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INDIAN ITEMS. :

... INDIAN ITEMS. THE CAWNPORE MASSA ORE.-SPURIOUs RELIOS. —In another room for Wheeler's intrenchment] the fol- lowing inscription was written on the wall; it is on the larger building in the corridor, between the fourth and fifth doors, facing to the south, on the side opposite the doors Countrymen and women, remember the 15th of July, 18571 Your wives and families are here, misery! and at the ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... The advices :from :Utah show the Mormons were as obstinate and rampant for war as ever. The Utah legis- lature had sent a petition to Congress, calling on that body to redress their wrongs. THE REV. MR. SPURGEON.—The Dublin Free- man tells a good story—as true as Gospel-—about the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon:— A witty literary lady, well known in London, was travelling the other day in a railway car- ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 516 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CARDIFF POLICE.-FRIDAY

... (Before R. O. Jones and T. E. Heath, Esqrs.) Henry Clements and John Smith, two drivers of Cacrphilly. were charged with assaulting passengers in one of the South Wales Railway carriages, and also with assaulting Mr. Thomas, Inspector of the Company's police. The case was sent to Newport, the offence having been committed within the jurisdiction of the magistrates in that district. Thomas ...

POETRY. !

... SIGHING CAN NEVER RAISE TIlE WIND. A plague of your sighing-l never knew good of it; Wasting the body, weakening the mind- Like a French vol-a it-vent, 'tis a puff without food in it- Keep up your spirits and keep down your wind. Life is a race; we are all entered in for it Waste not your breath—you'll need nil you can find Take your sighing to Lombard-street —who'll give you tin for it ? ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... FOND OF SOCIETY.—Housekeepers who buy second-hand bedsteads. The work may make a man unfortunate,! but not miserable that is from himself. He who does his best, however little, is always to be distin- guished from him who does nothing. A coffin, said an Irishman, is the house a man lives in when he is dead. Why is it easy to break into an old man's house ?—Because his gait is broken and his ...

LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS

... MINCING-LANE, MABCH 29. SUGAB.—The public sales announced for the week are impor. tant, consisting of 800 hogsheads, 4,000 chests, and 40, 000 bags. There was in consequence little business transacted to-day, and rather lower rates accepted. Sales of very low to fine brown Mauritius at 28s to 3Ss6d; yellow 39s to 45s; grainy 48s to 49s; Havannah brown 36s to 40s; yellow 40s 6d to 46s; native ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 461 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

I'WLANU. --+--

... DUBLIN COLLEGE ELECTION.—The polling com- menced on Tuesday week, and closed on Saturday, and Lefroy was returned by a considerable majority over Gayer. THE POLICE OUTRAGE AT TRINITY COLLEGE. —The cases against Colonel Browne and several of the police came on for hearing on the 26th inst. Mr. Stubbs, the senior dean of Trinity College, was the chief witness, and bis testimony bore strongly ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

PRESENT STATE OF CANTON

... The commercial parts of Canton have been much over- estimated (writes the correspondent of the Times). Can- ton is big and populous; that is all. In other respects it is a very ordinary Chinese city. Its temples are nu- merous, and the Confucian Temple and the Temple of Five Hundred Gods are good of their kind, but most of the others are miserable and dilapidated. The nine-storied pagoda is in ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to declare her intention of conferring a baronetcy on the son of the late Sir Henry Lawrence. It is also the intention of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to propose to the Court of Proprietors the grant of an annuity of £ 1,000 a-year. Lord Leigh, the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire, having been apprized of the Queen's intention to visit ...

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

... RAILWAY AND PACKET TIME TABLES. The Proprietor of this Paper does not hold himself responsible for any errors which way inadvertently occur in the times of arrival or departure of the different Trains and Packets, as alterations are sometimes made without notice being sent to the office of this paper. ...

THE CARDIFF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

... The annnal medin; of the memhers of the C.m¡¡Œ Young- Men's Christian Association was held 011 Tuesday evening, in the Library Room of the Society's Institution. The treasurer, Mr. John Cory was-called to the chair. Prayer having been offered by Mr. Bidmc d, Town Missionary, Mr. Kernick, one of the honorary secretaries, said, that in accordance with a rule of their society which stated that ...