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April 1836
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Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales

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-.._-------_-SIR JAMES GRAHAM

... SIR JAMES GRAHAM. Sir James Graham has been called upon by, we will not say a hole and corner, but a coal hole meeting of his Constituents, to resign—or, jn plain language, 23 dirty Radicals, out of a Constituency of 4,500 respectable persons, have sent an address, desiring the Hon. Baronet, as he has forfeited his hustings pledges, to restore his seat into their unwashed hands. The ...

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... The Bishop of St David's iiiis liberally given eacu of the scholars of the national school at Abergwili, above one hundred aud sixty in number, an entire new suit of clothes eicii.-Cariiiartlicii Journal. The Hon. Colonel Trevor, M.P. for Carmar- thenshire, has, in the handsomest manner, contributed Fifty Ioun(h towards the Church building fund, in tnis town, in order to extricate the local ...

CO.YTEJMPORAR Y PRESS

... (From the Times) Lord Melbourne moved the second reading of the bill in a short and temperate speech. The chief fault he found with the existing corporations was their exclusiveness; and the principal, if not the only merit, he assigned to the bill was, that it carried out the principle of the Emancipation Act. He told the House that his measure was like to the English Municipal Corporations ...

....--.fttO¡tntouthl\ítt.

... We have the satisfac'ion of congratulating the Principality upon the final dlcisiol of the, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, by which the ancient Diocese of Llan- daff iias not only been rescued from the extinction with which it was threatened, by being merged in that of Bris- tol, but that it has at the same time been, by an exten- sion ofterritory,placed in a state more nearl y resembling that ...

----SHIP NEWS

... SHIP NEWS. CARDIFF. FOREIGN REPORTED INWARDS.—The Gerdina, Doewes, (he Vrouw Alida, Bot-gmaz, and the Johan- na Margaretta, Pot, from Amsterdam, the Good Hoope, Boer, from Eydam, and the EulioiiCj Swift from Havre, with ballast. FOREIGN ENTERKD OoTWAitos.—The Lavinia, Love, for Messina; the Ark, Smallridge, for Bar- celona the Gerdina, Doewes, the Goede Hoop, Boer, the Johanna Margaretta, Pot, ...

GLEANINGS

... Forcedgaiety used as a cloak for inward depression. Se'est thou, my friend, yon brook dance down the valley, And sine: blithe carols over broken rock And tiny waterfall, kissing every shrub And each gay flower it nurses in its pasage,- Where, think'st thou, is its source, this boun; It flows from forth a cavern, black all,, Sullen and sunless, like this Which others see in a fal glArfc of ...

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Ii

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH. (Sitting in Banco.) At the sitting of the Court the following order was read, appointing the examiners of parties applying for admission to practice as attornies in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer:— EASTER TERM, 1836. It is ordered that the several Masters and Pro- thonotaries, for the time being, of the Courts of King's Beuch, Common Pleas, and ...

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... EDUCATION WITHOUT .H.ELlGION.-The following passage from the charge of Lord Abinger to the grand jury, at the Leicester Assizes, well deserves atten- tion:— In looking at the calendar, he witnessed the proper descriptions of the education of the prisoners, viz., those who could read and write well-read and write imperfectly- and those who could not read at all. In the list there were only ...

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... A WITNESS TO CHARACTER.-At the Taunton Assizes a few days ago, a countryman who was put into the witness-box to give a prisoner the benefit of his evidence as to character, on being asked by the counsel whether he ever knew any harm of the prisoner at the bar, replied, that he never knew much harm of him, only that he was given to thiev- ing a little. The counsel indignantly enquired whether ...

SCRIPTURE I ILLUSTRATIONS.—No. 136

... GEN. X, V. 8, 9.—He began to be a mightr one in the earth He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Sir Walter Raleigh says that Nimrod was the first who put down the government of eldership or paternity, and laid the foundation of sOVt- reign rule. The translation of the Hebrew word tzid should bp. in hunting: which shews by what In ans lie came to be so great a monarch. He hardened himself ...

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... The GRAND CONSERVATIVE DINNKU at Covent Garden, on the 13th, deserved the title, It was grand in every sense, as a most superb display, and an assemblage of the first persons of the Carititl-the Conservative Peerage, Members of the House of Commons, great bankers and Merchants, and men of the Learned Profession^ ■ &c- &c. But it had a moral grandeur which | ranked highest of all—it was a vast ...