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... WE *ere last o erk prevented by a press of local melter from adverting to the appointment, on the motion of Mr. Buxton, ol the 2ind It. of a select committee to inquire into i he situation of the 4pprenticel negroes. 'The numerous accredittd statements which live, from time to time, reache-d this countrv of the cruel- ties perpetrated by tie planters on this unhappy rce-, and which have ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 633 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PAUL'S EPISTLES ON CORPORATE PROCEEDINGS & MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS GENERALLY, WITHIN THE CITY AND PORT OF BRISTOL

... PATI8' S EPISTLES ON CORPORATE PRO)CEEDINGS & MUNICIPAL AFFA'IR'5 GEINERALLY. WITHIN THE CITY AND PORT OF BRISTOL. To ABRAHIAM H1LII1OUSE, Eso.' En'- Aldnermon of flit city of EniatL 1110111 AND tNw~'1iry- Sms/ were roe hope of forgiveness this 'side fitturity did 'I nelcta b r thec duty of paying my re- spects to your ex-wripu w -aesse. Indeed I feel, as it were, tied to the sujc:tetra fyu ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3808 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

COMMON PLEAS.—(WEDNESDAY.)

... COMMON PTLEAS,.(WEDNESDAY-) (Beford Lord Chiief Justiee Tindal, and a Middlesex speciaidury~} C~rZ1ra CON1.whc ha INORTON v. LO~t MELBOUtlRE.-This case, w k a excited such an extraordinary degree of interest, came on for trial Wednetsday morning. Long before the time appointed for the opening oifthe court to the public, thc galristr crodbedni b~eitig generally understood that as mitch as five ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2750 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SLAVERY IN AMERICA

... At a monthly meeting of congregational and baptist minis- ters, held at the vestry of Broadmead Chapel, June lath, the following remonstrance was adopted, and is intended to be sent to the congregational and baptist churches of Ame- rica:_ To thie general body of Christian Professors constituing the churches of the Congregational and Bapttst denominatioes in America. Dear Brethren,-Having ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1772 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL IMPORTS

... BIRISTOL, I'MPORTS. s] 11 I1 ., j, I ., ?? - x .. ?? lII the Svbilla, front J .sin.: Mils :and KiOgton, 170 ?? 7j rc rigar. 41 ?? rumI, I-I moo s od l)ncewwo-t spa:nr Ib5 Iags pimnit IW, andi Co., 12 hld, 1ntres sugar-.J. Co n iliom. ,ht:3 hhds sugo r, fii0 siprs in, the Osprayv irom Trinidad : R. 1ntonioou, 17. bhds d S trs I) brls ditto, 10N bogs cocoa, 17 hides II t;te Eclmit;, from licata ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 465 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

PEERAGE REFORM

... Tax excitement which attends the watching the proceedings in Parliament has-been Dterminated by itsprorogation, and we have at length tbeleisure to take a calm retrospectofthe pasteandtotrace the causes which afect the vworking of the present system. Unbi- assed by the prejudices of the moment-unelated by the triumphs of the popular cause in one department of the legislature-unde. pressed by ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3610 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Postscript

... t?ftijfl. I.ONDOX, 1}L'ttlislAY, Decemnber 1.5. nd I NTELLIGTENCE from Splhii, 5:ates that, the band ci an .5Cabrera, after a second defeat, had dispersed; and the vc Carlists, whiose attacks on Bibos hadl been interrupted since t o ni h stqvecn completelg occopiedby Eispamtero. Biiboa Zdconequntl> i; e inthuposessonof tlhe Queen's fin n- Accounts from Vsiennn of the :lrdi inst. state that ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1155 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1836

... SA TURDA Y, DRcEIrni?a 17, 1820. IN the columns of ouir contemnporary, the Jounalsa, of this day fortnight, wve learnt that a meeting haed been held of the Tory operative freemen, in a very snug privafe hole-and- corner kind of way, as usual, the admittance to which was EXCLUSIVEI.Y Ib ticket. The weather was molt unpropitious; but, although the rain fell in torrents,' thefreetnen, as they ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3364 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE LATE JEMMY WOOD, BANKER, OF GLOUCESTER

... ' This mnillionaire, like the rest of mankind, had his good and bad qualities, though the besetting sin of avarice, that vice of age, pro- bably clouded many redeeming points, and his great and unassail- bile wealth rendered him at once the object of envy and the mark for malice on the part ofmany who, similarly circumstanced, would not have been a whit the better than Mr. Wood. There is an ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3262 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Parliamentary Intelligence

... parliamentarm2 3Entecligmnze. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FtlnAr. The Earl of Rrposc gave notice that, on Friday next, he would submit a motion oil the subject of fundsat the disposal of the eccle- si3stical commissioners, Ireland. The Earl of HAI)NGToN complained of the continued incom- ?? of the returns regarding the expense of the existing and the proposed constabulary force for Ireland.-Lord ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1186 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE SNOW STORM

... THZ SNOW STO?X? 211 (romt Ike Londka Papers of Wedn esday and Thursday.) The heavy fall of snow in and around the metropolis during Christmas nigrht appears to have extended over every part of the kingdom. Never before, within our recollec tion, wvas the London 'or malstopped for a whole night at afewv miles from London; and never before have wre seen thte intei-coisrsebetween the southern Dn ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3294 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... MIISCEiL LANEOU S. eDU~CK AND GREEN PEAS. It is a curious fact, that at .the late South Essex Horticultural Showv, the prize for - reen peas was gained bay r.I: Duck;. On Friday last, a sow, belonoginlg to Mlr. H-olmes, of llull, afurrowved Xtwenty-twlo fine prgs. Price, the celebralted clowen, threw twenty-twvo sum~mer- rsets in successitin on the ground, at hsis tenelit, at Ryan's Circus, i ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1836
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 4616 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News