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... Woman's Wit, or Love's Disguises. A play, in five acts, by James Sheridan Knowles. Moxon, London. With whatever success the present age may have com- peted with the past in science and in the lighter walks of literature—however the genius of a Scott may have given an historic dignity to the Novel, or the muse of Moore a captivating grace to the less solid cieations of the poet\ fancy—it must ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1854 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... IMPORTANT TO FAnMEns. &:c.—How to preserve scylhes, •■tckles, reaping-hooks, and other iron and steel tools from rust if>er the season for using them. Wipe them clean and diy, ihen hoid them before the fire and keep drawing them back- wards and forwards until warm enough to melt wax then take siome bees wax and tub it all over. A halfpenny-worth of wax vill be sufficient tor a scythe. Then put ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

IjlTIKlE IVIEIRLIIW j|

... Newportt I SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1838. The friends of equitable measures towards Ireland, and of' the peace and prosperity of the United Kingdom, have another cause of satisfaction and sustained hope, in the result of the proceedings in the House of Commons, on Monday night last, which result proves that neither the seductive artifice of a u compromise, dictated in punic faith, nor the menace of ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1260 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE GRAND CAMBRIAN FANCY BALL

... On Monday night a very splendid ball took place at Willis's Rooms, under ti.e immediate patronage of her Majesty, the Duchesses, of Northumberland and Beaufort Marchionessesof Salisbury and Bute; Countesses of Jeisey, Lisburne, Breck- nock, Litchfield, Normanton Ladies Ilarrid and Lucy Clive. Willoughby d'Eresby, Duugannon, Dynevor, llodney, iXc., for the benefit of the Welch charity school. ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE. -

... LITERATURE. The Sunbeam. London lierger. This little miscellany continues the varied tenour of its way; throwing its light on hill and vale, on sea and brook, on every thing, in short, beneath the orbs of day and ni^ht. From the loth ■number, though a month old, we extract the follow- ing from a host of Sketches ofsketcherq. They are said to be after '.Niacnisti and truly they are so; for ...

THE APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM

... THE APPRENTICES11111 SYSTE'Al. .3I F1lore; lt' fotr t ]/fn, anil Imnat le' 'nedl ['In i. 1, ?? t 1rlligi in ulnd Fal' ne h (u i dey In t, a great nitii-vl;etry reCehini ...

Published: Tuesday 05 June 1838
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1544 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

JAMAICA

... JA MAI[CA. WVe linvrbe 6 vu rd wilxii Copyof fite Fs(osliithO ?? i Pot'i f' Ie [if, Ii of A pril, whilchb o C0iitt nst biglv yintttiestittg iwoeitits (If the first mlilliveriittr ot the opeintg of til, it;pzist C1i:i1ls', lit Vaislouotlt, tutu( ilso rat thle first auiviiersurt' ()I Hie Batptist iiiapi', !ii Mo e~ hly. oil the !forttteroccasieii 1,510 obhdrit(f be!lg'ilg itpt, in ,0I. ,I* l ...

Published: Tuesday 05 June 1838
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1228 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... At a bankruptcy meeting in Birmingham, a short time since, a debt of fl700 was proved for steel pens: the parties that were the purchasers had an establishment in Bristol. A powder-mill, near St. Gall, in Switzerland, was blown up on the 5th inst., and eleven persons killed by the explosion. This sad accident is supposed to have been occasioned by some boys throwing stones at the mill from an ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MAILS ON RAILWAYS BILL

... MONDAY, JUNE 18.-The Speaker informed the house that Her Majesty had ordered a gallery should be erected in Westminster Abbey, for the accommodation of the members the House of Commons, at the ceremony of the Coronation. The second reading of this bill was postponed, but the Vice- Presidellt pf the Board of Trade stated that, it was absolutely necessary it should pass during present session. ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

. AMENDMENT OF THE DEBTOR AND CREDITOR LAWS,

... AMENDMENT OF THE DEBTOR AND CREDITOR LAWS, The Imprisonment for Debt Bill has passed the third reading in the House of Lords without opposition. By this measure arrest on mense process will bc abolished; but such powers imprisonment after judgment will be given as will enable cre- ditors to get at the property of the debtor. At present it is in the option of the debtor to subjett himself or ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... 'I ABI E DTIOTF.L IN L'UANCE.—Nothing can be more insipid and tedious than these dinners the few good things that ap- pear are only brought to you at the wrong moment (if they corn e at all), and if you are not ready at the instant, good by to it so that one must eat, per force, of what one does not like, to get any dinner at all, and in an inverse order. Thus, execrab e cabbage-soup, kept ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News