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COLONIAL

... NEW ZEALAND.—VVe have accounts fro»1 colony to the 13th of April, not later indeed than «• formerly published, but containing some additional it»» intelligence. On the Ist Grey **. i tertained by the community ef Nelson, the Hon. C. lon presiding, at a public dinner which was largely After the usual loyal toasts the chairman, in most mentary speech, proposed the health of the govern* ...

Published: Thursday 02 September 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 702 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

A suggestion has been made, in the matter of the Caxton memorial, which seems very deserving of attention. To ..

... the various shoals which the unskilfulness of designers, the errors of judges, and the grossness of the public taste place around the suggested commemoration, whether by a statue or a fountain and light pillar, it is proposed that the sum collected for a Caxton monument be appropriated to the building and endowment of an almshouse or hospital for decayed printers. We trust that this scheme ...

Published: Tuesday 29 June 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Our letters and the Paris journals of Sunday continue to be engrossed with the details of official corruption ..

... the parliamentary inquiries and discussions now held in the French capital. the ministerial majority in the Deputies have smothered the Girarrtin scandals in the chamber, the journalist majority in the press has made ample amends for this out of doors. One journal only, the Debats, defends the cabinet. Of the three which it lately influenced, one is defunct from want of public support, another ...

Published: Tuesday 29 June 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1383 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

The meetings which have been held Edinburgh and Glasgow, with a view to promote an alteration in the Scotch law

... of entail, appear to have been composed principally of landowners. The speakers were landed proprietors; the inconveniences of the entail law upon which they expatiated with most unction were those which are felt by owners of entailed estates. The voices heard at these meetings come from the class by whom, and for whose fancied interests, the entail system was created. They are crying aloud to ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 917 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... Dublin, Dbc. 18. We had a short pause from murder. One week past, and we were all gratulation at the prospect of order and the restoration of better feelings to the wicked men who are platting scourges for their own backs. Again the old violence breaks upon us in all its ferce. The country papers bring intelligence of three brutal murders, one in Limerick and two in Longford, with an attempt ...

Published: Monday 20 December 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1009 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PORTUGAL

... The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Iberia, Captain John Bowen, brings news to the following dates: Gibraltar, May 16th; Cadiz, 17th, Lisbon, 19th; Oporto, 20th; and Vigo, 21st From the latter place we learn that the fortified town of Valen9a, in the Minho, held by a body of the queen's troops, about 580 in number, had been invested by a force under the command of Baron d'Almargem. ...

Published: Tuesday 25 May 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3434 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

SHIPPING

... M ails Arrived.—Dublin, 6; Waterford, 4: Donaghadee 2; French, 2; Flanders, 1. London, June 7.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.W light breeze, and fine clear weather. Deal, June s.—N.—6th, N.E., fresh, and squally Arrived: Jeannette Phillippa, Batavia, and sailed for Amsterdam ; Nuevo Carapeado, Havannah, and sailed for Christensand. Sailed: Mercator, Havannah; Centurion, New York; Mary Ridley, ...

Published: Monday 07 June 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Death of Mr. William Leman Rede.—On Saturday morning, at six o'clock, this gentleman expired at his residence ..

... He had been suffering recently under a painful and dangerous complaint, against which he struggled. On Friday morning, however, he continued to sink rapidly until he expired. Mr. Rede was a dramatist and the author of many successful farces and burlesques. He has also been for many years writer in several of the first periodicals of the day. Mr. Rede was only 45 years age. ...

Published: Monday 05 April 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

There is little chance of the intrinsic greatness of Thomas Chalmers ever being adequately recognised by the ..

... position as a churchman, as provincial churchman, necessarily concentrated much of his attention and energy upon subjects which, if not positively distasteful, possess at least little interest for society at large out of his own country. And the public is but too apt to judge of men more by the sphere in which they act, than by the powers of intellect and will they display in it It is a great ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MADRID, Oct. 22

... The supposed motive of the arrest of the bass singer at the Circo will have been sufficient to show the importance which this fact must assume under more than one paint of view. The progresista papers,-in considering this subject, have only looked at the matter on one side, affecting the liberty of the subject. Certainly that is important, the more as there is no reason to suppose that such ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1145 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Fine Arts

... JF •••* Royal Patronage of English Art Mancfacture —We understand that her Majesty and his Roval Highness Prince Albert h«Te lately commanded Mr. Cundall, the publisher, to attend Windsor with all the specimens of Felix Summeriy's Art Manufactures which are ready, and were graciously pleased to become par chasers of eTery important example of the series. ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 7

... Accounts have been received from Erzeroum to the 3rd Aug. The troops who rebelled on occour.t of their pay being in arrtar have returned their duty, and all tranquil; they are preparing set out for the campaign in Khorassan. This rebellion in Albania is not yet put down; nearly all the country arms. Many of the fortified towns, it is true, are iii the hands of the emperor's troops, but the ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News