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... (From the New Monthly Magazine.) In Moscow all kinds of churches exist, and amongst them is a church, it cannot be called a mosque, for Tartar worship. I at- tended on Friday; and as they had no minah to call the pious at the hour of prayer, the Imaun mounted a wall, and stood in a tottering situation, exhorting the people with Allah is God to prayer, come to prayer-prayer is to be preferred ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 999 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SOCIETY OF ARTS

... The above institution, at a late meeting held at the society's house in the Adelphi, after the usual routine business was dis- posed of, arranged the rewards in money, and gold and silver medals, for the session 1830, to be given for the following, among other improvements in agriculture, the arts and sciences, viz.- Gaining tracts of land from the sea, and bringing the same into cultivation ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 759 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... All the intelligence which has been received from the East of Europe since the conclusion of the treaty between the Russians and Turks is favourable to the hopes conceived of its effects, and of the good faith of the contracting par- ties. The fine-spun stories of the Parisian papers, of the insurrectionary movements of the Pachas in the rear and on the flank of the Russians, have vanished, ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2051 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

To the Inhabitants of Monmouth

... As the important measure of supplying the town with water is now revived, it appears proper that the detail of the plan pro- posed upon a former occasion should be submitted to your consi- deration, and at this time, because the adoption of any one plan will prevent the proposal of another at a future time, even if the first should be defective. Mr. Smith, the engineer, recommended that the ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TRIAL OF LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGES

... LIVERPOOL, OCT. 6.—The directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-road having offered, in the month of April last, a prize of X500 for the best locomotive engine, the trial of the carriages which had been constructed to contend for the prize commenced to-day. The running ground was on the Manchester side of the Rainhill-bridge, at a place called Kenrick's cross, about nine miles from ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 843 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... Irfi lutJ. REFUSAL OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT TO APPLY FOIR THE RENEWAL OF THE INSURRECTION ACT. Dsdbliss, Sept. 24. The following official communications from the Under-Secretary of Slate, Mr. Gregory, and Lieu- temnnt Siborn, the Military Secretary of the Corn nannlerin.Chiet aie addressed to ?? Jacob, Esq. High Sheriff of the county of Tipperary:- Di Dubin Costle, Sept. 16. S:R-I have had ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1829
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 969 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

DENBIGH CIVIC ELECTION

... 1DENBIGI ?? ELECTION. (AbrideledJionm Uw C/waster .Chronlivlt.) The c'orporation h)ving met oin the 29th Septefri- bar, in the To~wnilalf for the ani nal. election Of citic officers for the ensuing year; Hugh Lloyd aud Janinea Vaughati Home, Eqs. were ?? ulder-. men, and Rohert Party awd Thomas Hughes;: ETtqrst boitlfs ie TWlS, DINNlSfl : TSt nieoiuzcwtest Fo~r thes representation ha ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1829
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1806 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... The attention of his Majesty's Government, and especi- ally of that branch of it to which the care of the Navy more particularly belongs, has of late been seriously turned to the means of supplying our sailors with the best and most wholesome kind of provisions. Many complaints had hitherto been made of the adulteration of flour by the contractors who furnished the important article of ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3926 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

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... MANIFESTO OF HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.- By the grace of God, we, Nicholas the First, Emperor and Au- tocrat of all tiie Russias, &c. &c. Thanks to the decrees of Divine Providence, the treaty of perpetual peace between Russia and the Ottoman Porte has just been concluded, and signed at Adrianople the 2d of September, by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the two empires. The whole ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1106 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE SCENERY OF THE CLYDE

... Most people, I suppose, have heard of the Clyde. It is the finest river in Scotland, and Scotland is rich in fine rivers. There is the Forth, which takes its rise from a small clear pool at the bottom of Benlomond, and after winding away for miles, like a silver thread, through the wild and beautiful scenery of Stirling- shire, expands below Alloa, into a broad and majestic sheet of water, ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2354 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. *

... MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this Society was held on Tuesday. The usual premiums were awarded for improved cultivation, and to farm servants for good conduct. The members having dined together in the evening, proceeded to discussions on agricultural subjects. 'lhe Chairman begged to call the attention of the meeting to the two subjects which had been fixed for ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1096 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Domestic Intelligence

... Mantrotic futelligellre. sel It is said thlat, in, foture, the caudidates for thie ye Methodist ministry are to vindergo examination in by the pr-inci pal preachlers in theology, thle Classi cs, and the !inatlicninati vs ; and if, afl cr a probation en of 10o yearS1., Ih ~ie re fm und ie fiivient ill thesc ke respectis, they are- to give up1 all ideas oftofficiating ill tile ?? H Woa ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1829
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4542 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News