LEICESTERSHIRE

... FlEt) iU E-S1- .' Id' LEFICESTUERSH IRE. ; (From our own Correspondent.) t ULCIsTUa, Monday. The old prediction has been fulfilled. Winter has had another fight over us since Candlemas-day, and has left us weather more wintry than before. A snow-storm of con- , siderable duration, succeeded by frosts still more severe, have . been the characteristics of the weather during the week. In e the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1855
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LORD JOHN RUSSELL IN VIENNA AND IN LONDON

... LORD JOIIN RUSSELL IN VIENNA AND IN LONDON. Really the resources of Lord JoIIN RUSSELL in his capacity for taking us all by surprise seem to be quite infinite in their variety and ingenuity. On each new occasion he completely outdoes the Lord JonN of the former startling extravaganza. He has found that the dose, like that of the opium eater, has to be increased on each succeeding ...

Published: Wednesday 11 July 1855
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1423 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... WREDYESDAY, NovErumit 21, 1655. THIE WAR. The war news this week again comes from Asia. 4di . A battle has been fought and won upon the Ingour- L a river which falls into the Black Sea at Anaklia del midway between Soukoum-Kalch and Batoum- to, worthy of the hero of the Danube, now for the first the time free to sustain the brilliant reputation he gained -1 upon its banks! and of the ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2780 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE SICK OF THE HIMALAYA

... ;. THE SICE: OB T>THB I1 PORT.RMnTT'VtT . -H L fromL15X1VU , c TsHUR ?? tthe usual fortnightly meeting of the guardians of the poor of the Porteta Island Union,. held last evening, Mr. J. F. Pratt, J.P., chairman, attention was called to the death of John Williams, a seaman, weh had.been landed from the Himalaya. This sea., mn had died seven hours after his admission into the workhouse, and ...

Published: Sunday 14 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1541 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE MARTYRS OF SCUTARI

... , a The pomp and circumstane of war are So glorious that men have never been wanting to exclaim, in tfle langage 'of the ancient Roman, It is sweet to die fior onie's country. This her6oi and patriotic spirit still lives amongst us, and the British people are as 'fearless as tbeir forefathers in courting the dangers of the battle-field, It' rises with the dire character of the emergency.: In ...

Published: Sunday 04 March 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3251 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE FOLEY-PLACE TRAGEDY

... THE FOLEY-PLACE TRAGEDy. On lW esday fineaso at 4P jddo&, Mr Wakl thi soroneq 0thhe wep~ divisiah e Ntddlgex, and the j Vtlg*te the deatie of Mr. Joseph uLrera'- i~oanerwee4 t; who was op-rdered by an Italian named buigi i~ B a~ residence, I$q. fi, Foley-place, narylebo d pon S u4~y the 7~li wstant, was j,4med pursuant to adjourn, jnent, 4,e Middisee Hospital.?K - t 'Iwsy an'u ted, from the ...

Published: Sunday 21 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ARRIVAL OF SICK AND WOUNDED

... ARRIVAL OF SIC} AND WOUNDED. An express down train from London arrived at the Strood station of the North Kent Railway shortly after three p.m. on Monday, containing twenty-five detacbmentss of 'regiments serving in the Crimea. The whole of the detachments are invalids, and owing to the number of disabled soldiers-about sixty of them having lost their, legs in the late engagements with the ...

Published: Sunday 21 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE LAW OF BANKRUPTCY, ITS Administration, Abuses, and Amendment

... ITHE- LAW- oF *BANNKJRUP-TCY, ITS| Administration, Abuses, Aid Amendment. - - That canting term { Precedeiit,' which is constantly in the mouths of our dilatory and- sapient administrators of the law, should be regarded by all friends of pprogress and improvement 's twin 'brother to Sste which has gone'far to annihilate one of th& 'finest armies 'that ever quitted the shores of England. J ...

Published: Sunday 25 March 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

AUSTRALIA

... I . ;f: AUSTR: AIA. Ii ' Arrival or the Great Britain. The steamsbipj GreatBritain -arrived at Liverpool on Wedesday morning 71ith the mails, &c., tiom Australia. The gold brought by the Great Britain is of the value of 505,000. The outbreak at Ballarat goldifields was in opposition to'the licese fee system, and-had created mnuch excite- ment. . . . . Melbourne had beea in a ;state of ...

Published: Sunday 28 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1798 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Important Meeting at Birmingham

... Im ' rtnt ,eetng at-3o 9igham. .The tiaTwn~scaio' Zst ee Yconyi` e eit ineeig 'at-t e'' ?aern CSt ?? ' Mf JdsIt Q Stintdii,' Chi: nn d ti ?? m~ost' of~tlie injfft~eiai ; flr. trsoi~is~itixijboyrth 9ert~ry, read the followingT ' notsicie con'vexing ?? ?? repor't 'o'five y erep a e;rlceig'atile liinut mee'ting o'f 'th'e ltohdob ILceoseA ?? helaiit~vweek'' ^that it w'as resolved kyfthemnqt to ...

Published: Sunday 28 January 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1651 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... I HOUSE OF LORDS-Monday. Earl GREY moved a resolution, to the effect that the adminis- tration of the army ought to be concentrated, and brought under the control of a single and well-organised department. The chief feature of the plan consisted in the establishment of a board, somewhat analogous to the Board of Admiralty, to administer the whole business connected with the military service in ...

Published: Sunday 04 February 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6403 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: News 

LEICESTERSHIRE

... LEICESTERSIIIRE. 11 - T (From our own Correspondent.) sh ?? zaSR. Monday. - The young woman charged with destroying her newly- *r born infant, at Claybrooke, the particulars of which appeared n in the Mercury of last week, was taken before the magistrates at Lutterworth, on Friday, and committed for trial at the e next assizes on a charge of Wilful Murder. t The members of the Leicester ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1855
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 797 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News