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FALL OF A TOWER, AND LOSS OF LIFE

... | mI PARTS, MONDAY EVEXING.-A dreadful accident took W Rnplace yesterday, between two and three o'clock, at the la citadel of Vincennes. The interior of the entrance ul a tower Suddenly fell to the ground with a tremendous th cn erash, burying in the ruins the entire post of the mili. in tary on guard. These amounted to some 20 men, and bl tsthe number of the sufferers was unfortunately ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 971 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... LOCAL INTELLIGENC E. I. A locust hag been caught at Burnley, measuring nearly th en live inches from the tip of one wing to that Of the other. V We understand that Mr. Healing, auctioneer, is exert- P ing himself in the benevolent object, of raising a sb. P soription on behalf of the widow and children of thea late b Captain Rogers. ACCIDNTSws-On Monday, John M'Gathain, a native or ts Ireland, ...

Published: Wednesday 16 September 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8870 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... I - [BY THU ELScTaas EDA NTERtTtOX&T TmAzoT.GPnj The DaiZy .News is pleased Abat Lord Lansdowne Las refused the offered dukedom. I The Chronicl says the dispute is not between the ?? and North-western Railway and Great Western, but between the latter and the Grand Junction Canal Company; but it will result in both railways reducing their rates for goods. The Pegg says the report of A probable ...

Published: Wednesday 16 September 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2163 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE CAREER OF AN UNFORTUNATE FOREIGNER

... THE CAREER OF AN UNFORTI-N-xT: FORRIGN ER. A ti - T- e- I I 6 .^ 'JJ.SJ24kCLn Di At the Kiutsrord sessions, on Norday In t, ~rt .r Curanil 3 fulueiga- r, vwas indicted beforoT. Tra!ll !. i1- :, and other vs gistraics, for stealing a case Oi doL ig e instruments, two pisto;s, a pociiet compass, a .a.r ni;e, e ntud a gold ring. the property of Mr. T. J. ?? oe, . architect and surveyor, of ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1315 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE BUDGET

... THU BUDGET. The principal disclosures of Sir G. C. Lewis's ,, Budget speech had been so completely forestalled g, by semi-official announcements in the Ministerial a( journals and otherwise that we rather wonder at if the extraordinary excitement which one at least of his intimations appears to have produced in the a minds of his auditors. Everybody knew, so UK as h such a thing ever can be ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1783 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... [(B TUB IL29TR O AND IXNTRNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.] parti THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. that emp The Timm continues to support the Government, and that ridules Mr4, (obderd advice of at once superseding all prev thv'efficials ia China and sending out a competent per- M son. The question is, Where is a perfect man to be vacs the.I found'?- dcot Thw Times aiso says, that one of the first eonsequences an t ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1382 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION AT EDGE-HILL, AND LOSS OF LIFE

... TEBRIPIO BOILER EXPLOSION AT EDGE-HILT, AND LOSS OR LIFE. U a Yesterday forenoon, a fearful explosion took place of o the boiler of one of the locomotive engines belonging to L- the London and North-western Railway Company, causing t the immediate death of one man, and frightfully wounding i. two others. a It appears that the engines St. Patrick, which is chiefly of used for assisting trains ...

Published: Wednesday 06 May 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 584 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LORD PALMERSTON'S MAJORITY

... md Although the election returns are still incom- Dry plete, it is sufficiently ascertained that the muster I ith roll of the new House of Commons will show a 3ut substantial working majority In favour of a Liberal ith Government. We do not attempt to strike a )54 precise balance of Ministerial gains and losses, she far, in the present state of parties and opinions, , every conceivable ...

Published: Wednesday 08 April 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1745 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... ?? enormous quantity of 88,000 bales of cotton was leentered ait the Custom House c a Mondany las, beigeqal h. in alot 1250,000 sterling. a of been li~tt chief-office-othrnmwhtauer OCa ?? EaL-terio, Captain Harris-tn. fror 'Ii TssE WOssKsIt MAN'S OPEN AIR SUNDAY SEtRVICES.- I ?? Sunday afternoon uext, ait a quarter-past three o'clock, h the Rev. Hugh Stcwell Brown will address the Working to ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6339 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS

... BIRKEtHEAD COMMISSIONERS. thboc The m'onthly meeting of this board was held last evening, vid, nt rhe amisioners' rooms, Hamilton-square, Mr. John e- Laird in the chair, and the other members present were my Mdessrs. W~illoughby, Bailiff, X'Whirter, Ml'Donald, Got- WaS borne, Verelst, Holme, Rae-, Keightley, Hind, and ven Bradley. A a LIGHTING AND WATCHING COMMITTEE. FPrm the minutes of this ...

Published: Wednesday 08 July 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5319 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MILITARY REVOLT IN INDIA

... The telegraph brings us disastrous news from India, The mutinous spirit which has latterly manifested itself in our Bengal native army has broken out into a formidable and extensive insur- rection, accompanied by a fearful destruction of British life. Three Sepoy regiments, after an unsuccessful rising at Meerut, which was sup- I pressed by European troops, managed to escape to - Delhi, where ...

Published: Monday 29 June 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1370 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... .OREIGN INTELLIGENCE. TY IE SOUND DUES OONVENTIOIN. The tieilgeur of Monday contains the following letter: It CC Fs'ESLUEN, MAHCU 16.-The general treaty whicb has be en negotiated between Denmark and the principal mariti me StZtes of Europe for the abolition of the Bound Daes was concluded and signed at Copenhagen yesterday. By tF .e terms of this treaty the tolls and dues of every kiod to ...

Published: Wednesday 18 March 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2403 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News