... Cbe JUlt 24 T)OUr9* 'Tis a chronicle of day by day --The Tempeal. 0Consols closed at 105~ for money and 106 for account. 'Variable E. breezes and fine and warm weather to-day, Many folks are assaying quartz just now. D Maximum and minimum temperature recorded by 0thermometer outside the BRISTOL MERCURY Office, NMft above the ground, for 24 hours ended at 2 a.m. ltn-day :-Bi8deg., 64deg. e In ...

... .Iz-br VAIt Of Writot1 Towards the 2600 which It is hoped to get In voluntary subscriptions for the portrait of her - Majesty the Queen for the Council Chamber or the 'Municipal Art Gallery, there has been subscribed up to date £450. it is not yet known whether her Majesty will give a special sitting to an artist for the purpose of the portrait. The Lord Mayor, the Lady Mayoress and family ...

... A meeting of the organising committee of the 13ristol Lifeboat Saturday movement was hold last evening at 41, Prinoesstreet, Capt. Ricketts presiding over a good attendance. It was stated that several icirers bad beon made by various trades and persons for pormission to join the procession, the chief ,noongst those being one from Atr Gasacigne, of It-c People's Palace, for the tableau Gracs ...

... SEQUIEL TO A QUARRY ACCIDENT. Prosecution in Bristol. At the Bristol police court, yesterday, before Alderman W. W. Jose and Mr J. E. Shellard, William John Roach, the owner of the Baptist Mills Clay Pits, Treefield road, was sum- moned under the Quarries Act, 1894, for contra- vening a special rule made under the Act for the safety of the pits, which provided that the sides,. tops, or ...

... TEE DREYFUS TRIAL. Seventh Public Sitting. th th lall Sensational Incidents. 4A be hi The Schneider Affair. all lo! oh What Capt. Cuigniet Says. go or nc Two Generals Examined. re] ce [Press Association Foreign Special.] ep af RENNES, AuousT 19. c; The seventh public sitting of the Dreyfus Court ot Martial was held here to-day, and like most of its re predecessors was prolific in sensational ...

... . I i . : : . Ote Of .ltstpf -IMehop Ingham, who is taking temporary daty for the rector of Clutton (the Rev T. R; Hancock), preaching last night, chose as his text, And when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the King. dom of God should come, he answered them and said the Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say lo here! or lo there! for behold the Kingdom of God ...

... I This week a conferenCe of members and delegates of the Clairchc.s of Christ was held in the Christians' Meeting Houso, Gloucester strect, Newcastle. There vvas a large number of delegates preient. the company comprising representatives from nearly all parts of the country, Mr Ocorge Lund, Wortley. presoded. and lie was supported by several of the most influential members of tlle body. The ...

... TBfLJE TRANSVAAL CRISIS. Speech by General Joubert. [Press Association Foreign Special.] JOHrANNESBURG, A U/}U T 26. General Joubert, addressing a meeting of 500 burghers here to-day, said the country was passing through a crisis owing to the dispute regarding the franchise. He hoped the matter was settled, bat he did not know, and could not say d Peace when there was a danger that he might ...

... laltU of Qt. Ztepoen' (From Our Ow~n Correspondent.] ljo0IfE or- Commo-,s, TEDY A unique sicene was witnessed in the 1-oose of Commons to-day by those who were down before question time. The Dublin Corporation Bill has come back from the Lords written over with altera- tions, corrections, and enlargements deemed neses- sary by the Irish Tories In the other Chamber. Mfr Tim 1-ealy had charge of ...

... Few people have any definite conception of the mighty volume ot water that is poured daily into London to be absorbed as by a colossal sponge- The demand for greater quantities of water has increased with the advance of civilijation. Were the requirements of to-day restricted to the purposcs of drinking, cooking, and washing, the present supply would be more than adequate. But, think for one ...

... I rt,- 7041, UV nolflnNnean fs VIA Tn#A- The 38th 1igh Movable Conference of the Inde- exi pendent Order of Rtchabites was opened on Tuesday bee at Belfast under the presidency of the High Chief RuEler of the Order, Bro. Fred 1B. Brett, Cardiff There was a large attendance of delegates from all the parts of the kingdom and colonies. As The High Chief Ruler, who was enthusiastically received, ...

... I I __________ ~~fu r beei Half=Yearly General Meeting. and T'DF wea In the absence of Earl Cawdor, the chairman of T the Great Western Railway Company, Mr Walter whi Robinson, one of the deputy chairmen, presided at Wh the 128th half-yearly general meeting held at Ed Paddington yesterday. Therewas alargeattendance. at E The report, which has already been published in the the BRiSTOL MKERcurY, ...