... ?? S~fA TR Y, MA Y 18, 1872A -I Although the Tariff Committee of the French Na- tional Assembly have again rejected the proposal to tax raw material, M. Thiers continues determined to carry out his Protectionist views. The Budget of 1873 shows an expenditure of £96,200,000,and a deficiency of nearly £5,000,000, and it is announced that the Government will demand a tax on raw materials ...

... On Thursday afterneon a largely-attended and influential meeting in the interests of religious education was held under the aumpices of the National Society for the Educa. tion of the Poor in the principles of the Established Church, at the Victoria-roonis, Clifton. The gathering was held in the large salon, which was nearly filled. The Lord Bbhop of the Diocese presided, and amongst those ...

... MIISCELLANEOUS. go n h : as Poor gas- a burning shame. Divorces: the turn of the tide. The champion reaper-advertising. Doctors' motto-patients and long suffering. Qaeen Elizabeth always displayed her worst temper in her best clothes. She was dreadfully ruffled then. A young lady has brought a libel seit against her mother, as the only means to get a mother-in-law. When a man has no mind of ...

... ONE HU&NDRED,POUND3 REWARD. By. W. D). L'ESTRusOlt1 L LWe take the sulbjotued 'from TOM ETOod oi s~iHf~ ok MM7, which ?? (Fu-tituodie80, Fleet- Srolid screet, joodsn). 4suuath ri ?? by a ?? Prismn ttl fourlutos. including, with, inmy others, III. IValtor %vasht Tnornlbury, Mr. of. C.Ajssrn. Mr. G. (1 Letandt (ha Original RPJ Hlt~is Brasninaisn), LNark Twain, bir.W. siawyer, aud Mr. W. Appo & ...

... SATURDAY, 1 SATUBD4Y, AUGUST 3, 1879- The magnitude of the new French loan has already astonished the world, but the manner in wvhich it has been received, not merely by the people of France but by the capitalists of Western Europe, has been still more extraordinary. The subscription lists were opened at the Palace of Industry in Paris on Sunday, and the doors were at once crowded by people ...

... GENEM-AL NEWS. Bhaetsn, of 43,160,4ffP 1). lf0'l was realised In tilL' yearI the list f atch inet by the stamp duties on legacies d Si euttfone of the membeirs for Waterf.rd_, writes the. p dapers to rntrdict the cport7of coalh barig beo foun i thater totaliy. 'the Aonieitil papers ?? the destha of Dr. IRasiblrn, Ilialiel) of JietuietC r ~stbiiri was born ?? England in ls01, AndI wetit to ...

... DilRsarG a sojourn of some weeks in the quaint old city of h Weuringen, I wa3 very fond of visiting the cemetery, which with its secluded walks, its cool, shaded alleys, adorune with Roawers, and its grand old trees, foslaed a pleasant place in s which to dream away the leisure hours of a quiet summer eve- k iog. It was interesting, too, to watch the other visitors to that ti quiet place- ...

... SUCICDE FROM CLIFTON BUSFENSION BRIDGE.- On Thursday the coroner, Mr. Wasbrough, held an in- if uitry at the General Draper, Hotwelle, into the death of Ames Vinlon,'15 years of age, who ended his lifein a tragic manner on Tuesday last by flinging himself off the Clifton -uspension-bridge. The coroner, in opening the inquiry, i said the only thing the jury would have to consider was e the ...

... TEE astountding policy of our Municipal Coun cil on the l question of ocean docks has already been so fully dis- cussed by the citizens since the meeting ?? that it would be a mere waste of tiue to comment at any length upon the subject. The determination to obstruct the completion of the Avonmouth docks, by extending assistance to aninadequate scheme notoriously produced for the simple ...

... Mr. Casper, tin English merchant, has just beon tried at Lille X. 40 on a charge of defraudinsi the French Governmjent in ocumanxioni£4 with some military coutracts during the'late war, and has been file acquitted. ?? Thle traffic raceipte of tire railwvll.3' in tI nie tcr om for lco the wek ?? 17 omns1 tet], on 14,215 miles,tofl 0l24,adfrthe werek e nding wee in 1871, onl 14,040 miles, intf ...

... Thle Bauhury Bopxrd of Healthr hats agreed to parolsose an estate, at a coot of -g23,400l, for the purpose of utiflis9ig sewage. All the working In-ewers of Vienna* and nelglbbourheool, about 4000 in numbor, aer out on strike. A bMiDM)CAL ls~rnrix-2 ho Smrie Tbaae55iys that the pbyslcions In the BEss-Unterwalld have sit-rieck for An increahe of feoa. T Landraili refuse to entertain their ...

... :L1 - w : 11 I r .. ?a 811-3-stol. I: II 'SATURDA Y MABCHX 9, 187?. I _, BPFdTOL SUGAII MARIMt', FRIDAY, MARtel 8TH.- Pon Wja have slightly improveid for ouch raw sagar as is offerling. ond 4ombodarate, basiuiefl has been doue-1i1 grocery Demerara, Load, generally, there is a healthier feeling in the market. Riefinere' Alcproduce hae Eadvalooa eal. per owre., und foreign loaves Sd. Ion per ...