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... Z, ?t pfaviltm. THE B5SAMHALL Tec GEbY.-The FHendersona have given up their farm, and are, it is said, about to leave this country for the United States. A sale by auction of stock, fursi- ture, &c., is advertised for the 22nd instant. -Daily Be ins. SHOCKING ACCIDENT NEAR HOWDEN.-SEVEN PERSONS KILLRD.-A terrible accident took place on Saturday even- ing, at the Ouse Chemical Works, (belonging ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 986 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

The Metropolis

... lilt THE LEVIATHAN.-A statement which has been made public respecting the expenses of the launch, and which has made a deep inmpression on the public mind, was it appears very much exaggerated as to amount. The two items of expense are of course labour and material, and for the former £900. weekly has been paid for the last six weeks, while the timber and iron used will, when their present ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2342 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

LATER FROM AMERICA

... ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. (IFron. outr Liveipool Correspondent.) The Collins mail steamer Atlantic arrived at Liverpool yesterday afternoon, but her mails were not landed till nearly five p.m. The Atlantic brings sixty-one passengers and 1,700,000 dollars in specie. She left New York on the 5th instant; her news being consequently three days later than that received by the Niagara. The royal ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1708 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

District News

... istrid Ntis. DUDLEY. TnEATRsicla AppmLTC~ioN.-Mr. Edward Bennett, the pro- Prietor of thle theatre erected in Dudley some tenl years eglo, appeard at the Police Court, yesterday, accompanied by Mr. G. F. Walton. his principal performer, under the following circum- stances. The Superintendent of Police, Mr. Burton, said that Mr. Bennett's theatre had been opened for several nights, and he was ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5563 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Birmingham Daily Post

... jo ham AM goof. 'IT 1011M, 114 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1857. NEWS OF THE DAY. THE movement began, we believe, by Colonel BAM- FORD, in Birmingham, for the relief of soldiers' wives and children, has been taken up warmly in London. Lord SHArFTsBuRy presided over a very numerously attended and influential meeting on Monday, when it was shown that great relief bad been afforded by giving ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3231 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LATEST FOREIGN DESPATCHES

... (From our own Cornsesocfdensts.) LONDON, Wednesday evening. THE SUEZ EMBROGLIO AGAIN. The growing importance, not to say imminence, of this question becomes more apparent every day fromi the con- stant recurrence of the French press, governmental and otherwise, to it. The ConstitutioGsnel, while congratulating French commerce on the arrangements lately made by England for the more frequent ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1343 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

IMPORTANTNEW POSTAL REGULATIONS

... IMPORTANTNEW POSTAL REGULATIONS, The London Gazette of Tnesday night, contains a Trea- sury Warrant ordering that the rates of postage on all foreign letters shall be sixpence. The following are the provisions 1.-On every letter not exceeding I oz. in weight, trans- mitted by the post by vessels not being packet boats between the eunited kingdom and any place beyond the seas, (at whatever ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 769 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY

... - - The annual meetingsbf the shareholders of the Birming ham Botgnical Society was held in the committee roon o the Town Hall], yesterday. The Mayor, Mr. RATCLIFP, presided ; and there were present Messrs. G. B. Knowles, T. Osborn; E. Heeley, G. ?Parton, . Christian, W. Bolton, C. Edge, J. T. Collins, ?? Jauncey, Cooper, Catlin, &c. ,Mr. KNOWLES, as honorary secretary, read the report of the ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1320 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... - ?? n ltdella. INDIAN DESPATCHES. HAVELOCK'S MARCH UPON LUC~KNOW. On Tuesday night a Supplement to the London Gazette was published specially for the promulgation of official despatches from India. The most important of these are the communication from Sir Henry Havelock, which we give below, anlt a general order by Lord Canning on the capture of Delhi. The remaining documents relate to ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2978 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

DISASTROUS OCCURRENCE AT WITTON POOL

... ?? :-BURSTING OF THE UPPER POOL. About half-past nine o'clock yesterday (Thursday) morning, one of the most disastrous occurrences that has for some time happened in the neighbourhood of Birming- ham, though fortunately unattended with loss of life, or injury to person, took place at Upper Witton Pool; in whibltlodalify, as many of our readers are doubtless aware, the new works for the water ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1065 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

WALSALL

... IVALSALL. ACOIDEteTAL PoisoNINo.-On Tuesday morning last a boy, nine weeks old, the son of a travelling shownian, named William Preston, at present exhibiting in Walsall, died from the effects of an over-dose of laudanum, adininlstered by his parents. An enquiry into the circumstances was held on the following evening, at the Turf Tavern, Bradford- Street, by A. A. Fletcher, Esq,, Borough ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1032 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LATEST FOREIGN DESPATCHES

... (3W.0o)) our' ?? Cor£respondent.) ILoDOw, Thursday oeveing. THE DANUBIAN QUESTION. Le Nord says the curtain is about to fall on the first act of the political drama in the East. The International Commissioners will shortly assemble at Padis to prepare their report. The Conference will not open before the month of February. On it will devolve the arduous task of discovering a solution of the ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1857
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News