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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... FOR?I?N'iNTELLIGENCE. MADRSID, AUGUST 2.-A royal decree authsorises the t1 'existence of thre governing jiuntas, and allows the con. c tinuance of the armaments for public safety ; but the. Vi Juntas are only to adopt the title of consultative and ol auxiliary-j untas. . Sr1 Another decree suspends the execution of the decisions b, of those juntas which suppress or modify taxes and other rV ...

Published: Friday 11 August 1854
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5583 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE SELECT VESTRY

... THE SELECT VESTRT. Whty ?? e ,SthlJ. Jones, Clarkie, I '1 MloDnon rwod 0Iny eccc and the Vinerable, toVISITING THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS. Mr. Denton remarked that before the ordinary proceedings d;commenced lie should desire to have some explanation of thet in circumstances which had occurred in reference to the official ?? to the Lancaster Lunatic Asylum. It was usual for the churchwardons and ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1854
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1535 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... I THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION. TO ?? EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. Sm,.-Asthereare some who misunderstand my evidence upon the safety valve, I will thank you to insert the fol- ?? valve is 1 inch and 11i16ths in diameter; the length of the lever from the foloruil to the centre of the valve is 4h inches; from fulcrum to the first notch, 12*; from fulcrum to the second, 141; from fulcrum to the ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1047 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Local and Miscellaneous

... local altz fielcno~ T T tr. PLAYOROUND.-A picture, by Webster, called the PBlayground,' now on view at the gallery of Mr. Grundy, EXChantge-street, will be contemplated with no ordinary plea- sure; for few there are who, however touch they were the victims of scholastio discipline inside the school, do not gather from the playground, the scene of their youthful triumphs and excitements, a ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1854
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12236 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

WAGES MOVEMENT

... Si STRIKEt ol CuOwN GLASS MAKErRS AT SriELDs.-The w crown glass unslkers of the Tyne and WVear are on strike, and, R according to what appears, a strike not very creditable to t1 them. More than a twelvemonth ago an arrangement wase come to between the masters and the men that in case of it advance in the price of glass the men should have a propor. q, tionate rise of wages, the men to make ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1854
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Imperial Parliament

... Eluptr(al parliantent. HOUSE OF LORDS. r FRIDAY, AUG., 4. RDUCATION IN INDIA. 0 Lord MONTEAGLE, in moving for a copy of a despatch to the government of India, on the subject of general educa- tion in that country, remarked that the question was of great 13 interest aind importance, and had excited some attention in the last sessiion of parliament. Hitherto the education of t the people of ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1854
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3680 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY

... IIEAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAYI / . - --- - - -- .- .a t -TTL HALF-YEARLY MEETING. it The twenty-first half-yearly ordinary general meeting of it the East Lancashire Railway Company was held in the Company's Offices, at the Station, and by immediate adjourn- ment in the Athenaeum, at Bury, on Wednesday last, at one 0 o'clock, for the transaction of the ordinary business of the 0 company. Mr. Thomas ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1854
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2494 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

ANTI-SLAVERY CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER

... - . . . .. - - .. - . _ led Tuesday being the 20thi anniversary of the emancipa- ti or- tion of the negroes in the West Indies, an anti-slavery e ary conference was held in the library hall of the Manchester O~ ich At.4enasum, commencing shortly after ten o'clock. The O0 tir. attendanca was Very email; there being at no timoiduring A the the noerning sitting more than from 80 to 100 parsons A ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1854
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3903 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

HEALTH COMMITTEE

... - COMMITTEE HEALTHI COMMITTEE. d The weekly meeting was held on Tuesday last, at the It offices in Cornwallis-street. Present - Messrs. Dover t- (in the ohair), Juhnson, Gladstone, Beckwith, Moss, Hen- rr derson, Godfrey, Stewart, Bighaai. i Mr. Gladetone complained of the practice of the gas company in tearing up the pavement in the streets after it has been finished by the health committee. ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1854
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1417 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE

... PARLIAMENTARf INTELLIGENCE I I HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, JULy 31. Their lordships met at five o'clock. ?? rboyal assent was given by commission to sixteen public and PUBLIC REVENJIE AND EXPENDITURE BILL. -Earl GRANVIOLLE, In reply to Lordl Monteagle, said the government woulus Inrd aound Einetu m into the House of Commons the Public Revenue andExpndiureBill, with the Prinoipal amandmentsmade by ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3255 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND CROPS

... ta EARiLY HARVEST.-Mr. W. Bradford, of Keyham Barton, Devouport, on Saturday week last, cut a field of oats, and heas sines housed them in fine condition, t; LonFrarm.-The subjoined letter from Longford, in Ire. TPland, gives a further encouraging account of the various at crops:- Since I last wrote a most favourable change has 11 taken place in the weather,which is now everything that could ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1854
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1033 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TATAL COLLISION ON THE SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY

... FATAL COLLISION ON THE SOUTH- EASTERN RAILWAY. a . St An accident of the most deplorable character, by which r. three persons (one a clergyman of the established churobE were killed, and several others seriously injured, occurred r. on Monday, on the London, Brighton, and South Coast 'n Railway, close to the Croydon station. It appears that Le on the London side of the station is a kind of ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1854
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: News