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... Toal3rlo I Afte MlElTISG OF CREDITOItS.-Y0St0YdY aftcrnoon, grour Me tinl g of the creditors of Elizrbeth Taylor, sohool. dew, muist-,o3. ?? :7, Nlot h Albert-street, Fleetwood, was held day. at the oli of Iloqrq. Forvlaife and Parker, solicitors, ?? CaStDnrticlet. It waq resolved that trusteei's accounts and bs pio'cl, ansl that tho tcustee, Mr. Titus Thorp, should of th be rel'setd AX ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1879
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8425 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

SIR A. H. LAYARD

... SII A. HM LAYARD. ?? AS a In Sir A. R. Layard, our ambassador i spafty at Constantinople, we have a rematrkable yivate instance of the extent to which the best id for. feelings of a mans moral nature mav b3 subordinated to the peculiarities of his intellectual view. There is no reason to s.ded suppose that Sir Austen is destitute of tho;e sentiments of justice which are common to the majority ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1880 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

DEPOSITION OF THE REV. D. MACRAE

... DEPOSITION OF TIE REV, X, ' rC RUE, a I UNITED r 'IA.IERIsks I Ecoxl ;:PculX W'Pe'A-' thisafterroon, at four O'e Ihoc ahaseses terminated by the dsposti'on of r te 1 ,-Z Macrae, of Gourock, from the mnirusr ei Mt Unitedi Presbyterian Church' hc Svvod Esl ! Queen-street was crowded all oat b avrbjs d syucd and the g tsener pubpic. Tie Toderoerd. Rev. Dr. George Jeffrey, of Gasgosw g ...

Published: Thursday 24 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 974 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

HEALTH COMMITTEE

... 8 The weekly meeting of the Liverpool health committee was held yesterday, at the Municipal- 10 buildings,Dale-street. Mr.A. B. Forwoodpresided, 8 and there were also present Dr. Gill, and easers. rGraves, Jackson, HunLtingtoLa,Fowler, and Barkeley Smith. HEALTH OF THE TOWN. The Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Taylor) d reported that the number of deaths registered in the u borough during the ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 662 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE SUGAR INDUSTRIES

... TEE SUGAR INDUSTRIES. The select committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the decay of the sugar industries of Great Britain sat again yesterday, Mr. Ritchie presiding. Mr. Q. Hogg, West India merchant, Rood-lane, London, was then examined. He said that he believed the West Indies could compete with all continental countries in the prodaction of sugar. But for the bounties ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 507 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

WESLEYAN MINISTERIAL ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE CONTERENCE OF 1879

... WESLEYAN MINISTERIAL ENGAGEMENTS FOR THlE COTERENCE OF 1S75). The stationing committee of the Wesleyan con- 9 ference, composed of mhdsterial representatives : t elected by the various district committees through- x out the consexion, meets ou Wednesday morning c next, in Islington 15hapel, Birmingham, to prepare rs a preliminary draft of the stations of Wesleyan m 1 ministers for the ensuing ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2522 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

SUNDAY CLOSING & POPULAR MISAPPREHENSION

... nre- TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. of Gentlemen,-We are accustomed to misrepre- sentation and misconception on the part of intt- lid- rested and of ignorant parties upon the subject of the closing of public houses on Sundays. But the public refutation appears to be called for when of popular prejudices, absolutely inconsistent with the facts of the case, receive the public sanction ...

Published: Monday 28 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1255 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE DECISION ON THE WATER QUESTION

... THE DECISION ON THE WATER I QUESTION. le e l',y a very large majority-3(i against 8 rf -o -the town council have decided to go to ti . VVrnwy for the future water supply of fa dLiverpool. W'e may venture to say that a as month ago such a result was altogether C B unexpected, even by the most enthusiastic ti n advocates of the Welsh scheme. The water d t. committee was so evenly balanced as to ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1205 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... fMFEBIAL PARaeNT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. X -_ Ba WEDNESDAY, JULY 16. me Tbe Speaker took the chair at 12 20. MO IRISH UNIVERSITY BILL. of, Mr. FCrcErT gave notice that to-morrow he ps would ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether m1 it was not true that a proposal was made some- time ago on the part of the Irish executive with - reference t Irish university education, and that a petition, ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2299 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LIVERPOOL LIGHTING BILL

... the - .I thm gine Housa oF Lawns, 111osoAY, kint Ongs, The Liverpool Lighting Bill, which had been hp nes, referred to a select committee of the House of 4of arrY Lords, consisting of Earl Spencer (chairman), int et fie- the Earl of Dendonald, Lord Somerton, Lord ve din . lee:; :6 Waveney, end Lord Norton, came oin for con- th 123, sideration this morning. tl~ aen. The counsel for the ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1451 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER

... S.ATURDAY, JULY 10. The chart represents the western countries of Europe, from Norway to the coast of Portugalaud embraces Great Britain and the British Isles. It aleo includes the North Sea or German Ocean, the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean, the Atlntic, with the English Ohannel, Bristol Channel. and Irish Sea. . ~~ \% a~ijttle a a 'eb V5, 1 54o@ 5* 57 n Falli06 hxN£@ a Q I g~od r 30a-:- - ...

Published: Monday 21 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1839 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMNT.S tb- o - - COI omd om~of or HOUSE O LORD ?? FRIDAY, JULY 4. bai rk: Their lordships met at five o'clock. tio oet LOCAL BILL, pdi The Birkenhead Tramways Bill was read a third bhe ?? timxe and psosed. en Om THE rEAkOE IlEGOTUATIONS WITH agt 0ETEWAYO. int el, In reply to the Earl of Kimberley, tio ore The Earl of C&DOoAN said as far as he could Spf for judge from the ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3343 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News