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FROM LONDON TO LAHORE

... FRT1? LON-DON TO LAHORL. (Fronm the Sic.dians of the 7th Jon.) Dl The magnificent design emaanating from, and cil matured by, the genius of the chairman of the Sind Railway go Company, for iuking London with Lahore by one conti- W inous acd direct chainof communication, is no longerlooked NY upon by practical men as chimerical or utopian, Stop by step has the gigantic plan beeu developed, and ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1857
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1372 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE

... L0SDON.-MIr. Wigranm Crawford has already i leaseld his adldrcss, anld liaron Rothschild twill have the full aiuppoet of the liberalls. ir. iaikes Currie takes time to think sdeut the City, and the City takes time to think of Sir i Jamlles l)akc. M~r. Malstenullan has formlanlly retired. I MII)1)LESEtX.-A mecting of liberal electors from various parts of the county was hold at No. G, Southamp. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1857
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7101 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE GREAT EASTERN, ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD

... lTHIE GREAT E4STERN, ONE OF THE, WYONDERS OF THE WORLD. The following general particulars of the enormous vessel about to be launched will be of interest to most of our readers. She will carry 12,000 tons of coals, 8,000 tons of merchandize, and 4,000 passeugers. The object of building so large a vessel is the economy that will be effected by being able to stow sufficient coals to carry her ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1857
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 643 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

SALARIES OF ACTORS

... Dowton's salary at Drury-lane, in the season of 1801-2, was £8 per week; he subsequently received £12, but never more than 220. It is curious to mark the difference in the salaries paid to dramatic performers duringthe last hundred years. In the better days of the drama these salaries ap- ear to be small, bat there canm scarcely he a doubt that a, healthy action was then enjoyed, which the ...

Published: Monday 09 March 1857
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1535 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

DIVORCE IN THE LORDS

... The Lord Chbaoellor' Divorce Bill has passed o second reading; but even were not a dissolutio of Parliament imminont, we should have but faint hopes of the measure, all im. perfect as it is, becoming law. Of eourse, tbe bishops bite and nibble at auU the clauseg. The Bishop of Exeter boldly moved the virtual death ef the bill, but it escaped the mercy of Pbi]potts. The Bishop of Oxford %ccused ...

Published: Sunday 08 March 1857
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 505 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE GENERAL ELECTION

... Tbe ?? of Baron Rothschild have ?? their determination to again bring him forward ae a crndidate for the city of Leadon at the general elec- tien, and their well grounded confidence in the cer- tainy of his euccess. The baron himself is resolate te fight to the laest. At Manchester a meeting has been held of the ol(I free. trade party, at which confidence was expressed in the sitting ruembsrs, ...

Published: Sunday 08 March 1857
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 758 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

ROYAL BRITISH BANK

... I ROYAL BRITISK BANK. I On Wednesday evening, a numerous meetng of the creditors and depositors of the Royal Brisish bank was held at EvanSs's hotel, Covent-garden, to consider a compromise proposed by the shareholders. Dr. Wak- ley was called to the chair. The chairman referred to a circular letter emanating from the committee of de- PoeitorE, which stated that, even if the creditors eould ...

Published: Sunday 08 March 1857
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1066 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

NOTES OF TEE WEEK

... THE SANCTITY OF POT-BOYS. The neceseity of protecting the police in the execu- tion of their duty appears to have beei, lately lost eight ef by polioemaglstratcs. A fewF days since, Charles Elks and Wiliam Ekin, lila brother, the ss of thieves, committed a eavage assault at 4rleIrt's night-house, uponx an Irish labourer, a con- stable, and a pot bsy. The result was, that Mr. Nor- on ...

Published: Sunday 08 March 1857
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1387 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE ELECTIONS

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-Heartily do I thank you for the aid which your able articles on the China question afforded in obtaining the glorious result in the late division-a result, an honour to the British people. It seems truly insulting to the people of this country that in spite of such vote the government should dare, under the absurd pretence of appealing to the British ...

Published: Monday 09 March 1857
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 957 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

COURT CIRCULAR

... WINDSOR, MARCH 10. Her Royal fliglaness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene ighlnessee the Princess and Princess Feodore of Hoaen. Ae Lengeoburg and Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe Schil- :ngfeerotdio5d with her Majesty yesterday.. The Earl and Uellltes of Monutcharles and Viscount Hood had the ?? of being invited. Tihe bard of the Grenadier Guards played daring din- ner- Wedding March, Midsummer ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1857
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 562 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE MORNING CHRONICLE

... TI-E MORNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1857. In the HousE of ComioNs yesterday, Mlr. Walter Buchanan took the oaths and his seat for Glasgow. The Marquis of BLANPFORD withdrew his Eccle- siastical Corporations Bill. The second reading of the Imprisonment for I Debt Bill, introduced by Mr. Pellatt, was negatived without a division. Colonel GREVILLR withdrew the Irish Grand I Juries ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1857
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2982 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

JOINT-STOCK BANK LAW

... JOINT-STOCK BASffK LA' The facts disclosed at the exa!ifltl',0l f , Esdaile, late governor of the defunct Brtisl' B nk will tell the public little which was not kno' e fore respecting the affairs of that uluckY coO The chief information to be derived fre voluminous inquiry belongs rather to tive than the commercial side of the We learn, for example, ho1w utterly vaif ted b less have been the ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1857
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: News