... THE ADVERTSEMENT DUTY. TnE government resolution to reduce the advertisement duty was subjeoted to some strange freaks of fortune on FrIday ss'nnight. It was aproposition to cut down the duty from Is. 6d. to 6d. Mr. Miner Gibson had In April last carried a motion to abolish it altogether. To that the Chancellor of the Exchequer demurred on the ground that au obligation-lay upon him to raise ...

... ASSAULT ON THE IORTUGUESE CONSUL BY A ROMAN-CATHOLIO PRIEST. The Reverend William Cullinan, 10.0. priest of, the chapel Of St. 1'icholas, Poennywell-road, Brietol, and Martin Foley, sur- rendered to answer a bill of indictment preferred against them for an alleged assault, by the Chevalier Antonio Baran de Mas- carenhas, POrtUgUEse Consul-Geuieral at the port of Brietol. M~r. D. W. Nash ...

... 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, ...

... QUEEN ELIZABETH's HOSPITAL. The annual examination of the scholars of Q teen Elizabeth's Hospital, Brandon-hill, commenced on Monday, and terminated on Wednesday afternoon, Several of the -trustees, and a large number of the parents and friends of the children were present. The examination was viva voce, and was couducted by the !talented head-master, the Rev. Dr. Hawkesworth, and his able . ...

... 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 ...

... THE LATE FATAL ,COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT BEDMINSTER ?? . -- - f - - Ztt v.4,. . -1.n a The Coroner's Inquest on the body of William Tyler, wbo wag kile rb the aeef ental breaking of a rope at the Old Bed- ?? Conpay'sitin Dean-lane, under theoiCWUTU- Hummr tver, BdmiaterOauewa. bfor J.B. Grindon, Esq.corneranda hghlyresectb e ury Bydirection of ?? o Stte or he omeDeprtmntMr. Herbert Muckort, oe ...

... _,HE GREAT QUESTION OF TH DAY.' -_ a are still, at the time we write, without reliable ETS'grounds on which to conjecture whether the ERusso-Tur- ekish djpute will end in peace or war. The general tone lder.of public mind of Europe has been, during several X days past,decisively in favouroftheprobabilities ofpeace. In any ordinary case we should at once have accepted Stbis fact as a good omen; ...

... THE CAMP AT CHOBEAM. j With the return of fine weather, or, at least, some indications e of it, the attractions of the camp revived. Lord Seaton had at I last had a few days of sunshine, and he turned them to the best 11 possibleaccount. Thetroopswereouton Tuesday, Wednesday, h and Thursday. and on Saturday again they had a long and gbrilliant dald-day. The troops turned out at eleven o'clock, ...

... I TAtiL-TmnNING EXTRAORDINARY.- Dear Punch : Fara- t day was regulary non-plussed by experiments at the Royal I Agricultural Meeting at Gloucester. The President, Vice- President. and Honorary Secretary caused to be placed before s them a large tub filled with three gallons of cream the fingers of the three gentlemen were placed upon the rim of the tub, ad in about fifteen minutes the cream ...

... TABLE-MOVING. To the Editor oJ' The Bristol Mercur#. SIR-My object in addressing these few lines to you is to call your attention and that of your readers generally to the results Of some experiments that I have lately made on table-turning. &c. You may perhaps think that after the publication of Prof. Faraday's letters on the subject all doubt as to the nature of the phenomena in question has ...

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