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THE SNOW STORM

... Si.'NUAY, JAN. 1. — None of the North country coaches had been able to gel beyond Newcastle on their way to town. The snow is reported lo be cut through on the lines of road, so that traffic it is hoped will be generally resumed. The snow has mostly consolidated into an ice-like state, and is not likely to be affected by storms, so as to form into drifts afresh. There does not appear to have ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1117 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... IMPORTANT TO PAKOCIIIAI. OVERSEAS AXD MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.—On Wednesday, at Lambeth-street office, an appeal was heard under an Act of Pailiaraent passed during the last session, against the refusal of Mr. Moss, one of the overseers of the poor for the hamlet of Mite End Old Town, to pay to Dr. Hamsbotham and Mr. Pater, a surgeon in the Commercial-road, the sum of two guineas each, agree- ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

i TO CORRESPONDENTS

... r that Retaliator can hi„R foruard the clumsy 'combination of vice ami bigotry, of a certain Itinerant, as at all analogous to the subject with which he grapples Vpe.ir tends with whom ue are in arrear shall set their favours in print rteit ikeek. -k.vfwtf P&MfSi hUetf', redchei olli- (i0he Jpir f r initi\ioii iasi night. ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... LOKOOIT, The whole of the P*ris Journals of Monday and Tuesday have been received, together with letters from Santander of the 2&th, Bilboa of the 25th, San Sebastian of the 23,1, and Bayonne of the 30th ult. In all except the letters from SalJ Sabastian, we find additional accounts of the fraising of the seige of Bilboa by General Espartero. On thb evebibg of the 23d, the fourth Regiment or ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

,MONMOUTHSHIRE SESSIONS

... MONMOUTHSHIRE SESSIONS. On Monday, the 21 of January, the Epiphany Sessions at fjsk. The first day was occupied in auditing the county accc'untE. Tuesday the court assembled at hall- past nine o'clock, Lord C'rar.Viflc Sortj^rset, Chairman. e observed on the bench also, W. A. V/ilfe|KS- Rev. J. B. Davis, Thomas Reece, Esq., Hev. J. f. M'Donnell, Esq., James lIunt. E>f)., Rev. J- liarding. 'i ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4986 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Domestic Ketoa

... Active measures, we understand, are now taking to induce the Government to equalise the land tax. It is intende.d to form a standing Committee or Association, upon the plan adopted in the house and window ta*, and to call a public meeting in Westminster dh the sub- ject, for which purpose, a preliminary itfectitlg; wo arb informed will be held hi a fe& days. DIU.AD'/UL TIFTE IN SOUTHWAUK.—On ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1343 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE CONQUEST, OR A MAIL COMPANION

... The hero of the following sketch, though now too wealthy to incur adventures such as the one I am about to tell, is, in other respects, so unchangeJ, that our fair Amalekites will readily guess who sat for this portrait, even if they have not previously heard the tale from the original's own Itps Beneath the starlight, uneclipsed by gas (December, 1818) the Conquest night coach stopped to ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2212 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SPAIN

... THE SIEGE or BrLBoA RAISED—DEI-EAT OF THE CAIIMSTS.—The Carlists have been driven from before Bilboa, after keeping the city in a state of close siege for nine weeks. Thanks to the intrepidity of Captain I/ipidije, commander of the naval forces in the river, Colonel Wilde, Captain Richards, Lieutenants Parke, Le Hardy, Ellicombe, and the officers and men of his Biltannic Majesty's Ringdove and ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 633 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... IRON Woiit.s.—Previously to the introduction of the ma- terials into the furnace, the ore must be calcined, or roasted, as it is termed; and the coal converterl into coke. The cal- cination of lite ironstone is performed in the open air, in piies of great extent, consisting of alternate layers of small coal and ironstone, to which fire is applied in various parts. The effect of tllis burning ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 828 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... « 1836 First we have to offer against the sanity of 1836 the doings in Exeter Hall, and the whole humbug of secta- rian polemics which have filled the year Towhatpurpse has the last century passed over the heads of mankind—to what purpose have the great reformers lived and wriiteD and the lights of a brighter philosophy, and a purer religion, been shed upon the woild, if it is still to he ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

EXTRACT FROM THE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS' CATECHISM

... [ADVERTISEMENT.] To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sir,—As'the subject of Dissenters' grievances, and more particularly that portion of them which relates to the unjust exaction of Church-rates, has, for some time past engrossed the attention of the political world, and as many persons charge the Dissenters with factious and insincere motives in their present united and gigantic ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2467 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE MOTHER'S IIEAUT

... W IIF.N first thou earnest, gentle, shy, and fond, My eldest-born, first hope, and dearest treasure, My heart received thee with a joy beyond AII that it yet had felt of earthly pleasure Nor thought that any love again might be So deep and strong as that I felt for thee. Faithful and fond, with sense beyond thy years, And natural piety that lean'd to Heaven; Wrung by a harsh woid suddenly to ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News