THE BOROUGH ELECTION

... THlE BOROUGH ELECTION. Although tho Liboral party in this groat town is now quite sure of returning one nieinber to Parliament, we trust that it will not allow its energies to be relaxed by that circumIIIstance. 'Tlhe more returning of ono memiber out of three is a very small advani- tage, and will not give such a member nearly thle wvoight wvhicll lhe would have in the new Parliament if ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 972 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT DILSTON CASTLE

... EXTRAORDINARY PROCEED- LNGS AT DILSTON CASTLE. UNte briefly stated yesterday that the allegetl Countess of Derwentwater had been forcibly removed from her encampment on the Dilston Castle estate, where she has so long maintained an inconvenient position in defiance of the authoritie-s. On Thursday morning Mr. Pattinson, clerk, and1 Mr. Henry Wilson, surveyor to the highway board, dro% e down ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1200 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE EVE OF BATTLE

... - f 2 - lie' 7Ie The (lay of conflict has arrived. The he tin e for talking, for writing, for setting or forth views and expounding principles, is over, and the hour has come when the battle must be fought out at the polling- booths. Like opposing armnies which, after months of marching and mancenvring, find I thcnselves drawn up in martial array against each other, prepared to engage in a ...

Published: Monday 16 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

PRIZE FIGHTING IN AMERICA

... I The Nev York Hcerald of October 30 contains the following report of the meeting at Lynnfield, near Boston, between Wormald and O'Baldwin:- Wormnald won the toss for corners, and, the ring being now completed, the men stood forward for the figlt. The men eyed each other with a searcb- ing ance and, putting on guard, stood ready for setion. Tile betting was in favour of O'Baldwin, which ...

Published: Monday 16 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 740 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE ELECTION FOR SOUTH WEST LANCASHIRE

... TBE ELECTION FOR SOUTH- WEST LANCASHIIRE. The electors of this division of South Lancashire have aln opportunity this day of doing themselves a great honour, and of doing a great service to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as to those priuciples of sound policy and public morality which Mr. Gladstone most emi- ncitly represents. ve ask their votes for him ithl the ...

Published: Tuesday 24 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1473 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SPECIAL EDITION

... f I SOUTH-WEST LANCASHIRE ELECTION. STATE OF THE POLL. LrnRAL ItLMUrN. Gladstone Grenfoll Tarner Cross Nine ?? 1054 ?? 1003 ?? 831 ?? 836 Ten . 2602 ?? 2480 ?? 2314 ?? 2315 I3leven.,, 4171 ?? 3994 ?? 4078 ?? 4103 Twelve., ,, 5622 ?? 636 ?? 5433 ?? 5',41 One . , /320 ?? 6027 ?? 6,315 ?? 6337 Two ., 6774 ?? 6444 ?? 6362 ?? 6897 Three ..7076 ?? 6091 ?? 7243 ?? 7286 Four . 7315 ?? 0904 ?? 7514 ?? ...

Published: Tuesday 24 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1309 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

DR. LIVINGSTONE

... DR. ILIVINGSTONE. 'lhbe opening meeting of the winter session of the Boyal Geographical Society was held in London on Monday night. In the course of his inaugural address, the president, Sir Roderick Murchison, speakldg of Dr. Livingstone, said- Of all the events which have transpired since we last assembled, nothing, I am sure, can have gratified 11s Fo much as the news which has recently ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1143 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE CHESTER ELECTION

... I TUE CHESTER ELECTION. ADDRESS BY EARL GROSVENOR, ?? ILast evening. Earl Grosvenor, M.P., one of the three Liberal candidates for the representation of Chester, addressed a crowded meeting of the free- men and electors, held in the Music Hall of that city. Mr. Thomas Dixon, banker, presided, and amongst the gentlemen on the platform were Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., Revs. J. K. Montgomery and P. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1996 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... The Right Hon. W. N; Massey will preside this evening at the meeting for the ?? of prizes to the various departments of the Liverpool Institute, andl will deliver an address to the students and pupils. The honours obtained this year by the Institute SChools are high and numerous, and the dietribution of them by Mr. Massey will doubtless attract a large meeting of tl e friends of edlucation. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1848 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... I BiY TELEG&PH.] T. 1Tornin Herald says the' Marquia of Th, -e i:; gradually sinking. There is not the lastinh5 - oec of his recovery. slightest I __ RETURN (-F AN EMIGRANT SHIP The iron four- L asted North German ship Palmerston, from =an, burg, with a general cargo and 4,37 emigrants, men, , -omen, and children, for New 'Yotrkc, was towed in t+, Plymouth Sound ;esterday morning by the step ...

Published: Monday 09 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1607 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE NOVEMBER METEORS

... I The DatlyNa rs endeatvours to find out the laws which regulate November meteorio showers. Astronomers themselves, it said, had been una- willing to accept the theory tbat the rocurrenco of periodic Maximi, somne three thricu in a, eintary indicated that the zone of meteors hadl that onor- mous extension which correspin(di to a period of revolution, of 33 years. It was shown that if thae ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1868
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 586 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... THE IRISH CIURIOIl QU 'ESTION. To tse ]fnsros ef tse DAILY Posr. Bir,--I beg you to favouri Ine by inserting ill your next issue the enclosed correspondence, which refers to a passage attvibuted to Mr. 01ladstone, in A Clergysanm's Adidreiss to his Parishioners, onl the shove subject, by the 33ev. W%. Dalton, Vicar of St. Phililp's, Wolverhampton, ,and l'tebendar-y of Liclhfielil. I ant, sir ...

Published: Tuesday 10 November 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4910 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News