... a zbte saut of 3rioto. I In civic circles yesterday people naturally began to count the cost of building the Art Gallery on the site of the old Salisbury Club premises proposed to be acquired by the Corporation. And the economic ratep3yer put down another good round sum for the building. But it wassoon rumoured that behind all this there was a generous gift, which was not only to make the ...

... iWetterv to tWe obttor. We do Dot hold ourselves responsible for any of the opinions expressed by correspondents. MI Letters Must be accompanied by the names ailn addresses of the writer, not necessarily for publloatlcu but for the satisfaction of the Editor. Correspondents must write on one side of the paper only 5,- a THE VOICE OF THE NATION. SiR-At the annual meeting of the Anti-Vivisection ...

... MONDAY, JULY 3, 1899. The BRISTOL MERCURY was established March 1, 1790 The BRISTOL DAILY POST was issued in Conjuuction with the TMERCuRY January 24, 1800, and incorporated with It January 26,1818. TELEPHONE No. 149. Thle Returni of Dreyfus. AOTIIET, and important stage in one of the most remarkable j adicial romances of the century has been reached in the landing of Capt. Dreyfus in France. ...

... THE SALYAVION ARMY. Demonstration in Bristol. Pretty Spectacle at the Zoological Giardens. It is 1.9 years ago next month since the Salvation Army movement first reached Bristol, and evidence of the wonderful influence and vitality possessed by this splendid body was given at the Zoological Gardenjs yesterday, when something like 7000 people met together to celebrate the 34th anniversary of ...

... Q5e Bqtol §*Wrcurp a TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1899. The BRISTOL WRRCURY was established Maroh 1, 1790 The BRlb6TOL DAILY POST was issued in conuinction with the MERCURY January 24, 180, and incorporated with it January 26,1878. TELEPHONE No. 149. ArlilcA occupies to-day a large space in the world's outlook, and Africa was foremost in the deliber- ations of the House of Commons. The Government, as it ...

... .- I ..A - - w - - - -t BA nAlPfA1 Lord George Sanger's Royal Circus visited Bristol yesterday and met with a hearty reception. Seven i years ago the exhibition was In the city and was located for a few days on the Butts at Canons' Marsh. Since then many changes have been made. Lord George Sanger has combined all his shows and formed one huge company. The circus he manages is an excellent one ...

... Zbe Ait 24 POUM . ht n O'Tis a ebronlcle of da7 by day.-The TempelAs ion Consols closed at 1061 for money and 106i for account. iS eVery variable airs and close weather, with rain and l is thunder in places to-day. Blow details! evidently. nst Maximum and minimum temperature recorded by Igh thermometer outside the BRIsToL MERCURy Office, 52ft. above the ground, for 24 hours ended at 2 a.m. ply ...

... HEIBALTH OF BRISTOL AND CLIFTON. | A--- ^¢ - : A l. - +t.-A 4~ n A{AE.1 BA-AMlAi *Ar Anslysis of births and deaths registered in Bristol (ineluding Clifton) during the week ended Saturday, July 1b, 1899:- Total births .,.. 189 Rate per 1000 per annum ,., 30.71 Total deaths . 86 Rate per 1000 per annu . . Average death rate of corresponding week for ten years ...

... At eight o'clock, says a sister who nursed plague r patients for a year at Poona, writing to The Hospital,' V tIl three night nurses came on duty. I must confess that night duty was gruesome, to say the least of it, and I we were never sorry when our week of it was over. . Imegine a vast field studded -with dimlylighted sheds, each one containing plague patients in every stage of e acute ...

... A FRIENDLY SOOIETY SUMMONED. At the Bristol police court yesterday Messrs R.. G. Graham and F. Richards heard a case in which a summons had been granted against the Bristol Unity Loyal Order of Ancient Shopherdesses, of the Prince of Wales's tavern, Tower hill, Bristol, against whom offences under the Friendly Societies Acts were alleged. Service of the summons at the society's office was ...

... talk of At. ttepIoen'o. [From Our Own Correspondent.] HorsrE OF Coammows, THURSSAY. In came Mrs Fezziwlck-one vast, substantial smile. The lady thus configured by Dickens could hardly have been more ostentatiously joyous than Mr Wrightson, the new member for East St. Pancras, was to-day. A middle aged man with wavy hair, a moustache falling Into semI-circles at the ends, and a dimpling chin, ...

... If any reader who is In a difficulty with reference to his garden will write direct to the address 'given beneath, his questions will all be answered in full detail, free of charge, and by return of post.-(Ed.) CBRYSANTHIEMUMIS FOR EXHIBITION. The Question of Watering.-Watcr should 30 only be given when the soil becomes moderately Is dry, and then it is important to apply sufficient a for the ...