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BRISTOL WARD MEETING

... va~s~OM WAaD ZL:TZNG: - Mt'NuOsD's Speech in continuatien from preceding psge.I two evils choose the least. But the formation of the new city of Bristol, by the addition of Clifton,- part of Westbury and Bedlsin- ster, the oiut'pariahes of St; NOi and J'ames. anid of St. Philip and Jacob, arid the introduction of thos6 Added districts to an equal participation of' the city revenues, had ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 7171 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL FEMALE PENITENTIARY

... n3Rs15o. rEvav-M PEXTfENTZALTY. On Tuesday last, the thirty-eighthi Anniversary of this useful and highly benevolent charity, was held at the In_ stitution in Magdalen-lane, when his Worship the Mayor J. K. Haberfield, Esq., kindly consented to preside. The Report of the Committee was read by the Rev. T. r. Jen- ni igs; it commenced with expressing their deep regret at the loss which the ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 733 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Postscript

... ,otorcipt. ald LONDON, TacsnDAY, April 26. tor, SPAIN.-A dispatch is given in the French papers ol - Tuesday, the purport of which is as follows.:-' At T party opposed to Don Carlos has Just appeared in Navarre Its motto consists of two words-' Peace and our Rights.n Muragardy is at its head in the vicinity of Tolosa. The- troops which the Pretender sent against him have not beenr Dr, able to ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1226 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MARKET INTELLIGENCE

... ?? LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, Moxhky The demand for wheat is confined chiefly to those who are out of stock, and granary samples have in some instances reai is. perquarter advance since this day *week. Flour is inqeti after, gind is Is. per sack dearer. In barley, beans, and pta, is not much doing, but these articles landed are worth rather mnoey. The arrivals of oats are still very limnited, and t ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1067 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

NEGRO EMANCIPATION—WHAT SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT DO?

... NEGRO EMANCIPATION-WHAT SHOULD I THE GOVERNMENT DO? 'OUR anticipations have been realised with regard to Glou cester, and, so far, that is a matter of regret; but our fear s as to the success of Sir E. Wilmot's motion have proved unfounded, and that is a matter of congratulation sufficient to outweigh a much heavier feeling than even that occa- sioned by the loss of a seat, at a juncture when ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1815 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

AFFRAY AND FATAL ACCIDENT

... APR!LA AND PATAM ACCXDUNT. Considerable feeling was excited Tuesday, from a report that a man had been so ill-used at a public-house at Horfield, on Whit-Monday, by four men, who were taken into custody, that he had died in consequence. From the proceedings on the inquest which was held Tuesday, before J. B. Grindon, Esq., Ccroner, it will be perceived that although there was a fight at the ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 935 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL & CLIFTON ROYAL BORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

... BRI9STO1. & CLII'TON ?? HORTXCLTZUR.&1 SOCIETY. The second exhibition of this season took place on Tuesday last. From the unfavourable state of' the weather the company was not so numerous as on former occasions; but yet there was a con- siderable ?? fashionablesof the neighbourhood. On the grand stand there were some choice specimens of orchideus plants. Ttie show of tulips was good; the ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 890 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN,

... =`ZXT3ILICT PR0M TIME JOUflNAL Or AN A?.MERWcAN GEJNT1.NLAN' Passenger on hoard etse Great 9eatern,' ine her First Trip L, FROM NEW YORK TO BRISTOL. pri Off Sandy Hook, Monday, -May ?? 1338. pr After one of the most exciting and hsautifnl spectaclessthat has ever been seen in the new world, the Pilot has left us, and the Great Western--alika the admiration and wonder of two thi ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2939 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

The Commentator

... Pirelli c 0 ti un fit r rz t a , o r. Nun c 1tCier , 10(1 raitni Ita.-Nltit ?? I hall [in thtis piipei resilrne my hinits on hcolth andll loogevi iv, sslii cl have heo ro hr souls' tine initerntiptvd. 3,3. Cl h atm tl ls o f ies mchi nw tfhat it isisl.5to Sos onuch i)n oe ne)on the.. suh,es't. Plerhazps h ae a imn lsg ic, toskg r0 o o Far' ii'i iC f (lict thle better, as it is a1iwavs, to Ile ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2026 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MONMOUTHSHIRE, SOUTH WALES, &c

... MONMOUTgS31E, SOUTr WALZS, &d. Ani account of coal andiron brought down tlso train-roan' to Newport, in the week endin~g ath of November, 1833: Coal, 110,351 tons ; iron, 1,228 tons. A znos't dlisguisting spectacle presented itself to the iulia- bitanos of DoUwlitis' and thle neigihbourhtood on Monday evening last, viz.-two men respectively running in] a ctate ofilunlity thr.ough tsestreets of ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2517 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CORPORATION OF THE POOR

... COaRPOYATZON or THE- Pwoo R. A general court of the above corporation was held in the court- room, St. Peter's Hospital,on Thursday eveninglast. Forty-four members attended, and, in the absence of the governor, the deputy- governor took the chair. The legal officer, wir. Ward, read the minutes of the committee of management, which Wcluded a letter from Robert Weale, Esq., the assistant poor4aw ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 909 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... TIE LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, Fmi)AY MRiNG I CHINA.-According to accounts from Canton to the 2d of January, another edict had been issued by the governor respecting the opium smugglers, who are menaced to be made examples of. Business was said to be proceeding very slowly. The American brig Theodore, Captain Far- ringdon, from Singapore, was lost off the coast of Luconia on the 25th of ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1838
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 4743 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News