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MR. HUNT'S VISIT TO HIS CONSTITUENTS

... IDU. HUXNT'f VISIT TO PMS CONSTITUtETS. On Tiiesday last, the walls of this town were verv in- expectedly placarded by bills, inviting the frit nids antI rn- stituents of Mr. H-unt to assemble at noon on the fblltuwiv day, in order to escort their member into the town. A muster was accordingly made in front of' Mr. Margeson's, the Black Bull, in Friargate, ant at a little before one o'clock ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7889 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

RAPID INTELLIGENCE

... (From he Liverpool Merciury.) INSTANTANEOUS COMMUNICATION FROM ONE E1'D Or THE LARGE TUNNEL OF THE RAILWAY' TO TriE OTIh)ER BlY MEANS OF SPEAKING TUBES. A correspondent has been pleased to ask our opinion re- specting the practibility of conveying a message by tmeans of what are called speaking pipes, instanrineously, through the whole length of the tunnel of our railway. Our reply is, that we ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE ON THE RAILWAY

... EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE O1t TRE: RAILWAY. MANCHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 2.-A feat, surpas- sing all former performances on the railway, has, this dlay, taken place on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Sampson and Goliab, two of Mr. Stephenson's en- gines, undertook to convey a thousand bags of New Orleans cotton from Liverpool to Manchester. They started to- getiler from Liverpool at ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 495 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Domestic Miscellany

... I o1olmlriotic 4mioC ailalu. l TiuE COLOSSEusi.-We regret to say that this magnifi- cent structure is about to be taken possession of by the Zoological Society ; that learned body determining to ap- propriate the splendid edifice to a winter den for jackalls and hyenas! Who expected that such a splendid building would so soon go to the dogs ?-Londoa paper. HER MAJESTY has regularly attended ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2688 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

PRESTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1831

... SATURDAY, APRIL, 9, 1831. THE REVENUE.--The customary statement of' the amount of Revenue paid into the Exchequer on accout of England, Scotland, and Wales, for the year and quarter ending tbe 'th of April, has been published, and will be found in another column. The gross amount for the year is4 114; and for the quarter £S,365,328. These sums shew deficiencies, as compared with the correspond ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3917 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... ?T?o Ev?pOfl?ntte. To file Editor of Me Preston C/ri -orid. SIn, In consequence of a false and calumnious man having stated in a petition which was presented to the Chairman of the Preston Court House last week, that I had discharged his wife on account of his having polled for Mr. Stanley,-I deny it, and say that it is as false as it possibly can be: for I did not discharge her, nor did I ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1265 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SWAN RIVER

... I ,as The following is an extract from a letter lately received ale by a gentleman at Glasgow from a friend at Swan River: F a Dear Sir,- By the late accounts from England, it appears nd that the most exaggerated and false reports prevail regard- 'he ing the present state and probable prospects of the colony; Ity they have been industriously disseminated by a set of iidle worthless vagabonds, ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1954 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... frelsant. HonunRsLE MAsSACE.-Another foul blot in the character of the peasantry of Clare-another and more hideous deed of blood to be recorded in the black catalogue of murder and outrage which have now made the whole country one scene of terror and desola. tion, This sanguinary outrage thus ?? Monday is generally a holyday or pattern in the country, devoted to idle amusements, if not ore ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1290 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Domestic Miscellany

... I ollietic inoellau.l IMPOIRTANT TO OVEtOesERS OP THE POOR, AN]) SUR- VEYORS OF HIIIGWAvS.-A bill is now in progress through the House of Commons, brought in by Mr. Portman, the member for Dorset, entitled .4 bill to consolidate and X1amen1d the laws relating to ?? in that part of Great Britain called England. 'J i w bill, ev under- stan(], goes entirely to supersede tile o (l mole of ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2056 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LANCASTER LUNATIC ASYLUM

... our attention has been directed, by a correspondent, to a Review of Dr. Combe's Treatise on Mental Derangement, which appeared in a recent number of the Lancaster Herald ; and ewe have great pleasure in extracting from it the following quotation:- WVe offer no apology for laying before our readers the following passages, in the confidence that they must be highly satisfactory to such as take ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 747 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

RUMOURED ATROCITIES IN MANCHESTER

... I RUMIOURED ATROCTXEZS IN MANICESTEa. On Wednesday week, an extraordinary sensation was excited in Oxford-road, and, indeed, throughout the whole of the town of Manchester, by the alleged discovery of a gang of monsters, who 'were supposed to rival Burke and Hare in the number and atrocity of their crimes. The origin of the popular alarm was this. About twenty' minutes past twelve o'clock on ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1814 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE

... P ARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE Or COMM~ON'S, TUESDAY, APRIL 12. Thehoue r~ssorhle ths dy. The'Speolcr took the chair, A r~rei r natthber ofeoh pivate Bills were read a thiid timle and pttssed, and others forn aarded a stage. M~r. fVilsUrr- PJll'a l presented a petition from the merchants and olhers of Moanriester and Sail'ord against the Reformrn.Bil.-Or- diered to he p~rintcl.. Thie lion. ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3391 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News