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... IN a great industrial country like this, a good tween the employers and the employed, is of grcat.11DJ>ØN ance, not only to both parties, but to the community- t one means of promoting that feeling—or rather as an j cation of its already existing, we always look pleasure upon the social treats given by large cup') to their workpeople especially as tbose,entertaillineil 4 sumc a much more ...
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... Gr/IN-LMVEN VESSELS. IN THE BOSPHORUS. tiie Newcastle and Gateshead Commercial Association has received the following communication respecting the towing of grain-laden Bntish vessels through the Bos- porus and Dardenelles, and also through the Straits of Gibraltar, by her. Majesty's steamers not otherwise en- gaged:- Whitehall, 19th December, 1853.. OefftxEMEN,—I am directed by the Lords of ...
... TII^NEW YEAR. WE recently ofTexw a Christmas greeting to otr readers, and now, in the same spirit, and wih the same universality of application, we woud wish them, in this, our first number in EighteEn Hundred and Fifty-four, a happy new yeai. Happy, not only in the propitious character of their outward circumglaaces—for that would aval but little, without a righteous life in the spi ...
... NOVEL SPORTISG.-An engine driver on the Western Valleys Railway killed a fine, woodcock, a few days ago with a piece of coke. A correspondent inquires whether he should be fined for sporting without a license. RENT AUDIT.—We understand that at the rent audit of W. W. Phillips, Esq., Whitson House, which took plac. on the 29th and 30th ult., that gentleman liberally returned 10 per cent. to ...
... The Wolverhampton magistrates have committed John Quarlter, an Irish labourer, for trial, charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Price, butcher of Little's lane, in that town, who died en the 8th of August, 1852, and whose death was occasioned under the following circum- stances:—Ou Saturday night, the 19th of June, in that year, he was returning home from NortB-street, through Tin-alley, ...
... The following Inttoi- has h_û muresseq the Morning SIR,—In the Times of this morning appears a state- ment of the Russians bilraingH&evera^furkish villages, by means of Iled-hot Shot. I merely wish to draw your attention ttf a house, in the Commercial-ioad, haviijg a lar order for furnaces, to heat the shot, and take them out when red-hot. order is supposed to be IThssla Nearly 200 have been ...
... Tis long ago—we have toiled and traded, Have lost and fretted, have gained and grieved, Since last the light of that fond faith faded, But, friends— in its day—what we believed! The poet's dreams and the peasant's stories, Oh never will time that trust lenew Yet they were old on the earth before its, And lovely tales,—had they hut been but true! Some spake of homes in the greenwood hidden, ...
... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. NEWPORT DISPENSARY. At the January meeting of directors, held on Wednesu** last, the Rev. Edward Hawkins, vicar, in the chair, lists of subscriptions reported by the treasurer, as recsi^ since October last, were read over—Amounting to— I1 or November 13 o For December 15 13 The total before •-r>p;t-ed being 271 H 2300 8 FUND.—Anamnt I T -eported. £ 712 18 Cyrus H 'Bf.r Esq ...
... MONMOUTHSHIRE EPIPHft SESSIONS. At these sessions, which comnienced at Usk morning, the county bitsindi.* wM very. limit number of prisoners, in consequence of the journed sessions, very small. Matters of appe; day, after the county business, however, were than has been known for some years -tseè proceedings in reference to the poor-rtttes 'in £ St. Mellons, Ruinney, &c. The following ...
... Irritated and angry, the public seeks for some probable cause of the un-English conduct of Ministers (towards our ally, Turkey), and conjeoturally finds it in German in- fluences. Although still without any knowledge to justify even suspicion, the public is now seriously impressed with the fear that there is something wrong at Court; and of course there are not wanting those who can feed ...
... GARDEN OPERATIONS, &c. (From the Gardener's Chronicle.) 1HE PLANT DEPARTMENT. The severity of the present weather will render fires necebsary to every description of bouse plants. We have in late Calendars adverted frequently to the extent fire hea: should be carried and thereiore need not again allude to it, but merely remind our readers to economise its use as much as possible with hard ...