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Bridgnorth Beacon Articles

Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.

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Articles:

1. Notice to Advertisers.
2. Advertisement - Stationery
3. Advertisement - Publication
4. Advertisement - Drapery
5. Advertisement - Bookseller
6. Births, Marriages and Deaths.
7. Notice to readers and correspondents.
8. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Title
9. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Objects
10. Report on the Morfe Flower Show.
11. Opinion on emigration for gold-hunting.
12. Report on the harvest.
13. Local Information - Grammar School, Choral Society and Philharmonic Society
14. Local Information - School-masters' Association
15. Local Information - Quatt School
16. Local Information - Religious & Useful Knowledge Society, Mechanics Institution
17. Local Information - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, etc.
18. Local Information - Sanitory state of the town.
19. Local Information - Militia
20. Local Information - Cholera, and the Fair
21. Petty Sessions - Conviction of Hawker
22. Police Reports - Non-payment of poor rate calls.
23. Police Reports - Drunkenness
24. Letter to the Editor
25. Letter to the Editor
26. Letter to the Editor
27. General Information - England - Politics and the death of the Iron Duke

    General Information.

    ENGLAND

    The principal feature of the past month, as respects our own country, has been the political discussions respecting the approaching session of Parliament. The Times with its usual ability has been attacking Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli, followed with greater violence by the Daily News, and the Pusey-peelite Morning Chronicle. Whether public opinion will follow in the wake of these Journals remains to be seen. Rumour says that an effective opposition to the Conservatives is to be organised under the auspices of Lord J. Russell, Lord Palmerston, and Sir J. Graham, backed by the Irish Brigade under the leadership of Mr. Lucas. It is quite certain that violent efforts will be made to oust the present government, &: it is quite possible that such efforts may be successful. What or who is to follow upon the accomplishment of this coalition scheme is quite another question, and a much more difficult one to deal with than is generally imagined. It is a pity that the Russellites cannot see their way clear to a junction with Lord Derby, now that he has given in his adhesion to Free Trade as a fait accompli.

    The other noticeable feature in the month, is emigration, or rather Gold hunting. On that we have some remarks in another place.

    And whilst the rest of our fellow country-men have been leaving us for Australia and America, our great Commander has taken a longer journey than them all. The Iron Duke, the man of men, has succumbed to the grim Destroyer. Comment is needless. All will have mourned for him, as seldom warrior has been mourned for. He will need no marble monument to remind us of his virtues, no biographer to blazon his achievements. They are written indelibly on the heart of the nation. Brave old Duke! He has fought his last battle, he has had his last summons, he is gone the way of all the earth, and that at a time when the descendant of his great enemy is on the eve of consolidating his ill-gotten power. A superstitious person would draw an omen therefrom.

    "Even at the base of Pompey’s statue Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell."

28. General Information - England - the Advantages of Free Trade.
29. General Information - England - A Royal Teacher.
30. General Information - England - Proposals for new ocean vessels.
31. General Information - Ireland - Erin go Bragh
32. General Information - Ireland - Tenant right.
33. General Information - Ireland - An Irish Mother (a pig tale).
34. General Information - Scotland
35. General Information - America
36. General Information - America - Christianity among the Jews
37. General Information - America - Drinking pact.
38. Ecclesiastical Information
39. Ecclesiastical Information - Methodism, Convocation and the Vicarage of Shiffnal
40. The Press - The Duke of Wellington
41. Literary Extracts - Advice to Theologians
42. Literary Extracts - Fasting Extraordinary (An account of the process for electing new Bailiffs)
43. Literary Extracts - Habits of a Man of Business.
44. Poetry - Introduction.
45. Poetry - The Buried Flower
46. Poetry - The Nightingale
47. Serapiana - Random facts and information.
48. Serapiana - Prescriptions for moods and fits.
49. Serapiana - Anecdote on annexation.
50. Serapiana - Anecdote on the rewards of honesty.
51. Serapiana - An unfinished ode, and printer's notes.

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