... I A meeting was held on Tuesday evening in the Broad- R mead-Room9, of such as were favourable to the above ob- ar ject, at which a deputation from the 100 English and Scotch SY ministers who have recently been engaged in preaching the w Gospel in Ireland attended to give some account of their te reception and labours in that country. The chair was taken at by the right hon. the Earl of Cavan. ...

... THr ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS., IT may now be saidto have been demonstrated that there' is a northeast (and consequently a north-west) passage on the northern verge of the great American continent,. separating it from contact with any land nearer to the pole. Prior discoveries, by explorers some of whom penetrated the icy regions by way of Bebring's strait: and others of whom advanced through Davis's ...

... u?tTE?+ To the Editor of 7tze Bristol Mercury. Sin-I crave a corner in your columns to express a hope that the Charity Trustees of this city will remember a regulation of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, by which the boys (umany of tender years and not robust of constitutions) are required to be up and dressed by 5 o'clock in the winter, as well as in the summer. I respectfully submit to those ...

... I THE PIRAT1t. ?? forty or fifty years ago theile lay at anchor in A, lonely,. i unfrequented bay or inlet on the west coast of Africa a vessel of emall size and of British build.' She wae a trader,~ and h ir purpose in visiting the African coast was to open up at traffic a with the natives for whatever produce could ba obtained in the I way of barter fore various and extensive asssrtsment of ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE TURKEY. .rdic todespatches brought by the Ftry the Sultan _ ?? to the moral, and, if necessary, the martial _p appead tnd and France. by demanding the presence ,,octofl at Constantinople. DANhefeUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. I Ltuders has arrived at Bucharest. The Russian Geal in niotion 15 battalions of foot and 32 pieces of = Dvo marched through the town. The army is _'il tedS ...

... CHIPPING SODBULRY.-On Friday aa'nnight the children attending the National and Sunday saeols Itei thie town were enter- morthmbtieenneeadlbrltofhe thmeiru friends msan stronsoftfiger-reag wheirafe c mmo ncy newr acobu rig ahlf-panst hrea whicde hade dbeei moat Ion tifevelly deoaedfrtell-cceondb ed meeicter and minertrentea aond-Mae.Nlt expentedsyh ofnd theacharas, and theyh were areosente thW ...

... I ?? (From the Globe.) Two of Punch's heroes, discussing the moustache move- ment, declare respectively, the one that he wears his honours of lip and chin, because it saves trouble, and is so very 'ealthy-the other that he wears his, because they looks 'ansom, and goes down with the gals. We have be- fore us a printed paper, just now re-issued by a benevolent friend of ours, by whom ...

... SATURDAY, OcronBR 8, 1853..-- FRom the tenor of the accounts received at the time we wr te, there is reason to conclude that the Turkish Grand Council has recommended the Sultan to declare war against Russia, which country had, in point of fact, two or three months previously declared war against Turkey by a hostile and unjustifiable invasion of her Dannbian provinces. Little more than we ...

... 5r01totol I -1 SATURDAY, OCroSEm 8, 1853. We are reluctantly, but unavoidably, compelled to omit a large te~ member of Advert toements, r'eceived after Five o'clocA, p~m., and tl Ivarious communications. Weq shall next uecek, publis~h tvith thes Sev MERCURty a Supplement of 14 Columns. cep eve to' The SUPPLEMVENT tO this day's M1er'us-p contains :-hou fereign and Colonial Intelligence -Opening ...

... THEl BRITISH FLEET. A paragraph was published yesterday (Tuesday) morning j in the second edition of a contemnporary the (Alorni-ng Herald), with reference to the movements of the British fleet in the S Turkish waters, which is a strange jumble of confusion and v misstatement. Here is the paragraph in question We are enabled to state, from the best authority, that the il government, moved at ...

... | 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 ...

... I The annual meeting of the above society was held at the Victoria-Rooms, Clifton, onl Monday. The chair was e taken by S. S. Harford, Esq. After tie meeting had been a opened in the usual manner with prayer, by the Rev. ?? B. Gibbons, S The CHAIRDIAN said they were met that day to give their c support to a society whose operations had coof6rred the most important benefits upon their church ...