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THE BUTCHER ALDERMAN & THE SLAUGHTERED DONKEY

... MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE DELE- GATION PARLIAMENT. Those in Italics are Anti-Reformers. London, M. Wood, W. Waith- Wendover, S. Smith, A. Smith. man, W. Thompson, W. Ve-, Cambridge (Borough) Marquis nables. Graham, Col. Trench. Dover, C. P. Thompson, Capt. Amersham, T. T. Drake, W. Stanhope. T. Drake. Southwark, C. Calvert, Wm. Marlborough, T. H. S. B. Est- Brougham. court, W. J. ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 616 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... (f We have the best authority for stating that the Reform flU will be submitted to the new Parliament—the same in prin- ■ jvple and in form, with some slight variation only with regard to fi^ mode of taking the poll, as it stood at the time of the disso- lution of the last Parliament. The principle of it is not to be 11 the slightest degree affected by the new population returns. L We have ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2369 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PATRIOTISM IN MERTHYR-TYDVIL

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-I wish to throw out, as a kind of challenge to yourself, or through the medium of your excellent paper, to its readers, two simple questions:- 1st. Upon what fair principle, or just ground, is the English representation to be mulct of 31 members, and the Irish and Scotch increased five each; for it appears to a country man, like myself, that if ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. (

... CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. Monday, May, 16.—Our supplies since this day se'nnight j English wheat, barley, Knglish and foreign beans, English foreign peas, arrd English and Foreign seeds, have been limited' of foreign wheat, and English, Irish, and foreign oats and £lour, great; of English malt and flour, and Foreign barley, good- This day's market was rather numerously attended both bv Lf11' ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18.-This week the supplies of grain are only moderate. The trade for wheat is very dull, and the top price of flour is now settled at 60s per sack. Barley meets few buyers, and appears to be still de- clining in value. Beans and peas remain unaltered. Oats find a limited sale, and Monday's terms have been hardly maintained ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

HEREFORDSHIRE NEWS

... PATRIOTISM IN MERTHYR-TYDVIL. MERTHYR-TYDVIL, APRIL 26.—We, whose names are hereunder signed, engage and agree to convey from the parish of Merthyr-Tydvil, to and from Brecon, free of all costs, such voters for the county of Brecon as may be de- sirous of voting for a candidate at the approaching election, who will pledge himself to support his Majesty's Ministers in the measure of Reform in ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... ANCIENT PARLIAMENTS.The number of members in the parliament summoned by the Conqueror was twelve for each county, and four in that of Henry III.: and the electors, till the eighth year of Henry VI., were all those paying scot and lot. Even freeholders of 40 shillings per annum were never known, as possessing exclusive rights of election, till the enactment of the famous disfranchising statute ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 622 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

UNIVERSALITY OF TAXATION

... The following epigramatie reflections, which have already been published in a hundred different shapes, appeared originally in the Edinburgh Review, and are just re-pub- lished on a folio sheet, headed with an admirable likeness of the Lord Chancellor. We give them in the order they are printed :■— TAXES Upon every article that enters into the mouth, Or covers the back, or is placed under the ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON NEWS.I

... LONDON NEWS. The constitution of the Court of Chancery, on Friday and Saturday, presented a remarkable instance of the vicissitudes to which the members of the legal profession are subject. Lord Brougham sat as Chancellor in the centre, Sir Nicho- las Tindal on the right, and Lord Lyndhurst on the left. The cause was appealed to the Lord Chancellor, who had formerly been one of the Counsel in ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1407 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

HOPS. I

... HOPS. Borough, Monday, May 16.—The general rumour, and supposition, that the young hop bine had been seriously by the chilling north-easterly winds of the early p rt of las the latter end of the preceding week, caused our hop trade come, for two or three days, a little renovated at a pretty gf advance upon hops of the two last years' growth of from 3s per cwt.; but, though prices have not yet ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS. -

... FOREIGN NEWS. HAMBURG, APRIL 22.-Duke William has been acknow- ledged by the King of Hanover as Sovereign Duke of Brunswick, and his Majesty has also conferred on the young Prince the rank of a Field Marshal of the Hanoverian armv. WARSAW, APRIL 3.—The Russian prisoners came in troops, even without escort, to Warsaw. The whole road from Mtlosna is crowded with them. Every prisoner has all his ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 727 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

^ -'.,.....,.1.IMINMUOMPF LONDON NEWS

... LONDON NEWS. Letters from Ireland announce the death of the Earl of Donoughmore. The deceased Earl was a highly distin- guished military officer. He succeeded the gallant and immortal Sir Ralph Abercrombie in the command in Egypt, where he gained great glory. At his death the noble Earl was colonel of the 18th (Royal Irish) foot. He sat in Par- liament as Lord Hutchinson. TIMELY PRECAUTION. ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News