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BRISTOL ELECTION PROCEEDINGS

... ERMSToy x MOCEM-DINC-3. x -ZT.V?jTjq The Queen's writ, for the election of two citizens to re- present this city in parliament, was received by the High Sheriff, HIuigh Vaughan, Esq., by 'rhiursday's mail, and im. mediately upon it proclamation was made in the usual for'm. The nommnatier is appointed to be held on Monday next in N the Gulldhall, and the polling, which will take place on the d ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1376 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... MIZSCE M L ANSOUS. An honest manl's word is as good as his bond, is a trite r maxim. So is a rogue's in nine cases out of tell. His HANDS FUL.,-A man is supposed to be tolerably well occupied when he has a wife oil one arm, a baby on the other, carrying a basket and a call in his hand, a cigar in his mouth, and a e hopeful heir holding on to tie skirts of his coat. A traveller domiciling at ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1206 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

EFFECTS OF THE BRITISH CORN-LAWS IN AMERICA

... EFFECT:S OF THE BRITISH CORN-LAWS IN AMERICA. -COTTON FACMOaRES.-In Fayetteville, North Carolina, and its vicinity, are now in operation six cotton factories. The number of spindles in them is 11,198; number of looms, 160; number of persons employed, 417; quan- tity of cotton required per annum, 4,222 bales. The capital invested is 299,000 dollars. An abundant supply of unfailing water in the ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1385 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE COURT

... THE QuEErN.-We feel the greatest pleasure in stat- 'ing that the Queen enjoys most excellent health and spirits. The very important eventof her Majesty's aceouchiemsent may be expected at the end of September, or early in the month of October. Prince Albert, contrary to the rumours that have been so insidiously spread for many weeks, has been and continues'at the present time in the enjoyment ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENT

... P A .R L X A rqZ E'N T. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURsDAT. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. I The Marquis of NORMA NBY moved the third reading of I the punishment of death bill. The Earl of HADDINoTON moved, as an amendment to the third clause, which applied to the case of rape, that ax exception should be made in favour of the capital punish- g ment, where more than one person was concerned in the If commission ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 796 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL ELECTION

... 8BUISTO~M VoXOZ:C o. To the Electors of nristol. The landowners may be dividtle intO those wvho cultivate their olansethose w rent land under them, and the greatladil- lweieands, teos* wblielofhmwfod thsuoe all Aouseoldf lords on whose lands houses a5' btilt 'Indtls sve ouseholes ,s-e landhlderi' to a certalO cuteut, in which are included t, inufactori.sy sipirrlitod' yards, &f . The clergy ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLGENCE

... W0OZEZGN INVELZXGENCE. NEWS FROM CHINA. The Overland Mail from Indiawarrived at Marseilles on Sunday. By telegraphic despatches communicated to the French government, and transmitted to Lon. don, we learn that hostilities have recommenced be. tween Great Britain anOdChibaL Thle tmperb' bhaving refused to ratify the treaty concluded between the Im. perial Commissioners Keshen and ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3368 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

To the Editor of the Bristol Mercury

... To the Editor of the Bristol ThWeroury. SiB,-I am sorry to find such a mistaken notion prevailing amongst many of my countrymen in reference to the decision of her Majesty's ministers upon the repeal of the present corn- lows, by saying that it sprang from sinister inctives, and not from a desire to benefit the starving Population of the manufac- turing districts; bat I am prepared to prove, ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

To the Editor of the Bristol Mercury

... To tihe Editor of the Bristol Mercury. Sa,-Please to accept the following answer to the nauti- cal question proposed in your last ?? can be rea- dily demonstrated that a ship, when sailing close to a wind, has made the nearest approach to her port when it and the wind have the same bearing; consequently the solution of the problem consists in so managing the courses that, at the end of the ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE COURT

... : The Queen and Prince Albert and the Queen !Dowager attended divine service on Sunday morning in the Ichapel royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the !Hon. and Rev. Mr. Eden, from Acts, chapter 10, verse 46. e The Bishop of Norwich, clerk of the closet, and the Dean of Hereford, deputy-clerk of the closet, were in waiting. S Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert were ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

TORY ECONOMY!

... SATURDAY, JurTv 19, 184M. THE Tories have certainly a very extraordinary me- thod of taking credit to themselves, and that too frequently for reasons which would make less self- complacent persons blush with shame. They are at present engaged in publishing their astonishing feats in the economical reform line, and the columns of newspapers, and the walls of Bristol, bear testimony to the ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

PLUMP FOR BERKELEY!

... ON. Mondav the Tory candidates appear in the Guild- hall, in orler to ask the electors to send them to parliament for the express purpose of taxing the 'bread, and other necessaries of life, of the said elect- ors ! A modest request, certainly ? Bat they have other claims. They can truly say that they are staunch Tories; that they belong to that party which has taxed the people, fleeced the ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1841
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1159 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News