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... Dkath «»f Mk. Chaklkh Edward Cropper.—We lament having state that ihn« pr>»miMing youth, the oniy child Cropper, E»q, died the h scarlet in t. He was a visit at the family Dingle? b ink, during an educational recess. On Sunday week wan apparently excellent health, 1 at ended divine »i-rv:ee during the day but iHday complained being unwell, and, «r >wing worse bv the following and the nature ...

Published: Friday 23 April 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2925 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

News and Observations

... AMERICA. GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN tub AMERICAN AND MEXICAN FORCES. The Royal Mail Steiuß-ihip Hibernin, Captain Rjrrie, which left Boeton Ist inat. and Halitax on the 3d, arrived m the Meraejr jeoterdajr morning. She brings vetjr important neva. A great battle haa been fought between the American and Mexican armiee, between Saltillo and Monterey. The accounts are not verjr positive aa to the ...

Published: Friday 16 April 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5156 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

To Correspondents

... C.\::Pr S ASKS AT VuHK.—J.M. 14 11., M. II . tn . :up New Yoik.and their diin «li 11:it«m pr day, wo ...

Published: Friday 16 April 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1165 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Level the Fences.—At the recent meeting of Yorkshire Agricultural Society, Lord 1 j giving an account the ..

... he ha«l drain extensive moor very large deep drain,®®' and lult long, said,— ,4 *He wished to impretf landowner* the great necessity of throw'inK down * fences,'not fer the sake of gentlemen riding a' ter houii(?p, but for their own good. having ® hedges they had less land on which grow theirF 1 ' duce, and in dry season sparrows and other birds up half the seed.'—Mr. J. (Juthwaite, speaking ...

Published: Tuesday 24 August 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FREE TRADE AND THE CURRENCY

... Wit has often been exercised in defining the height of impudence, the height of folly, &c.; but to illustrate the height of dishonesty, we have onlv, now, to point to the Tory and Protectionist press of this country. is, at this moment, ascribing the existing distress of our commercial and manufacturing classes to the recent legislation in favour of free trade! Aow, tne writers basely ...

Published: Friday 08 October 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 875 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

... Mbbting or the Birkenhkad, Lancashirs, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. Saturday,a meeting of the shareholders in the above company was held in the Town-hall, Birkenhead, for the purpose of receiving the report and statement of the accounts for the half year ending June 30, and also for the purpose of affixing the seal of the company to the registration of shareholders. W. Bailey, junr., ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2432 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

VAGARIES OF THE PRESS

... An error the press is often spoken of; but an error the typography is what is meant; and of the extraordinary blunders sometimes made by compositors, despite all trie care that taken in the plain manuscript, or j«equent marks by the corrector, we had two specimens uesdny. In one of the instances the writer had extolled one of our most opulent mercantile men : one who whether in the town, as at ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

DOINGS TOXTETH, OR HOW TO UPSET VESTRY. To thf EDITORS of the LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Gentlemen, —Any one who ..

... the sessions on Monday last, when a pretty nearly successful attempt was made to over-rule the choice overseers previously made by the inhabitants Toxteth, in vl's! ry, must have been struck by the great fact, hitherto unknown, or, all events, not acted on in parish matters, that would not be so difficult, after all, for some six or seven persons, in any given community, to upset the ...

Published: Tuesday 13 April 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

CORPORATION SERVANTS. To the EDITORS Of the LIVERPOOL MERCORY. Genti.kmkn,—l perceive the proceedings of the ..

... on Thursday last, tile own clerk recommended an increase in the salaries paid to his cleiks, Messrs. Driffield, Topping, and Jamieson.' It seems there is a disposition abroad to augment the salaries of persons high in office, leaving those who have really to perform the work of the Corporation to be miserably underpaid. take this opportunity of contrasting the number of hours the clerks at ...

Published: Tuesday 20 April 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2078 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

IRISH POOR LAW AND WASTE LAND RECLAMATION

... Cite BALUB POPVLI LEX 6UPREUA FRIDAY, MARCH .5, 1847. In the multitude of counsel there may be wisdom, but there certainly is confusion. Ireland, her miseries, and their remedies, const itute tht; all-engrossing theme of Parliament and the press. The platform and the pulpit take share in the discussion. Pamphlets and periodicals teem with healing suggestions. The subject is debated in the ...

Published: Friday 05 March 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1131 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Bankrupts, &c

... F>om the London Gazete, of triday, Jan. 15. LANGRIDGE, Henry, stay manufacturer, Liverpool, to surrender Jan. £6, and Feb. at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Attorney. Bradley, Liverpool BENBOW. Thomas, draper, Lianidiots, Montgomeryshire, to surrender Jan. 26 and Feb. 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Attorney, Mason, Liverpool Alexander, e-tate aiient, ltecent street, ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1218 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News