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... Last night a public meeting of the friends of Ireland was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, for the purpose of declaring their abhorrence of the atrocious Coercion Bill proposed for Ireland. The meeting was announced for seven o'clock, but long before that hour every portion of the large room was occupied, and several were obliged to leave for want of space. There were present on the ...
... shares), 11 pm.—London and Birmingham, shares) pm.— London and Brighton, 62—London and South Western, 76—Manchester and Birmingham (4 shares B), pm.—Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, (Extension shares), 1 pm. Manchester and Leeds (1-16 th shares), pm.—Midland Railway, 144—North Union (A), 206— Runcorn Gap, 6s. 6d. pm.—Sheffield and Manchester J shares), 4 pm. —Do. (do. No. 31, 4 dis.—South Eastern ...
... THE ANCIENT CONCERTS. The third conccrt, last evening, was under the direction of the Duke of Cambridge. The programme contained a great deal of good music, but lacked the interest which has lately been imparted to these concerts, by bringing forward fine old compositions which, being forgotten and unknown to the present generation, have all the charm of novelty. For this improved feature in ...
... until certificate shall have been produced, of their approval by one-third of the scrip or shareholders, at a meeting to be specially called for the purpose—will be important supplement to the proposed Dissolution BQI. While the latter will empower dissentient shareholders to enforce the winding up of concerns which they no longer wish to prosecute, the former forbids all further progress in ...
... proceeding with the adjourned debate on the first reading of the Protection of Life (Ireland) Bill having been moved, Mr. W. S. O'Brien called attention to the defective proceedings of the Government in respect to the famine in Ireland, declining, however, to oppose in limine the proposition before the House. Sir J. Graham briefly defended the course which Government had pursued, although he ...
... FACTORIES. (From the Votes of the Home of Commons, April 2.) Motion mode, and Question put, That a Select Committee be appointed, to inquire into the allegations of the Petition of the Chairman of a meeting of inhabitants of Dundee, complaining of illegal trial and imprisonment of Jane Bennet and other factory girls in October last. The House divided :— AYES, 38. Aglionby, H. A. Duncan, ...
... as much to be feared in our day from the perverted sympathy that embraces dangerous offenders, as from the excess of severity in punishing capital offences. The Western Times of last week exhibits instance - ] of the former kind of compassion gone astray, that may serve to show, at least, to what oblivion of right and wrong well-meaning persons may be led by following mere impulses, however ...
... DEBATE OX THE NAVAL ESTIMATES Sitting April 13.—The President took the chair at three o'clock. Lord Palmers ton was in the tribune appropriated to the diplomatic corps, and near him was seated Marshal Sebastiani. M. Levavasseur presented a petition from a person named Holland, complaining of the illegal seizure of a vessel belonging to him, called the Pilote, an English man-ofwar, on the ...
... Health op Towns Statistics.—From a very interesting report on this important subject just made to the association at Liverpool, it is stated that, in that town alone, there are 3,611 deaths a more than there ought to be. Dr. Playfair has made an estimate of the annual excess of cases of sickness at 101,108. The following are the prominent results of these two statements Out of those 3,611 ...
... a matter which has been supposed to belong solely to lawyers and land-agents. And their object has been to render an estate conducive to the political aggrandisement and the personal enjoyment of its possessor. They never imagined the public had aught to do with the management of Lord This's tenants, or the covenants of Squire That's leases. Such things were deemed quite private arrangements; ...
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