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IMPORTANT RAILWAY MEETING AT HUDDERSFIELD

... I iy A numerous meeting of the inhasbitants of the town and ~ jneighbourhood of Hudderefleld, wae held at the Court-House, onf Monday last, for the purpose of taking Into consideration the seveiral I railway communications to, and in connection with, the town of 21 Huddersfield, now in contemplation. c ly The meeting was convened by Mr. Jonathan Leech, the conoteble in so of Huddersfield, in ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7700 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

LATER FROM AMERICA

... e ,. The fast-sailing packet-ship Ox/awd, Captain lathbone, r arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday night, after a rapid passage of nineteen days from New York, whence she sailed on the let Inetant. r, e We have received papers of that date hut they are merely one day 1i n later than those previously receited, and contain nothing of import- tl ance from the United States, where the Presidential ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 548 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

POSTSCRIPT

... . a LONDON NEWS OP FRIDAY MORNLNG. Le d ROYAL EXCHANXGE Loadon, Thursday1 Etwsx . PAR LIA.MENT.-The speech of Her Majesty has neceessarily t created a good deal of conversation in the City, and from the xa. e riety of subjects touched upon there is, of course, arnple niter r for difference of opinion; the financial allusions are of interest, but. g as regards the reduction of the 3l per cents. ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... CIJ1CUITS OF THE COXMISSIONrS FOR TIlE RELIEF Of INSOLVENT DEBTORS. '-SUMMER CIRCUITS, 1844X- NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-DAVID POLLOCii, Esq., Commissioner. -Yorkshire-Shetlleld, AMonday, June 10; 'Wakefield, c Wednesday, June 12; at the Town and County of the Town c of Kingston-upon-Hull, Wednesday, June 19; York, Fri- day, June 21 ; at the City and County of the City of York, F on the same day ; ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3496 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

WESLEYAN EDUCATION IN LEEDS

... W8ALJAN BDUOATIN IN LEEDS. A -numerous and ?? I meeting- was held on i Monday evening, 'at Oxford-plc Chapel, in this town, Oti -to promnotte the ~ertensodn of: Religion Education on West- Ne. -Iean pirmnciples, in connection veit the Leeds Sieond Is, Circuit. at The chair was Occupied by JboSm HOwA imi Esq., of Paxk-place, id who was supported by mlan,7 of the minister and Influential friends ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2757 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

REPORTING IN PAST DAYS

... We give the following extract from a weekly magazine of the year 1775, as a specimen of the mode in which the reporting of speeches was conducted at that period. Dr. Johnson boasted that Lord Chathambs famous speech on the American revolutionary fee war was written by himself in a garret. The date scarcely permits of of our believing that the sabjeined remarks could have been from pe his pen, ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1125 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

LEEDS:

... LEEDSS: TY - o - . - ), SATURDAY. MARCH 2. if . ?? sTeTHE CORN AVERAGES-It will be seen that the averages .S show a considerable advance in the price of wheat-that of the last a, week being 55s. id. per quarter, which is an increase of from 4s. _ to 5s. on the prices which prevailed during the greater part of the autumn and winter; and of 3s. 5d. within the last five weeks. DAY MAIL FROM ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5468 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF THE LEEDS TOWN COUNCIL

... MEING OF TAR LEEDS TOWN mCOUNCIL . CAPTAIN VETCH'S PLAN OF SEWERAGE.' usivi the On Wednesday last, at the Comic il Chamber, at late Ithe Leeds Cosuit Houise, a special meeting 6f th~is bodytocok luto Iplace, the obj~ectof which was to consider Captain' etch'S lode plan of sewersage in the borough of Leeds. mosi HAtdcga StAIspELD, Esq., Mayor, in the chair, sent, The following msensbers of the ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3731 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... I! I[OUSE OF OOMMONS, TUESDAY, Fyla.223. d STATE OF IRELAND. e e ADJOURNED DEBATE, a *Mr. H LWES drefr from the policy of the Government that 1, they were practically nullifying the Act of Hmancipatioti, and t *reviving the old spirit of protegtsnt ascendancy. it was a de- tI Insion to suppose that Protestant Dissenters would now rise mt at the cry ox I I No Popery. If it were a Part of a ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1802 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURE

... The following are the officers and the rules of the society styling itself the Society for the Protection of Agriculture - PrtESiDoNT-Thie DUKE OF RICHMOND. VicE PassiDnsrT-Tbe Duke of Buckinghamn and Clandos. TRusTeEs-The Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Cleveland, and the Earl of Yarborough. GENERAL ComsiirrEE-Mr. Allix, M.P., Mr. Brarsten, M.P. Lord Beaumont, Mir. Bele, M.P ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 812 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

... fIOMES.TICNTILLIGEN'C-E.: * ?? ; N, :E. - The to it' o tf Londonpolice is .. ATE{LO'NB 'IEcTrOyfCOacMITTE. .-!Yhe CounSd1for - -tho petitioners in 'this case Wore',d ?? Afterno on obli~ged' to' abandos it as hopeles* hid Dr. 6o1ett was ac- t cordisegly declared duly elected.: We learn that Lords Radxior, .Kinnaird, and s Shreswsbury,.with several other peers, have signified their' o approval ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 471 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

POSTSCRIPT

... LONDON NEWS OF FRIDAY MORNING. ROYAL ExcesNaEE London, 7iasrsday Evening. AmERIUCA.--The general delivery of the American letters took place to-day, and in a financial point of view, the most impor- tant information they touch upon is the passing of the Tax Bill by the Legislature and the Government of Pennsylvania, and thus, as one writer observes, repudiation in Pennsylvania has ceased. ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1844
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2090 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News