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LONDON CORN EXCHANGE

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, AUGUST SI. With new English WHEAT the market was abundantly supplied to-day, and there not being a large demand, prices further declined, and rule 3s to 4s per quarter under those of last Monday white selling at 5£9 to 5is, and red 46s to 56s, at which a clearance was not made. Old sorts met a slow sale from 50s to 60s. Of Foreign many arrivals, and few buyers: the rates ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 782 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FURTHER NEWS FROM INDIA

... GOVERNMENT DESPATCH. The following telegram was received at the Forei-gu- oifice through the Admiralty, Sept. 17, 8.25 a.m. :— Ciigliari, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London. The Bentinck arrived at Susz on the 9th inst., at ten p m. 'ihe dates from Calcutta, Aug. 10; Madras* Aug. 17 Point de Galle, Aug. 21; Aden, Sept. 3. ARRIVAL OF LORD ELCIN AT CALCUTTA. Lord Elgin -reached Calcutta ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

DISASTROUS DEFEAT OF H. M. 10TH REGIMENT, WITH HEAVY LOSS—SUPER-CESSION OF GEN. LLOYD-ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS ..

... DISASTROUS DEFEAT OF H. M. 10TH REGIMENT, WITH HEAVY LOSS—SUPER- CESSION OF GEN. LLOYD-ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS — MORE DISARMA- MENTS OF NATIVE TROOPS. Another telegraphic despatch states :— After the mutiny at Dinapore, a small force consisting of 160 men of H.M.'s 10th Regiment, and about the same number of the 37th was des- patched to relieve some eight Europeans besieged by the mutineers ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Scientific, ---+--

... Scientific, PREVENTION OF LOCAL MAGNETIC ATTRACTION IN SHIPS' COMPASSES.—A discovery has been announced in Boston, U.S., by a Welshman, Capt. Griffith Morris, who has been for several years in command of an iron steamer employed in the service of the Boston under- writers. By application, shrewdness, and indomitable perseverance, he has succeeded in discovering (says the Boston correspondent ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 683 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

©bjtuats. ---+--

... DEATH OF AN AMERICAN AUTHOR.—Dr. Rufus W. Griswold died at his residence in New York on Thursday evening, after a lingering illness, aged 42 years. He has left a mark in American literature which will not be easily obliterated. Probably his most popular pro- duction is The Poets and Poetry of America. At the time of his decease, he was employed in completing the revision of The Republican ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

TOWN HALL, USK, Friday, September 4

... [Before S. CHURCHILL, F. M'DONNELL, Esqrs., and the Reverend W. EVANS. CUTTING AND WOUNDING.^—Philip Powell v. Henry Thomas, for having cut him with a reaping hook, in a field at Coedcwnnwr, in the parish of Llangeview. The parties were reaping together in a field, when a quarrel took place between the defendant and a man named John Lewis. The plaintiff interfered, and was struck with the hook ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... The trial of Salvi for the murder of Robertson has been postponed to the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 21 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

.. Scientific

... Scientific. A NEW FOOD FOR BEES—Two agriculturists of the Department of the Var observed one day in the month of May last, that all their bees had left their hives, although the latter were well filled and exceedingly heavy. Towards evening the fugitives returned heavily laden, but on the following morning set out again in a direction which was this time carefully noted by the farmers, who had ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 714 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

■RENCH SISTERS OF CHARITY IN INDIA. ®

... ■RENCH SISTERS OF CHARITY IN INDIA. The Courrier de Lyons gives the following account of he dangers incurred by several French lay nuns in India uring the late disturbances The religious establish- aent of Jesus-et-Marie, at Fourviere, had several of its isterhood imperilled at Meerut, Delhi, Sealcote, and ^gra by the Indian insurrection. It is only by the last aail that intelligence has been ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 604 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

1Bpitmnc of Jiete. ---

... 1Bpitmnc of Jiete. Lord Brougham was one of the visitors to the Man- chester Exhibition on Tuesday. At the Worcester bop dinner last Saturday, the usual set was taken as to the profitable amount of duty for the Worcester district., when the highest estimate of this year's crop was over £ 37,000; the lowest £ 28,000; moan calculation, £ 32,040 odd. The Palrie confirms the news of the ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1737 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ffirobtnctal --+-

... ffirobtnctal COMMITTAL OF A QUACK AT WAKEFIELD.—On Monday, at the Wakefield Court House, William Langley Riley was charged with having, on the 1st of September, at Wakefield, unlawfully pretended that he was the per- son called Dr. Dockrell, who advertised the cure of epileptic fits, and that he cheated and defrauded Henry Taylor of 5s 61. for a bottle of pretended medicine. The Rev. W. R. ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2277 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LIFE IN DELHI

... The following statement of a native regarding the mterior state of Delhi in May and June, is most interest- ing:- Ii I reached Delhi on the 21st of May, 1857, and stayed there till the 23rd of Junp. On my arrival there I saw five infantry regiments and the Sowars of the 3rd Cavalry, who were stationed in Mohtab bagh and Salimgurh. The Sepoys were so much afraid of the English forces that they ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1222 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News