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... ZIL:X ML:XtQA NDX. M\Ir. O'Connell has accepted an invitation to a dinner in Covie, on tbe 1st of June. A repeal meeting is to be held there on the following day. A 1 ilkonny coiner has been discovered carrying on1 his . evil :racticcs even in the prison to which hie was confined for his forimr nisdeeds! ?? and anotlier prisoner, aasoldior, ] had actually made a number of counterfeit coins in ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 522 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILL

... SATURDAY, M-r 3, 1S45. ONE consequence of the agitation and prolonged discus- ?? respecting the AIaynootli grant haS been the postponement of motions of interest connected with the - business of the country, and, anmongst others, of one for t inquiriling into the present state of the law relating to debtor and creditor. A fortnight ago the subject was to have been brought forward in the ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE CHURCH MILITANT

... SATUDAY ji tol 25,e 1S4 ! ,SATU'RDAY, J~lx.4RYn 2.,, IS45. WHE iCHURCH MILITANT. GOWN VlESUS SURPLICE. They could raise scruples dark and nicQ, And after, solve 'em in a trices As if divinity Icd catcl'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to Show with how small pain The sores of faiths are cured again: %iltblcsglc ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1845
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1814 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

Parliamentary Intelligence

... Vadtfaicntarn intlligence. HOUSE OFl LORDS.-FRIDAY, MaRy 28. Lord PORSYSAN drew attention to a Petition from Newfound. land, complaining that a POrtioh Of the money subscribed in England for the relief of distress 1uad been devoted to thle re- building of a chureb; he moved art address to the crowvn, praylag that in casies of future collection under a Queen's Letter, an account be published of ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1847
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 8476 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE AMENDMENT TO THE ADDRESS

... Sacote Vntol 1,er 184+ :SATURDAY, FSsistra 10, 1849. TEE AMENDMENT TO THE ADDRESS. I - . . _ - Tnn Speech from the Throne, however much people, from custom, desire to read it, seldom gratifies any ex- pectation, and is generally forgotten in a few days after its deliverance, inasmuch as it possesses nothing by which it can lay hold upon the memory. The address, in re- porting parlance, is an ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1849
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1764 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE CITY AND THE DOCKS

... vi3toIto. SATURDAY, OCTOnRER 30, 1847. TuE Town-Council held a special general meeting on bi Mionday last, for the purpose of further considering and a determining upon the report of the committee appointed o to confer with the Piree-Port Association, and which re- port, our readers are aware, recommended the purchase IT by the city of the Dock Property-the reduction of ton- N1 nage-dues on ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1847
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 4562 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.—LONDON, FRIDAY

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE.LOobuWON, Fi1zDAu. tty LONDON CORN-EXCIIANOZ, F~iday.-A very moderate n supplyof English wheat has been received up to our market _this wieek, and the show of samples of that grain was very srnall, Igh 'These cirenmstances, together with the briek adevices receiveri left from the whole of the country markets, bhad considerable inbufis itil ence upon the mind5 of both ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1847
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1150 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... BIAESIINGHAII MUSICAL F ESTIVAL pr'odusced over LADiEs are admitted as members of the British A..,,clati.~ d by the new rules. d LARG4 DATILIA.-1In the garden of the city prison, 1,l a dahlia 11 feet high. tSNUFF - TAKING Is recommended to students Of the French language, as it facilitates the acquiring otfthe proper accent. EGYPT'-.-The Topic, In depicting 1Eigypt as it is,,hwsta threc ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1846
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1891 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... R ErPEAL ASSOCIATION.-On Monday, at the conclusion of the proceedings (which were totally devoid of interest), tile rent for the week was announced to be £15 105. 9d. DULnuce, Jan. 22.-There are still more deplorable ac- counts thi day from Cork and other southern counties than any that have yet been received. The low fever, called by the peasantry the plague, is extending in some of the ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1847
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE TOWN IMPROVEMENT BILL

... THE TOWN IMPROVE MENT BILL. IT is notorious that too many cooks spoil the broth ; and equally notorious is it that too many public bodies spoil a city. Bristol is an instance of this. She is over- run with corporations and companies, and is alternately cramped and coddled by these officious nurses of the public interests. These public bodies seldom, by any chance, agree. They are always ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1847
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 450 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

... AMERICA.- -The Atlantic arrived at Liverpool on Thursday. The fugitive slave bill Continued to excite difficelty and agi- tation, the negro population becoming quite in a ferment; and the trouble was much deepened by the feet that several churches had divided (each as the Methodists and others), tilt points regarding elavery, the southern portion lielditig its general and ciatiorial convention ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2126 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL TOTAL-ABSTINENCE SOCIETY

... 71;1;?TL TO?At-ABSTINENCE SOCIETY. sad Wititiettide fetvlof thsnumerous atnd in. Craig~ac'udltid~.and was attended by nearly on o niusual splendaur, ,no envious cloud 'f le t1 y~ nd ati's useemed tO have Put onl her holi. ?? fr tie ant0 By the early railway trains there attreerticer~'l~of friends of the cause tram Bath, 0er *~~iiga'ier lnnoell, Gloucester, and other places, ~eeit eeto be ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1846
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 4019 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News