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CRIMES AND OFFENCES

... Obtaining Money vnder False Pretences.—Two persons, named Henry Adamson and B:idget Adams, have been committed tor trial at Hull, charged with obtaining money under false pretences, and supposed to connected with an extensively-organized system ...

Published: Tuesday 25 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

District Intelligence

... WREXHAM. This stirring little town now beginning to assume important position the business world. Its railway in connexion with the coil and iron district?, and its numerous fair-, are fast it into notice and celebrity, und the authorities of the town are not unmmdtii! of the requirements necessary for the business which daily increasing. The ma ket is fn*t apDroachinfir completion. The front ...

Published: Tuesday 25 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1020 | Page: Page 5 | 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 

MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE

... (From the Times.) Thursday Evening.—Owin« to the settlement of th» account, the variations in the English funds to-day hare been extensive, and the occurrence of four failures bu kept the market in a state of excitement. Consols for money opened at an advance of per cent., the first pric* being to 86$ Frnm this they declined to 854, then again advanced to 85J, but finally receded to 85A which ...

Published: Tuesday 30 November 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 799 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ON IRON

... ITS ACTIVE AND INACTIVE STATES. Read at the Liverpool Polytechnic Society, bp Mr. Spencer, November 8,1847. PART THIRD: IRON IN ITS INACTIVE STATE. Much more might be said on the principles which govern the corrosion of iron in air and water. Indeed a great many striking facts, together with the results of some notable experiments, have not even been glanced at, nor was it contemplated, at the ...

Published: Tuesday 30 November 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1609 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

COMMERCIAL FAILURES

... The West Indian Bank —The draughts of the West India ink were yesterday refused acceptance by their averts, the Union Bank of London, the reason being that the West Ind'a Bank had. against the repeated and empha'ic warnings of the manager of the Union Bat k. continued to make purch ses of the bills of Higginson, Dean, and S?ott, of Barbadoes, on Barton, Irlam, and son, Liverpool, to an extent ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 557 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

High Pricbr.—We haTe been favoured with the following extract from the memoranda of a highly respectable fellow ..

... yean in the com trade: —Saturday, Dec. 20 ( 1800, Reading market wheat was £9, barley £5, pea?, £4, old beans £4 6s. per quarter; flour £6 16*. per sack. At Hen lev wheat was £10 per quarter.—&uu; day, July 25, 1801, wheat £9 per quarter, and fell the next Saturday 56 >. per quarter an average.** This amazing fall was owing to the news of the peace of Amiens. The same register states that in ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

FAIRS FOR NEXT WEEK

... Friday Mav 21. —Ashborne, Ewhurst, lfatherlcigh, Lamberhurst, (Sussex,) Sputty, Trccastlo, Tring, Whitosinitii, Kettering, Orton, Ruthyn. Saturday, 22.—Abbot's Bronile}', Culmstock, Dunstable, Limpsfield, Macnclocbog, Onklcr, Ruabon, Wainfleet. Appleby, Booth, Malton, March, Now in, Skipton, Stag bawbank, Wisbech, (Isle of Ely.) Sunday, 23.—Albrighton, App'ebliaw, C'rickieth, Grays, Gucstling, ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

MANX ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

... It ia the boast of those who now rule the roast in thelseot Man,that theinhabitants,generally,arecontented with their domination,and that those who object things they are, are actuated only factious and interested motives. In the course of the recen libel prosecution, Mr. Deemster Hey wood challenged her Majesty's Attorney General name place where justice was better administered than in the ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 657 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE

... I lTRJCT mI EriLLIGENCE. - tt TRee ?? Sirraccn.-The insterest ?? ice Bevedley io ?? Tuesdady, by tilea nionnumenat that the Queen's speech would is be telegraplhed to Hlull, printed tit the Pockeet Office, and Mr- ol ceelales ice le-vericy thle, Came evening, was immefnse. Sour Spurrting elutractere ventured to bet that it could not be accom. 3, lelislles, Osed unimbors wote vwetting at thle ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1847
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5779 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

... LESSONS FOR1 SUNDAY, OCT. 10.-Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity.-Meornjigng-Daniel iii. and Mark xiii. Evening-Daniel vi. and 2 Corinthians ix. The living of Nortlh Ferrihy, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Dykes, has been presented to the Rev. Charles Newby Waivin, by W. Watson Wilkinson, Esq., of Cottinghamn, patron. BANKRUPTCY COURT (WVEDN ESDAY).-Before Mr. Commissioner Ayrton.-Re ...

Published: Friday 08 October 1847
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6215 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: News