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WAKEFIELD

... S FORp TRirA1 .Th- - f -- PtisoNERES FOR TRIAL.-There are at present in con- th finement 51 prisoners for trial at the Wakefiell Sessione 55 for Doncaster; and 24 for the Leeds Borough. di AN AISGU.UENT FOR TILE REPEAL OF THE CORN H LAws.-The factory of Messrs. Rouse and Sons, of Wake- pt field, has commenced running for three days a week only - and on Saturday, both the combers and sorters of ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 1. Tbe Borough Courts Bill was read a third time and passe. Viscount MELBOURNE pressured two petitions from Bradford- the one against any alteration of the beer law, the other tn favouir of a reduction of the hours of labour its factories. Their Lordohips after sitting half an hour, adjourned. MONDAY, MARCH 4. Lord FOReTassra took the oaths and his seat, The only ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5140 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

MONDAY, JULY 1

... 0MONDAY, JULT 1. FACTORIES BILL. Ok11Ctirdthe order of the day for the House yoX 0ctriLite mon teFactories' Bill. lot, Te PATTEN complained of the great powers to 0&41nyLSO BlTOprons called sub-inapieetors-powere I 5ythf BI thoseexereisedlby magistrates. Themsanu- gr eater th50tO her that more Inspectors should be I ,!'~rrs,i'h arersalaries, sad that there should he noe with %Iar wsehled to ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4833 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

CORN MARKETS, &c. b(CO~NTIUED FROM Tarn Tainn PAGE,) 1 C WAKEFIELD COBRN MARKET. ax OCTOBER II.-WX e have a fair

... arrival of Wheat to re- or g port ; but the Proportion of new is smrall. Our markets hi -have become very firm, and new and old sell readily at an er 1 advanc of fuly 2is, per qr. from the rates of last week. hi The supply of fine Barley is not adequate to the demand; 1,indeed not sufficient to enable the maltaters to start wr i Y generally : high prices are obtained for what is here inferior ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2384 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE AT CAMBRIDGE,

... r COMMITTED BY THE' GOWNSMEN UPON MR. SMITH, TSHE ANTI-CORN LAW LECT.URER. As we formerly noticed, Mr. Sidney Smith's first lecture in the theatre at Cambridge went off exceedingly well, having been enthusiastically received byalarge audience, highly res. pectableboth for rank and talent. Not so, however, the second, which took place on Tuesday evening, the 14th inst. The ringleaders in the ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2610 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... ] HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MAY 7. BEER-BILL. Lord PORTMAN wished to know If the Noble end Learnied Lord Iwho had a snotion for to-.night onl the subject of an alteration of the ?? hill, would have any objection to postpone the discussiots of ithe subject to-night in connequence of a notlee standing on the voites of the other House of Parliament, for diseussing the same meiasuire, to-mor- -row ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2469 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BRADFORD

... THE CHARTISTS.-Oy 'Wednesday evening, IMr. P. Bussey gave a lecture, in Butterworth Buildings, Bradyord, has enot on the c Six points, but on general politics ; admit. It gi 1 tance one penny each. Attendance thin. of ' tile - To MR. JAMES 1i13ETSOx, BRADrOltD.-Our Brad- Tht ford Correspondesnt denies as distinctly as he can that he corn has, at any time, maligned the Chartists of Bradford, ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1267 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FRIENDS AND THE ENEMIES OF SLAVERY

... PR.OCEI'DINGS OF THE FRIENDS AND THI, NE.MIES OF SLAVERY. Tll. appeal mnode to British liberality and tove off justice ill bellhllf (f the ?? Minlistels of religioni and others iln Jamaica, who were lately ?? with enormous law expernseN by the corrupt julies of thal island, is mceting with a response. Nearly £1X i)(, has| II been already subscribed to carry the eases before the L Court of ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1283 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN

... W! THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAoRDINARY. on NovEmBEUR 23, 1839. tin At the Court of B3ucklngham Palace, the 23rd day of tin November, 11139, present, the Queen's Mlost Excellent majesty in Council, Sio Royal Highness Viscount Ebaringtona Stephen Ri. Lush. Duke of Csmbridge Lord Burghiersh ingtots 'Archbishop of Canter- Bishop of London Mr. He~rrin la? bti-y , Lord Willoughby de Mr. Vice-Chancellor ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3671 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION

... TiE twenty or thirty individuals who have had the igh il effontery to appropriate to themselves this title seem in it is the a fair way to realise at an carly day the national con- of P to tempt. Having stirred up their wretched dupes at Bir- ion mingham to a desperate and revolting outbreak, they the ingcharacteristically slunk from the danger of their own with to !ad creation, and have ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1536 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE QUEEN DOWAGER

... As we lately copied from a Morning Paper an article in which it was alleged that the QUEEN DOWAGER had, when at the Court of Lisbon, spoken to the DUxE OF PALMELLA and others in terms of censure of her Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA, we now feel it both a duty and a pleasure to state that the DuKE OF PALIMELLA has caused the most positive contradibtion of the asser- tion to be published both in Lisbon ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... Lt basIMPORTANT FROM M1EXICO. d.pter it las It affordls its the highest gratification to state, that the o re long-existing differences between M1exico atnd France have 449., been at last amicably arranged, through tbe effectual media- tion of the British Minister, 3Mr. Pdakenham. This intel-. ithis ligence is comumunicatedl in tile followving letters front Vera Fly of Cruz, dated the 9th antI ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2122 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News