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MISCELLANEOUS

... upwards of 40 years. The New Search for Sir John Franklin.—Captain Horatio T. Austin, C.8., has been offered, and has accepted tbe command of tbe intended new northwest expedition to proceed in further search of Sir John Franklin. In the selection of this gallant ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1850
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2370 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS

... about midnight, Mr. Tofts, of Si. John's College Farm, was awakened by the barking ot his dog under his window. He sprang from his bed, looked oat, saw nothing, and * about to retire to sleep again, when his shepherd, John Matthews (who, with another man ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1850
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3486 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS

... Murder New Zealand. The family of Mr. John Ellis, stablekeeper in the commercial-road-East, have just received, per the Cornelia, Captain Mickleburg, from Wellington, New Zealand, the melancholy tidings of tbe murder of John Ellis, son of the above, on board ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1850
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7240 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

... died a. d. 877. The Lord Rhys, who died a. d. 1196, gTanted to his son-in-law, Cadivor, for taking Cardigan Castle, about the year 1166, by escalade, for arms—Sable, a spear's head embrued between three scaling ladders argent, on a chief gules a castle triple ...

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... ated Bishop of Birmingham still con- the tithe, he would be liable to the remalty of HOW. In the celebrated letter of Lord John Russell, mention was made of the “ mummerics rstition” practised by the Roman cathohes. He (hi Camoys) confessed himself imsulted ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1851
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 11078 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GREAT PROTECTIONIST MEETING AT DRURY-LLANE THEATRE

... Streat House, Sir Frederick Fowke, Bart., Sir Brook “ , Bart., Rev. John Hilton, Rev. E. C Alston, Rev. G Moore, C ‘right, G. P ir Wm. Worsley, ‘Bare . C. Worsley, Esq., Capt. Campbell, John Herring, | s Sit Heron Maxwell, Bart, Rev. W. She Charles -, Captain ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1851
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4656 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY

... forces : and copies of correspondence between the Courts of Great Britain, France, and Austria, as to such occupation. Mr. Grattan gave notice of moving for returns relative to the encumbered estates commission Ireland. THE ADDRESS. The Speaker now announced ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1852
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4089 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... was the pri- soner’s daughter, a little girl 12 years of age She stated that she lived with ber rents in Portland place, Cardigan-street, Oxford h consequence ol her father not returning home on Saturday night her mother went to look for him soon after ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1852
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4001 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Tae Evectioxs.—The return published in our first to serve i a the completes the list of Members elected New ..

... with broken , from falling off a ladder at Battle Farm.—On the same day, a lad about 15, named John Usher, with his thigh fractured and lacerated, his arm broken, and his head bruised, by his smock frock getting entangled in a thrashing machine near Hartley ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1852
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2892 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Tae is a remarkable fact that there are now no less than 53 peers without heirs male, either t or

... plunged into the mers, and Tholbeck got hold of John Harrison and kept him up until the boat appeared to come towards the surface. He pat his foot u what he imagined to be the mast, but it sunk, and and John Harrison went down with it Tholbeck recolleets ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1852
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2255 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... bills were read a third time, and assed, viz _Eastern Counties Railvays (Purchase of Railways, &e) Bill; and and Cardigan Railway and Cardigan Harbour Bill. The following bills were committed, viz.:—The Public Libraries Bill; the Registration of Births, ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1854
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5896 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WAR

... a Light Cavalry Brigade, under Lord Cardigan; the Scots Greys (not yet artived here), Hh Dragoou Guards, 5th Dragoon Guards, 6th Dragoons, making the Heavy Cavalry Brigade, under Brigadier-General Scarlett. Sur John Burgoyne may be presumed to controul ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1854
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8093 | Page: 2 | Tags: none