St. Thomas Weekly Dispatch, 1853 – Index of Editorials and Reports

An Index of the Editorials and selected Reports of the St. Thomas Weekly Dispatch, 1853

Dacres W. Hart, editor and publisher

Indexed by Paul Baldwin

July 2020

Online images of the Weekly Dispatch at the Elgin Archives

St. Thomas Weekly Dispatch, 1853 (online images at the Elgin Archives)

Vol. I/No. 1 – January 11, 1853

Editorials 1. Why the Dispatch was established plus the Prospectus: A Conservative Newspaper

2. Rebellion Losses Commission

Reports 1. Election of Councilors Monday January 3, 1853

2. Township and Village returns
3. Proceedings of the Provisional Council of Elgin 8th session
4. Prospectus of the Weekly Dispatch
5. the late John Fraser, Esq.

Vol. I/No. 2 – January 18, 1853

Editorials 1. Gravelling of Talbot St.

2. New Ministry in England
3. Village School Trustees
4. David Parish elected Reeve

Ad         1. James Blackwood sale

Vol. 1/No. 3 – January 25, 1853

Editorials 1. County School Convention with Egerton Ryerson

2. Mechanics Institute
3. Election of School Trustees
4. Railroads in Canada

Reports 1. Railroad Meeting

2. Middlesex Report
3. Town Council: election of Reeve

Vol. I/No. 4 – February 1, 1853

Editorials 1. Will Locals take Stock in Great Southern RR

2. Toronto Typographical Society
3. Usury Laws
4. British North American Colony Federation
5. Thomas Lockyer chosen Provisional Warden
6. St. Thomas Histrionic Society

Report       1. Railroads and Railroad debentures

Vol.I/No. 5 – February 8, 1853

Editorials  1. The Railroad Meeting

2. United States re: Slavery
3. New Temperance Hall

Reports 1. Report of proceedings of Elgin Railroad Meeting

2. Agricultural and Mechanical Association
3. Provisional County Council 9th session

Vol. I/No. 6 – February 15, 1853

Editorials  1. The Railroads

2. Death of Colonel Talbot
3. Reciprocity Question
4. Mad Dogs

Reports 1. Histrionic Society

2. Railway Meeting in Port Burwell 

Vol. I/No. 7 – February 22, 1853

Editorials  1. The Clergy Reserves

2. London and Port Stanley Railroad

Reports 1. Provisional County Council 10th session

2. County School Convention

Vol. I/No. 8 – March 1, 1853

Editorials   1. Railroads

2. Church Society Meeting
3. The New Representation Bill

Reports  1. Methodist New Connexion Chapel

2. Dispersements for the Court House & Jail

Vol. I/No. 9 – March 8, 1853

                 From Amherstburg Courier: Brantford, St. Thomas and Malden Railroad

Editorials   1. The Representation Bill

2. Elgin County Buildings

Report        1. Temperance Leagues

Vol. I/No. 10 March 15, 1853

Editorials   1. The Representation Bill

2. The Rail Movement

Letter to the Editor 1. Re: New Connexion church

Vol. I/No. 11 – March 22, 1853

                 From Hamilton Spectator: Brantford, St. Thomas and Malden Railroad

Editorials   1. The State of Europe

2. re: delay in establishing the County of Elgin

Vol. I/No. 12 – March 29, 1853

Editorials 1. The Ecclesiastical Corporation Bill

2. The Representation Bill
3. Dr. Rolph’s Marriage Bill
4. Clergy Reserves

Report         1: Provisional County Council 11th session

Vol. I/No. 13 – April 5, 1853

A statement by Patrick Burke, foreman

Editorials 1. Our Prospects

2. The Reform Saints
3. Town Council

Vol. I/No. 14 – April 12, 185

Editorials 1. Assessment Law

2. Representation Bill
3. The Roads in a Fix
4. Meeting of School Trustees
5. Friends and Enemies
6. The Canadian Ministry

Vol. I/No. 15 – April 19, 1853

Editorials   1. “A Good Time a Coming Yet” re: Great Southern Railroad scheme

2. The Gore Bank vs. Thomas Hodge
3. David Parish Esq., Reeve, vs the St. Thomas Dispatch

Ad               1. Tender call fo building materials for the new County buildings

Vol. I/No. 16 – April 26, 1853

Editorials   1. Our County Building

2. How the Money Goes…Town Council Doings

Vol. I/No. 17 – May 3, 1853

Editorials   1. Mr. Dixon’s Case

2. Education
3. Law
4. Public Accounts

Report            1. Fire: St. Thomas unprepared

Marriage:   Mr. T. S. Sharon to Miss Charlotte King, all of Southwold

Vol. I/No. 18 – May 10, 1853

Editorials    1. Clergy Reserves Bill in the Imperial Parliament

2. The Prototype’s funny Criticism
3. Queen’s Birthday

Report            1. Fire: Mr. Love’s shed

Vol. I/No. 19 – May 17, 1853

Editorials    1. “The Queen, God bless Her”

2. RatePayer
3. Jennings and Mountford of Opposition Stages
4. Mournful Event: The death of Duncan McIntrye
5. Wesleyan Sabbath School Anniversary

Reports       1. Provisional Council of Elgin – 12th session

2. Bylaw 9 – to raise £5,000 for Court House and Jail

Ad                1. J & W Coyne

Vol. I/No. 20 – May 24, 1853

Editorials    1. Meeting in the Town Hall re: The Corporation’s taxes

2. Railways – Good News re: L&PS
3. The Clergy Reserve Bill
4. The London Free Press and the little cab

Vol. I/No. 21 – May 31, 1853

Editorial          1. England’s Queen

Vol. 1/No. 22 – June 7, 1853

Editorial          1. General Election

Vol. I/No. 23 – June 14, 1853

Editorial      1. Religious Fanaticism and Intolerant Bigotry

Vol. I/No. 24 – June 21, 1853

Editorials     1. Town Council

2. Foster’s Diorama of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
3. London & Port Stanley Railway, County Offices etc.

Report          1. Report in London (CW) Times re: improvements in St. Thomas

Vol. I/No. 25 – June 28, 1853

Statement by Patrick Burke –  The Editor (DH) is absent: senior imp only

Reports         1. New newspaper, The Phoenix, published in Vienna by Mr. Abbott

2. Mechanics’ Institute Officers

Vol. I/No. 26 – July 5, 1853

Reports         a repeat of reports of June 28, 1853

Vol. I/No. 27 – July 12, 1853

Editorials      1.  False Cockling

2. Talbot and Kearney
3. Enigmatical Editorial re: Mr. Abbott of Vienna Phoenix
4. Loyalty Forsooth

Vol. I/No. 28 – July 19, 1853

Editorial           1. War between Russia and Turkey

Vol. I/No. 29 – July 28, 1853 – now published on Thursdays

Editorials       1. Gleason’s Pictorial

2. Our Public Schools
3. The Phoenix Abbott

Vol. I/No. 30 – August 4, 1853

Public Notice Weekly Dispatch has passed from Dacres W. Hart to Patrick Burke.  It is now a

                          Reform Newspaper

Editorials       1. To The Public: a declaration of “liberal and progressive opinions”

2. Ministerial Dinner in London
3. Meeting of Reformers

Vol. I/No. 31 – August 11, 1853

Editorials       1. St. Thomas Post Office

2. Lord Elgin
3. The Globe’s Falsity re: Middlesex-Elgin Reformers
4. RailRoads

Vol. I/No. 32 – August 18, 1853

Editorials       1. The Hamilton Spectator on the Defection of the Press and Burke’s change of

                              Hart

2. The local officials of the new County of Elgin
3. Normal School

Obit                1. Death of Dr. G. Southwick’s second daughter

Vol. I/No. 33 – August 25, 1853

Editorial            1.  London and Port Stanley Railway

Report               1. Provisional Council of the County of Elgin 13th session

Vol. I/No. 34 – September 1, 1853

Editorial            1.  Assistance to Railroads – a proposed bylaw

Report              1. Show of Wheat with mention of James Futcher

Vol. I/No. 35 – September 8, 1853

Editorials       1. Further Remarks on the Railroads

2. Lectures

Ad                   1. A public announcement from D. W. Hart

Vol. I/No. 36 – September 15, 1853

Editorials       1. Elgin County Buildings

2. Mechanics Institute, St. Thomas
3. Improvements

Report               1. Stock in the London & Port Stanley Railway

Vol. I/No. 37 – September 22, 1853

Editorial            1. Southern Railroad

Report               1. Articles of Settlement for the newly separated Middlesex and Elgin Counties

Vol. I/No. 38 – September 29, 1853

Editorial        1. Re: Representative Bill 

Report               1. of an altercation between D. W. Hart of the London Times and Freeman                                                                                                                           T                         Talbot of the London Prototype                              

Letter to the Editor from a Yarmouth Tory 

Tender Call for the erection of a Bank of Montreal on Main St., St. Thomas

                                          By Wm. B. Leather, architect, London

Vol. I/No. 39 – October 6, 1853

Editorials        1. Dissolution of the United Counties of Middlesex and Elgin

2. Mechanics’ Institute                        

Vol. I/No. 40 – October 13, 1853

Editorials        1. The Great Western Monoploy

2. New Officials: Judge David J. Hughes from the London Prototype

Vol. I/No. 41 – October 20, 1852

Editorials     1. Tremendous Demonstrations

2. proposed by law re: stock in L&PS Railway company

Vo. I/No. 42 – October 27, 1853

Editorial          1. The Company Times

Vol. I/No. 43 – November 3, 1853

Editorial           1. County of Elgin

Report              1. Another journal in St. Thomas “under the auspices of the Tory party”

Vol. I/No. 44 – November 10, 1853

Editorial           1. Local Papers

Report              1. 1st Meeting of the Council of the County of Elgin                      

Vol. I/No. 45 – November 17, 1853

Editorials       1. The Eastern Mail

2. Hotel Wanted
3. First Quarter Sessions

Reports          1. Mechanics’ Institute

2. second day Meeting of the County Council

Vol. I/No. 46 – November 24, 1853

 

Vol. I/ No. 47  –  December 1, 1853

Editorials         1. A sudden and melancholy Death of William Casey

2. Post Office correspondence
3. The Common Schools
4. Railways
5. extensive purchase of town property by Southwick, White & Mitchell
6. Corporation Assessment  

Vol.I/No. 48 –  December 8, 1853

Editorials         1. Clergy Reserves Controversy

2. $10,000 job
3. Penmanship
4. Mechanics’ Institute
5. Jailers’ Salaries

Vol. I/No. 49   –  December 15, 1853

Editorials         1. The Municipal Council of St. Thomas

2. Read and Gone – Vienna Phoenix
3. Funny Speculation in Gobblers (L&PS)

Report                 1. Mechanics’ Institute

Ad                     1. Masonic Ball @ Masonic Assembly Room December 27, 1853

Vol. I/No. 50   –  December 22, 1853

Editorials         1. The Municipal Council of St. Thomas again

2. Educational Notice
3. Sabbath-breaking

Letters to the Editor   1. Signed by J.W.  re: the Mechanics Institute and the Standard

2. S. H. Mann
3. a Tax-Payer re: Council spending

                          

Vol. I/No.  51   –   December 29, 1853

Editorials           1. The Council and its Standard

2. Accident on the GWRR
3. Census Report
4. School Examination
5. a Railway Meeting re: L&PS
6. re: George Brown and W. L. McKenzie

Report                    1. Elgin County Council 2nd Session 1853

Letter to the Editor   1. S. H. Mann, St. Thomas

 

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Vol. I/No. 51(a repeat) – January 4, 1854

Editorials            1. The Carrier Boy’s New Year Address to the Patrons of the Dispatch

2. The Quarter Sessions
3. St. Thomas Municipal Elections

Report                    1. Re: Mechanics Institute

Vol. I/No. 52   –   January 12, 1854

Editorials          1. Our Second Volume

2. The Court House and Goal
3. Law
4. Richard Abbott, his Phoenix and the editor
5. Brantford, Buffalo and Goderich Railway
6. Robbery and Affray

Vol. II/No. 1   –   January 19, 1854

Editorials        1. The coming Elections

2. County Council

Report                1. Elgin County Council:  1st session

Vol. II/No. 2   –   January 25, 1854

Editorials      1. Magisterial Appointments

2. Election of the Warden

Reports          1. County Council support for Local Railroads

2. Mechanics Institute
3. Rowdyism in Dunwich

Vol. II/No. 3   –   February 2, 1854

Editorial             1. Mechanics’ Institute

Vol. II/No. 4   –   February 9, 1854

Editorials        1. The Railroads

2. Port Stanley in favor of Liberty

Letter to the Editor re: Equal Taxation – Fair Play

Report            1. Proposed County Bylaw #11 – London & Port Stanley Railroad

Vol. II/No. 5   –   February 16, 1854

Editorial             1. Municipal Politics

Letter to the Editor re: British Standard electoral report

Vol. II/No. 6   –   February 23, 1854

Editorials        1. Warlike News

2. Reform Convention
3. Conservative Meeting

Vol. II/No. 7   –   March 2, 1854

Editorials        1. Canadian Politics

2. Reform Meeting
3. London and Port Stanley Railroad
4. Vienna Post Office

Vol. II/No. 8   –   March 9, 1854

Editorials        1. Honor to the Men of Elgin

2. Reform Meeting
3. Port Bruce and Aylmer Road Company

Vol. II/No. 9   –   March 16, 1854

Editorials        1. Great Reform Meeting

2. West Riding of Elgin
3. Our Common School
4. Vienna Post Office

Reports           1. Nomination of Candidates

2. Railroad Votes

Vol. II/No. 10  –   March 23, 1854

Editorials         1. East Riding of Elgin

2. Tory Jealousy
3. Tory Meeting in Aylmer

Reports            1. Elgin County Council – 2nd session

2. Conservative Meeting in Aylmer

Vol. II/No. 11  –   March 30, 1854

Editorials          1. The (London) Free Press

Ad                       Mechanics’ Institute

Vol. II/No. 12  –   April 6, 1854

Editorials          1. Quarter Sessions

2. Counterfeiting
3. Mechanics’ Institute debate: Capital Punishment

Ad                      Tender Call:  erection of a Presbytery – Rev. J. D. Ryan

Vol. II/No. 13  –   April 13, 1854

Editorial              1. County of Elgin Assizes

Letter to the Editor re: Temperance – A Maine Law Man from Yarmouth

Vol. II/No. 14   –  April 20, 1854

Editorials         1. Elgin Assizes

2. Criminal Cases
3. A Tight Match – Tory Nomination for East Elgin
4. Inquest

Vol. II/No. 15   –  April 27, 1864

Editorial              1. Reform Convention for East Elgin note: Levi Baldwin

Vol. II/No. 16   –  May 4, 1854

Editorials         1. Not so fast re: West Elgin

2. West Elgin re: electors in West Elgin
3. (Elgin County) Agricultural Fair

Vol. II/ No. 17   – May 11, 1854

Editorials         1. (East Elgin) Reform Convention

2. School Report
3. (on strike) on the London and Port Stanley Railroad

Report             1. East Elgin Reform Convention

Vol. II/No. 18   –  May 18, 1854

Editorials          1. East Elgin Reform Affairs

2. Vandalism in St. Thomas
3. Litigation

Ad                      1. To architects and builders re: Common School House

Vol. II/No. 19   –  May 25, 1854

Editorial          1. Parliamentary Candidates

Vol. II/No. 20   –  June 1, 1854

Editorials        1. re: George Southwick nomination

2. The Queen’s Birthday
3. Progressive Improvements
4. Side Walks
5. Banking

Vol. II/No. 21   –  June 8, 1854

Editorials        1. Railway Catastrophe

2. West Riding of Middlesex
3. Teachers

Report             1. Special Meeting of Elgin County Council

Letter to the Editor  1. re: Growth of St. Thomas

Vol. II/No. 22   –  June 15, 1854

Editorials         1. Prosperity of Elgin

2. Port Bruce Harbour
3. (Election) Preparation

Report              1. re: County Council Proceedings (continued)

Ads                    1. Annual Meeting of the Mechanics’ Institute

2. Sale of Lots in White, Mitchell, Southwick development

Vol. II/No. 23   –  June 22, 1854

Editorials         1. Conservative Candidates

2. Progress of St. Thomas
3. The Board of School Trustees

Vol. II/No. 24   –  June 29, 1854

Editorial              1. Correspondence

Vol. II/No. 25   –  July 6, 1854

Editorials         1. General Election

2. Clergy Reserves
3. The Candidates of the West

Vol. II/No. 26   –  July 13, 1854

Editorials         1. Poetry by PB – “The Editor’s Advisers”

2. Elections
3. Mechanics’ Institute
4. Nomination for the East Riding of Elgin

Ad                         1. re: George Southwick and Archibald McIntyre

Letters to the Editor   1. re: School Examinations

2. re: The Election in West Elgin

Vol. II/No. 27   –  July 20, 1854

Editorial             1. West Riding of Elgin

Report                1. Nomination if West Riding of Elgin

Letter to the Editor   1. re: assessment in North Yarmouth but Robert Michael

Vol. II/No. 28   –  July 27, 1854

Reports           1. Election results

2. Annual Report of the Mechanics’ Institute

Vol. II/No. 29   –  August 3, 1854

Editorial              1. Barefaced and Atrocious Falsehoods of the Standard re: George Southwick

Announcement  1. Reform Dinner in Vienna

2. Board of Health organized

Report               1. Elgin Election Results 1851:1854

Vol. II/No. 30   –  August 10, 1854

Editorials         1. The Standard’s Planl

2. Dinner for Dr. Southwick, M. P. P.

Vol. II/No. 31   –  August 17, 1854

Editorials         1. Health of St. Thomas

2. Awful Treason (and the Standard)

Vol. II/No. 32   –  August 24, 1854

Editorial          1. Etiquette (at the Vienna dinner)

Ad                   1. Tender Call for St. Thomas Common School (no mention of architect)

Vol. II/No. 33   –  August 31, 1854

Editorials            1. George Southwick’s departure

2. County of Elgin Teachers’ Association
3. Brutal Ferocity at New Sarum

Vol. II/No. 34   –  September 7, 1854

Editorial           1. Excitement without Cause re: Standard

Ad                          1. Dr. Vanbuskirk arrives

Vol. II/No. 35   –   September 14, 1854

Editorial            1. New Sarum Cannibalism

Vol. II/No. 36   –  September 21, 1854

Editorials         1. Improvement of St. Thomas

2. Forgeries

Vol. II/No. 37   –  September 26, 1854

Vol. II/No. 37   –  October 5, 1854

Editorials         1. The Combinations

2. Banking (locally)
3. Fire (the stable of R. Nicol)

Vol. II/No. 38   –  October 12, 1854

Report              1. Assizes

Vol. II/No. 39   –  October 19, 1854

Report              1. Assizes continued

Vol. II/No. 40   –  October 26, 1854

Editorial           1. The Clergy Reserves

Report              1. The Southern Railroad News

Vol. II/No. 41   –  November 3, 1854

Report             1. The Clergy Reserve Bill

Ad                     1. New organ at the Roman Catholic Church

Vol. II/No. 42   –  November 9, 1854

Report             1. Elgin County Council

Vol. II/No. 43   –  November 16, 1854

Editorial          1. State of the Roads

Report             1. Elgin County Council

Vol. II/No. 44   –  November 23, 1854

Reports            1. Legal Intelligence

2. Port Bruce Road by-law from London Prototype

Vol. II/No. 45   –  November 30, 1854

Editorials         1. Mechanics’ Institute

2. County of Elgin Teachers Association

Reports            1. Quadrille Party

2. St. Andrew’s Day
3. Montreal Banks
4. Legal Intelligence continued

Vol. II/No. 46   –  December 7, 1854

Reports           1. Clergy Reserves

2. Banking News: Montreal and the Bank of Elgin

Ad                    1. Wanted: Teachers for the St. Thomas Common School

Vol. II/No. 47   –  December 14, 1854

Editorial          1. French Agitation re: Clergy Reserves

Report             1. Mechanics’ Institute

Vol. II/No. 48   –  December 21, 1854

Editorials        1. To Our Readers

2. East Elgin Forever
3. Elgin County Council

Report             1. County Council Proceedings

Vol. II/No. 49   –  December 28, 1854

Editorials         1. New Year’s Day

Editorials    

2. Christmas Market
3. Our Political Situation
4. Municipality of St. Thomas

Reports            1. Elgin County Teachers Association

2. New Fire Engine

 

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Vol. II/No. 51   –  January 4, 1855

Editorials         1.  Poetry: The Carrier Boy’s New Year Address to the Patrons of the Dispatch

2. Hon. Francis Hincks

Report              1. Municipal Elections

Letters              1. re: Baptist Chapel Team Meeting

2. Lecture by Professor Linn

 Vol. II/No. 52   –  January 11, 1855

Editorials          1. Grand Concert (given by Mrs. McCarthy)

2. (Progress in) St. Thomas

Report               1. Elections of School Trustees

Vol.III/ No. 1   –     January 18, 1855

Editorials          1. The Dispatch

2. The Concert
3. The Coat of Arms

Reports             1. Township Councils

2. Dunwich Election

Letters               1. Archibald McLachlin re: the clash between AM and the School Board over

                                pupil intermissions

2. re: the new Fire Engine

Vol. III/No. 2   – January 25, 1855

Editorial             1.  John Walthew Esq.

Reports                  1. County Council – Glorious Triumph

2. Elgin County Council Proceedings 1st Session, 1855

Vol. III/No. 3   – February 2, 1855

Editorial             1. County Council

Report                1. County Council Proceedings continued

Letter                  1. Math Problem

Vol. III/No. 4   –  February 9, 1855

Editorials            1. Patriotic Fund

2. Schools

Vol. III/No. 5   –  February 16, 1855

Announcement Weekly Dispatch will not be published next week.

Editorial              1. St. Thomas re: taxes

Vol. III/No. 6   –  March 1, 1855

Editorials            1. Great Southern Railroad

2. Patriotic Concert

Report                 1. Proposed By-laws re: goal, bridges, roads

Vol. III/No. 12  – April 19, 1855

Editorial               1. The Southern Railroad

Ad                          1. Tenders Wanted: Brick Church in Port Stanley – J. MacQueen

Vol. III/No. 13  –   April 26, 1855

Special                   1.  The Hon. Thomas Talbot: Stray Sketches of the Late Colonel by

1. C. Kearney – Part I

Editorials               1. The Resolutions of the Railway Committee

2. Progress in Schools

Reports                  1. The Quarter Sessions

2. Court of Assize

Vol. III/No. 14   –   May 3, 1855

Special                   1. Stray Sketches – Part II

Notes                     1. Dispatch Office moving to the former site of Elgin Hotel adjoining

                                      Cole’s Hotel

2. Roe & Brothers
3. White & Mitchell in Victoria Building
4. a new newspaper – The Elgin Telegraph

Ads                          1. A notice for the Township of Yarmouth, A. MacLachlin. M. C. 

2. a clearer copy of the  ad from J. MacQueen re: church in Port Stanley

Vol. III/No. 14  –     May 17, 1855

Special                    1. Stray Sketches – Part III

Editorials                1. The Southern Railroad

2. The Nelles Murderers
3. The London Free Press
4. The Queen’s Birthday
5. Death from Rum
6. Colonial Life Assurance Co.

Report                    1. County of Elgin Teachers’ Association

Vol. III/No. 15  –     May 24, 1855

Editorials                 1. The Commutation Clause

2. The New (Toronto) School House and Board of Trustees

Vol. III/No. 16  –      May 31, 1855

Editorials                 1. Sabbath School Anniversary

2. Municipal Improvement
3. Temperance Soiree

Vol. III/No. 17  –      June 7, 1855

Editorial                   1. The Sectarian School Act

Ad                             1.  New quarters for Elgin House, Robert Neil proprietor

Vol. III/No. 18  –      June 14, 1855

Note                         1. County Council

Report                      1. Elgin County Teachers’ Association

2. Grand Railroad Meeting at Straffordville

Vol. III/No. 19  –       June 21, 1855

Editorial                    1. County Council Proceedings

Reports                    1. County Council Proceedings

2. Amherstburg and St. Thomas Railway

Ad                               1. Prospectus of the Amherstburg and St. Thomas Railway

Vol. III/No. 20  –       June 28, 1855

Editorial                     1. The Sectarian School Act

Reports                      1. Dispatch Office

2. London & Port Stanley RR report
3. Taxes
4. Destructive Fire (in Sparta)

Vol. III/No. 21  –        July 5, 1855

Editorial                    1. Down with the Liquor Traffic

Reports                      1. Quarter Sessions and County Court

2. Dunwich Township Council proceedings

Vol. III/No. 22  –        July 12, 1855

Reports                    1. Fatal Accident

2. Legal Intelligence

Ad                              1. Thomas D’Arcy McGee is to deliver a lecture on emigration

Vol. III/No. 23  –       July 19, 1855

Editorials                  1. Official Salaries

2. Early Closing Association

Report                       1. AGM of Mechanics’ Institute, Archibald McLachlin, President

Letter                        1. re: Aylmer School

Vol. III/No. 24  –       July 26, 1855

Editorial                    1. re: Cornelius Paul, U of T scholarship

Reports                     1. Legislative School Grant

2. Teacher Certification
3. Patriotic Fund

Vol. III/No. 26  –       August 2, 1855

Editorial                    1. Maine Law Illustrated

2. L&PS application to municipalities

Vol. III/No. 27  –       August 9, 1855

Editorials                  1. Early Closing Association

2. Town Hall plot and the Market

Report                       1. Common School Examination

Vol. III/No. 28  –       August 16, 1855

Editorial                    1. Town Improvements  

Vol. III/No. 29  –       August 23, 1855

Editorials                  1. re: Mechanics’ Institute Reading Room

2. Dissolution of the Union
3. A Serious Accident at Victoria Building

Vol. III/No. 30  –       August 30, 1855

Editorials                  1. The Southern Railroad

2. Theatrical Reading

Ad                              1. Reference to A. McLachlin as Municipal Clerk, Township of Yarmouth

Vol. III/No. 31  –       September 6, 1855

Editorial                   1. Limits of the Corporation of the Town of St. Thomas

Announcement       1. “In this Town, on Wednesday the 5th inst., Mrs. McLachlin, wife of the

                                          editor of this paper, of a son.”

Vol. III/No. 32  –       September 13, 1855

Editorial                    1. The Limits of the Town

Letter                        1. from A. McLachlin, President of the Elgin Teachers’ Association

Vol. III/No. 33  –        September 20, 1855

                                    NOT ISSUED

Vol. III/No. 33  –       September 27, 1855

                                     AN APOLOGY FOR MISSED ISSUE

Editorial                         1. Agriculture and Agricultural Societies

Report                       2. Railroad Meeting

Ads                             1. Announcement of the opening of a Catholic Church in Port Stanley

2. St. Thomas Mechanics’ Institute Reading Room

Vol. III/No. 34  –            October 4, 1855

Report                        Proceedings of County Council

Vol. III/No. 35  –        October 11, 1855

Report                        1. The Assizes

Vol. III/No. 36  –        October 18, 1855

Editorial                     1. The Southern Railroad

Report                       1. County of Elgin Teachers’ Association

Vol. III/No. 37  –        October 25, 1855

Editorial                      1. The Southern Railroad

Report                         1. Court of Assizes

Ad                                 2. re: Methodist New Connexion Church lot now for sale

Vol. III/No. 38  –          November 1, 1855

Ads                                1. By-laws for Bayham Township and Elgin County

Reports                             1. Announcement of a dinner for entertainment of Francis Hincks

2. Auction of the  White & Mitchell property

Vol. III/No. 39  –            November 8, 1855

Reports                        1. Demonstration in favor of the Hon. Francis Hincks

2. Southern Railway

Vol. III/No. 40  –           November 15, 1855

Editorials                      1. The Town Schools

2. Mr. Brunning’s lecture

Vol. III/No. 41  –           November 22, 1855

Editorial                        1. The Mechanics’ Institute

Report                           1. Proceedings of the County Council

Vol. III/No. 42  –               November 29, 1855

Editorials                       1. The Patriotic Fund

2. Mr. McClear & Co.’s Almanac for 1854

Reports                          1. The New School House

2. The Mechanics’ Institute

Vol. III/No. 43  –            December 6, 1855

Editorials                       1. The Election of 1856

2. Mechanics’ Institute
3. Murdoch McKenzie’s appointment

Vol. III/No. 44  –            December 13, 1855

Vol. III/No. 45  –            December 20, 1855

Editorials                       1. The Patriotic Fund

2. The Tract Society
3. Christmas

Report                           1. The Municipal Affairs of the Town

Letter                                1. from Judge D. J. Hughes re: Patriotic Fund

Vol. III/No. 46  –           December 27, 1855