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FOREIGN PROSPECTS

... An.. ADMIIRABLE prophets are libera& -in power, for like the Delphian oracle they'are prepared with every turn of fortune for an interpretation favourable to' their interests. ltahOltt's miracle is the daily work'of these empirics, While after the most pompous pledges of tranquillizing legisIatio0 'when disaster tracks their path, and the' sources finisterial confidence are dried up, they ...

Published: Friday 08 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 707 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

... NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE I SOC IB T Y. The first Annual General Meeting of the Proprie- , tors in the National Loan Fund Society, for the purpose of receiving the Directors' report, electing some Directors, &c took place on Wednesday week. It waslield at ?? ITavern, Bisltopsgate.strcet. It was numerously and most h -respectablyv attended. Amon gst the proprietors present we re ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1840
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5588 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

CAMBRIDGE ELECTION DECLARED VOID WHOLESALE TORY BRIBERY

... CAMBRIDGE ELECTION DECLARED VOID. WHOLESALE TORY BRIBERY. TiliE Committee of the House of Commons on Io the Cambridge Election, after a long inquiry, filled with revolting details of wholesale and audacious bribery by the agents of Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, have unseated that Member, and passed the following resolutions - b C; TuE Committee have determined that the RIon- g ourable John Henry Thomas ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1840
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 822 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

POSTSCRIPT

... LONDO'N NEWS 01' THURSDAY EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY. MUaNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL.- Counsel were to be called in to be heard against this Bill, after an explanation from the MARerUIS of LANSDOWNE that they were only to speak to its details, as in the case of ,be English Municipal Bill. HtOUSF. 01' COMMONS, THUCRSDAY. MIr. BAINES presented petitions from Eythorne, in the ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1840
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1593 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

Varieties

... ¶rarietite. ?? CAN A MAN create an insect ?-By putting . btue bottle in a strong fire, he will then make a , blue bottle fly. INTOLERANCE or NEW CONVERTS.- As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sitiers are so intolerant as those that have just s turiimd saints. pro Tili :MARC IIONESS of Lansdowne wasthe medium Wi of ',0corieiliution between the Queen and Miss rese ...

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS

... I Mu. J. WLsxAs.-I BritaUnnia's Lament arrived afier our poetry eolumn had gone to press. We hope to find a placefor it next week. THE LETTER with the Bury pest-mark, respecting the Airm of Lingard, Hole, and Cruttenden, is not inserted, because unsauthenficated. A TOTAL ABSTINENCe RADICAL.-Wc are in the habit of giving intelligence of the description he al- luded to. B. W. MARSHALL.-Danial ...

POPERY UNMASKED

... t -- s rFrom the Limerick Standard.) In proportion as Popery attains power,'. and station, and patronage, and courtly favour, il the same ratio do her designs become matured, more fully developed, and more unblushingly avowed. Political ascendancy and religious supremacy, nay, exclusiveness, are her aim-Popery alone shall be the religion of Great Britain. To achieve this end, the Established ...

Published: Friday 08 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 739 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Metropolis

... octropolis. THE QUEEN. -It is whispered, in circles likely to be acquainted with the fact, that her Majesty is in a way likely to prevent the succession to the throne from passing into any other than the direct line. The report derives strength for her Majesty's recent abstinence from her favourite exercise oln horseback, and also from dancing, in which she is known to take much pleasure. ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 773 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

ANTI-UNION PLOT

... THAT the prime conspirator against the Nionarch should, by the connivance of an unprincipled GovCreat, hold the fate of the empire in the balance, is the fore,, t evil of these fearful times. All sound judging perso, perceive that Great Britain stands or falls as its propert and loyalty shall overthrow or be overthrown by the Popish conspiracy, worked by revolutionary Power, con. bined with ...

Published: Friday 15 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1286 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

HUDDERSFIELD BOARD ROOM, MAY 3

... V HUDDERSFIELD BOARD ROOM, MAY 0. Immediately after ten o'clock, when the, Clork Called over the names of the Guardiaustlu follow- ine were prceent:- 'Messrs. Whit vorth, Pitkcthly, W0t43llmd, R. Wrigley, W. Wrigley, Tolson, T'nker, hobson, Iretale, Maxfield, Bottoanley, W-, 13atley, and J. Bacley. Mr. Bradbury, one of the over .1sNsof liddersfield, was in attendance to consl't with the ...

Original Correspondence

... TO THE EDITOR OF 1 HE NORTHERN STAR. London, 9, Evangelist Court, Brovdway, Blackfriars, May 18, 1840. ?? communication which appeared in your paper of last Satuoday, from Mrs. O'Brien, somewhat surprised me, as no doubt it did many of your readers; but I must confess that my surprise arose, not from Mrs. O'Brien's denial of having participated in any benefits from the sale of the Southern ...

LEEDS AND WEST-RIDING NEWS

... |- LEEDS: A% NRIDING NEWS. i. ,, w RADIcALAsso7 lose.Th members of the Leeds Radical UnivtrEal S0 9rag ssociation held their weekly meeting at the house of Mr. James lj;ng- worth, Vicar lane, en Monday evening last, Mr. Benjamin Knowles in the chair. This being the monthly night, as soon as the weekly eontributions were paid, the Secretary read the report for the last month; and from that ...