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... -- e L- ?? , . . , . , . . . - . I I I I - I - 0 . parliantentar . ?? - . A) - , ? I twu, aye Th roalHOUSE OF LORD'S.-.FR!DAY; Fate' Teyaassent was giv~en by commission to th fllowing bills rthe (the commnis~sioners wer, the LorA Chancellor, -the Earl of the Shaftesbury, and Lord Failkland) :--The.copyright, designs' bill, ren~a ?? pblice'and lighting bill, the South Eastern railway amisn& ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 9780 | Page: Page 1, 2 | Tags: News 

THE PORT OF BRISTOL

... XTH PORT Or 3RZSTOLm REPORT of the CoM'V2ITTEE of DEPUTA TIrOTS on i th& BR!St'oL DOCKS, appointed to take into consideration the mecans of Impr-ocing Me Port ?? the Trade of, ed Bzisietl; wit/a the OBSERVATIO1VS of the Din~crons cim appointed by eke Shareholders of the BRI1STOL DOeK GOMPANIr. To the Di1rectors Of the ?? Dock Company. oh Bristol, April, 27, IS30. fir GENTLEMlss,-AO the ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 5197 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

TO THE READER

... Zoe 36riotal $Srrruwv. SA TURDA Y. DEC7meamB 7, I S9. CW Dry, told, and cut your paper previous to perusing it. We earnestly request our Advertising Friends to forward their communications as early on the Friday as possible; our arrangements will, thereby, be greatly facilitated. THE EARLY MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. PARLIAMENT, it has been semi-officially announced, will meet for the despatch of ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1999 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL & EXETER RAILWAY

... BRISTOL & EXETER RAILWAYV To the Editor of the Bristol Mercury. SiR,-A few words will serve to end the controversy on iry part' with A Citizen, on the policy of connecting the Exeter and Great Western Railways. His brilliant discovery that my initials may stand fbr ' RailwayRogue, and his contemptuous dis- paragensent. of the directors, will secure for his angry assault the exact degree of ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1371 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NATIONAL EDUCATION

... ' Orthodoxy is my dixy-beterodoxy is another mal's doxy. ha -BP, WARBURTOS. a No nman is more indignant at being accused of a crime go than he siho is guilty of having committed it; and thus it is that g the Tories are wondrous wroah at being charged with opposing ire the education of the people. So i' r from it, they would have us he believe that they are its most devoted friends; but. at ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1438 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL TOWN-COUNCIL

... 219RSTOZ. TO~WN COU.WO!X Wednesday, Augustl 7. ad( A ?? was held W~ednesday. . The Towbc.ICLasa having read the minutes of'tels meeting, ber The ?dAYO1t said they were met to conaider many important he matters, the first of which was the amount of salary to be paid to wil the Recotrder, as judge of the Tolzey Court. Mr. Wood had gone PO' into the matter very minutely, and the opinion of the ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 5010 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Wednesday & Thursday's Posts

... ?? oba :burba' LONDON, WEDNESDAY, January 23. rHE settlement of the Belgian question begins to exn IL cite serious alarm in France. It is feared that, before the protecting powers can interfere, hostilities will break out between the armies of William and Leopold. Military operations, on a most extensive scale, are carried on by both sides. Holland has 17,000 infantry, three regiments l of ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2556 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

WEST HARPTREE ASSOCIATION

... RWEST nARPTREE ASSOCZA.TON. On Monday last, the West Harptree Association for the Protection of Property, consisting of forty- four members, held its seventh anniversary at the Crown Inn, in that parish, when the general business of the society was transacted, and the report of the past year read. Since the last yearly neeting, four persons have been transported for 10 years, at the expense of ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 696 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

Diabolical Plot against Human Life at Radstock.—Twelve Lives Lost

... 2Diabosical Plot against e umae 2,1fe at 2Ladstock.-TWelve ldves Lost. Friday morning, at 4 o'clock, one of the most awful ca- lamrities occurred at Badstocik Wells-way Pit, which it has been our melancholy duty to record, by which the lives of 12 lunoffending fellow creatures have been sacrificed. At about that hour the following individuals, namely: Richard Lang- ford, aged 44, Farnham ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2627 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY

... HOUSE OF COMNINS.-WEDNESDAY. A great number of petitions were presented for and against a: alteration in the present system of beer-houses, for and againstte corn-laws, &c. / SALE OF BEER BILL. ' Mr. PFcnxrGTos rose to move the second reading of this bid The house would no doubt hear of free trade and of the odios system of monopoly which might rise up under his bill, but h. begged to say that ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 679 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE SILKEN, SLY CONSERVATIVE

... TIHE SILKEN, SLY CONSERVATIVE. I WE gave, in our last, a correspondence between the Incumbent of Bishop's Cleeve and his:Dioceian, relative to some-proceedings againstthe former gentleman, resulting in his triumphant acquit- tal; and,'considering the whole matter, we did think the ?? of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, to say the least of it, not kind towards a clergyman whose offence ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 553 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Postscript

... IPPI'loototript. LONDON, TiOrusDAI, Septembe PIN,.-The Monteur has published the f 1, S legraphic deqpatch-- BAYONNEs Sept. 23.-T TWin commanding the 20th military division to the 9res he Ok council. tistella has made his submission. AI squadro n varrese cavalry has taken refuge on our territory l 1or- Pied de Port; three battalions are in the f *rest of' &r also learn that thefgreater part ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1999 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News