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THE HEREFORD CONSERVATOR

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERTHYR GUARDIAN. S I Lt In your paper of Saturday last, I perceive that A Conservator has travelled a long way from Hereford to get his misrepresentations printed aitd published. Had his real object been to speak the truth, the whole truth, aDd nothing but the truth, he knows that .neans are affordad him in the columns of the two newspapers published in this city. ...

|GOLD AND SILVER COINED

... GOLD AND SILVER COINED. The returns of the operations at his Majesty's Mint for the period of twenty years, closing with 1829, show, that during the latter ten years (1810 to 1829) the value of the Gold coined was £ -23,803,783 more than during the preceding ten years (1790 to 1800), and of the Silver coined Xg,148,195 more. It is indeed somewhat remark- able, as to the latter metal, that ...

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS AND THE LONDON JOURNALS UP TO THURSDAY EVENING 7 O'CLOCK

... The Bishop of Durham has, in the most quiet and un. ostentatious manner, dispensed in private charity during the lust year upwards of nine thousand pounds. Wei) may it be said to the detractors of this excellent and pious individual; Go you and do likewise. Newcastle Journal. TROOPS FOR JAMAICA.—Monday, Captain Goldie. Ensigns Morritt and Durham, and 40 rank and file of the 37th regiment, ...

HENRY MORGAN THE WELSH BUCCANEER

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. SIR,—In your last week's Guardian I read a letter signed Nidensis, in which he seems to wish for an account of the celebrated pirate and Buccaneer, Captain Morgan. In 'a book entitled A 'geiteral history of the lives and alTd actions of the most remarkable Highwaymen, Pirates, &c.» I find a short history of this Morgan, but us the .account alluded to ...

DIB DINS DICTIOVA R Y

... From the Comic Offeringfor 1834. Bucks-Dashing beaux; animals of the deer kind; part of a county, the remainder of which is in ham shire. Coventry—A place to which disgraced people are sent, but don't go; a punishment said to be unspeak- able. Gentility—A word, the use of which betrays in- curable vulgarity. Heart-Of a statesman, in his head-of a soldier, in his (irms-,of a coward, in his legs ...

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... CAMBRIAN, GLOUCESTER, ASD BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A meeting was held at Gloucester on Wednesday last to consider the expediency of forming a Railway from that city to this town, and resolu tions in favonr of the projected undertaking were accordingly passed. The Committee however ap- pointed at that meeting have since met, and as rery serious objections appear to have arisen to the pro- posed line ...

,MONMOUTHSHIRE

... NEwpeBT .-At a meeting of the iron masters held 3t the King's Head Inn, Newport, on Friday week, an ad.ancc of2s.fid.per ton ou pig iron was spoken of. SueU of the articles [pm Mr. Eiedei mate's, as stated in our last, as were not then recovered, t k have baeu since found in a tleld near the house. The I man in custody is an old offender, and was liberated from Monmouth araol about six months ...

CIIICULA TION OF THE PROVINCIAL PRESS.

... MF\XE S)GHT OF BISHOPS TO SIT IN PARLIA- narPam • °f Lords Spiritual to sit in uron fnt 1S as clear as ,hat they do sit there, and the LTJe/y°ftheir 80 sitting shall be made as evident s the fact of their so sittiiie-: whether to be dis- I nrri c i m ^eir baronial possessions, according to Sir M. u, 6' °y 'n Usage and custom, as alleged by onininn eW a,e> which two apparently opposed —Hi s^a ...

BRECONSHIRR,!,

... JVONJIOUTH811IRE. FUXERAL OF THE LATK AKTHUR WYATT, ESQ, —The mortal rem,nns ofthisgentteman were brought from London, to be interred in the famity vault at Michet Troy, &nd were borne to their final resting ptaee on Tuesday last, The corpse was taken through Monmouth at an earty hour that morning, in a hearse and four on its way to Troy House of which the bells of Ft. Mary's and Over.Monnow ...

GLAMORGANSHIRE LEGEND, OF THE LORD OF DUN RAVEN CASTLE. BY THE RURAL DOCTOR

... ( Continued from our last.) There lived in a sea-side hovel, near Duuraven, a des- perate character, once a smuggler, who having lost a hand, which was supplied with an iron claw fastened to the stump, a formidable instrument, obtained the name of Mat. of the Iron Hand. This man bore so evil a name among the country people, that he was best pleased to lead a soli tary life on the shore, shut ...

LONDON MONEY MARKET.

... LONDON MONEY MARKET. CITY, THURSDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK. A slight depression has been felt in Consols as well as in Dutch Securities. In the early part of the day business on the Stock Exchange was somewhat lively, on account of the quotations from Paris of the French Funds.. [Consols are 87f, buyers, for Time, and sellers for Money.] Rentes 102 and Three per Centes, 74 15. Dutch Stock is 905 1$, ...