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... giottict ?;Rtws. DUDLEY. THE LATE -.CICDENT AT BlSNS' LANE u oLcAErtY.-COo- 3aITTAL OF THiE ESGINEER FOR MA'SLIJGHTEE.-At thle New Town Hall, yesterday, before Captain Bennitt and W. Mathews, Esq., Charles Bridgewater, late engineer at the Bunn's Lane Colliery, was pilced in the dock on a charge of having, by uegli- gence, caused the death of Henry Dickenson, a lad seventeen years of age, on ...

Published: Thursday 14 April 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3334 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

NEWS OF THE DAY

... NEWS OF TaE DAY. SOMEn gossip regardingll, the motives of the Minis- try ill dissolving a Parliament ecarcely two years old, has oozed out in the Dmetropolitaiii clubs, and has been thence conveyed to the0 colum1ns of a con- teuiporary. The story about -Mr. DISaAEMI being anxious to secure a retiring pension to which he would be entitled at the end of this month, and all the thousand and one ...

Published: Monday 18 April 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5319 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... ,lordo ?? 1, . 0 c W. * FRANC E. (Pr-e thec Dat'fay News, PiRs, Wfe'dnesday Evening. LUitle or no news of the CongrezA but umeh talk of pre- pgaration for war is the charaetereitin oi tlno situation. The Minister of Marine is combinir,g his efforts will thinse of the Miuister at War to bo rc l'3y ' lwhenever the signal may be given. Orders have be dit sent to Touloxi that sixty- eight ?? ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1344 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... (By, B leasic I namsiond TdNmph-) OmCEs, Tmrm BueI NS. NEW SAM. THE WARS GA3MALDI CROSSING THE TIGINO. The following telegrams were received at Mr. Iteuter's office, May.24:- PAIus, Tuesday, May 24. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the following telegram I ATsMANDRIA, May 23, Evening. A Yesterday the Emperor attended mass in the Cathedral. Hs 'His Majesty everywhere receives ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7106 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT THE HOUNSLOW POWDER MILLS

... DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT THE HIOUNSLOW POWDER MILLS. [From the Timies.] One of those terrible calamities which from time to time seem fated to occur in the hazardous process of manufac- turing gunpowder, took place on Wednesday morning, at Messrs. Curtis and Harvey's works, at Hounslow. The lives of six persons were instantaneously sacrificed, a seventh sufferer has since been added to the list ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1226 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

DREADFUL SUFFERINGS AT SEA

... (Farnn the Times.) The following painful statement has been made by John Elliott, mate of the Dromahair,- The British bark Dromuasir sailed from Quebec on the 20th of November, 1858, for Greenock, Scotland, loaded with lumber and manned by thirteen persons, including the captain and mate. She carried no passengers. Her officers were: John Hutohison, captain; John Elliott, first mate; and ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2090 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... g ortign zutfiftylict. THE TREATY WITH CHINA. The following are the terms in which the Jotrnal tie St. petersbouri announces the conclusion of peace with China: On the 7t1. (19th) of August, Licut.-Colonel Martynow arrived at St. Petersburg, and immediately left forPoter. hof. This officer, deapatched as courier by Count Patiatine, accomplished the journey from Tienl-Ting in fifty days, ...

Published: Monday 30 August 1858
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... Jrdq'R. btflliylla. THE WAR CRISIS. FAINT HOPES-OP PEACE. BE 11rIT Monday, A pril 11. The offioial Prussian Gazette (PT-enssische Zeiitng) pub. lislies a leading article of which the following is a sum- inary:- *Daring the last few days urreasbiess has taken posses- sion of the public mind at thro -lews-that the assembling of the Congress has again becomei doubtful Tle anticipation of a near ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1025 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... LAT ES T _N-EW w $.1 1BY ELEE RIO AND IsTg NATcO AL TELERIAP. I OEnEsIS, TMPL BUMDISGS, NWV SaEc. THEWAR. RUMOUBS OF ANOfIiER GREAT -BATTLE. ?? , ?? Wesinesday. it wvas reported in' Paris that the Empress had received news of an important engagement yesterday morning, near Montechiaro; thab the Austrians had been driven back, nd thatbhe mairt body of the French army had advanced Considerably. ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2197 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MANNING THE NAVY

... REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the best means of manning the navy has just presented its report to Parliament, and was in the hands of members yesterday. The importance of the question can scarcely. be over-rated at a time when the necessity of keeping the navy in an efficient state is so generally felt, and a summary of the report may be read ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3917 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR

... The Profeet of Police has just placarded all over Paris a copy of one of the coup d'fat decrees, by which any per- son propagating a pieco of false news, whether with bad faith or nob, is liable to a fine of from 50fr. to 1,000fr. I have not heard whether this penalty has been applied to the Government journal the Pays, which lately propa- gated the false news that the Austrians had evacuated ...

Published: Friday 03 June 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1666 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

The Metropolis

... .z4f Pdr-opolis. TheoRoyal Polytechnic Institution, Rgent Street. Lon- ten, which for many years has done so much for the. reas tiolavad encouragement of a taste for scientifico pursuits, is annonnced for sale by auction, by Messrs, Rushworth and' Xarvig, of Saville Itow, in the present month of June;. I ?? 1ArNWH op A MAN.-OF-WAR.-The launch of her Ma- 3Wt ship Charybdis took place at ...

Published: Friday 03 June 1859
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1041 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News