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... BUorroWeo QrTffeb. A man who has no bills against him belongs to the order of no-bil-i-ty in more than one sense. What homne in after life is beloved like the walls that girt round the innocent days of our childhood ? The nuin who conemitted suicide by turning inside out, and hi orawling through his boot, is riot expected to live. fc In extra-iolitoe circles thbe nigh-stare is now termed the ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1187 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL

... A special meeting of the council was held in the Town- bi hail, on Thursday last, at which were ?? fa Mayor (in the chair); Aldermen T. B. Addison, Shawe, b Monk, J. Paley ?? Horrocks, and Brown; Councillors f Threlfall (St. John's), Billington, J. Humber, Heywood, pi G. Smith, Goodair, S. Smith, W. Humber, Carr, F. Arm- W strong, Threlfall (St. Peter's), Hawkins, Robinson, Wahms- tc ley, H. ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4548 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN

... FRANCE. i The Afoniteur announces that the annual service for the ,oul of the Emperor Napoleon I. will be celebrated in the Chapel of the Invalides oin the 4th of 'May, instead of on the 5th, but the extraordinary solemunities which had been announced will not take place. It is stated that it has been for some time in contemplation to transfer the re- mains of Napoleon 1. from their resting ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1019 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IN OFFICE AND OUT OF OFFICE

... ?? had last week in the House of Commons strong exemplification of the difference between a statesman and a mere politician,-in short, between a patriot and a par- tisan. In May, 1852, Mr. Milner Gibson brought for- ward a motion for the repeal of the advertisement duty, wlich was resisted by Mr. Disraeli, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, who opposed the motion, as its adoption. by the ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 532 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... IResnI RAILWAY PRopERTY has much improved in value within the last three years. Tur Exonus continues in undiminished force. Since 1845 nearly a million and a quarter of the population of Ireland have left that country for America and Australia. GOLD IN MAYO.-The fact of the existence of gold in the soil of Mayo was perfectly established here last week, in the yard of Mr. Brennan, where his ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 585 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

CONVERSION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT

... - - _ , I . . . . Since Consols reached par in the summer of last E d year, while gold came pouring in from California and v Australia, which it was generally supposed would still IJ o further reduce the market rate of interest, there has t abeen a lively expectation in taxpayers, and an appre- t' hension in the holders of the public funds, that they. c would be converted into stocks bearing a ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1853
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3057 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... CORRESPONDENCE, TOWN DUES RECEIVERSHIP.-'COOKING THlE it PL ANT'AIN. TO TllE EDITORS OF TUE LIVERPOOL iMnERCURY. W GENTLEM5EN,-1n your Tuesday's Mercury you have indeed an0 laid bare the nice little bit of jubbery that has been acting O in the finance committee. M~r. ]3rade having been excluded qur from a nomination to the nOtfes, supported as he was byfr 9s members out of 16, is a telling ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1853
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3389 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

LOCAL SQUABBLES

... L - TO TITE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. D GNTEMNI ?? MVrD'.r of Tuesday last it was gel Fannouncred that government had appointed six new ma gistrates for this borough, in compliance with the wishes brm of the select vestry ; and I see by yesterday's pro.. _( ceedings of the town council, as reported in the Live?'Pse Lai Tinesesof this morning, these appointments have given much offence ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1853
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1586 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

WRECK OF THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND STEAMER, AT ABERDEEN

... I TWENTY LIVES LOST! The Duke of Sutherland left London on Wednesday evening week, with a valuable cargo of goods and four cabin and twenty-one steerage passengers. The voyage was very easy, with the wind at south-east, but when the steamer reached the bay, on the afternoon of Friday, it was found that there was a heavy sea running. on the bar, and that the fresh of the river Dee, which has ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1543 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... - V ~~ELECTION OF GUARDI~ANS, le To the Editor of the Examinier and Times. adl Sir',-Withl some view, which perhaps the pending election. nd of Mfancliester guardiasi may explain, the retiring guardians, ili at their meaeting on Thursday, reported in your paper, ?? .er somle statement, wlii,. I emall feel obliged by youir givitgigne athe pp6.rtuntty to correct in your Wednesday's Publication. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1853
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2145 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE NEW GUNPOWDER PLOT

... (From tie Daily Atews of Ionday) The portentous announcement with which a contempo- rary frightened the town from its propriety on Friday morning (week), bids fair to occupy from henceforth a prominent place in the history of remarkable Canards. On how small a basis of probabilities the Times built up its story is soon told. On Kossuth's arrival in this country a fr. Hale was introduced to him ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 815 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE BUDGET

... THE CHRONICLE. i PRESTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1853. ?? .. w _ THE BUDGET, Mr. Gladstone's address in the House of Commons, on Monday evening, in announcing the position and prospects of the revenue, is one of the grandest financial expositions with which the country has ever been favoured. It is worthy of being placed by the side of Sir Robert Peel's noblest efforts in finance, to which indeed ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1461 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News