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THE OMEN

... THE O1MWN. Ttt~aR was ss cheerful and even noisy evening party in the parlour i of Crofthead, the humble residence of a Scottish laird, who inherited a small eitate from a long line of obscure ancestors. .1 Thre family consisted of himself, wife, and only daughter, and aoui~t half a dozen servants iisetonging to the house, the dairy, tand the form. A good many nekighbours had now been ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3949 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... ZIL:X ML:XtQA NDX. M\Ir. O'Connell has accepted an invitation to a dinner in Covie, on tbe 1st of June. A repeal meeting is to be held there on the following day. A 1 ilkonny coiner has been discovered carrying on1 his . evil :racticcs even in the prison to which hie was confined for his forimr nisdeeds! ?? and anotlier prisoner, aasoldior, ] had actually made a number of counterfeit coins in ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 522 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILL

... SATURDAY, M-r 3, 1S45. ONE consequence of the agitation and prolonged discus- ?? respecting the AIaynootli grant haS been the postponement of motions of interest connected with the - business of the country, and, anmongst others, of one for t inquiriling into the present state of the law relating to debtor and creditor. A fortnight ago the subject was to have been brought forward in the ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE CHURCH MILITANT

... SATUDAY ji tol 25,e 1S4 ! ,SATU'RDAY, J~lx.4RYn 2.,, IS45. WHE iCHURCH MILITANT. GOWN VlESUS SURPLICE. They could raise scruples dark and nicQ, And after, solve 'em in a trices As if divinity Icd catcl'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to Show with how small pain The sores of faiths are cured again: %iltblcsglc ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1814 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY

... A mleeting of the shareholders in thle above railway was held onl Thur~day, at thle Offices of mr. 1H. Brittan, solicitor, Small- Ia street, for the purpose of determining on the measores to be ~.adopted foropposing the agreement which led been provisionallY e. entered into between the directors of thie company and t11occ li of the Great Western Railway. in The meeting was summoned for twelve ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 7462 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL ATHENÆUM

... BRISTOLi ATIIENEU2.1 NATIONAL MUIC ?? IRELANDal.-The second lecture on the no, tional siausic of Ireland was d eliverred lay Mar. 1lorcicastle at thle YictOriiLr1ot011 ann I' ac10d1dy elraning, a nat appeared to imlpar't thle most lively eat ifl stio i to ti t li talaus audaidncec. The lectutrer wrent bnack ito the aavg in of Irish toratq,~ gare at short sketch of the hisitory f tie birdas to ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE SILENT SYSTEM

... SATURDAY, Ju.xLE 7, 1S45. THE SILENT SYSTEM. Sin Ronitrl PEEL. has contrived not only to muzzle two-thirds of his party in parliament, but also to place the Tory conductors of the press in such a position that they cannot utter Tory opinions vithout reflecting on the ministry; or praise the principles and policy of the ministry without at the same time praising the princi- pies and policy ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3737 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

FLORENCE PRESERVED; OR, THE FEARFUL PAS

... I FLORENCE PRESERVE, D; otTIE FEARFUL ?? I A TALE OF ASTIrIccAL LIrE. IN the solitude of id library, immersed in objectless thought, fand gazing on vacancy, the Right lion the Earl of Blazonfield was standing with his back to the fire. Erect and lofty stood his lordship, with his logs apart, and a coat-tail reposing on either arm. How long the noble earl's reverie might have lasted, it is as ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1895 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Foreign and Domestic Intelligence

... !'oreign and Domestic intelligence. The Carlists are still organising a demonstration in the Basque provinces, which the Madrid government rather en- courages. The French government seems wilfully blind'On] the subject. The object is to get up a movement in favour of the Queen's marriage with Don Carlos's eldest son, which Tsaria Cliristina is determined to carry out coute gui couie. The ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 932 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... A | AYN00Tll-COr ItECi3--It is said tlat the present College of ayiicoth lvill be pulled down, and that a greatly saiperior beihuiing, to bc called tile ?? of St. I Iatrick, wvill be erected in its place. ALACMMIN STATn Oi C.W.XsJ.-DU itei, .JIun 24.-By the accounts from thile ihmdiate neighbllourbod of the recenit assassination of Mr. Bell Booth, and which are publishcd in another part of ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 555 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE

... .not SOMERISETSHIRiE. ides A land was drowned on Friday evening, wvhilst bathing her at iXci~tois. It appears he camn within the vortex of anl eddy 'lie( near the bridge, and wae carried down before assistance could on, be rendered. ter, The ReV. COcrge Henry Lamw has been appointed, to Dens the curacy of Leighland, Soerserot. F ATAL AcciDiON.-mA fatal accident occurred to at poor ar- man ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2519 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... ROPEAL IN MAYO.-MR onnell left Killarney on Thursday morning at eleven. On Sunday morninig he arri- ved at Castlebar, amid the usual cheers and acclamations of P the multitude. The day was exceedingly wet, and yet, 1s although the rein poured down in torrents from half-past ten o'clock until four, upwards of 80,000 persons attended in v the procession, and remained until the meeting was over. ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 675 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News