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BRISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION

... B1RISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. LCETCITES Os BOrANY, BY MR. SALISBUiRY. BIr. Salisbury commenced on Monday se'onight his course of Lectures ol tile Lintnean system of Botany. KMr. S, who is the surviving partner of the late firm of Curtis and Salisburv, of the Botanic Gardens, Broampton, and who is a professed sfisciple of Linitmus, although not opposed to any improvements that expe- ...

Published: Tuesday 13 July 1830
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 835 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

News by the London Posts

... I *)S bp tot IWtnO= cotota. LONDON, TUErSDAv, Dec. 16. THS NEW TORY MINISTRY. tDrors tifc San.] B yyeAterd~y1 laid before our readers the names of IV the Actors who are about to appear in the new tragi- comedy. How the piece was to be cast had not then transpireal We can nodw state from authority, that the parts have beol allotted in tile following manner:- Sir U. Peel, First Lord of'tbe ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1834
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 5199 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

LOCAL TAXATION

... ST~tatE ? rTHE LA'5ft REPORTA! PROCERVINGS OF 'me1 BetSre'L CYASJBEl Ol COMMEPO'C'Di t' AI tUACESS. (C-ofltfeeJ.) IVit~ow~ae t~Y o ntesm spirit of fair-. nies the reporters go. from sugar, to cornt favourin-g us with what *tbe~srin Is like statement on that branch of trade, attual troats- acin en takeni as data' the whole is apparently intended to beacon triem~ing -eu~inofa lion in my ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1835
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3158 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Postscript

... 'Pootocript. o l.ONDO, THURSDAr, M5n ยข Ti. HE Paris Papers of Tuesday, are I 5- T occupied with the trials, which 'anlosnochisiv l dav. The assemblage of Peers was conseiedeonble ing to about two-thirds of the Chamber a iderableal.0 quently absenting themselves under variousnprethid Tn accused were the only group who appeared colleted T and even light-hearted; and why should they n tad, qui ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1835
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1707 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... Thereis an ancient wooden chair, marked T.B., 1627, and now genernlly used in the kitchen of the Talbot Inn, Powcester, in which Dean Swift (when he walked the Chesterf road to London) was accustomed to sit and smoke h is pipe. The houses, says old Aubrey, speaking of the colleges at Oxfor'd in his time, that had the smiallest beer had most drunkards, for it forced them to goe into the ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1835
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE POACHER'S RETURN

... ,IIME ,OACHER'S RETURN. 1 sit me down to think of former SOys Pause oi each steCli, enai treasured seflc neOce 1101C - - ifK K. NVITIiT. IT Was the letter end of autumn, the leaves were changing their hue from vivid green to deepened brown, or more the lively yellow, and the gusts swept them from off the boughs, drifting them in heaps. 1The shady covert was no longer sought as a screen from ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1834
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE KING VERSUS THE CORPORATION OF WELLS

... ITE KING I'EPsus TUE CORPORATION OF WELLS STa. EDITORr,-As a very imperfect notion of this pro- ceeding and its effects may be circulated, from the very C imperfect information that may be at the command of the t editors of newspapers without considerable troul)le and r expense, I beg to give you an explicit account of the object and effect of the motion, as far as I am able to understand t ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 640 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CORPORATION OF THE POOR

... In consequence of the new regulations introduced by the muni- cipal reform act, a question ofcicousiderable importance has arisen affecting the constitution and perpetuation of the Corporation of the Ponr. Undvr the act of incorporation, that body is composed of the mayor and aldermen of the city, the senior churchwarden of each parish, and 48 guardians, elected by the rate-payers; ani to ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2784 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE VOTERS

... WEST (9LOUCESTERSHIRE VOTERS. To_ th-1e -Edit-or of- theeBristol M~er'curji Szit,-1 hasve observed for these last two or' three weeks cacn- troversy going on in% the two; Oloucester Papers, oliposed to each other, refiaive to the graa~hig or, leaides iWthe W~at~er8`vilSlOO oP thtcounty, andi the~creation iof votesc c osssient thieieon.~ - ~: The editors'have bought frademnpiul'ythe; names of ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1835
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2426 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Wednesday & Thursday's Posts

... mtnto$ban & burobapo Pofts LONDON, WEDNESDAY, May IS. TrHE only subject dwelt upon in the Paris papers of' X Monday, is the trial of the prisoners, and the general r conduct of the government relative to this infamous prose- 'r cution. The Peers, sat on Monday in a legislative capacity; but neither the debate in the chamber, nor the several bills which fairmed the salieets of it, are deserving ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1835
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2359 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

W.P. TAUNTON, ESQ. v. THE CHURCH WARDENS OF ALL SAINTS

... W. P. TAUNTON, EsQ. v. THE CI-IURCHWARDENS I OF ALL SAINTS. We stated in our last week's paper that W. P. Taunton, REq. had attended at the Council house, beoe therirtporshipfute 5I5.vor, R. Asb, and 3. N. Sanders, Esqrs., for the pupseI layi-ng informationsagainst Messrs. IHenry Penton and Robert Batten, for having, a tbe churchwardens o l ans eue 1hi1m pernmission to inspect thqir.acCOunts, ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2652 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL AND CLIFTON ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

... BRISTOL AND CLIFTON ROYAL RORTICULTURAL SOCIETY II I . - - r 1, -a --- -- -- -- I-- .. The second show for the present season took place on Tuesday last, and wvas numerously and fashionably attended. The col- lection of plants, flowers, &c. was superb, and elicited general admiration, the grand stand being furnished with some choice spe- cimens contributed by Mrs. Vaughan, Sir John Smyth, ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News