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DERBY CHORAL CONCERT

... On attending this excellent source of amusement on Friday evening last, we were more than ever convinced that these concerts promote the cause of go ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE PROMISES AND THE RESULTS OF FREE-TRADE

... Few matters have been inculcated with such pertinacity | and reiteration, as the numberless and almost immeasurabh benefits ahich all clashes of the community were derive from the full development of the principles of free-trade. By giving free scope to the practical operations of these wonderful doctrines, foreign commerce was to be increased in an incalculable degree—the home-markets were to ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1135 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE MAYORALTY

... It will be teen that a rule niti has been obtained in the Court of Queen's Bench, calling upon Mr. DuxMicurr to shew cause, why he holds the office of Mayor of this borough. The friends that gentleman are very indignant at the course which has been pursued in this instance, and their ire is especially raised against Mr. Alderman Mouslkt. Our contemporary, the Reporter, would have us believe ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

THE CASE OF MISS TALBOT—ITS TEACHING

... In our last we offered a few observations upon the then I pending case respecting the wardship of Miss Talbot, a young lady whose personal and family history have formed a fertile, and on many accounts a painful theme for public animadi version during a considerable time past. That ineompre| hensibly complicated cause has been adjudicated, and so far ! as can be seen, or guessed, the young ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1648 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR NOTTINGHAM

... An accident, attended with loss of life, occurred on Wednesday morning last, on the Midland line of railway, about two miles south of Nottingham. At seven o'clock a Mansfield luggage train, which ought to have started at half-past six, left Nottingham station, causing the 7 a.m. passenger train for Derby to be delayed a short time, until it was presumed the line would be clear. On the luggage ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1559 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE

... (From the Morning Post.) PRFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The following preferments and appointments have recently taken place:— Kectort.—The Rev. John Eaton, late curate of St. Alkmund'x, Derby, to the rectory of Shardlow, in the same county. Curacies, &c—The Rev. Robert Matson, to the curacy of Wilby, Northamptonshire; the Rev. George John Wild, to the curacy of Norton-on-the-Moors, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 January 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE VICAR OF CHESTERFIELD

... Wc deeply regret to find (says the Courier) that the Ven. Archdeacon Hill has resigned the living of Chesterfield, and this regret will, we are sure, be participated in by all his parishioners, to whom he has become endeared by his fervent piety, unbounded liberality, and earnest desire to administer to their spiritual and temporal good. have recently, in referring to proceedings as unbecoming ...

Published: Wednesday 15 January 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1030 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF THE CLERGY

... .W, V'ridtv meeting of the Clergy of thi, Arihdra ~,m e al King* Head, Derby, for the _ together upon their danger P TT. ,1 the ore*' ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

POLICE OFFICE, DERBY

... September 16.—-Henry At her ley, charged by Thos. 11 inks, with assaulting him and knocking hiin down, was convicted in the penalty of ss. and costs. Sept. 17.—John Moor croft, charged by Richard Hanson, Inspector of Nuisances, with furiously driving a horse and cab, in Victoria-street, contrary to the Derby Improvement Act, was convicted in the penalty of 10s. and costs. Sept. 20— Sarah ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have been inundated with letters having reference the late municipal elections; but we ..

... subject all the space at our command, we arc compelled to oin»t the greater portion of the communications which have been address! uk ; this the more icgiet the letters of Young Elector, of An Old Inhabitant of Derby,and uf Scrutator, contain really excellent matter. The letter of 44 It. T., having come so late to hand, is unavoidably omitted. The lines by ,4 C. D. N. have been received. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE LATE KING OF HANOVER

... In our last week's paper announced the illness of F. est, Duke of Cumberland, and King of Hanover. His Majesty is now no more; he died on Monday, the 17th inst., at the palace of Herrenbausen, it is no hyperbole to say, to the universal regret of his people; and after life's fitfu] fever, sleeps well. His late Majesty was the fifth son of George 111., and was born at Kcw, on the sth of June, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE RESULT OF THE CONFERENCE

... The Manchester Conference of reformer,, to which last week alluded, has met. and dispersed ; and the plan they have agreed upon is, to have poor rate suffrage, with 40, freeholders in countiea, and the right of voting also to be eitended to copyholder, and leaseholders; the ballot; triennial parliaments; the disfranchising small boroughs, the enfranchising large towns, the giving more ...

Published: Wednesday 10 December 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News