... Thursday the 11th and 12th inst. In the early part of Wednesday, and in fact for several days before, the appearances of the heavens indicated, in the opinion of many, that some great change was about to take place in the weather. On tha Sunday previous, ...

... European discovery, so generally attributed to Schwarz, may, with great reason, be disputed, since we find in MS. belonging to Hudson Gurney, Esq. a receipt to make gunpowder written by English scribe about 1300, in very precise terms—viz., saltpetre, quick ...

... for its former (and only very recent) onslaughts on Mr George Hudson, the Newcastle Journal now fulsomely observes :— A concurrence of events, singular in many respects, has placed Mr Hudson in a position which can be assigned only to a few. But those ...

... up a paragraph !— Gateshead rver. George Hudson, E.iq., M P There man whose life presents so many instances the truth and force the common adage, it is better to born lucky that rich, as does that George Hudson, Esq., the Railway King His whole career ...

... 1 whose heroic exploits have maintained and advanced the glory of the British flag. (Applause.) War—the minister of angry heaven—is at all times to be deplored ; and to us quiet burghers the arts of peace are I much more congenial, and would far rather ...

... limewater will resist dry rot much longer than timber not similarly treated. After it is taken out of lime-water, should be allowed to dry and season. Of the twenty-five steamers now building for the navy, sixteen will be propelled by screw machinery. Mr ...

... passed, as was almost confessed by the Right Hon. . Baronet last night, defiance of the law of Heaven, and was an outrageous wrong to man. (Loud cheers.) Mr Hudson strongly supported the principle protection the only sound one upon which they could proceed ...

... administering lacteal nourishment to the illustrious Stranger The London correspondent of the Dum- i fries Courier says:—Mr Hudson, the railway king,! can scarcely put a sentence together in tolerable Eng- \ lish. By the new penal code in Russia, it is ...

... open carriages aud four, escorted by a troop of Lancers. The party entered the railway at the Tottenham station; where Mr Hudson, as Chairman, and others the Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway, were in attendance. about half-past eleven, the train ...

... entertainment, an ! provisions, had, I given, presented, and allowed, the plaintiff, on behalf of ' the s lid George Hudson, and 011 the behalf of the said dej agents of for tho said George Hudson, before the election of a member for the said borough, divers ...

... Gracious Heaven ! who is this—entitled, too, it seems, to enter this august assembly —who is shunned as the pestilence, or if touched, touched he were some slimv, nauseous reptile, with an apparent loathing or tremor ? Who is this It is George Hudson ! Timothy ...

... After demolishing Hudson ag the Hero of England, • Mr Carlyle proceeds to estimate his value as the ' maker of railways:— Hudson's value as a demigod being what was, his value as a maker of railways shall hardlv concern us here. What Hudson's real worth ...