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FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... FOREIGN MISCELLAN Y. ?? - - . .. . I . I -. Wild boar bunting is being carried on with great suc- cess in the forest of Orleans and in other parts of France. Servia is moro warlike than ever in her popular tone and outward seeming. Troops are being reviewed, commis- sions granted in hundreds, and drilling carried on without remission all over the country. The Vienna Gazepte calculates that as ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2000 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE GUN ACCIDENT AT BIDSTON

... THE GUN ACCIDET A i I - -. . .BIDSTO-N. 1r -.-AJJvW- . 1- 0h SaturdaY's Mercury we publi6ed ia be of a melancholy accident which oaf nt Friday'afternoon to Frederick Iigla, a 176 years of age, son of Mr. RHdgsm B;- rd merebant, residing in Shrewsburoanfd ; The deceased and his brother, iithtf de oung men, named William 1iUi, eeidj h- Mdwrard Mttils, aitect and surve~, 2 it head, and Charles ...

Published: Monday 14 January 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1272 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

A MILLION DEATHS FROM FAMINE

... A MILLION DEATHS -, ,: r 0 ?? FAMIN-E. V gritt i .Und eitbheabove'tartlidg h'eading'the Piiedd'of Idfca. of'lWov. 29 writes as 'foUowl :- Mr. i' Raveinshaw, coiiinissiop'er',of Oriasa, has Aeutt'q the Bengal Govermnent A -seport of the famine in atht province. Never'has so heairtz!idiga'pioture 'been drawn.' Ai offlcial'-whose bias, ifitx must lead 'him, to .ton'e' dovn !the h'orrible ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... AMERICA. PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND CONGRESS. Tho Times has received from its correspondent at Wash- ington the following ?? assel resolution directing committee inquire into offences president hundred eight ayes, thirty-eight noes. First Pt impeachment. Radicals determined press it. Presi- nt vetoed Negro Suffrage Bill. We read it thus:- = The House has passed a resolution directing a committee ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1271 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

A REVOLT IN A FRENCH PENITENTIARY

... A A REVOLT IN A FRENOH PENITENTIARY. || On the 3rd of October last, the Penitentiary of the Le- vant, the largest of the group of isles known as the islands of Hvyres, a reformatory where young boys are trained to husbandry, rose in open revolt, and fourteen boys were literally roasted alive by the ringleaders. On the 24th of September sixty-five Corsicans who had been confined at St. Antoine, ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

TO CORRESPONDENTS

... We cannot undertaketoreturicommunicattons of which we do not avail ourselves. Communicatlons should always be legibly writteh in ink and on one side of tha paper only, length increases bhe difflouity of finding papee for them. Whatever Is intended for insertion must be authenticated byt the name and address of the writer, not neceasarily.for publication, but as a guarantee of his good faith. ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... SALUS POPULI LPX SUPS |A. ?? _ _ ?? DOMESTIC. After an exhaustive inquiry, extending over 34 days,the LancasterElection Comnmissioners yesterday brought their inquiry to a close. Whatever the verdict of the commissioners may be, it must be admitted that the evidence recorded has disclosed a state of corruption -and venality almost unparalleled. Among the recorded disasters resulting from the ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1453 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE LADIES' CLASS AT THE LIVERPOOL GYMNASIUM

... THE LADIEs' CLAS kS -t LIVERPOOL GYMX.A.s i The Iadie`' class at this p, ?? .- . drawing a much leager ihar, . ;. to the important subect ei i6-;.4ze r- than all the other claEse.~ ps: t a: This week the Queen, the 1 La given a long article on thb SGi :7.. &r a wood-cut illustrative of om.i Ati : of physicalculture in her prac,:. I followmng are extracts from th.: r_ That university oi the .t ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1110 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

STRIKE OF SHIPJOINERS ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN

... STRIKE OF SHIPJOINERS ON . BOARD THE UGRBAT EASTERN. It las already been' stated that' a strike has bh taken place amongst a portion of the ?? .o engaged in the refitting of the Great oaste'r, lb preparatory to her being placed on the stationr p between New York and France, during the ap-' t' proaching exhibition at Paris. Messrs. W. H. o Potter and Co., and Messrs. Jones, Quiggin, andu t, Co. ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1607 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... ' THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND has caused notice to be given to his tenantry on the Trentham estate, Staffordahire, that such of them as sufered loss by the cattle plague before the compensation clauses of the Cattle Plague Act came into operation will have the half of such losses made good at the expense of his grace. - THE ABSUtBDIT of some of the cattle plague regulations was prominently brought ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1234 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LIVERPOOL LICENSING BILL

... ?? ? I I ? Id..*U j orl;-dl ?j 0 ? I ivigpo 1? .j X.? ''LL I I u?_- IN :, i I Th ?? I - e eadmg provz Botig .ew bill t* b ; pr d' #th? ?? of ,karliamen w for ?? tbh'pwr,;ent k 4mode of lidenig heehouseshand publib6o6ioea in .this town _. ?? .' t.,. ' clause &th a Ilrom' the 'commencement of . this act no jret#ilmg Winu and beet'- lise 'wi-il be granted orltransfetrrd,' but only ?? excise ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1867

... THE WEEKLY TIMES. IMANCHESTER, | TOPICS. That a man should have died of sheer hunger in the streets of the wealthiest city in the world, Is a circumstance which reflects discredit on the entire nation. > Such a death from destitution occurred in London on the 2nd int. It was the day of the heavy snowfall, and the poor wretch, whose name was JAMES BRooKs, but who said of himself that he had ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8110 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News