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THE HURRICANE ON THE NORTH-EASCOAST

... THE URIUCAI N-E ON THE NORTII-rf ,IS COAST. YTlER SHIPS 4SHORE AT TYN-EMOU-PI. Y (ALtLANT CONDUCT OF TMIE SHIEiLDSa LIFEBOAT CEEWS,. ?? ?? NA* -,ctretY CZt,i,,ii 7.) Tlio stenon wvarnjing of Thursday ni-hit was erihiva followcd b-y haervy squalls of wilnd firo thch >ou watrd. .s the harbour mouth was well sheitercd, howev. by UlL south pier, there was some sea, but not a heavy Upon slhe bar ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1109 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

OBSERVATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION PREVIOUSLY TO THE LAYING OF ANOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE

... OBSERVATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION rnEVIOUSLY TO THE LAYING OF ANOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE, The first Atlantic telegraph cable was actually laid between the shoies of Ireland and America in the year 1858; and by what means was it so efficiently laid without ori any occasion, if I err not, its breaking or sepa- rating throughout any portion of its length, so as thereby to require the difficult, if not ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2324 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN BRIGHT

... TIHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN BRIGHT. (re}oil (Ac Sptcticle .j The rumour that M1r. Bright is to be admitted into the Cabinet seems to gather strength, especially armong the secret enemies of the Ministry, and hits this week found a coarse expression in Panehi. Mr. Bright's own speech, with its loyal allusions to Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, has been taken as n direct bid for oflice, and ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2174 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MAGNIFICENT PRESENT FROM THE QUEEN TO HER GRANDSON, PRINCE VICTOR

... MAGNIFICENT PRESENT FROM THE QUEEN TO HER GRANDSON, PRINCE ViCTOR. Her Majesty has just presented to her royal grandson, 1'rince Victor, a most splendid baptismal gift. This work of art has been nearly two years in hand; it was intended to have been presented on the first anniversary of the young Prince's birth--tle 10th of March last-hut the extraordinary amount of artistic labour required ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 978 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE CAPTURE OF ENGLISHMEN BY BRIGANDS IN GREECE

... The Ti.'mes correspondent writing from Athens, Dec. list, says:- I believe the following account of the capture of Lord Tobn Hervey, the Hon. Henry Strutt, and Mr. Coore by the brigands in Greece is tolerably complete and accurate in the leading facts. On the 4th inst. these gentlemen left Ithaca for a week's shooting in Acarnania, not having sufficient confidence in the warninlg whljich the ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2385 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... BASAL AND GENERAL. I LEEDSJ~r~.L Ry 1, 1500. Tim CASE or ELY SYRES..-Wo uhder'stancl dia Mr. Joseph Newsocne,. of Dewsbiiiry, manufacturler, has nddressed a letter to the Bishop of 3tron calling his atten- tion to the case of Eli Sykes. Mr. 1~.ewsomne informed his Lordship of thefact tlsat Sykes baa Z'en in his employ, acid that sup to the day hie committed thq~ murder was a young man of ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6191 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

POSTAL CALENDAR

... POSTAL CALENDAR, Showing the. days of departure from London of the principal Colonial and Foreign .MaFils not of da dispatch; and showing whe the return mails are due.* JANUARY, lS6S. E~ | MaiLs Dispatched. Mails Due at Port of A~ _d rrvl 1 _ 2k(Moling) to West Indies and |Pacific, ti Southampton. (Morning) to America (New York), by United States Packet; (evening) to India (Bombay line), Malta ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1358 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THREATENING TO SHOOT LIEUTENANTCOLONEL MARKHAM, OF THE LEEDS RIFLE VOLUNTEERS

... HREATENING TO SIIOOT LIEUTENANV - COLONEL MARKHAM, OF TIII LEEDS RIFLE VOLUNTEEZRS. On Saturday, at the Aberford CoisrtiWiuse, before Mr. F. Wormald, the Hon. H. 0. Maxwell, Mr: I. T. Wharton, and Mr. F. C. T. Gascoigne, Wmi. Hick Winaos charged with sending a letter to Lieut. - Colonel Markham, of Becca IHall, threatening to shoot him and his wife. The prisoner was ill the prosecutor's ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... LATEST NEWS, (RaEUTnIrtg TEzEGRza u.] AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. The Royal Mail steamship Asia, from Boston and ( [alifax, arrived at Queenstown at 1.30 p.m. yesterday raunday), with 1 5,208 dollars in specie and 48 pas- :;cngers. She landed 9. sacks of mails and six pas- -ngers, and proceeded imanediately for Liverpool, all i ocil, NEw YORE, DeC. 10, Evening. The House of Representatives ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2085 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

WE have advices from Jamaica to the 11th ult. The most important item of news is that con

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. Wii have advices from Jamaica to the 11 th ult. The most important item of news is that con- 39 Cerning the new bill to altor and amend the con- 30 stitution of the country, which has been passed by a 39 large majority of the House of Assembly, after a fierce 39 fight. The bill is meant to produco a complete rovolin- 16 tion in the constitutional state of the island. It ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3418 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... FOPtEJ(GN AND COLONJAL. AMERICA, [IlturER's Exenaes.] ARRIVAL OF THE HECLA. L-V:ERrOOL, Saturday. The Cusnard extra screw steamer, HRcla, Captain Har- Tieon, which wriled from New York oil the l7th instant, reached the Mersiey shortly after eleven o'clock this morning. She brings 190,416 dollars in specie oil freight. Governior Jenkinis was inaugurated as Governor of the State of Georgia oil ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2084 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... MISCELLANNIOUSO The Right ion, B. Disraeli ?? Mrs. Disraeli hbae returned to Hugheuden Manor omn Hatfield House. The Duchess Dowager of Stltelrland, since her return to Stafford House, St. Ja neS', from luverary Castle, tho Duke asod Duchess of A-gYll's seat in Scotland, IRas been slightly indisposed an1 unable to receive any yisiters. The Earl de Groy, oieortling to accounts received in town ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1866
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6447 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News