Birkenhead, &c

... 33fr?enTTn?, &c. Tune-our or Woaaxss.-A number of the vvorkmen engagedn r-in various occupations conneoted with bailding have turned out b ve for an advance or wvager. On Saturday evening the joiners gave v. in notice of their rofosal to work unless at an increase of wag~es v us from S3e. to 26a, per week. The masters reibsed the demand, b to and on Monday about 1000 of them were going about ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1514 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

News and Observations

... Sim a- vobdrbationd. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By the packet-ship Shenandoah, Captain West, which arrived on Sunday, and the Henry C!ay, Captain N. e which reached the Mersey on MNonday, we have receiv~ed 2New York papers to the 8th instant, being eight days tivi later than those brought by the Acadia. o THEt OREGON QUESTION, me The controversy between the two countries upon the Go z'uJec, ...

Published: Friday 30 January 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4029 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Imperial Parliament

... ?sq?etixT I9arliarnent. ?? * .e~ ~e. - Arh ROUSE! OF COMMONS. Wl WEDNESLLIY, Mfay 19. eqa ~Ze following; ritilway btil were read a second tine and ntJ Wdrerd to bg committed -Tbe Fuwnewe Eztenslianl the Lvon- Mr. don. 8alirbury. and Yeoil Junction i Saisbury to Yervil ;) an D Mv the Wsrwioleshire nd Londsn (tw o bills.) She Dubin Cemeteriest Bill wa alstto read a seconad LlmeC. Mr. She ...

Published: Friday 15 May 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1189 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

EXPIRING BIGOTRY

... If any thing could be stranger than to see a no Tory Government expunging from the statute so book those records of the bigotry of this free Ota country which still disgrace its past history, it Tui would be the fact tlhat any person removed grj from the lowest ranks of station and of igno- be) ranco could yet be found to advocate their con- I tinuance. They have long been practically re- ...

Published: Friday 15 May 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1607 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: News 

THOROUGH—FINAL—UNCONDITIONAL

... 7 - I THUROIJGH-f'lNAL-UNCONDITIONAI- I (From the Ecsoiosist.) -1 The Ministry is re-constituted, and the day for Ij the meeting of Parliament is definitively fixed. It Cas 15 known that the Government intend to bring for- ftot ward a measure for the settlement of the corn law At.~ question ; and the great point of interest for the or.u country now is, what that measure is to be. Its roto ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2203 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THOUGHTS ON THE BOTANIC GARDEN ANNUAL MEETING

... THOUGHTS ON THE BOTANIC GARDEN ANNUAL MEEITING, ?? . -. .. - ty. --J- D--- A. -A M-n. i Mh o 4Siml. r Held at the Clarendon Rooms, o0l Mforday, the 19th inst. tlie Y I cannot avoid thinking that the meeting, held rela- and ie tive to the pecuniary embarrassment of the Botanic wh( 3 Garden, will have a good effect, (though perhaps indi-l My rectly,) froi the valuable practical remarks it ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 968 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: News 

SCRAPS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS

... 00 A newspaper in Alabama, was born one day, and died the next. 'If brevity is the soul of wit, that paper had indeed a ta very witty existence. - oh A HoAx.-The goo I people of Pittsburg lately assembled, ze cording to public notice on a bridge, for the purposo of soeing: 3r, a man fly. At the appointed hour, while the spectators, with Dn open mouths and straining eye-balls, were anxiously ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1197 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

News and Observations

... fl Ob?tLiflftfUI?. I ? UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. frou The Royal Mail stearm.pcacket Hiberuni, Capnt. Ryrie, beecs which left -Bnton am the 1st instant, ?? on tlle atO 3rd, reached thie Mersey on Tuesday afternoon at five I o'clock. By her we have received New York papers to; acte ;Thee Or~egon con~tr8ove'tsy, says the Natea York Courir leliskef land 'sqakire, is still at a deread pausehc is ...

Published: Friday 17 April 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7718 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SCRAPS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS BY THE HIBERNIA

... SCRAPS FROM' THE AMERICAN PAPERS BY THE HIBERNIA. Do wounds often heal by the first Intention ? Not when the patient is rich and the doctor is poor. When does mortification ensue? When you pop the question and are answered-no. c In .speaking ofea letoial friend, who poesses a very rubicund i countenancesone said the other day: I don't think he drinks. , In fact, I know he does not, for ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2564 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Birkenhead, &c

... 5ivrken'falet, &C. , TRANMRR.-MRETING; OF TE4 RATE PAYRER Yes treli t. terday, at noon, the adjourned meeting of the rate- upon p ayers of this township was heid at the Trausnere Castle Hoytel~, for the purpoeo akn noconsideration the the propriety of adopting measures fo the lightien and t hie e watching of the township. The meeting was conducted ?? tin a more orderly manner thais same of ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... BMTLT17M IN PARVO. for The Bank of England returns for the week ending the 16th so had Instant, state the amount of notes issued to be £27,620,215, tels of which the banking department has on hand £7,497,460, leav-fel 1 if ing the circulation, in bank notes, £10,022,755, to which must uc en) be added, bank post bills, £968,128; against this, in addition to my the Government debt and other ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2970 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE PROTECTIONISTS AND THEIR DINNERS

... oejuv- a 00 ~ e~~pff merrurp2, SA5LUSPOPUDl LEX SUP1l.3IA. FRDA SEPTEMBER 18, 1846. gECTIONISTS AND THEIR OFE o DINNERS. seraitch me, and I'll soraitch you, says 01_cotchl precept. Accordingly, as Mr. the ?? at a ?? demonstration in ~edegatea Oe tf Lord George Benitinck, that honour- hnoeaber could not do less than return the Nbldnrllicrut last week, at Coleshill, where, oat e zopeople ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1846
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1096 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News