Colonial and Foreign INtelligence

... I (solonia[ aB .foreign 3Entelligence. FRANCE.-TIhe ministry of M. Guizot, which at the termination of the last election appeared so power. ful, is now tottering; and its reconstruction has become necessary to avert its entire overthrow. Some act of the administration gave rise to a split in the conservea tive ranks, and to the formation of a party of indepen. dent conservatives, numbering ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1847
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 822 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

Police Court

... Publicans and Bbbrsrllbrs,—The following parties were summoned on Friday, for offences under the Improvement Act:—John Grant, publican, Scotland-place, fined £5 and costs. BeerteUtrt.—John Alcock, Kirkdale, 30i.; Sarah Bharpe, Thurlow-street, 405.; John Davidson, Gildart's-gardens, Ann Tomlinson, 20s. or Nioht Soil.—On Friday, man named John Hindle, was summoned before Mr. Rushton, for having ...

Published: Tuesday 11 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4771 | Page: Page 4 | 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 

WIGAN

... iNSOßAcirui. Assault upon Child.—On Tuesday last, a man, named Mark Brennan, navigator, was brought before the county magistrates Wigan, a charge of oommitting rape, J*® assault with ip tent, on young girl, named Jane Bimpkin, J**™ the daughter single woman residing Orrell. The ptkouer was afterwards committed to take his trial for the assault and mtsdeaseaaow. ...

Published: Friday 28 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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 

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 

THE TOWN IMPROVEMENT BILL

... THE TOWN IMPROVE MENT BILL. IT is notorious that too many cooks spoil the broth ; and equally notorious is it that too many public bodies spoil a city. Bristol is an instance of this. She is over- run with corporations and companies, and is alternately cramped and coddled by these officious nurses of the public interests. These public bodies seldom, by any chance, agree. They are always ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1847
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 450 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... The ?? states that eleven persons have been arrested near one of the barriers of Paris, ona charge of beltig;J engaged in the mamfactu1e of incendiary projectiles. Very serious disturbances have taken place both in the north of France and in Belgium, in consequence of the high l price of bread. At Lille a mob, uttering seditious cries, attacked the bakers shops, breaking tile doors and windows ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1847
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1498 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. We are indebted to the Times for the fdllowing intel- ligence: CAPURnE OF VERA CRuZ AND ST. JUAN D'ULTOA.-We have received a copy of the Newc Yorks Joumral of Coeisrnrce of the 16th instant, which was furnished to our correspondent at Plymouth by a pilot, who obtained it from an American packet bound for Havre. The following extracts leave no doubt as to the capture ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1847
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3153 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News