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... IBY EXPRESS.] PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE of PEERS, March 16. HEARD Cotmfel further in the Caufe Omannev verfus Douglas. Ke\d the Bills on the Table and adjourned. ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1796
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 28 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: checkendon  theft 

THEATRE

... DinraT - IAJUL. — \- mr-** Comic Par.tc'm>rr?p vta? brought out last night lit this Theatre, cartel T' ** Enchanters, or Harlequin Suttaun; and certain v ity speclade of the kind c.in bef more happily adapted to enchant th>; eye, the car, and the fanrr. The plot differs but little from those of thcgenentl 1 \in of pieces of the same description. It was agreeably interspersed with a great ...

OFFHNCEs, AiCiDE AIS, o)t

... OFFENCES, ACCIDENTS, &c. On tbe night ofTuesday s'anight the house of Mr TANNER called Alpha Cottage, in the Regent's Park, was broken open and robbed of several articles of plate and other property. On last Tuesday night the house was again attacked by endeavouring to enter the house by a picklock key to open the street door, which alarmed the female servant, Elizabeth Beasley, a very ...

FROM THE LONDON AND PROVINCIAL PAPERS

... accounts from Lisbon, received through Paris,are not little gratifying. The King has already approved of the Reform* ntxon, and has engaged that either himself or one his sons will come over to administer the laws made hy the Cortes. So easy acquiescence must greatly enhance the character of his Majesty; who will derive a brighter lustre from a Constitutional exercise of power than he could ...

NEWCASTLE, AUGUST 22

... ' I The Russians continue to press upon the Turkish empire. Several of their official accounts will be found in our 2nd aid 5rd pages. The fortress of Kars, one of thle most important posts in Asiatic Turkey, was taken by storm by the Russians on the i5th ult. after a severe and sanguinary conflict, in which the Turks are said to have lost 2000 men killed and wounded. The Russians state their ...

COUNTY SESSIONS

... At the County Sessions held here on Friday the 23rd, there were seven prisoners for trial; but as the business was protracted to so late an hour, we could not in our last state the different sentences, nor is more now neessary than a brief summary. The bill against Robert Johnston, a Scotch lad, charged with picking pockets on Brough Hill, was ignored. Two years ago he was tried and convicted ...

ST. HELENS PETTY SESSIONS

... These sessions were held on Monday before Messrs. E. Gibbon and W. L. Evans. , , . The “Antics” of a Traveller.— Luke Creeiy was charged with having been drunk and disorderly on the previous evening the St. Helens Railway Station and with having refused to give his ticket to the collector when requested to do so. Prisoner arrived by train the previous evening* and instead of leaving in a ...