Correspondence

... ~rd O CHINESE WAR. d dS o the CIJAISTIAX PFRLUC Of GREAT BRITAIN. . I may be accused of presumption in thus addressing i you; but when the nation is about to be plunged into a 1i disgraceful and expensive war, which must cast a reproach eon tle name of Christianity throughout the world, it e becomes the duty of every individual, however humble, ito raise his voice against it. It is now too ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1840
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7051 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE

... :EPROVENCIAL XXTELLZGENGE- SOMVERSETSHlRE.' It We have great pleasure in sti~ting, aonjhe authority biv ofnern ein ithouse-~agentin thi~scity, tl'at there areat pr~e- al sent more first-rate houses actually let, than, there wot during the best period of the last ?? Gazette. e On Friday afternoon, as a man named John Tapp, tt enagd on ,thet railway, in,. the,-Dolemeads,' Bath , wits0 swnatoer ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3394 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

News by the London Posts

... 9Sbo 81m the LoIT~on o@ots. LONDON, TUESDAY, September 15. UNITED STATES AND CANADA. By the steam-ship Acadia, arrived at Liverpool, we haye received New York and Boston papers to the 2nd instant, and Halifax dates of the 3rd. The Acadia has made her passage in ten days, which may be con- sidered an extraordinary run, when it is known that she had strong head winds for nearly a week. She as ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3036 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL POST-OFFICE

... BMUISToL POST-OPPICE. Arrives Dis, , ShoUd Le MIAIIS at edat 'Ied fees' befor ees' 0. i. . M. 5J. M1 __ . Portsmouth . 710 A.ti 7 0P.l. 3 0 ji London * 1 3 AM, 745 IM 6 45 lb Marichestcr& North, 16tMail 11 3 AM. 2 57 P.M. 1 51 2 27e Ditto ditto, 2atd Mail 6 I A.M, 7 30 P M. 6 S0 Bristol and Hereford . 12 ONOoN 3 S0 PM. 2 30 Devotiport & Exeter, IstMail 6 25 P.M. 7 35 A.M M. 5 Ditto ditto, 2nd ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 558 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

UNITED STATES

... TnE news recently received from America, and to a which we adverted in our last publication, affords . matter for grave consideration. The boundary ques- V tionj which appears as far from settlement now as it n was in [783, when the treaty of Paris was first made, tbears within it the seeds of a conflict between; this e country and the United States,' which it will require e no slight degree ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1144 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... Como allbrutt. - p THE BRISTOL CHARITIES. LETTER Vii. To the ldfitor of the Briatol Weroury. ?? appears, from my last letter, that when the cor- W. ration' bought the feb.farrm renlts from the revolutionary vternistett hi 1650, although they vrife paid for out of the Y ai thy'funds, they wrere c onveyed to the mavor, burgesses, s:; d comnmonalty, as inl their own rigidt, and without anly trust ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2879 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE BERESFORD EJECTMENTS

... (From the Morning Ad1vertiser.) E A more frightful picture of the state of society. in ti a country calling itself civilised and Christian, can fi hardly be conceived than that proved at the bar of C the Court of Justice, on Saturday last, in the case of Beresford v. Easthope. N An action was brought against the Morning ti Chronicle, by 'which Beresford, for a paragraph fk charging him with ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1083 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC INTELLGENCE

... PARLIAMENT.-At a privy council held on Tuesday afternoon, at Buckingham palace, parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Thursday next, the 10th instant, until the 26th of January; and a proclamation was ordered to be issued, summoning the parliament to meet on the 26th of January for the despatch of business. THE NEw HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.-The walls of the new Houses of Parliament ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3090 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL DOCKS

... BR1STOL DOCKS. L ?? IV. Talthe diltor oif the Bristol Wgorcury. Szit,-'1'h'e task I,-presi'ibed-'to iryself in this letter is, 1st, tofofer a few suggestidli s tco which of the modes proposed by Ar.' B~runel wvill be most advantageous to B~ristol ; anti, 2tidly, to direct public attetitioti to the serious question, to Fwhait board or'co uncil-the great undertaking, now contem-. Pl~ated, shall ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1881 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

CORN-LAWS

... COR N -LAWS. 'It iscalculated by Mr. 'T'ooke, that the cost of the late importations of corn amounted to ten millioris, great part of =vhieh, perhaps all, had to be paid for is gold. And this drain alone would have diminished the circulating medium by an amount sufficient to produce the most enormous rise in the value of the remainder; aatmay be seen in the history of any article, where the ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1040 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Arts, Science, Inventions, &c

... jarts Scienee, 'Zvantions, &C. IMPROVED PRINTING PRESS.-M. Lenormand, a celebrated mechanic, has discovered the means of printing on one cylinder both sides of the same sheet, which enables his mechanical press to act with a quickness double any hitherto known, and can produce 4000 copies in an hour.- Moniteur Indrustriel. BRIDPORT.-TRrAT FOR GEOLOGISTS.-During the late tremendous gales, an ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1534 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

REFORM DINNER AT CHELFENHAM

... nr.!';MW IN~.I AT CRELTENAWUL es.- inI, A most numerous and rospectalule, ant], at thle same time, nd most enthusiastic,ineeting isas held at the Assembly ROOITs, va, Cheltenham, onl Thursda'y se'~nipsiht. The object was, ans if' stated ityfott of the spealiers, to afford thle lion. end Liberal member fur that town, nol opportunity of giving an1 account ri- Of his parliamenitary stewardship, ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3695 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News