THE TRAINING OF JOHN C. HEENAN

... 5he following appears in Bcl's Life :-Sir, As a great dral has been said upon tho subject of Heenan's training for his recent battle with King, and much of that reflecting upon my conduct in the matter, I beg you will permit me, for the information and satisfaction of the publio, to say that I was with John Heenan six weeks and three days during his training for the match, and during that ...

Published: Monday 01 February 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2355 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

A MARRIAGE CASE IN IRELAND

... A-mAe--AGE CASE I I--R E , N, A MABWIAGE CASE. IN IREL AND. % A letter from Dublin, dated Saturday, sayss IWo have got a good marriage law in Ireland now, bat the best laws are worth nothing unless they are honesely and im- partially enforced, and the wilful violators of them suffer exemplary punishment. A case which was before the blaster of the Rolls to-day Is so gross and audacious that if ...

Published: Thursday 11 February 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT NEWS

... WA~SLML DEATH FRnOM BRNING..-Yesterdy morning a child, sixteen months old, namied Amelia Anni Brason, the daughter of a carpenter, residing in the Birmingham Road, Idied from the effeets of burms on various psrts of her body, caused' by her clothes taking fire during the temporary absence of her mother on the 3rd Instant. OowrArI HosrrTAL.-At 'the windal, Weekly mbatinE of ithe committee, ...

Published: Monday 29 February 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3927 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

... TJHE AS3OCIATION OF CHA MBERS OF 0OOMMERVE OF THE UNlrED KINGDOM. (From our ,qpecial Beporter.) I meeting of this body was commenced at the The' tminst er 1'rlO.COte'l, London, Yesterday, under the WreltdnYi oterfAIr. saampson t. Lloyd, of Birmingham, Chedeman of the Asso°iatuon- e Chairman, It A draft report 1059 ?? bY of ParChamen, had stated that 5lthougth the' last session o alaetla been ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4094 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT MATLOOK

... EXVRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT MATLOOX. 'An extraordinast Occurrence has recently taken place at Matlopk., A woman, named Ellen Gaunt, had long resided at Matlock, but being lid the last stage of, consumption she came to, Derby on the 24th of October, last year, and re- 'mained with her sister' and her. husband, Mr.' and. Mms Hadfield, at Pear Tree, till the 24th of January,1864, when she died. ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 570 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... LATEST NEWs. AyND INTBRITATIO mU, Tznr - OnoEBS, T.&IP'L BUILDTIr3, NX3- _dlA .fW STREET, (REUTER S MEORANS.) TFr WA1 IN SCHLESWIG, LOPENHAGEN, FEBRUAnY 17 (8. 5li , t The Government have published the reulatioans for the blockade of the ports of the enemy. Count Hamilton, Swedish Minister r, Ucophbagen, has been summoned to Stoskholm to eoaler with his Governimert. The enemy in Sandbjerg and ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1374 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MORETON-IN-MARSH STEEPLECHASES

... MOMBTON-INMARSH STEEPLECHASIS. PROGRAMME FOR THIS DAY (TfHURSDAY). A HANDIoAP (OpenSteeplechase) of 56soveach, with50 added. About four miles. 6 tube. st lb e tilb LasVLovell .. 11 10 CookRobin .. . . It 2 Ned of the Hills 11 Beynard . .10 7 High Pressure .. ..11 5 The HUoNTRse' STRnPLEcHASE STAKES of B sovy each1, with 30 added, for horses that have been regularly hunted; foar-year- olds l0st ...

Published: Thursday 25 February 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

GREEK FIRE

... I I HOW SCIENCE CAN PREVENT WAR. - In the lat number of the PopUsr Science h, AcBms there is an able and interesting article by Dr. Riohardson on Greek Fire, ancient and Yi modern. Towards the close of the article the aI ti writer says- CE Foreseeing the application of liquid fire in t warfare, and being aware that the Russian if Government was actively extending inquiries on , the ...

Published: Thursday 18 February 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3037 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

TO CORRESPONDENTS

... We canotundertake to return eommcunlation of which we do not avail ourselves. Communications should always be legbly written in Ink, and on ow ofe ls the papmeronI; lehngth creasee the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is Intended for Insertion must be authenticated by the name and addreus of the writer, not necessarily for pubUsatlon, but am a guarantee of ?? good faith. Letters ...

Published: Tuesday 09 February 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE MEXICAN EMPIRE

... It is understood that the Archduke Maxi- milian has atiast definitively made up his mind to accept the Mexican Crown so magnani- mously offered him by his Imperial patron of the Tuileries. A second deputation is shortly expected from Mexico to make a formal announcement of the result of the plebiscitum, after which the new Emperorhaving previously paid his respects and received his ...

Published: Tuesday 02 February 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1479 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE EXECUTION OF THE PIRATES

... 'f.,qE EXECUTION OF THE IPIRAES. The following alditiona; particulars of the execution at Newgate, on Mona J, are extracted from the Times - Singularly enough, it is nearly 40 yeavn shieo London has witnessed so terrible an execution as that of yesterday, and then the Cato-street con- spirators suffered more for their folly than their crimes. Thistlewood and his companions occupy one end of ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2572 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News