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CORRESPONDENCE

... CORRESPONDENCEI NOTICES TO COORRESPONDENTS. AlU letters intended for publication must be accompanied by the niame and address of the wdite-, not necessarily tar publication, but for the information of the Editor. Corrceondents. who sat any special value upon their con ncnnicions must hap copies of them, as we cannot untde.r take to return unused contributiona. C. C.-The marriage would be ...

Published: Monday 07 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4332 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

SHALL WE GIVE UP GIBRALTAR?

... [Fom the Daily Nows.] Shall lwe give up Gibraltar? Admiral Grey, in counselling us to do so, has brought the anthority of his professional reputation and local knowledge to bear on a question which has been too much treated as a mnatter of mnere scntiment or courtesy. Whether we should surrender that famous rock is a point which dleserves very careful examination ; but tire first con. ...

Published: Monday 28 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1324 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... ' 1IICI-IINGS v. CORDINGLEY. To the BDITOI of toeD.lLY POST. Sir,-The Church Timnes of Saturday last, under the th abLov heading, contabis a report of the Council of the H English Church Union, and as the said report is not so ih accurate as it might have been, I trust you wiil allow me Ct a corner in your paper to correct one or two of the errors D the writer of the report has fallen into, ...

Published: Tuesday 22 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1363 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND MR. LOWE AT THE FISHMONGERS' HALL

... THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND MR. LOWE AT THE FTSH3ONGEfS' HATAL, Several members of the new Government were enter- tained at dinner by the Fishmongers, in their hall, on Thursday night. The Lord Chancellor returned thanks for the toast of her Majesty's Ministers. As a Fishmonger of forty years' standing, Lord Hatherlciy appealed to the members of the company to attest the consistency with -which ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 710 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... M ISCELLANEOUS. on Fi iday, the fifthl and last daly, flhe Smittfieild Show wa~s Aviite-d 1by Many thOUSanliS leSs than oil the previous cliiIii dYs, w len each day's takings showed that between ;:uo'00 sed *io,fuo entered threegh the turn-tables. The salles were Very few in nimber. We oender stand that Sir William Snagg, Chief JuStiCe of £antignia, has been appointeti to suc'ceed Chief ...

Published: Monday 14 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2220 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NEWS FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY

... I NEWS FORi 'WOVN AND CO 'TRY. It The org0asisatioll for the despatcl and supply of daily .e newspapers is one of the marvels of social nmechanics. d Live where we wvill withill the linmit3 of the three king- d doms, or even beyond then, we have ibat to wvill that a tire news of tire day shall reach us once in every I twoenty-four hours, arid to go through the commercial Is preliminaries of ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2236 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE FOUNDERING OF THE HIBERNIA

... SUPrOSE) LOSS OF EIGHTY-ONSE LIVES. Wye reported on Tuesday the loss of tie Ilibernia steamer, and of the landinsg of a large number of the crew and passengers at Wick. The Hibernia left Newv York, for Glasgow, on the 14th of last month. When about 700 miles from thce Irish coast the machinery broke down, and the ship became unnanasgeable and sinking. She was abandoned, the crew and ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1664 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS

... AGRICULTURAL PROS PECTS. The wcek opened witit a thick foggy day, lit t with no rain, although thit was threatening. Monday was at very wet (lay throughont ; wind S.S.E. ; thermoomteter -18 dog.; barometer down to 29 ,30 inclles. Fromn Scotlend it ivtis reported : Wo hlve have had changeable, wet, and storniy weathelr, with ats occasiontally gold daiy etiepeta- Lture mtild. Should the ...

Published: Tuesday 29 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 702 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MR. REVERDY JOHNSON'S DEFENCE

... MR. REVERDY JOiINSON'S DEFENCE. The following correspondence has been pubnllshed in reference to the proposedd inner to thir Americinl Dinister by workmuen in London:- To his Excellency tire olon. Ieverdy Johnson, &c. Sir,-With extremCe regret and a fall knowledge of lhe unworthy return we are makilng for your kindness in accepting an invitation to dine witl certain London work- men, we sre ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1067 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

METEOROLOGY OF WEEK

... ME TEOROLOGY OF WEEK Esorsoe DcSsstrsilrE 6, 1868. From observations takeln at U3, looilsolury Street. Instrumentt Hewv andmi reenwictested. Thermometere free from radiation. T Et EliiATUJORE. Date. 50nAI_ os dn c , t Fiunday, Nov.29 293473 420 30'4 11-6 310 33'S 0008 Meonday 2012370) 43 8 33o5 30 39 S1'S ao TsesdsyDee. 1 2n 45 41'S 300 83 42 4 42 4 0 145 Wednesday, 2 29401 400 42'2 6i 44i 44i ...

Published: Wednesday 09 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1472 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

A SHAMEFUL CONTRAST

... [Frml the Lzicet.] Down a narrow sloping entry, in a court yard closely surrounded with houses of the worst description, in close proximity to nests of privies and an exposed manure heap, where storm-rain washing down the mud collects in pools of water often two feet deep, there is a lean-to hovel built against the gable of a house. In front it is some six feet high. In the centre there is a ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 741 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT NEWS

... DISTRICT NiEWS. 1' u~iA 5' 0 , (bI,, [ 5> E lii. A 01-: Foi*''l Jaibiiiiiliahhi RA,.r t u It Ind 1Iviid PB ii 'slaY, (If CIL III :i veto-igi ith brocalitig into Ilhe lies Litoti shop. of SIr. (.oigC Walers at Parikeeld. Tilo ;ieieiisa were I tat elot M. Wliters fesoil cth'ti' s.tt of a~s stton hadliten taklien dtote!, thte 1235 I! sid iquittitv f clst~s ia of cloth, tne It cI ac 1ir r ilrS t. ...

Published: Tuesday 29 December 1868
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2017 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News