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Suicides.—On Monday night last, Louisa Barnard, aged 22, an inmate of house of ill fame in Herbert'sbuildings, ..

... in the night whilst her bedfellow, a person named Coxe, who had promised to marry her, was asleep, and hung herself at the foot of the bed. She wa« quite dead when Coxe awoke, and cut her down. —Last week poor girl, who had been seduced by Alfred Scott, draper's assistant, Manchester, and bad lived with him, or rather lived in lodgings as his wife, drowned herself in the Rochdale Canal, in ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LIBERAL LESSONS FROM TORY TEACHERS OR LORD JOHN AT SCHOOL AGAIN

... LIBERAL LESSONS FROM TORY TEACHERS OR LORD JOHN SCHOOL AGAIN. €fte SALDB POPULI LEX SUPUE fA TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1847. | The overwhelming majority which on Thursday evening stamped with confirmation the Minutes of the Education Committee of the Privv Council, and the decisive division of the following night which negatived the motion Sir AY. Clay, we must not too hastily assume to be the index ...

Published: Tuesday 27 April 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1404 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Emporia

... AFRICA. Selina, fm Africa «>il NEW SOUTH WALES. Gunga, Brown, fm Por* Ad--l»Mc: 001, gum, lead ore EAST INDIES. Blnrergo. Banks, fm Calcutta; indigo, j• rice Wild Iri>di Girl, Graham, fm Bombay; co'.ton, wool, horns, mvrabolanis, wine WEST INDIES. s tcr, fm Trinidad; molnsses, candles Knterpr Freeman fm Barbados; sutjir Ciy 'cs'l .le, Thomas, fm Cuba; palm leaf, fu?tic, lancewood spais, Cedar, ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

STATE OF TRADE

... Lancashire, Tot rsdat. March 18 —Tho broad fancy silk trade at Middleton, Fails worth, Manchester, and vicinities, is moderately brisk ; figured goods and new descriptions of work arc in great demand, but plain work and mixed goods are dull. The trade in cotton mills Bury and Heywood exceedingly dull, and the factory operatives are as badly off they have been for many years past. At Hey wood, ...

Published: Friday 19 March 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 749 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

TABLE TALK

... WHAT CLAIM 5!AVE WE TO G55ATITuDE.-A little thought ,vill sometimes prevent you from being discontented at not meeting with the gratitude which you have expected. If you were only to measure your expectations of gratitude by the extent of benevolence which you have expended, you would seldom have occasion to call people ungrateful. But many persons are in the habit of giving such a facti- ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6792 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY DEPARTURES

... I RAILWAY DEPARTuj-p87 NORITH UIiONI. Ffrom ?? to Lives-pool, ?? 730 AUM., MIxed. 1 30 w.11., lit & 4Ci 9 0 A.M., let &2d Ch. 4 0 Plat., t& 2d Ch 10 35 A.M., let& Id Ole. '1 0 P.M.,0 Mixed. Ott SUNDAYS.-? 55 A.M., ie; 5 5 P.R., Mied. From Liverpool to Wigans ande Presto,, 7 30 A.M., Mixed. 1 30 P.5O.,St2404 o 0 A.se.,lat&2d1015 3 50P`s0t2% 10 25 A.M,,lst&2dCIs. I 7 0 P.M.,Mized. Or, SUNDAeYS: ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1703 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... MIM8OLLA MOUS NEWS. * Dissuw~ras.-At se. Bees there are, it is stated, about thirty ex-dissenting preachers, all studying for the church ministry. BLACK SAaLORs.-Some curiosity has been excited at Cork, by the arrival, from New Orleans, of a ship wholly Manned by blacks. Tan LAST ROYAL MARRlAGE..-All attempts to effect a reconciliation between the King and Queen of Spain have been unsuccessful ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4462 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

... ANNIVERSARY OF TIHE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. The annual dinner to the soldiers, who fought in the wars of the Peninsula, and at the battle of Waterloo, took place yesterday (the anniversary of the last great v'ictory), in the Exchange Rooms. The dinner, which was provided by Mr. Rainford, of the Red Lion Hotel, comprised not only a great abundance of the more sub- stantial requisites on such ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT NEWS

... DISTRICT NEWS . l; TBIWf ro iNeDAY S ?? Mndalst thej . | scholars Of ?? Churchschool,' Leyland, partook ;of their nsnal tat of coffeeand bns ?? the field fronting ,he VIOW~% 811(1 slid~aftjar proceeded to the church; to ?? .turewehichwalsgiven by the Rer; J. Fisher,; in- ' , eIMIb, ,et f#[eapey .> The-tieachers-were also entertained, and enoyed theineles to a late hour in the levening, atd ?? ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... GL..ANINGS. In a bond my faith owes nothing, because it has no- thing lent it.-Montague. A good cause receives more injury from a weak defence, than from a frivolous ?? Marvel. I , A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber.-Shenstone. It is not from ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2490 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ADDRESS OF SIR ROBERT PEEL TO THE ELECTORS OF TAMWORTH

... AD ESS OF SIR ROBRT 1EEEL .OTHE ELECTRbS Olt§MWORTH. Sir Robert Peel has issued a very long address to his ,Onstituents, in Which he reviews the events of his ad- ministration, and gives some expression of his opinions 0n the future policy of the country. As this document fil four columns and a half in the limes, it is out of the question to give it entire; We shall, therefore, extract the ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2405 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... I!, 1. , 7. ?eq,? - ?? - - ?? 7.4 ; ?? , .- , , , 7- F .,r , . , :, I ll. - .1 ? ?? y 'I Iacocca I - -A! Adulall Y - e'..u~j~iiaie I ni65 u,.Shaffe-r ovcr: bargiis, anid ireckona ! ?? and hereia rests the difference. .;ifig'rfe5 idu.al nifianhhat.sbook knowledge, and the farmer. . B ?? ls g the proper term; for to say. '+@fhned-uoated woald be unjust and untrue. Be~ . 'the'&dd'atlon ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 748 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News