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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

... We shall make enquiries respecting the allegations of One who seeks the right. Gresyn i Brongoch bardduo ci awen wrth sylwi ar Formoniaid. Dewised amgen destunau. Bywyd Dafydd ab Gwilym! Dechreuir cyhoeddi Hanes Bywyd yr anfarwol fardd, Dafydd ab Gwilym, yn y MERDDIX nesaf. Danfoned ein cvfeillion Cymrcig eu cyfansoddiadau i ofal CUHEI.YN, Beaufort Iron Works, Breconshire. FOR SEVERAL ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SHALL NEWPORT HAVE A QUARTER SESSIONS?

... [TO THE EDITOR.] SIR,-I have long been of opinion, from the lamentable increase of crime in Newport and the adjoining districts) that a Sessions should be holden at Newport for the trial of all prisoners committed by our borough and county ma- gistrates, and of those cases, also, which are sent from dis- tricts immediately connected with the town by railways- This is a matter deserving serious ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Newport Town Council

... MEETING OF MUNICIPAL ELECTORS AT PILLGWENLLY. On Friday evening last, a meeting, adjourned from the previous evening, was held in the large room of the King's Arms Inn, Pillgwenlly, to receive the report of a deputa- tion appointed to wait on the retiring councillors, that it might be ascertained what were the views of those gentle- men in respect to the grievances of ratepayers in the ex- ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

GENERAL. NEWS

... Parliament was formally prorogued on Friday, by com- ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

WHY ARE BATH WATERS WARM ?

... LOVE fell asleep one summer's day, By a cool spring where Bath uprises, A maid of Lansdown going that way, The sight both pleases and surprises;- The little wretch, she inly said, There'll mischief be when he awakes! His torch, with ifve celestial fed, She from from the sleeping urchin takes, And plunges in the wave, and cries- I'll quench thee, torment from the skies Fain was the maiden's ...

Published: Friday 18 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

AFFLICTING SUICIDE^THROUGH EXCESSIVE GRIEF

... AN EXTRAORDINARY SPORTSMAN. What is in the blood, will never come out of the flesh, is an axiom fully illustrated in the case of a son of Mr Charles Tester, of Balcombe, who, a few years since, while shooting on his father's land, burst his gun, and so sadly injured his left hand that it was obliged to be am- putated below the elbow. Still true to the sport, he con- tinued to use the trigger ...

Published: Friday 18 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES

... Jlag. ^WPOR-r TOWN HALL.—MONDAY. rate? present—Stephen Iggulden, Esq. (mayor), m. Evans, and H. J. Davis, Esqrs. .JOHN JT A NOISY VAGRANT. re ^'ith fiarria' a va&rant- was charged by Supt. Huxta- » Th lso?derly conduct in the streets on Sunday even- the st„e. P^soner) after his display in the streets, called r ^a n r,0!1 ascertain if he could be accommodated i ^S'it s lodgings at the Refuge; ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 819 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... ON THE MEANS OF PRESERVING HUMAN LIFE IN SHIPWRECK, AND OF PROFITABLE EM- PLOYMENT IN SEA-PORT TOWNS, JJXO THE EDITOR.] SIR,-The heart-rending accounts of the loss of human life, not alone in the Dalhousie and Annie Jane, but many others in the late gales, for want of some ready and effective support in the sea till picked up—or washed ashore, induce me irresistibly, to beg a corner of your ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

CARDIFF-

... BRECON. SALE OF WHITE-FACED HEREFORDS.—At the Great Sale of pure white-faced Herefords, part of the herd of Mr. David Williams, Newton, near this place, an aged Cow, in calf to Young Hope, was purchased by Mr. Rogers, at 222; a four-year-old cow, in calf to the same bull, £ 20; another four-year-old, also in calf to Young Hope, was bought by Mr. Mayberry, at JE25 a three-year-old heifer, ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

CARDIFF

... p vAL BOARD OF HEALTH.—WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25. r^ent~H. Bailey, Esq., (in the chair), J. Jayne, Esq., Messrs. D, Edwards, J. James, T. Hope, — Hitchman, j, W W. Vaughan, and R. Jones. °f th p a*rman said it was very strange that the officers DaGctiG oard were never present at the opening of the Th ^S'- entero l °^. the last meeting were then read, and c°nl0 | r- Da vies, clerk, remarked that he ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NAPOLEON'S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ

... The following is the mode in which Napoleon an- nounced to Joseph, the intelligence of the battle of Aus- terlitz. The details relating to the Emperor's personal fatigues are interesting :— I suppose, my brother, that when this courier shall reach you by my aide-de-camp, Lebrun, whom I have des- patched from the field of battle, I will have arrived at Paris. After seven days of manoceuvring, I ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

--f THE PROPOSED PATENT SLIP.—SAW :MILLS. i

... AX OLD STOKER ON RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. [TO THE EDITOR.] SIR,—Will you allow an old stoker to ma e _a e^ remarks on the late lamentable accident m >■ i' groat question wHli U9, .tota, ft S doubt, with the public at birge, is j lcam from been prevented, and who was tc. blame MERLIN, and other papers, that tnt- the goods train are committed for tria u i0. Now, sir, it is admitted on all sides that ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 344 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News