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CANADIAN FORESTS

... Nature in her wilder forms, whether exhibited in* vast, mountains, the noiseless desert, or the boundless ocean, is calculated to impress the romd of loan with awe, and make him feel the presence of Deity. The enctent aod far stretching forests of the New Wotld, seldom tiodden by Ihe loot of the white man, produce the same tffect upon the wanderer, who visits those distant regions, and the ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 335 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

RELATIONS WITH AMERICA

... THE various accounts received of the state of public feeling in the United States, since the recep- tion of the English ministerial measure, are most gratifying. Though the war party do not cease to assert their theories, it is done in a far milder strain, -and the false glare of military glory appears to have become dim amidst the brilliant prospect of real profit, and most substantial ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE TEN HOURS BILL

... THIS measure has been defeated, on the second reading, but by so small a majority as to leave its supporters with the most sanguine hopes of future success, while the opposing party talk of a volun- tary compromise of eleven hours. It is highly gratifying to observe the rapid progress of enlightened feeling with regard to the long-con- tinued toil of the operative classes, upon whose condition ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... Another arrival of West India Pices has taken place at the port of Liverpool, consisting of 16,200 plants. There is not a single prisoner in any place of confinement in Lynn. Thirty-six yearr ago there was a like vacuity of gaols in that borough. A curious freak of nature was discovered a few davs since whilst digging potatoes in a garden at Ryeford, near Stroud. One potatoe had grown in the ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

CHEPSTOW

... CRICKET MATCH AT NEWPORT, A match of this manly and interesting sport came oft on the cricket ground of this town, on Tuesday last, be- t%veen the Easton club, and the gentlemen of Newport. The Queues* of the weather, and the fame of the players attracted a considerable number of spectators, amongst whom were several ladies. As will be seen below, laurels, as usual, cfowned the Newport club, ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

. TOWN-HALL, NEWPORT.—MONDAY, AUG. 10

... OPENING OF THE ABERDARE RAILWAY. THE PUBLIC DINNER. At four o'clock on Wednesday se'nnight, a very numerous party of gentlemen sat down to a most sumptuous Champagne dinner at the Boot Inn, having been provided at the expense of the Company, who entertained as many of their friends as the large room would contain. We observed present—Sir John Guest, Bart., in the chair Captain Lewis, the ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 939 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... WESLEYAN CONFERENCE, BRISTOL. One hundred and one years (says the Watchman) have now elapsed since the Rev. John Wesley held a Conference, for the first time, in the city of Bristol. Only one Con- ference had been previously assembled by thatdistinguished man; the present is, therefore, the one hundred and third annual assembly. In 1745, the number of Ministers who attended was very small; ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 784 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

... NEWPORT. Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending June 24,181C. AttltlVlD. Jenne Gabriel, Bertho, Biest, 30 ga'lons Ftench brandy.— Mary Anne, Sprague. Guernsey, 26 pipes and 68 hogsheads of cider.—Judy, Cort, Jersey. 5R casks f cider, 15 doz. wine.— Sybil, Hamon, Jersey Pacific, Williams Hamburgh Nor- wegia, Stewart, Christensound Archibald, Wilche, Narittt: Æolus, Grace, Guernsey, ballast ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

NANTYGLO

... NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—On Monday last, the 22nd instant, the Nantyglo National Schools had their annual examination. Every arrangement having been completed that might afford comfort to the visitors, and facilitate the examiners' pleasing task, by Mr. Wood and Miss Roberts, the respective conduc- tors of the schools—at eleven o'clock, prayers were read by the Rev. John Griffiths, and the ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 668 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... FRANCE. On Friday last, a most exciting scene occurred in the Cham- ber of Peers. The President, the Duke de Pasquier, had cited the military degredation of Marshal N ey, as a precedent for de- priving Lecompte, the regicide, of the decoration of the Legion of Honour. The Prince de Moskwa, son of the Marshal, and a Peer of France, eloquently and indignantly reprobated the comparison, and on ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1846
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 827 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ANOTHER IMPORTANT TRUCK INVESTIGATION AT LLANTRISSENT

... ANOTHER IMPORTANT TRUCK INVESTIGA- TION AT LLANTRISSENT. LLANTRISSENT, 27th OCT., 1846.-Before Lieut.-C Smith and Wm. Meyrick, Esq.—Michael Sullivan (art o informer) against Thomas Powell, Esq.: being an i' o formation against Mr. Powell, under the Truck Act, for tI having paid one David Grimth, a collier, wages in goods- IMr. Owen, solicitor, of Pontypool, supported the infor' matibn and Mr ...

PUBLIC REJOICINGS AND DEMONSTRATIONS I OF RESPECT AT MERTHYR-TYDVIL,I

... PUBLIC REJOICINGS AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF RESPECT AT MERTHYR-TYDVIL, IN HONOUR OF THE MARRIAGE OF R°BKRX THOMPSON CRAWS HAY, ESQ., OF CYFARTHFA CASTLE. (By our own Reporter.) Thursday last [yesterday] will be a day long remem' bo^k by ^inhabitants of Merthyr-Tydvil and its neigh- in rhoad, all well as by every person who happened to be 'he town upon that day, as an occasion on which was 8 ...