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CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES AT BIRCH HOUSE

... The anniversary festival of the Ross Royal Victoria British School was held at Birch House, the seat of Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq. M.P., on Wednesday, the 27ih instant, where a large number of the children educated in these excellent schools were regale!1 by the worthy member with the good old English fare of roast beef and plum pudding. The youthful party with tlwr teachers, Bnd accompanied hy ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 854 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF LORDS,

... WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. Lord Brougham presented a bill to amend the law relative to the appellate juiisdiction of the committee of the privy coun- cil, which was read a first time. On the motion of the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Exchequer I Bills Bill was read a second time. The house then adjournEd to Friday, FRIDAY, MAY 5. The legistration of voters bill went thiough committee, and the exchequer ...

Published: Saturday 13 May 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

POLICE IIMTEIUOENOE,i .-

... POLICE IIMTEIUOENOE, COUNTY POLICE. —SATURDAY, Nov. 18. (At the Office of Messrs. Birch aDd Davis.) Before the Revds. James Ctdes and Thomas Popt, and Octavitts Morgan, Esq, M.P. Roger Jones was summoned by David Jones, both of Risca, for having clandestinely and fraudulently removed certain chat- tels and goods, not exceeding the value of £50, to prevent their being distrained upon for rent. ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 906 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF COMMONS

... MONDAY, JULY 10. Mr. Turner requested information as to whether or not the Government were prepared to advise her Majesty to visit with her signal displeasure all persons engaged in duelling, or if they would bring in a measure next session on the subject Sir Robert Peel was alive to the importance of the subject, but was not prepared to make any declaration without mature consideration. The ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3539 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS. '.-

... REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS. Destruction of Llandiio-Itwnws, Mantel's Arms, and Ltaiivi- hangel Gates. CARMARTHEN, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1843.-0n Friday last, a mob of these lawless depredators assembled together, mustering about bne hundred strong in the neighbourhood of Nantgar- redig, about five miles from this town. They were on this oc- casion all disguised, and had their faces blackened, and ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 859 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IMPORTANT MEETING

... While at press, we have been favoured with the following account of a meeting of freeholders, farmers, and farm labour- ers, held on Tuesday afternoon, at the school room, in the pa- rish of Llanedy, Carmarthenshire. The meeting wali convened for the purpose of taking into consideration the present dis- tressed and unsettled condition of the country, and the best means to be adopted in order ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

HOtiSE OF COMMONS

... WEDNESDAY, MAY 11. The Speaker took the chair at the usual time, but there be- ing only 18 members present, the house adjourned. THURSDAY, MAY 18. Mr. Shsrman Crawford brought on his motion for leave to bring in a bill to secure the full representation of the people, and to shorten the duration of Parliament. He supported his motion by historical precedent, admitted the great damage which had ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2413 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... UNITED STATES. PHILADELPHIA, MAY 13.—I foreshadowed to you, in a recent letter, the important event which is now officially announced, namely, the resignation of the office of Secre- tary of State by the Hon. Daniel Webster, and the appoint- ment of Hugh S. Legare, pro. tem. in his stead. Caleb Cushing, a distinguished statesman of New England, has received the appointment of commissioner to ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 874 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE LATE FATAL DUEL

... It appears that Colonel Fawcett had been stationed in India for some years past with his regiment, and on being ordered to China about two years since, Mrs. Fawcett returned to England with her two children, one of which is only recently dead.- After serving through the principal events of the late war in China, Col. Fawcett, whose health had become seriously af. fected by an attack of the ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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Published: Saturday 04 March 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

'T iliterranean Packet,unless directed via France. r[tMElvi £ ^LiiiJ

... NE\?POKT, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1843. MAJESTY'S SPEECH. OF PARLIAMENT. 5LIE OF PARLIAINIENT. 't'S^0,nm'ss'oner» l00^ ,ln;'r seals on ''ie Woolsack tb ()n at e usual hour, when the Lord Chancellor rte- llt e folIO'in most glacious Speech .— I are coaD3 ANI) GENTLF.NI'.S, f her Majesty to acquaint you that her ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1843
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 869 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News