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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 

WELSH BISHOPS FOR WELSH DIOCESES

... II 0'tte (From the Chester Coucrant.) C rv* Ever since the days of Sihakspere, and, as our Cam- j Dr. bl.brian friends will tell uts, for many ages before,NVelslh- theer lied men have been proverbially 1 quick in quarrel, rindivrin thle remain so at thle present day, as experience telaches. of M Rl. Our intiniation of last week to discuss thle cry or prosi Wales for tile Welsh as ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1857
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3247 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

CHURCH MISSIONARY MEETING AT LLANRHAIADR-YN-MOCHNANT

... CHIURCH MISSIONARY MEETING AT LLANRIIAIADR-Y N- iOCHNANT. The annual meeting in aid of this laudable Society t vas held on Thursday evening, the 17th inst., in the i Town Hall. The room was crowded, and the speak- ing powerful, eloquent, and impressive. The platform I vas occupied by be folluwing reverend gentlemen:- Rev. W. Williitns, viar, Llanrhaiadr, (chairman); ( Re.v. MVT I;ugit's, Vicar ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1857
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 801 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

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... 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 

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... 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 

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... WHOLESALE BIGAMY.—In the prison of Greenlaw there is at present a woman whose maiden name is Mar- garet M'Lear,, but who married a hind or farm labourer named Houliston, residing near Dunse. The woman afterwards took to herself a second husband, named Philip, and she has been indicted to stand her trial at the ensuing Jedburgh Circuit Court. Houliston (husband No. 1) stands charged with the ...

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... 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