... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 . ...

... 5MG6 I 'firfign juttil, k6+- RUSSIA ANDY T URXEY.:. a ;,'rvtetelegraphic despatch: from Vienna announces thet i the ambassadors of France, England, and Austria at, Conetan- W tinopIe, on the news that the, Ruissians bad crossecd the Pruth, Sot requested an audience of the 'Sultan, and'~asked him not to miu Ldemand that the British and French fleets should enter the elil ~D~rdanelles. The ...

... ENTEiTAINMENT AT WELLS. On Thursday last TIC. Tudway, Esq., M.P. for Wells, gave .an grakd dinner to hi friends in that city on beautifully-situated ound at the rear of ysa residence. The company passed through the mansion, an were received by the hon. gent eman, Like the old squire, at his gate. Three tents were erected on the lawn, the two smaller for need- ful domestic and other purposes, ...

... FROM OURt CORRESPONDENTS. FROM UR C - - - ?? CHEDDAR.-As Mr. W. Clark, obeese-efaetor, Cheddar, and lils clerk, were driving in a pony oarrial~e, nearLyimpehami, the punyshie andraninto a ditch nearly Six feet deep, and tull of wate. Bth ecapd unurt andwitoutinjury to either PonY or ariae.Thi ecae s te or rmarabeasMr. C. ha 'little use of his rigt foot, and Iis arm wee in a slng from the ...

... _,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 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 ...

... 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, ...