... A meeting ot the Town Council, acting as the Local Board or e Healthb was held yesterday at the ounoil-bouse. the Right b Woraliplni the-dayer, L. A. Conac5sq, prebiding. for the a purpose ofi mlting a ra;e lor paving pithling, cleauntisg, light- i lg, and defraying the other charges, under a general didtrict 2 rate. r The TOWN CLUEn having read the minutes of the last meet- r ing, and, also, ...

... t- a-r ir = To the Editor of Th7e Bristol Mercury. Sen-I notice an article in your paper of Saturday last, en- titled Board of Health Doings, referring to their proceedings on St. MichaePs bill and that almost unfrequented locality, Alfred-hill. Some abort time ago, Blshop-etreet, St. Paul's- `no thoroughfare_recelved their attention, and about the same time Broad-street was paved, against ...

... ALEXANDRIA, Mlarch I1U.-The steamer NJubia arrived at Suez__ from Calcutta on the 17th iast., at 10.30 p~m. She brings no- intelligense from India more recent than that received front Bomnbay by laetmail. Yeh, aprisoner onboard the ltifiexible,'was at H1ong-Kong on the 15th February, on his way to Calcutta. Pret The blockade of Canton was raised on the loth. The Iuttieais Ace. and Americans ...

... lartiamutaurg atauitttrg§. HOUSE OF LORDS-'THURSDAY, MAY 20. Their Lordships sat at D o'clock. The Stamp Duty on Drafts Bill was read a third time and passed. Several other bills were advanced a stage, The Earl of Dasosy announced that important despatcehs had that morning been received from India, including Sir J. Outrara's recommendations in reference to the proclenation~in Oudo, which hod ...

... If BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HOUSE OF LORDS,-FRIDAY, Mlay 7. The Earl of ELLENROROUGH laid on the table the secret deptc ent to Lord Canninig in consequence of his proclarma- tion Tlcto te landowners of Oude. The Earl of GRANVILLE condemned in eevere terms the unprecedented course taken by the government for tbe mere purpose of insulting the Governor-General, who could not he expected to endure ...

... A correspondent of T/le Tinses, writing from Naples on the 27thult., gives an account of an eruption of the neighbouring ?? :- ,,As we were about tostart ?? party came in from tbetop of the mountain and told us they had seen agrand eight of lava; we thereforepushed alongbriskly,the strangeoloud hanging more heavily over the Atrio del Cavallo,' and which I now resolved in my own oind was ...

... TPiE RESULTOF ALL TRAVELLING.- Well II am glad to get homne again.-Punch. -NrORMATION WANTED.-HOW many toes has the foot of a hill? irN'SCRIPTION FOR A TEmPERANCE BANNER.- We lead a life of Jolli-tea.-Pusnche. Although one swallow will not make a summer, still one pin in a cbalr-oushion will make one spring. A priest said to a peasant whom he thought rude, You are better fed than taught. ...

... I -t SATURDAY, MAnCH 20, 1858. ?? ~ ~ For a albo_ g- For a variety of interesting Foreign and Domestic wl, News, see the Supplement. Du co BRISTOL SUGAR - MAREIET, March 19.-The marke th continues very dull, and we are without transaotions to report either in raw or refined. w The Lyra, Captain Galsworthy, of Bristol, sailed from fr St. KIitt's, for London, on the 4th November, and hae not ...

... I DEPUTATIOiTO LOPID PALMERSTON. On Wednesday afternoon a deputation, consisting of members orc of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Control, an waited upon Lord Palmerotonat his residence in Picoadilly. for f701 tbe purpose of ascortaining his Lordship's opinion on the Churoh T Rate question. . - I T Sir W. Clay, Bart., D.P., introduced the deputation, and an Lord ...

... During the wegs sermots have been preached In connexion with oioy thle Bristol Auyisiauy of the B~aptsts alisionary Society, on behalf gtof the Speciel Wlmi for eentirged operations in Inidia, by the gtHon. and Rev. Oitptidt W. Noel, to crowded congregations at Countermlip adromadchapels; and on Thursday even, Dem the same object, at whiela there wee also an immense auditory, 0n thle chapel ...

... I The following notice, signed by thie Secretary of the T! Atlantic Telegraph Company, and daoted Vulentia, Saturday, be~er September 4, baabeen published:- ' to la Sir-I ail instructed by the directors to state that, owing to Of Li some ecuse at present not. ascertained, but believed to arise dlyin from a fault existing~ in the cable at a'point hitherto uendig- Chr! covered, there have been ...

... SATURDA Y, MIAciR 6, 1858. To THE so-called manifesto of the new Derby administration wyd was enunciated by the Premier in the House of Lords on ler- Monday, and never, perhaps, was a statement laid before ed. the public so thoroughly destitute of leading principles Iod as this announcement of the policy of a great party just [ entering upon office. By the admission, indeed, of the&r S. ...