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TESTIMONIAL TO MR. JOHN PLEWS

... A valuable correspondent has favoured us with an extract from the Lambeth and Southwark Advertiser, containing an account of the presentation of a Piece of Plate to John Plews, Esq., Churchwarden of Lara- beth, hy the parishioners assembled at an annual dinner given there on Tuesday last. Mr. Plews-as many ot our readers are aware, is chief engineer for the second magnificent New Docks now ...

CARDIFF BOARD OF HEALTH

... A meeting of the members of the Local Board of Health was held in the Town-hall, on Friday last. Pre- sent C. C. Williams, Esq in the chair. ALDEUMEN. .T. Moore I \V. Ilird I T, Mor^iin | 1 COUNCL LLORS. I E. Evans R. I,. Tlocre \V. AlF.vmder .1. YVillmus VachHI D. Lewis W. A. Llradley ARREARS 01; RATF.S.. Mr, Bowen, having staled that be considered arrears to the amount of £ 212 were ...

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... FRANCE—A distiessing accident happened on Friday in the Bois de Boulogne, to Prince Charles Lucien Bona- parte, while riding on horseback, in company with his brother, Prince Pierre Napoleou, aud some other gentlemen. A horse ridden by one of his friends suddenly lashed out, aud striking the prince with yiolenpe, fractured bis loft leg. He was ponveyed back ta hia residence, where his medical ...

GENERAL MISCELLANY

... The Queen lit Id a Court 110 Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace, at which his Highness the Maha- rajah Duleep Sing was presented to her Majenty at an audience hy the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India. The ceremony of confirming the election of the Right Hon. mid Riuht Rev. Lord Auckland, lafe Bishop of Sodor and Man, to the see of Bath ...

MACHEN

... CARDIFF. At a Court held by the Rev. Chancellor Williams, at Llandaff Cathcdfal, on Thursday, the 18th instant, the Rev. William Davies, incumbent of Llanwonno, was ap- pointed a surrogate for the diocese of Llandaff. TONDU IRON WORKS.—The proprietors of these works have recently erected a now rolling mill, which acts re- markably well, and will give employment to an increased number of hands. ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1854
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

-GENERAL NEWS. -0

... LORD CAMPBELL AND THE DOCTORS.—The Lord Chief Justice of England, when playfully (I presume) alluding, in the celebrated Bainbrigge case, tried at the Stafford Assizes, to the evidence of the three physicians who had recorded their opinion in favour of the insanity of the testator, observed, after they had retired from the witness box, The medical men who have just been ex- amined, need not be ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1854
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE PUBLIC REVENUE BILL.—THE SUPPLIES

... THE DRAINAGE QUESTION. THE vast importance of efficient sewerage is every year being more generally recognized. In Newport, those upon whom the management of such matters devolves, are all agreed upon this point. The question is not whether Newport should be drained; it is not now whether it should have a thoroughly complete sewerage but it is whether so great a work shall be carried out with ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1854
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1021 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE MERLIN'S NOTES OF THE WEEK. !

... EFFECTS OF THE FABIAN POLICY TOWARDS THE DISTURBER OF EUROPE. THE New Quarterly Review for this month has a caustic article on the vacillating conduct, and lack of manly energy, which, it alleges, characterize the po- licy of statesmen, and cast a mirage over the fame of warriors, in connection with eastern affairs. We select some passages from the production, which, upon the whole, is not ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1854
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 865 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE COALITION CABINET—THE OFFICE OF MINISTER OF WAR

... LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH. The young Marquis of Bute, with his mother, the Mar- chioness, and the visitors at present at Cardiff Castle, walked in procession from St. Mary's School-room, on Wednesday week, to the neighbourhood of Newtown, a new and densely-populated locality, where a new church is to be erected for the use of the Welsh portion of the commu- nity. At two ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1854
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NEWPORT AND COLEFORD RAILWAY

... ODDFELLOWSHIP. Ord 6 n?embers of the Loyal Trefdith Castle Lodge of tliis hotfO^ anniversary social meeting at the Crown (w -Newport, in this town, on Tuesday last, on which the S °n upwards of 120 of the brethren assembled round fo * ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1854
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1430 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL AS AN EMIGRATION PORT

... In the proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Emigrant Ships, whose final report ap- peared in the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette of Wednesday last, we find that a proposal was made by one of the mem- bers of the Committee that the report should contain a re- commendation to add the port of Bristol to the places of departure of Government Emigration Ships. At a meet- ...