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IMPORTANT TO MUNICIPAL VOTERS

... IMPORTANT TO MIUN-ICIPAL VOTERS. -, . -, . To secure a vote at the next municipal election, the following is the necessary qualification, nanely- The occupation on the ensuin 31st August.land during the twvo preceding year-, of a house, w reiiouse, counting- house, or shop, wvithin the hrouch forrwhich the occu- pier is rated, and on which il rates due thereon, except those bccoming due within ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1840
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 801 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

GRATUITOUS SUPPLEMENT

... (RATUITOUS SUPPLE, !NENT. With the Mlercury of Frilay next, 28th inst., we shnll d~O present a SUPPLEMNIENT of four paces,grntis, in order Ei to put our readers in possession of a full repo; t of the as- size intelligence of the week, and to inumre the insertion of N as great a variety na practicable of general news. be As is our usual custom, the Supplement will be printed in on a stamped ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1840
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

FEMALE TOIL

... NUMBER IL v3 THE GOVERNESS. so There cannot be found a more unhappily placed B re being than a young girl in the situation of a of governess. She has been graphically described as at o resembling the green swing door between the family 1 m rooms and the Kitchen, not precisely belonging to of o either portion of the house. The governess is A gr seeed by the servants as being towards them B lF a ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1849
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

A SMALL CONTRIBUTION TO PHONOGRAPHY

... Tho two following profs mayn servo to sttengthen Mr. Boern Pitrnin's argurment, Lhat there is a necessity for L sucb a refurmn inI the ?? of our language, as will provide oni:e siga only for nny one sound. At present (Ib combinbsd letters o u g h are ueed to represent nine diffozent sounds; and there are no fewer than eighteen 01 modem of indicdting the sound of the word Mo. -u It in owing to ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1849
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 460 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

ASTRONOMY

... AS rRONOMY. r the THE NEW PLANET. T1 Ot, On the 13th of last month a memoir of the highest 511 very interest was read by the Astronomer Royal at the meet- wi )the ing of the Royal-Astronomical Society, on the history of thec( Elos- the discovery of' the newly-found planet. As yet the addie fling planet hias not got an acknowledged name, and it may Gave nidcome to be called Atlas, as suggested ...

Published: Friday 11 December 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2299 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL IN COMMITTEE

... THE LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL IN CObMMITTEE. Yesterday week the Committee re-assembled at twelve. Application having been made to enlarge the time for ithe construction of the landing stage at George*8 pier, Mr. Hillyaid, for the Commissioners of Birkenhead, Bproposed a clause to the effect that instead of one large stagve two smaller ones should be built, one of which should be exclusively devoted ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 809 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... ?? IN PARVO. TO At the Eton and narrow cricket match last week, a Mr. G. SIR Ta d Uayley scored 152 runs off hie owp bat ! ury ;vh o The average prlice of brown or Mluscovado sugar, computed from leosily d ' the returns made in the week ending August11), 1B141, is 36s. 33d. -Yours, 5per cwe., exclusive of duties. Byroni r Two men, a sweep and a labourer, killed themselves at York a on Saturday ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1841
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1272 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE CLERICAL JACKDAW—THE WHOLESALE PLAGIARIST

... THlE CLERIUML JACKDAW-THNIEWHELE- B-ALE BPLAGIARISI).. Thou shalt nnfioovet thy uelghbour's geond&`'-D6catguo. In our publication of October 18th leasb year, we copiedl from the EctctitsReview-the ?? :_ One of the greatest instances of Rlagiarisma ire ever- met with occurs in Mr. Ould's lecture, one-half of which,. though it contains.'tihrty-live pages, is- made up of quo- tations, without ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1841
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1551 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MECHANICS' AND APPRENTICES' LIBRARY.—We beg to call the attention of the subscribers to the meeting next

... LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1840. MECHIANICS' AND AP1'RENTZCES' LIBRARY.-We beg to call the attention of the subscribers to the meeting next I nnxr nC *>A ala-AA t M onday, at the Clarendon-rooms, when a satisfactory I led rport of the condition of this useful library will be laid was before them. I 'en- |SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE YVDGES. th! lNorthern.-Mr. Justice Coleridge, and Mr. Jestice ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1840
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2004 | 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 

COUNTY RATES & EXPENDITURE

... I I DELEGATE MEETING, YESTERDAY, OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS. fi Yesterday, at noon, a meeting of deputations of Boards c of Guardians in this county, was held at the Legh Arms y Hotel, Newton, to take into consideration, and fully discuss, the whole question of county rate exp nditure, L and the best means of effecting a more economic expen- diture. Deputations from the following places were ...

Published: Tuesday 16 January 1849
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2829 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY

... LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1841. ClIESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. : The balf'YrlitflY ?? ef tML ahl~ve cornmltfy was held, on be had a 3,,edaywtc_,k. at thle CSlaretidons Rooms. NVItlris~ Dixcu, chair- Eton-hal zosof the bojard, 1J'i-iVld. Tilcrt wvii a full hadtdii~ f r-O an,t11 prirtlfO. asrad by' Mr. Mollhy. l th wv clerk to the wtoe ?? cor. t Te 01 ~rth, that, in i'mul, thle ...

Published: Friday 15 October 1841
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2662 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News