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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident (search)
ke, and in which, it was hoped, he would disclose his views of public affairs. One of the London correspondents says: "Lord Palmerston, following the example of some other political chiefs, has been making himself generously conspicuous at Leeds, where he has presided at a soiree of the Leed's Mechanics' Institute and Literary Society. It is lordship, accompanied by Lady Palmerston and the Hon. W. Cowper, arrived in Leeds towards evening, and a great crowd which met him were very anxiouLeeds towards evening, and a great crowd which met him were very anxious to get a speech out of him; in fact, they called upon him for one, but his lordship, a regular old soldier in these matters, made no sign until he saw his carriage ready to receive him, when, with that happy tact which he possesses, he struck out & 'There was an old saying, a good old saying, that it was good to welcome the coming and speed the parting guest.' Here a lusty cheer responded, and eager faces clustered together, and anxious cars were open for wonderful opinions on foreign policy
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Starvation and Distress in England. (search)
Starvation and Distress in England. --Our London and Liverpool files continue to be filled with dreadful accounts of starvation and suffering in the manufacturing districts, in consequence of the lack of employment, resulting mainly from the countermanding of orders from the United States, and the consequent suspension of labor. There is a loud call for the organization of "relief societies," "soup houses," "fuel and clothing associations, " &c., in all the great towns and cities. The reports we quoted last week, in the Express, from the trade circulars, showed the condition of things in Manchester, Leeds and Huddersfield. Nottingham, too, is a serious sufferer. One of the journals states officially, that "the number of in-door poor, at the Poor-House, exceeded by 415 those from the corresponding period last year, while the outdoor recipients amounted to 2,016 more than last year. In comparison with last week, there were more than 1,000 applicants for out-door relief."
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Legislature of Virginia. (search)
In the meantime the English reformers, with Cobden and Bright at their head, had shown a disposition for peace, fearing that a with this country would result in rendering the people of Great Britain mere helpless at the feet of the Tory aristocracy. The British manufacturers and traders were greatly alarmed at the prospect of a war with America, and the reports which we give this morning relative to the excited feeling existing on the subject, in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sacmeld, and other centres of industrial profit, prove that amiably class of the people of Britain will condemn any violent attempt to exterminate the democracy of the United States at a moment when it is engaged in suppressing a mighty rebellion. In Manchester, as general to the other places named, it was reported that American affairs commanded individual attention to the exclusion of business, without, however, anything like panic, buyers and sellers both being disposed to swart for her
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Cruel trotting match in England. (search)
Cruel trotting match in England. --A trotting match came off in the neighborhood of Leeds, England, recently, between a noted horse called Jack Rossiter, now aged nineteen years, and a mare called Matchless, purchased for the sole purpose of defeating the invincible Jack. The match was for £50 a side, and the distance to be run was fifty miles for the horse, and forty-nine miles and one thousand two hundred and sixty yards for the mare. At the end of the forty-fifth mile the mare fell down dead. Jack Rossiter did his fifty miles in three hours and thirty minutes, twenty-seven miles of the journey having been completed in one hour and forty minutes. The winner was in a most deplorable state at the finish.
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Further from Europe. (search)
ements and contracts on a full recognition of this fact; and that, then, whatever may be the terms to which the rate of discount may go, we shall simply have to congratulate ourselves that all classes — the merchant, the agriculturist and the capitalist — are equal sharers in the national well-being." The failures announced on the 26th ultimo are Alfred Teale & Co., woolen merchants, for £100,000; John Chapham, a manufacturer; Turner & Johnson, and C. Turner, cloth manufacturers, all of Leeds. Turck, Barclay & Co., £120,000, and F. Yague & Co., of London. Robert Byrne, stock broker, of Liverpool. John Fletcher & Co., corn merchants, of Lancaster, £100,000.--Lightfoot & Sons, sugar refiners and rice millers, of Liverpool. Robert Baxendall, corn merchant, of Manchester. David Kamsden, spinner, of Bradford; and others of less importance. The deficit of the Leeds Banking Company is over £500,000. A number of failures were still expected in connection with this large banking i
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
but on the return of the Whigs to power in 1846, he was appointed Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Soon after, he visited the United States, traveling extensively in different portions of the country, and taking the deepest interest in the character and institutions of the American people. He made many friends in almost every circle of society, winning universal regard by the amenity of his manners, his liberal and comprehensive views, and his sound and cultivated understanding. After his return to England, he attracted not a little attention by the delivery of two lectures before the Mechanics' Institute of Leeds, taking for his subjects the "United States" and "The Life and Writings of Pope" Before the Crimean war, he made a tour in the East of Europe, and published his "Diary of Travel in Turkish and Greek Waters." On the accession of Lord Palmerston in 1855, he was nominated Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and held the office till 1858.
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