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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 

DETHOLION

... MR. GOL.—Pwy oedd awdwr v detholion hvn nis gwn. Tebvo-ol ei fod yn anadnabyddus i'r rhan amlaf o ddarllen- Weich Cyhoeddiad. Gan i mi gael addysgiadau oddi- wrthvnt, hwyrach na byddai yn dramgwydd en rhoddi yn v TELEGRAPH er budd i ereill yn gystsd a'r eiddoch. Ijowlahi. G. Glan Te,fi' DYN CALONOG.-Gwel fel y mae'r camel yn goddef poen a blinder, newyn asvched, a gwres, wrth ymdaith trwv ...

TOWN TALK. *

... TOWN TALK. [BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] No lack of subjects of serious chat or lively gossip, i, The condemnation of the Italian Lani for the Haymarket t murder; Glover, ex-M.P. for Beverley, found guilty of £ perjury; Bernard tried for an offence that recalls Mackintosh's defence of Peltier.; the fall of Lucknow, and the howl of the gagged French journals against the English occupation of the ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1049 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... THE Vienna correspondent of the Times reports that Sir Hamilton Seymour, before relinquishing his post, has expressed the opinion that in such a critical moment as the present there ought to be a truce to the jealousies and bickerings of Austria and Prussia, and that it should be their aim to make of Germany a power which could, in case of need, enforce the respect of the neighbouring ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 700 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE INDIAN RESOLUTIONS

... RESOLUTIONS TO BE PROPOSED BY THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER ON THE 30TH OF APRIL. 1. That, as the territories under the government of the East India Company are by law to remain under such government only until parliament shall otherwise provide, this house is of opinion that it is expedient that the transfer of such government to the crown should now take place, in order that the direct ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MARKETS

... PONTYPOOL. SATURDAY. This market to-day pre- sented an average supply of its general description of commodities, and it being the day of the fair, was well attended. Prices ranged as follow :—BuTCEER'S MEAT Beef and mutton, 6d. to 7Jd. per lb.; lamb, 7s. 6d. per quarter; veal, 7d.; pork, 6d. and 6td. per lb. POULTRY, BUTTER, &c.: Fowls (scarce), 3s. 6d. per couple; butter, Is. 3d. per lb.; ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: Page 1 | 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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... it is understood, in the course of preliminary investiga- tion to an earldom created half a century earlier than the Shrewsbury title. Sir Wm. Scrope, eldest son of the first Lord Scrope of Bolton, was created by Richard II., in 1397, Earl of Wiltshire, with remainder to his heirs male for ever'*—a limitation which, according to the de- cision in the Devon case, carries the title to collateral ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

TRIAL OF I. BERNARD.I

... TRIAL OF I. BERNARD. THE DEFENCE. Mr. James commenced his address to the jury by de- claring that he was not using ordinary language when he said that the decision in this case affected the liberties of England. It had been the boast of England hitherto that it was her privilege to defend the weak against the strong. Many illustrious men had stood on the very spot that he now occupied to ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 6327 | 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. ...

PONTYPOOL

... SATURDAY.—(Before the Rev. C. A. WILLIAMS and the Rev. JOHN EVANS.) BLAENAVON.—LEAVING EMPLOYMENT.—Nicholas Wil- liams was charged by George Challenger with having left his employment as a collier, without having given the cus- tomary month's notice. Defendant admitted his guilt, and, at the solicitation of the bench, agreed to return to work. He was ordered also to pay 8s. Ga. expenses. ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News