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 

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 

ENGLAND

... E, N' ?? 1 LANDJ. i1mr.l t- ni I ?? he Iin-nce of the ?? on Th- `jr~ii~ o f'H ;,r. 4 Mr. C. C'ullimc ai e 2:44.11 (-C -.:i C' tl a~e Lord i olk-,. ?? wnnil M t il;rrjv uif In :;rl trr. ' of Lolin'rmtn ' I t n,1 ti4 tO t' V J Ti rfl r >i- > If T i irri t .',zrrv Son o;; ti'- i ok. :1041 f.r'1, ?? 1M- ?? I -ezncr .- r !z . . t& i or Mr. J t1 l ad e i ?? 31 r L r etr.l tv o`; a: I lln;S !IMae t ...

Published: Monday 17 May 1847
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4497 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE RICH AND THE POOR

... t LOO ON 511I PICTURE, AND ON THIS I er lajesty and Prince DZAT FRHOM STAXVA id Albert, accompanied by the TION.-OU Saturday an in Y, Prince of Leiningen, ho- ?? was held before P. F to nuured the Royal Italian Curry, Esq., Borough co, or Opera.hiouqe with their pre- roner, on the body of Luki rseace on Wednesday even- Brothers, a child of eight be Ig. Her Majesty appeared years, who lived in ...

Home News

... A o_ ic E ?? ?? ~ ~breadi, iG us Waggon, wb ?? ?? them half filled. t yonx5nTtI'z. om teef ?? BRAMh,.,-rn.FACToar GiRtaii.-Tbe cmitefre i ( imroving the conaitionl of the factory girls of Brad- muentl dtdhe yford have fitted 'lip the first of their intended IOd* trates assem miebhouses. Should'the trialiprove sucepsfnl othersI Utignary iwill be prepared. The house in situated in Timble- ...

The Court

... ?.Tljc Oottrt. lIER MAJESTY'S SrATE BALL.-(Continued from I the Court Circular of Saturday.)-Her Majesty and Prince 2 Albert, accompanied by their RR.HH. the Duchess of I Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, vnd Prince George, and f.S.11. the Prince of Leiningen, returned to t the ball-rooms after supper, and dancing was resumed. l1cr Majesty's piper, performed seieral pieces. Her blejestv ...

Published: Monday 17 May 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3678 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SCOTLAND

... SCO TLANkD. EDINBURGH, M&Y 13. The weather still continues unfavourable for vege- tation. The wind is indeed westerly, bat rain comes so often as to prevent that steady heat that is now essential to protzress. Nevertheless, the trees and fields have a healthy and fresh appearance. Road reform will likely become a movement ques- tion in Scotland. An influential meeting has been held in Ayr for ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1847
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 595 | Page: Page 5 | 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 

CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA

... CONSIDERING the vast importance of this subject, it waS but httle to the credit of the great bulk of the House of Commons, and particularly of many meiflbers for manufacturing districts, that the house should have been counted out last week, during the discussion upon Mr. Bright's motion. The cotton trade is not, as many uninformed j person3 think, and as some writers, who know jbetter» have, ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1847
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 549 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

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... The Grand Duke of Tuscany has granted his subjects the liberty of the press. Great preparations are making at Cambridge for the approach- ingtnstaHatton. Four Don-commissioned officers of Royal Marinta were Ga- zetted on Friday last as second Lieutenants. The repeal reading room at Limerick has lately been converted into a shop for the sale of provisions. It is not unusual to see poor ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1847
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4175 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News