... P)R. OBRYE? AND TIIE CORPORATION OFP THE I. . . . ~ OjR . Auldi' ailteroim5 partern.' 1' To the' .Editor of The Britol. fe'rcry. dc S nI eed. make no ?? for aekieg your Indulgenice to at enable me to defend myseilf ?? before the public such ar expianf.rloaitioi a I can offer of certain expresslofls that fell- from hi theIrish, lelasr -of 'the'Rolig, whencle it'nstl emeretb miatter ofcooats. ...

... - SECO'N PDITIO$ BY ELECTBIC TELEGRAPIL At amseetingof the Eaetert Counties Railway eon, yesterday, the Chairnan (Mr. Waddington) and received with a degree of clamour borsering upoe A, motion to adjourn the meeting was rejected, the of lavestigaton'a report was adogted, their abourts, qnested to be continued, and the C airman and a iitiM k Directors were called upon, by mu resolution, tore, ...

... =PrBLIC attention is just now somewhat prominently r directed to a subject which in its first aspect appears to : be rather military than political, though it will be found that a delicate half-domestic half-constitutional question . lies at its base. d Prince Albert is Field-Marshal, and Colonel of the ?? Guards. He also occupies the unquestionable though unrecognized position of adviser to ...

... A CHRISTMtAS-BOX FOR THE RATEPAYERS. In these days of financial thorough-draining, when the TD outgoings of the citizens are great and their in-comings small, be when their hands have perpetually to be thrust into their coi breeches pockets to see how far the cash remaining there will of go towards meeting some new exigency, and when, however pri economical may be their rule, their balances ...

... GENERAA NEWS. ^5 UltramOntane Journal, to reaernble the Unirers of Paris, I p About to appear at Vienna. Seven fires occurred In London last Monday, ln!wbiob three ,,ilividuall lost tbeir littes. - owthreei ~ocom6tlT'e enginei opon' the 70116' Baakilava and Sabiastopol .j Ige veshel been launohed ut EHartlepOOl andiniatei Vheag.Correepondenht.' I1 s ?? eteatisl members of the Irigh bar baie ...

... TOCKINGTON.-Tcidngton'Fair, held on WiednesdakIBsti was well attended by farmers from the low lands of the Marsh and surroeundlng neighbourhood, as well as by a respectable number of butchers and -dealers from Bristol and its neighbour- bhood. 'There was a very large number or fat cattle offered for sale, from the marshy lands of the. layel, which mqstly'met wllt a rigsdy eale ...

... SATURDAY, DEcuxnpR 22, 1S55. iS, To our surprise England and France have apparently 99 consented to re-enact with Austria the contemptible farce ist, with which she befooled them twelve months ago. On ,> ?? last Count Esterhazy, the Austrian ambassador ,CE at St. Petersburg, left Vienna for that city, bearing, it is P S, said,, the ?ltimatum which Austria has resolved to press _upon the ...

... SATURDAY, DECSAmSBS 1, 1855. THE official despatches of the week relating to military movements are limited to enclosures forwarded by General Codrington from Brigadier-General Spencer, detailing the proceedings of the British force at Kinburn, and from Lord George Paget, giving an account of the two long- since reported reconnaissances made by the allied cavalry from Eupatoria. An ...

... , 0??I ? -II M , ?,,-,opNft ?,NEWS ~t:Lyk~s.ll'~i~i 'wa offered to~the Ameic'an _= ,jigtiute oeifi f s t cost: the offer weedeolfn'd BtaQ Jti4hhbei4 Shipping; Gazette gives the n~iuberol~5~lhV'sk51 4j~hgbe resent year atisla8. ~ ~i~y e~sci~' at ?? Monday for the sise oorutlChrilitmas. ?? ~~in 1851I, from rencance to cii London tosee the Exhibition, dieda fortnight ego, aged ?? fly Tbe enlarged ...

... COtNTERSLIP RAGGED SCHOOLS. The annual meeting of, the friends and supportersof the above eclbbla' was held on Tuesday evenling'last, hak tile spacious vestry-nroorn: djoininig Connterslip chapel. There was avery numerous attendance. and' the chair, was taken by the Rev. Thomits W ine After the usual devotional exeroises, 'The C=ARMN said they were mect together that evening to promote the ...

... THE BILLETING*'SYSTEM. A public meeting of Licensed Victa6alers. oonvehed by the his Licensed Victuallers' Association, was bheld on Wednesday. at the Mr. Earriles spacious Sale-roOm, Broad-street (which had been Tre obligingly lent for the occasion), for the purpose of taking into bat coneideration the oppressive working of the present billeting lett system, and also of adopting a memorial to ...

... BRISTOL S Wt At thbe last meetlg of thilo5opfical and iterary Society. elt at this ?? ult;, Williar'eiapathEfq r * ?? t On-the-letla'sbf tbe :Ettths,' ' -; . - Kfzer making a£edwi Wltroductoty ;remarik,-,. Herapath pbe'a;ed that the term earth was a generic one, and was applied trj oh ?? to oertain-tletallioxidqi hil.Wret -with in nature, aufllorsn the basis oftnr olays, flitnt, 'abd-Btonu.n ...