HEADS OF ENGLISH HISTORY

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Published: Friday 27 January 1837
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1152 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE OPPRESSED FREE LABOURERS IN THE ISLAND OF ANTIGUA

... METRE OPPRESSED FREE LABOURERS IN THE T0 1' fE Odr of ike Dr~iatol Mercursj. Stei--The friends of universal freedom have successfully com- bined their efforts in this country to annihilate slavery in the British colonies. But, however gratifying the resselt of their en- deevours to attain this object, there still remains cause for deep regret that the free negroes in Antigua are oppressed by a ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1837
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 998 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE THREE UNSPOKEN SPEECHES

... ' I Everything tends most provokingly to show the essen;ial hollowness of that brilliant outside-the Peel banquet. It was-i.n point of moral effect- like one of those rainbow-tinted balloons which a child blows up from a tobacco-pipe, buoyant and gaudy for a moment, then subsiding into a drop of soap-suds. The exposures of the manner in which the nicely painted pasteboard scenery vas run up ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2604 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE BATH DINNER

... (Fronz the Constitutional.) Our inability to do more than refer to the Pt ceedings of the Bath dinner on Saturday has been productive of one advantage-our evening coten poraries have had leisure to say their Say, andt can join issue with them without the necessist We repetition in the way of argument or deduction If manly and politic stand made by the Radical nie bers of the House of Commons ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1837
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1362 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF SOLICITORS

... MEETING OF SOLTCITORS. --i- .n A--nt. of tbe soli- I Saturday a meeting, pursuant to adjournment or toeur iors of Ireland, took place at the Royal Exchange, to hear the report of the deputationl ayjpoirited to wait on his ExeclI leicy the Lord Lieutenant, relative to the appoitmirnrllL to the office of Filazer of the Exchequer, now vactngt. Mr. Goddard, president of tire former meeting took ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1837
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 886 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ST. NICHOLAS OF MYRA'S ORPHAN CHARITY DINNER

... ST. NICHOLAS OF MYRA'S ORPHAN CHARITY IDIN.' ER. The friends of this charity held their anniversary dinne, in aid of its funds last evenin g, in Mahony's Rooms, patriek. street. The extensive apartments, capable of accommsd~t. in- near three hundred persons, were densely thronged, and 'r.'sented an animating and imposing appearance. A- either extremities was placed a likeness of his present M ...

Published: Friday 27 January 1837
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1061 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR

... | (FIonm the Southern Reporter } One of the most daring arid audacious achievements I ever attempted in Cork was accomplished on Friday. It has much the character of romance, and the hero of it exhi- bited all the qualifications of an adroit and successful swin- dler. The circumstances are these:- At ten o'clock in the morrnirig a person of gentlemanly appearance, respectably dressed, and ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1837
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 876 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

COLONIAL SERVICE

... .. I Justice to a gallant army, and humanity to our suffering fellow-creatures, are now pleading at the bar of public opinion for an amelioration of the sys- tem on which the reliefs of regiments of the line have been, and are still, conducted. Little indeed has hi- therto been known to the civil community of the con- dition of a large body of men comprising the British Army; and so long as an ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1837
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 823 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... MISCFLLANEOU$. I CHURCH RATES.-A meeting was held in Leeds on Thursday week, having for its object the abolition of church rates. Resolutions declara- tory of the opinion of the meeting in This respect were passed. Mr Baines, the member for the borough, attended, and in the course of his speech made a statement taken fromi the returns made to Parliament of the amount necessary for the repairs ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1837
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

THE SNOW STORM

... Si.'NUAY, JAN. 1. — None of the North country coaches had been able to gel beyond Newcastle on their way to town. The snow is reported lo be cut through on the lines of road, so that traffic it is hoped will be generally resumed. The snow has mostly consolidated into an ice-like state, and is not likely to be affected by storms, so as to form into drifts afresh. There does not appear to have ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1117 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... FROM THE INFLUENZA.—At least half the people in Maidstone have coughs, and many of them have jeen attacked by a species of influenza, similar to a disorder ixtremely prevalent after the heavy fall of snow in 1814. It ippears the symptoms are rather disagreeable than dangerous, Jut persons who are liable to affections of the lungs will be >rudent not to expose themselves more than is necessary. ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 637 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CHRONOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLE FOR THE YEAR 1830

... CHRONOLOGICAL Afl. STATISICIAL TABLE FOIL TH)E YE.AU 1836. JANUARY. 4. An iinurrectionary movement took place at Barcelonn, u-lien the populace murdered above IIt0 Carlrst prisoners. t. An abstract of the revenue was published, sh o wing all incroase of 172,9611. oln the quarter, and a decrease of (3,66!.91 on the year. 8. According to accounts published, the number of seamen belonging to thc ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6359 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News