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 

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 

THE FACTORY BILL

... T tCE FACTORY BILL. | al lll . -, , v -, , -I contested Factory Bill is about to undergo al in the Upper House; we presume iti will be easy as compared with the fierce has surmounted in the House of Com- Worthy of remark, that the. most .bitter this wise and wholesome measure have 'n Liberals, and of that class commonly olitical Economists. The operative, on A has had an excellent opportunity ...

Published: Sunday 02 May 1847
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 531 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... IRE LAND. DEATE OF 31S REXCELLENCY THER LORD LIEUTENrANT. 1 I aon! Saunders' News Letter of Monday.) This melancholy event, now expected for some days, is con- I sumrnated. Ei.s e cellneocy breathefi his las at eleven o'clock ont Sunday nig$*ith&e 16Lh{d1nStcs~eacefo~lly, and wfirhobis ] struggle. Abiit haliran hour prekfionsly, $Es extellency rook; a last and afictiouate farewell of the ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2492 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... I TjPERA.L PA.RLIAMENT;: l HOUSE OF, LORDS-TnunesDiv, MAY 6.. TI The LonD CHOANCELLOR took his seat on tbh' wools'aok ther. at five o'clock. Lor( MONETARY DIFFICULTIES. Beni Lord BROUGHAM rose to bring before their. lordsbips tihs the present difficulties felt in commercial transactions, He pare said that the wool and cotton trade bad never been so good prol in this country. The orders for ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1847
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2092 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News