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... J; 4- J OUR RELATIONS WITH AMERICA,—On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. ROEBUCK moved that an address should be presented to the Crown, praying for the production of all the correspondence that had lately passed between the governments of England and America respecting the conduct of Mr. Crampton. The recent explanations given by Lord Palmerston respecting the apology offered ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

1-..ONTUESDAY, FEB. 19

... TUESDAY, FEB. 19. ARBITRATION BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EM- PLOYED.—Mr. MACKINNON moved for the appointment of a select committee to consider the inconvenience now felt in the country from the want of equitable tribunals, by whose means any difference's between masters and operatives might be satisfactorily adjusted and also to ascertain whether the Conseils des Prud'hommes in France have answered ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 689 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

------| MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

... MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. CLOSING TUB NAVIGATION STATION. —In our eighth page hpptars m lull lep'irt of the\nyab)eKnd elaborate judgment delivered by his Honour, Thomas Falconer, Esq., Judge, in the Merihyi l uuoty Court, in the case of Morris v. the Taff Vale Railway Company, in which the plajntiffsought to recover £ 2, (damages alleged to have been sustained by him in consequence of being ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3037 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT NEWS

... BRIDGEND. BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—There was a large attendance of Guardians at the Board ou Saturday last, but there was little business of public interest before them. Mr Llewellyn attended to report that he had completed the accounts, and that his remarks would be got ready as soon as possible. The vieiting committee reported that the result of their examination of the school was very satis- ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2492 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

LITERARY VARIETIES

... A LITERAL FACT.—The way to make a tall man short, it to ask him to lend you a thousand dollars. THE SCHOOLM astEr WANTED.—A fruiterer at Chip- penham diiects attention to his oranges by writing in legible characters Reeal Smikles (St. Michael's). A GOOD FELLOW.—A man ceases to be a good fel- low the moment he refuses to do precisely what other people wish him to do. A TEST OF PREJUDICE.-If ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1262 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THURSDAY, FEB. 14

... UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.—The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH pre- sented a petition complaining that seamen were now compelled by law to serve in unseaworthy vessels. The noble lord enforced the prayer of the petitioners by citing many instances in which sailors had been sent to prison as deserters merely because they refused to sail, according to articles, in ships which were utterly unfit to keep the sea. He ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

GLAMORGANSHIRE GAOLS.j

... GLAMORGANSHIRE GAOLS. In our last we briefly adverted to the lejiort just published ou uur prisons. We now give copious extracts, which deserve the serious attention of the migistratea of the county. CARDIFF GAOL. A. the number of eel's tor male prisoners is only 30, and those for females 25. and as tlie number of prisoners in confinement at oue time has amounted to 85 males and 41 females, ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2062 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

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... BRISTOL BANKRUPVCIT COURT. — MONDAY.—(Before Mr. Commissioner Hil!)._iJe David Williams, Aber- sychan, builder. Choice of assignees was made in this estate, and whs carried without contest by Messrs. W. Bevan and Girlimr. — Re Thomas Williums, Aberdare, breyver. The bankrupt came up for his certificare. There was no opposition by the assignees or creditors, and the report of the official ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

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... MONDAY, FEB. 18. LIFE PEERAGES.-The Committee of Privileges met at two o'clock, and heard evidence concerning the precedents which had been found in the ancient rolls of Parliament having reference to the question of life peerages.-The LORD CHANCELLOR read a letter from Lord Wensleydale, stating that he declined to attend, by his counsel, before the Committee of Privileges.-After some ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... GUARDIAN OFFICE, 2. P.M. MARSEILLES, Feb. 21. The steam-frigate Sane, which left Constantinople on the 13th, has arrived, with Aa!i Pasha, the Turkish Plenipotentiary to the Paris Conferences, on hoard. His Highness leaves for Paris this evening. BERLIN, Wednesday. Count OrloflT had an audience yesterday of the King at Charlottenburg, and left this capital this morning for Cologne, where he ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

LOVE DIES NOT

... THE PEACE CONFERENCES. PARIS, Sunday, Feb. 17. Lord Clarendon and Lord Cowley arrived yes- terday evening at Paris. To-day, at 2 o'clock, Lord Clarendon was re- ceived in a private audience by the Emperor. Count Buol, the Austrian Plenipotentiary, ar- rived at Paris during the night. The Conferences will probably open on Satur- day. THE EAST. MARSEILLES, Saturday. Feb. 16, 7 31 P.M. On the ...