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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 

Correspondence

... Qlnorreopo nb etcc LIGHT SOVEREIGNS. To the Editor of The Bristol Mercury. Sma,-I have several times, since the plague inflicted on tradesmen by the sovereign tax, been put to much inconvenience and suffered some loss, all which I have eude,%voured to bear with as little com. plaining as possible; but, a few days since, the followvingcircuintstance made me feet very much Inclined to murmur -ln ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1842
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 995 | Page: Page 6 | 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 

Annual Meeting of the Church Missionary Society

... Ainnual Meeting of the Church Missionary I Society., On Thursday, the annual meeting of the above society was held-in the Great Room, Prince's street, which was densely crowded in every part by a most respectable audience. 'The meeting having been opened by prayer by the Rev. Charles Buck, JoHiN S. HARFOrtD, Esq. (the Chairman) said he was too well aware of the duties of a chairman to detain ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 700 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

News by the London Posts

... 11 ? IsTfto, bv? -tbt- LOUDOU. VOW ? I OVSR1BND :XPEISBSS EPS~ON: ZSIDZA. X m CHINA.s m , im :if BOMIBAY, Tanuay 1.-There is very little noticeable alteration in the posture of affiairs this month from that which was presented on the departure -of the, last mail.; .That little, however, is, unfortunately, of an unfavourable description. The strength of the force at Chusan has been ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2765 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MONMOUTH COUNTY ELECTION

... 7&ONW2WVTN VOUZNTV- blF.ZECWION.i Contrary to all expectation, the electioni for this county has terminated in favour of the Tory candidate, Mr. Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan ; the HJn. Hanbury Tracy, the Liberal candidate, having withdrawn from the contest. ,Thelatter event was first made known to the'public cii Monday last, and produced quite as mduch ?? as did the .appearance of Mr. ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2202 | Page: Page 4 | 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