Refine Search

Countries

England

Counties

Bristol, England

Access Type

7,697

Type

7,697

Public Tags

A FEMALE CABIN BOY

... A. 1 ?? CABIN B UY.; Extract of a letter from an ohicer of the Robert Sialtl, dated in that ship, off the Cape of Good Hope, the 20th of Oct., 1839. TheRobertSinati sailed from London last Adg. A very singular case has been discovered on board our ship. We have detected a young lady in the person of a sailor, who has done duty with our crew from the time. we left the Thames; until it was found ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1015 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... corveoponetite. The3rnr. KE .ADLMI!&n1 SCHOOL of MR~STOi (Contintsedfrom our last.) t r BMy former communications having traced this charity t from its inception to the Ist July, 1561, when the Bartholo- Mew lands were legally conveyed to, and vested in, the cot. poration of Bristol, for the sole use of the perpetual conti- nuance and maintenance of the school, it will nowv be my duty lo show ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 6288 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

MONMOUTH SPECIAL COMMISSION

... M4ONMOUTH *ra.i' f t , , , JaI SsCZhAT COlakSZ-3t. ffONTrOvTU, TUESDAY, Dec. 31. This being the day to which the special comniission stood adjourned, the court was open at an early hour. Atl half-pass nine the van for conveying the prison- ers from the gaol to the court-house, left the Beaufort 'Armns, followed by 27 Lancers, under the command of Lieut. Bernard. Mr. Ford, the governor of the ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 8306 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

... ; GRCUZTURA.I3 INTELLSGENCE. 1, 1 - I GENERAL AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR DECEMBER. Scarcely within the recollection of the oldest farmer living has the atmospheric temperature throighout England, but more particularly in our southern and northern districts, proved so extremely utnpropitious and unsensonable sos that sexperiencei durig ,nearly, or quite, the whole of this month s indeed, the ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1421 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

News by the London Posts

... '111--bl --tt R6 -, c , ?? A noon 1?00%. LONDON, TuESDAY, December 31. FRANCE. THE French journals of Sunday contain very little political news of interest. The several committees of the chamber of deluties met on Saturday, and there was some sparring between the leaders of the opposition and the ministers, but. it led to no result. The onlyrevelation of any importance was made by M. Dufaure, ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3748 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE

... PROVINCIAL INTELLGENCE. h SOMERSSETSHIRE. The poor of East Harptree, Somerset, were regaled the day after Christmas day with a substantial dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, provided at the in- dividual expense of Mrs. Eskett, of Bath, a benevolent lady who formerly.resided in the parish. The dinner, v to which about 60 persons of both sexes sat down,was served up in admirable style by Mrs ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3648 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PRACTICAL REFUTATION OF CORN LAW FALLACIES

... L PRACTICAL REFUTATION OF CORN LAW Irl - P - JALLACIES. The stupid fallacies invented b)y the friends of monopoly to delude the working classes, receive a practical and utinanswerable refutation by the existing state of things. One of these fallacies was, that dear bread caused high wages. Of the folly of this asses- tion the workinD -men are now too well convinced; for not a ma7nz (f then is ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 732 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

IMPROVEMENT OF REDCLIFF-HILL

... I I/PZOVBEENT or 0S1' CMX~ -HIZLra- A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants and owners of property in the parishes of St. -Mary Redeliff and St. 'homas, was held on Monday morning, in the Grammar School adjoining Redcliff hurch, for the purpose of taking into consideration the projected plan for the improvement ? of Redeliff-bill. The chair was taken by Mr. W. H. BAILEY, the senior church ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3264 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

CASTIGATION OF BISHOP PHILLPOTTS

... ICASTZGATZON OF UZBIBOP PHZLLPOTTS. d A decisive sign of the odour into which Bishop ?? has brought himself, even with the high church party, is the publication of an able attack on -, him in the Times newspaper, under the signature of ' Nestorides.' The writer, having adverted to Bishop , Phillpotts' declared intention of starting a church dis- e cipline bill against the church discipline ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1902 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

... MASLWAV ZNELLMGECZE. FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THlE BIRMINGIIAM AND DERBY RAILWAY.-WC regret to state that two fatal accil dents have occurred on the Birmingham and Derby railroad during the past week. In one case a man unknown was run over and cut in two by a train near Derby. The other case occurred near Tamworth, and the unhappy sufferer was a labouring man narned William Ibbs. It appeared, from ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 736 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

The Commentator

... ,ff. I)c (gommentator. no. cxxviri. 2' ?? To noxMdII:V .v THI M/O ON. .DFAR MR. M5AN,-In continuing my perusal of Dr. 8out ey's Life of Cowvper, the next wonder of which I ami ifaormed (vol. 2, p. 131,) is, that Dryden's intellect was o iot a comprehensive one.' Surely Dryden did not write such plays, and such prefaces and dissertations, ?? being possessed of a tolerably comprehensive ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 900 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

LEGAL PLUNDER

... MrE:GAL: P:IUMD32rL. To Sir C'Iarles WetAerell, Knight, Judge of the ToIzey Court, Bristol. Snt,-An eminent writer of the last century quaintly re- marks, when commenting on the legalised mode of plunder perpetrated in his days, That a starving man, who steals i shilling on the highway, is hanged; but that an act of par- liament gentlemen who, under colour of law, robs ?? neigh- hour, escapes ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 851 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News