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... HOPS. BOROUGH, Sept. 3.—Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report that there is a good demand for fine yearlings, at £ 8 and upwards. About 40 pockets of new have arrived, and are selling at the same price as yearlings. Duty £ 300,000. ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 41 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

BLAINA

... A MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT occurred at Henwain Pit. on Thursday, the 23rd ult., by which three per- sons lost their lives, named respectively, flowel Lewis, John James and Thomas Jones, they were engaged in the bottom of the pit, and were being brought to the top. on the above day, to take their dinner. When they had ascended about 70 yards the wire rope broke and the three men were precipitated to ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

. RHYMNKY RAILWAY COMPANY

... RHYMNKY RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SECOND ORDINARY HA 1-F-YEARLY MEETING of the Proprietors of the Rhymney Railway Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, No. 28, GUHAT GEOROK-STREKT, Westminster, on WEDNESDAY, the 2Sih dayofFebruary instant, at One o'clock iu the Afternoon precisely, to receive a Report from the Directors, and for other the General Business ...

THE M E T A L TRADE

... SMITH FIELD, MONDAY. The arrival of cattle aud sheep from the continent into the port of London during the past week has been moderate. The Custom-house return gives all putry of 77j oxen, 116 cows, 213 calves, and 943 sheep, making a total of 2,047 head. In consequence of their being a lull supply of beasts the beef trade at Smithfield to-day was slow. The demand was slack from the opening up ...

THE RETREAT OF THE RUSSIANS. !

... THE RETREAT OF THE RUSSIANS. (From the Times.) The latest intelligence of the movements of the Russian forces in the Crimea, which has been for- warded to us by our correspondent at Vienna, is of the highest importance, and entirely consistent with the opinion we have already expressed of the condi- tion to which the enemy must now be reduced in that j peninsula. It is stated that the Russian ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE ODD-FELLOWS' EXCURSION TO SWANSEA

... From a partial breaking down last week of the Ehondcla Bridge, on the Yale of Neatli Line oj Railway, we became apprehensive that that. Cir- cumstance would have materially interfered with the safety of the Excurtionists to Swansea, but were glad to find that all our misgivings on that point were completely dissipated by the prompt and efficient exertions of the Railway Company, whose workmen ...

THE TRIAL OF MESSRS. STRAHAN, '.PAUL, AND BATES

... THE TRIAL OF MESSRS. STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES. — CENTRAL CRBfHfAV COURT, OCT. 26. •This morning'having been specially appointed 4or the trial of Sir John Paul and his partners, Messrs. Strahan and Bates, for illegally disposing of securities to a large amount which had been en- trusted to them by Dr. Griffith, as bankers for safe custody, the court was filled at a4 early hour by persons ...

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... THE remains of a Roman town (thought from inscriptions to be Virunum) has just been discovered in the forest of Taltschach, in Carinthia. I HAVE been fighting up against agricultural difficulties, and endeavouring to do well what I am compelled to do; but I believe the first receipt to farm well is to be rich.- Sydney Smith. A LADY once remarked that carelessness was little better than a half ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ITHE TOWER OF GALATA

... THE TOWER OF GALATA. THE Tower of Galata is a venerable and striking object, lifting its time-honoured head in the midst of the European quarter of Constantinople, and where it serves as a watch- tower, particularly in the case of fire. On such events, which are of every-day occurrence, flags are hung out, which, by their colour and arrangement, indicate with precision the spot in which the ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... THE CRIMEA. ODESSA, Oct. 20. ACCOUNTS received here from Simpheropol state that the inhabitants were in great commotion, as it was believed the allied armies were approaching. A good many people had left the place, taking with them their most valuable property, and all the hospitals had been sent northwards—to Perekop, Nicholaieff, and Kherson whilst the wounded and sick that had been ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BOMBARDMENT OF SWEABORG

... The following summary is from Admiral Dundas's official des- patch to the British government:— Duke of Wellington, before Sweaborg, August 18, 1855. Sir,—I have the honour to report, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that, afitfiv my arrival here on the 6th instant, with the squadron under my orders, I was joined the same evening by Rear-Admiral Penaud, in the ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

——————————— f MUTINY OF THE AVON'S CREW. '

... A SUPPLEMENT, GRATIS, WITH THE WEEKLY EIS- PATCH, EVERY WEEK UNTIL FURTHER NOTIC.— The enexainpled interest which attaches to every inci- dent connected with the operations of the Allied Armies in the East has determined the Proprietors of the WEEKLY DISPATCH to devote a greater space to the in- telligence from the seat of War than the ordinary limits of this, the largest newspaper published, ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1855
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1836 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News