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THE REPORT ON THE ORDNANCE RAILWAY JOBBING

... -~ ~ ?? (From the 'Times.') Captain Boldero has incurred the animadversion of the Committee for having trafficked largely in railway shares, through Mr Hignett, solicitor to the Board of Ordnance, who, it is stated, had no authority whatever to act on behalf of. the Board as represented by him in his letters to the railway authorities. The Committee also report that it had come to their ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

POSTSCRIPT

... LONDON, Saturday Morning, April 12, 1815. The contents of the Paris journals of Thursday, including their reports of the sittings in the Cbam- bers of Peers and Deputies on the day before, pre- sent very little inserest. Most of them notice the creation of four peers, which was announced in the M[oniteur of Wednesday, and La Presse states that several morei will be shortly created, among whom ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2165 | Page: Page 9, 10 | Tags: News 

EXECUTION OF ZURBANO

... Accounts from Spain describe the fate of the unhappy General Zurbano. He was taken on the l9th, and shot, without trial, on the 21st. The Phare des Pyrenees gives the following account of his arrest and execution ,'fiTh arrest was effected on the 19th by an old par- name of El Rayo, at a house in the e, v~i~r 2loogrono, where Zurbano had kept himself his brother-in-law, Cayetano Muro, an The ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... BUsINEs OF T~lE POST OFFICE.-O1 Saturday upwards of SO,000 letters were received at the General Post office by the West India mail, which arrived after the dispatch of the morning and mid-day mails. These, and an extraordinary influx of newspapers, kept the ivhole estab- lishment in full work till near nine o'clock, when the last of the bags were dispatched by the night mails. ReOrEtNING OF ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3315 | Page: Page 9, 10 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION. RESIGNATION OF MB GREY POETE&.-.At the meeting on Monday Mr Smith O'Brien read the following letter from Mr Grey Porter, announcing his secession from the society:- ' Shelbourne hotel, May 3, 1845. Dear Sir,-Yesterday evening I read the speeches at the Dundalk dinner, and as it seems to me that the association is now thoroughly pledged by its leaders to the ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: Page 9, 10 | Tags: News 

POSTSCRIPT

... LONDON, Saturday Morning, Oct. 25, 1845. As we have shown by our extracts in another part of to-day's paper, the news from India by the arrival announced yesterday is not, if we except the condition of Lahore, of much political import. ance. We perceive, however, that Mr R. Mont. gomery Martin has arrived at Bombay from China having provisionally relinquished the Treasurer-' ship of Hong-Kong, ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 891 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

FOUR CARRIAGES THROWN OVER AN EMBANKMENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

... FOUR CARRIAGES THROWN OVER AN EMBANK- MENT ON, THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. The express train left Paddington for Exeter on Tues- day morning, at three-quarters past nine o'clock, the whole distance (194 miles), since this fast train has been established, being performed in four hours and a half. The train consisted of the engine and tender, a luggage van, thvo second-class and to first-cless ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1178 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

THE NEW PROJECTED RAILWAYS

... I Railway Department, Board of Trade. Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by the minute of the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, of the 24th of August, 1844, for the transaction of railway business, having had under consideration the following schemes for extending railway communication in the district comprising the counties of Cornwall and Devon, viz.:- ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... FRANCE. CuHAMBE. OF DEPUTIES AND MwSrTsra OF FINANcE. -The French Ministry is in what our friends across the Atlantic call afix. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Budget have unanimously decided, with the exception of one vote, that the motives assigned by the Minister of Finance for delaying the conversion of the Five per Cents until next year, are not of sufficient weight to ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1376 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... I TEE PORTLAND VASE-Sir Henry Ellis states his opinion that a possibility still remains of restoring the vase to its pristine integrity, by two skilful artists ia the employ of the trustees of the Museum, named Double- day and Baldocic, who have had considerable experience in resetting the fragments of Greek vases. Sir Hear Ellis adds, that the Duke of Portland h us expressed tou the trustees ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2764 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL

... PO LIT I CAL. THE NEW ELECTIONS. WARWIcL.-Sir Charles Douglas was returned for this borough on Wednesday last, without opposition. CssIcHESTER. -Lord Arthur Lennox, being unopposed for this city, was also returned on Wednesday. CIRENcESTTER.-Mr Cripps was re-elected for this borough on Thursday, without opposition. SUNDERLAND.-A sharp contest took place for this borough on Thursday, between Mr ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 563 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

COURT AND ARISTOCRACY

... RETURN OF THE COURT TO LONDON.-Hcr Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Royal Family, will take their departure from Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace, according to present arrangements, on Tuesday, the 20th of next month, two days before the meeting of Parliament, which will be opened by her Majesty in person. Instructions to this effect have been forwarded to ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1845
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: Page 7, 8 | Tags: News