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THE LAND OF BURNS

... AVID S UfcOTTO TWI UHKI DOOK. Now that the seaeou for travelling in que*t rural beauty and renewed health, seta all the world aitir; and aa many haTa already drank to satiety of the iweet stream of Tailed interest and heautr afforded by the Great Exhibition while other* prefer a itroll along the river brink, or by the sounding ahore,we feel more than merely authorized in directing attention ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1580 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

STAFFORDSHIRE

... Stafford.—Death of a Prisoner from a Policeman's Cutlass.—lt will perhaps be in the recollection of our readers that early on the morning of the 29th of March, two burglars, named George Wood alias Arthur Key, and Mark Smith, were apprehended on the premises of Sir. Stackhouse, at Walsall, which they had entered from St. Paul's-row, for the purpose of committing felony. The superintendent of ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 821 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

Telegraph across this Atlantic.—A Mr. Reynolds of New York, proposes to construct telegraph communication ..

... dollars. He thinks the plan practicable and safe, and sets forth that the distance between Cape Canso, above Halifax, on the American coast, and the nearest point in Ireland, near Galway. is but abuut 1,600 miles along the banks of Newfoundland, which are known to extend within 160 miles of the coast Ireland, an average depth of 800 feet. A line of this length, consisting of four wires ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

LONDON, MONDAY Evening, July 7

... The English Funds opened this morning at Saturday*! prices, but a few sain, consequent upon the partial opening of the transfer-books the stocks lately shut for tba dm* dends, caused a slight depression before the doae business. Consols, at the commencement, were quoted 97 1, but they left off at 96J to 97. PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, Eastern Counties, East ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

DERBYSHIRE GENERAL INFIRMARY, Sept. 22

... In. Patients admitted - 21 Out-Patients admitted - 24 Ditto discharged - - 18 Ditto discharged - -37 Ditto accidents - 2| Ditto accidents - - 17 Ditto dead - - 2 On the Books - - 395 In the House - - Inoculated for Cow Pock 0 HOUSE VISITORS VOR THE NEXT WREK. Mr. Chandos-Pole and Mr. Parker. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON KOR THE NEXT WEEK. Dr. Johnson and Mr. Gisborne. Compromise for trespassing and ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS OF ENGLAND

... DERBYSHIRE. (From the Timet Commissioner. J wet Rnd stormy night we Rrrived by railway at Matlock, too dßrk to get r glimpse of the country, the only outline indication of which was the glimmering of window - lights, some beneath us, some at the same level, and some fsr above us. The morning opened with crisp light frost, and Cmtsd a scene from the esplanade in front of Mr. Greaves's 1 ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3415 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

Her Majesty's Summer Cruise.—We understant that it is not at all probable tbat tbe Queen and Prince Albert will go

... afloat for any lengthened cruise beyond tbe waters of the Isle of Wight before the beginning of next June. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert is in the hands of the dock-yard men at Portsmouth; and, judging from present estimates and appearances, she will not be ready to receive the Queen before the end of May.—United Service Gazette. We regret to learn that the Hon. Miss Cavendish, Maid of ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

The Accident to Sir Robert Peel.—A letter from Birmingham says:— 44 This accident turns out have been of not so

... serious a character as was at first reported. It appears that the hon. baronet was out bunting on Wednesday, and that his horse threw him as he was taking what is called a * double post and rails.' Sir Robert was stunned by the fall, added to which the animal kicked him slightly on the side of the head. Happily the injury was not of a serious character. It is with the utmost regret that we ...

Published: Wednesday 15 January 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE

... The following appointments and preferments have recently been made:— Rectory. —The Rev. John Marshall, to the rectory of Wark, Northumberland. Vicarage The Rev. Allen Wheeler, to the vicarage of Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire. Curacies, &c.—The Rev. W. Wright, to the mastership of Colchester Free Grammar School; the Rev. Thos. Stevens, to the curacy of Heath and Ault Arnold, Notts.; the Rev. S. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

The late Melancholy Case Shooting Cumberland —The Carlisle Patriot states that the Rev. Jos. Smith is much ..

... The rev. gentleman has been admitted to bail. Suspected Murder in Sheffield.—On the moming of Sunday week, intelligence of a shocking catastrophe was announced at the Police-office, Sheffield. The scene where the tragedy took place is a square in Duke-street, Sheffield-park. The name of the murdered man is John Wilkinson, and the two parties in custody on the charge are his wife, Eliza ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1014 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

PRICKS OF RAILWAY SHARES, FUNDS, &c

... LONDON, TUESDAY, Jan, 28, (/Clock. Consols for Account, ». 3$ per Cents., —. Exchequer Bills, —. RAILWAYS. North Western, 1254. Midland, 51 2. Halves, 18} dis. North Staffordshire, dis. South Kastern, 4. Caledonian, lOJ. Pref., 5J Great Northern, \Ve«tern, SJ. London and Brighton, 96. North British, 8). York and Newcastle, I9J j. Extension, _ Pref., dis. York and North Midland, |. Pref., Ij x. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1851
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce