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... I I ?? ?? ?? ?? - - -- rl Netud KlTv obderbatial1q. 3 I Io ieh PORTUGAL. 3rd A commnotion of a formidable character, connected with the it, objects of the Almecida leaders, broke out itl the University of Ih Coimbra on tho 8th Instant. The students, in revolt, had posses- sion of the town for two hours, attacked the troops, and made a prisoner of the civil Governor. They wveeo finally routcd ...

Published: Friday 22 March 1844
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3099 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE WAREHOUSE JOBBERS VERSUS THE SELFISH PETTY PRINCES

... ite Ibetrpsl tiMercury. FFARIAY JANU.AAY l, 31 THE WAREHOUME JOBBERS THE SELFISH PETTY PRINOES As we anticipated, the warehouse jobbers have carried itbollow against the merchants; or,as Mr. Rid!. Harbord calls them the selfish petty princes, of 'Liverpool. At 1 the meeting of the Council on Friday last, the result ofI fthe interview between the Dock Committeeand i deputa- t tion with the ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1845
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 795 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SCRAPS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS

... 00 A newspaper in Alabama, was born one day, and died the next. 'If brevity is the soul of wit, that paper had indeed a ta very witty existence. - oh A HoAx.-The goo I people of Pittsburg lately assembled, ze cording to public notice on a bridge, for the purposo of soeing: 3r, a man fly. At the appointed hour, while the spectators, with Dn open mouths and straining eye-balls, were anxiously ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1197 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

News and Observations

... fl Ob?tLiflftfUI?. I ? UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. frou The Royal Mail stearm.pcacket Hiberuni, Capnt. Ryrie, beecs which left -Bnton am the 1st instant, ?? on tlle atO 3rd, reached thie Mersey on Tuesday afternoon at five I o'clock. By her we have received New York papers to; acte ;Thee Or~egon con~tr8ove'tsy, says the Natea York Courir leliskef land 'sqakire, is still at a deread pausehc is ...

Published: Friday 17 April 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7718 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SCRAPS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS BY THE HIBERNIA

... SCRAPS FROM' THE AMERICAN PAPERS BY THE HIBERNIA. Do wounds often heal by the first Intention ? Not when the patient is rich and the doctor is poor. When does mortification ensue? When you pop the question and are answered-no. c In .speaking ofea letoial friend, who poesses a very rubicund i countenancesone said the other day: I don't think he drinks. , In fact, I know he does not, for ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2564 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Birkenhead, &c

... 5ivrken'falet, &C. , TRANMRR.-MRETING; OF TE4 RATE PAYRER Yes treli t. terday, at noon, the adjourned meeting of the rate- upon p ayers of this township was heid at the Trausnere Castle Hoytel~, for the purpoeo akn noconsideration the the propriety of adopting measures fo the lightien and t hie e watching of the township. The meeting was conducted ?? tin a more orderly manner thais same of ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News 

VAGARIES OF THE PRESS

... An error the press is often spoken of; but an error the typography is what is meant; and of the extraordinary blunders sometimes made by compositors, despite all trie care that taken in the plain manuscript, or j«equent marks by the corrector, we had two specimens uesdny. In one of the instances the writer had extolled one of our most opulent mercantile men : one who whether in the town, as at ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... BMTLT17M IN PARVO. for The Bank of England returns for the week ending the 16th so had Instant, state the amount of notes issued to be £27,620,215, tels of which the banking department has on hand £7,497,460, leav-fel 1 if ing the circulation, in bank notes, £10,022,755, to which must uc en) be added, bank post bills, £968,128; against this, in addition to my the Government debt and other ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2970 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE PROTECTIONISTS AND THEIR DINNERS

... oejuv- a 00 ~ e~~pff merrurp2, SA5LUSPOPUDl LEX SUP1l.3IA. FRDA SEPTEMBER 18, 1846. gECTIONISTS AND THEIR OFE o DINNERS. seraitch me, and I'll soraitch you, says 01_cotchl precept. Accordingly, as Mr. the ?? at a ?? demonstration in ~edegatea Oe tf Lord George Benitinck, that honour- hnoeaber could not do less than return the Nbldnrllicrut last week, at Coleshill, where, oat e zopeople ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1096 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS

... The weather of the present week, though not so ri formly brilliant as that of the week by which it was pre. ceded, has been sufficiently favourable in Yorkshire to admit of the farming operations of the season advancing satisfactorily, and the small residue of the corn hsroeat that remained in the fields at the commencement of the present month is now generally safe in the stack yard, or in ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1296 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

DOINGS TOXTETH, OR HOW TO UPSET VESTRY. To thf EDITORS of the LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Gentlemen, —Any one who ..

... the sessions on Monday last, when a pretty nearly successful attempt was made to over-rule the choice overseers previously made by the inhabitants Toxteth, in vl's! ry, must have been struck by the great fact, hitherto unknown, or, all events, not acted on in parish matters, that would not be so difficult, after all, for some six or seven persons, in any given community, to upset the ...

Published: Tuesday 13 April 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News