a Joint Report of mn the Sub-Committees of the Fine Arts' Academythe Bright Tes- lYtimonial, and the Bristol Library, and a very curious document it is, strongly reminding me of 'When shall we three meet e. again? Iquestion if the witches' cauldron contained ...

... , o0 BY ELECTrlIC TELEGRAPH. t HOUSE OF LOiHDS.-FRIDAY, March is. t The businees before their lordships wAS unimportant. The bet 7 adjournedeto April 4. re IS iHOUSE OF COMMONS.-FmAY, Feb. 18. Lord R. 0osvOENoI reported from the Maldon elect ion comnittee i1 that Messrs. Charles Dn Cane (Con.) and T. J. Miller ?? bad not d been duly elected, and intimated that he should move, aferL it reses ...

... judgil JuffiliYAM INDIA.. The latest news from Burmab is dated Jan. 24. The Intelli-t gence of a revolution in Ava is contrined. anid a. British em- bassy, under charge of Colonel Handscornbe. 'of the:40th Ben- gal native infantry, had been despatched to the capital, in or-E .der to negotiate a treaty of peace with the authoritiee. The prime minister of the late king was foster-brother to the ...

... The annual meeting of the above society was held on Monday evening, at Brunswick chapel; Dr. Ash in the chair. After singing and prayer, The CH1AIRMtAN ?? attempting to compare one society with another, he might be allowed to say that there could not, in the very natureof things, beoneof more importance to them as British Christians than that which had brought them together that evening, the ...

... T, artlawtarq - vraaAfup. HOUSE 0O5 LORDS,-TlbURSDAY, March 17. The county eleotlone poll bill was read a third time and passed, on the motion of Lord CARLISLE, after some opposilion fronM the Marquis of Salisbury.-Adj. H OUSE OF COMMONS.-TroiutSDAY, March I7. The SPEAiKER announced that the KnareaborDngh election petition, and the petition agiiast Sir A. Cockburn'a latest electloli (or ...

... ItrI( ?Oflrflftmtutanj vArafuNtlgg. HOUSE OF LORDS.-lloNDAY, March 14. The Earl of ABERDEEN, in reply to a question from Lord Broughiam, stated that the government was about to issue a commissoion to inquire into the law of partnership. Lord LYNBIURST called the attention of the honse tn'the im- mense difficulty of the tasit which the Lord Chancellor lead un-. dertoken wl~en he announced his ...

... ' Again we have to report a frightful colliery explosion In the RitSa Vale, near Newport, in the county of Monmouth, by which seven young men and boys were suddenly hurried into eternity, and 13 more or less injured, so that four of the un- fortunate men are not expected to survive the frightful burn- ings from which they are now suffering . - The seam of coal In which this explosion tolc ...