ON THE PROBABLE SUCCESS OF THE [ill] WITH CHINA

... ON THE PROBABLE SUCCESS OF THE WA WITH CHINA. The following letter, from a lieutenant in the appeared a few days ago in the Cheltenhaun Eranziner; SIR,-So very little is known in this country of China, particularly that part of it Canton, where the dispute now isting is likely to interrupt our tea trade; for the satisfactis your readers, and the public generally, I send you a few es from a ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 941 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Foreign & Colonial Intelligence

... $ -reign k (Solontal Intelligente. FRENCH NEWS. Among the proofs of good sense already afforded by the Thiers adminstration is the total abandonment of the Bona- partean plot, of which M. de Crouy Channel was the chief or the author, and 'vhieh made so much noise a few months since. He and M. Barginet, who had been brought a prisoner from Lyons, have, with all the other persons implicated, ...

Published: Friday 17 April 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 751 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Imperial Parliament

... -epetal 'Vrlfatmeit u H O US E.' O F L;O R D S. THURSD.41`, April 9. -- -The Archbishop Or CANTiRBURY presented several petitions on the subject of the clergy reserves in Canada. Lord ELLNENBROUGH laid on the table the report of the select' committee on the affairs of the East India Company. In refer rence to the questions relative to the Canada question to be pro.. posed to the judges, his ...

Published: Friday 17 April 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6021 | Page: Page 3 | 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 

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 

TRINITY CHURCH, NOTTINGHAM

... TRINITY CHURCH, NOTTINYHAM. I The interesting ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new church, now erecting on Burton Leys, in Nottingham, took place on Thursday, in the presence of a numerous assemblage of the wealth, piety, intelligence, and beauty of the town and neighbourhood. It was conducted in as private a manner as circumustances would oertnit; the committee considering it ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1840
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

From the LONDON GAZETTE

... I , . P rdm the ZOfAtDOAT 0AZ721P. TUESDAY, APRIL 14. ' ;INSOLVENT. , William Smith, Upton St, Leonard's, Gloucestersire, miller. A lw CHARLES COLTSON, Pancrax-lanc, wine-merchant, April 27, May 26, at Basinghall-street V JOHN RiUTHELIFORD DUFF, formerlyof Galley-quay, Lower Tharmes-street, but now or late of Clapham-road-place, Surrey, wharthiger, April 25, May 26, at Basinghall-streCt. 2 ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1840
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2067 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The precarious State of our foreign relations-the certainty that we are at war with China-that we shall probably bear of the detention of some Neapolitan vessels before the sulphur question can be adjusted-the very threatening aspect of the negotiatio is in regard to the Boundary question ;_in fact, the complicati in of disaster with which our foreign relations seem to ...

Published: Sunday 19 April 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2967 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

LOSS OF THE MARQUIS CAMDEN

... LOSS OF THlE MARQUIS CAMDh N. I The French papers contain a letter, dated Ma- nilla the 20th of l)ecember last, from Captahi Desse, in command of ?? merchlantman. to his owners, NIessrs Blalguerie & Co. giving an account of the shipwreck of the Marquis Camd'en on a coral bank, situated southeast of the island of Simirasa. As a mere act of justice to this brave Frenchman, who so gallantly ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1840
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

... It appears that the commencement of the under- v taking was attended with considerable difficulties. 6 T'le formation of a dam of sufficient strength to re- sist the pressure of the high tide, and keep dry a ' large space in the bed of the river, wrs a work re- quihing no ordinary skill and ingenuity for its ac-r comnplislrment. After this had been successfully effected, preparations wvere ...

Published: Thursday 30 April 1840
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1406 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

DUBLIN: THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1840

... THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. LAST NIGHT'S MAIL. FRANCE. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The report of the Emperor of Morocco having declared war against the French is contradicted by the Moniteur Parislen of Saturday. The organ of the French cabinet says that no positive informa- tion to that effect had reached Paris. The agents of the French government at Malaga and Tangiers had not ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1840
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 564 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE ARMY

... I ?? 1- ? The P7th Lancers replace the Seats Greys at Cork, Cabir, and Limerick garrisson. bi The 74th, from Trinidad, will succeed the 52d at Bar- in badoes. I The detaehment from the 48th depot, under Captain Young, which embarked at Cork in the Prince George, has T joined the service companies at Gibraltar. d It is reported that Sir Richard King will succeed to the oi Cape command. p There ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1840
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News