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SHOCKING TREATMENT OF LUNATICS

... BROCKING TREATMAIT OF I BLUNATICS. I IAPORiA CONVIO TIONS. At the Hereford assizee, on Saturday, before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Edward Charles James Shaw, a surgeon, surrendered to take his trial for misdemeanour, inbavingundertaken the charge of one Frances Danvers Weaton, a lunatic, without the medical certificate and orders required by the statute, Thli wa a proreoutioa institated by ...

Published: Monday 02 March 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1089 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

ACTION BY AN ACTOR

... AGAINST THE LONDON & NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, Chief Justice Bovill and a epeolal jury had before them the case of Worboyi v. the London and North western Railway. It waan action to re. cover damages for injuries sustained upon the line of the defendants, who paid £300 Into oonrt, so that the only question to be tried was whether this sum was ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

IS AN AUCTIONEER BOUND BY HIS CATALOGUE?

... IMPORTANT DECISION. A very important oint in reference to sales by auction was decided y Sergeant Wheeler, LL.D., at the Ormskirk county court, on Saturdiay. Mr. James Platt, auctioneer, of Southport, sued Mr. Thomas Bentley, broker, Wigan, for £13 1us., the sum at which a hogshead of claret bad been knocked down to the defendant's wife at a sale which was conducted by the plaintiff at ...

Published: Monday 10 August 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1382 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... COIRRESPONDENRE . 'To Titi II £CCTu~l'i 'CC7C Till ICCII' ''161( 11. 103T1. fly 0l'CtlestuiIC. The Ifie'r ut 8oiitiIhp M'f, exte'.nt I ,I CI ~zfor IlI.'Crly iC 111115 latf' tile 1,1CC, Ps wd'ifCCidCI. I fl CICI t cf C itis aiovouritIC ivilconfl11 plceCV, CCC ICIICC- %prot~I C~ nCAi.ICIUoIIICIICICC CIrwidu a to the aIllil4 o tIte~ M~ ILOC Ill LE ICCIC11 dw1CC ,I, 'I dilCI jC1 litI ...

Published: Monday 03 August 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1570 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

SEMI-WEEKLY SUMMARY

... v-T y r slt MARY. 1-1IWETLYKV., DO)MTIO. e IRoYA1 A ii.1ieatro-the cenen 01 Te at pobtical demonstrations-W8 ,.11 Wedneadq ?? 'oy en ?? ansio 5 to hear Mr. Jo] Bright, M.P., and to declare ita sym tia with the movenjellt for aboliohll'g intolerable inlustice to Irelnd by the Church. The meetinlg was 01,'ve ylcon, Assoiatin, arecedt' Welsh Roforn AsmociatI.D'i 1 for its object stituted ...

Published: Tuesday 02 June 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1288 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

THE FENIAN TRIALS IN LONDON

... THE FENIAN TRIALB IN I ~LONDON.I A special session of the Central Criminal Court lo illl b held this mornlng, at ten. o'clock, for tho 5d purpose of disposing of the ease of the six persons o cbarged with the crime of wilful murder arising out of the desperate attempt to blow down the 3n wall of the house of detention at Olerkenwell, asd lc the charge of treason-felony against the three l ...

Published: Monday 20 April 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1269 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS

... I THE WEATHER AND THE C. ROPS The continued drought is causingsome unia asinmes throughout the country, as it is feared that unless we have a speedy fall of rain the crops w ill be materially diminished in quantity and affect. id in quality. So far, however, not much harm has been done, and if wie are favoured with a few showers in the course of next week we may exp 'ect most satisfactory ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1052 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

A BATCH OF ELOPEMENTS

... A BATCH OF ELOPE, IMENTS. I IL One of those cases of frailty which are recurrent i every now and then in the country has just occurred )f at Ridderminster in the shape of an clopement. The lady who has cut is the wife of a well-to-do s beerhoitee keeper, and the Lothario, a peccant 1 weaver named ?? Cook. Their acquaintance e arose from Cook being a visitor at Uncle Tom's 1 Cabin, the ...

Published: Friday 17 July 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 999 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LATEST AND TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

... LATEST AND GiIRi'HIC NEWS. .I CMECOIM~aLt ILONDON . N\\'zeESI :EENING. titn on the Stock EExIlrige has been too ileorlted lyv the finilal aflsge5lle~S connectedI i admittl nof mul neo buisiness, D 1vlittle ha s bee n done. Mealwhile, og hetaing firmn aiess, IhaNve not how n ritloitn.0 The general tendency, r slc bpards . Beyond this there cclt faue AniumlproenVieimt is reported .aell and iii ...

Published: Thursday 16 July 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6608 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

LATEST AND TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

... tsjfEST AgpINEWS. bE~~D1~~ 11, , TELEGRA-MS.]c c C.NUED SPREAD t coT~oF -rupE t0tltl IN SPAIN. 1;IalCATJON OF THE At ',EEN. t SrPFBXVTE FIGHTING h AND INSURGENTS. s ,qM ' 'oN OF ROYALIST v T11OOPS. I p} -lTIfNG AT SANTANDER. a MADRID, SEPT. 25. a at the head of a cohlun of 3000 b :;59 Sastt llr at noon yesterday, after a with the inhabitants and 500 h .2 tad 11)r o nncd for the revolution, a - ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6187 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE

... I WESLEYAN CONFIBRENcE FRIDAY, JXULY A1. This is the ninth conference held in jirerp, the last occurring in the year 1857; and, 8bQ the circle of places inviting the conference not b enlarged, it will return to the town again at the end of the next eleven years. Upwards of 0 ministers who were present on the last occur here are now deceased, and many ensiel ° well-known names of the past are ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1861 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

... I School holidays-events usually loolvad forward to with pleasurable anticipations-ars becoming something very like a nuisanco in Liverpool. A short time silicn, a new arrangement of holidays unas partially adopted in this town, the vacntions being made more frequent, but for shorter ternis. Had the new scheme been enforced in all the local scliools, it might have proved generally acceptable; ...

Published: Friday 28 August 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News