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THE BATTLE OF BUFFALORA

... TURBIGO, JUNE 5, 11 A.M. The affair at Buffalora was the most brilliant which has hitherto taken place; it might be called the battle of Buffalora. The combination was to attack the place, which is of great strength, not only in front but likewise on the left flank from Turbigo. Some delay occurred in the movement of this column, and the result was that when the Grenadiers and Zouaves of the ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... A MIDNIGHT DEAL.—It is related of the Marquis of Waterford that he purchased a horse from the late Mr. Keating of Garronlea, county Tipperary, in the night-time. Certainly the story is not impossible. It was as follows:—Mr. Keating was aroused about two in the morning, hearing a carriage driving rapidly to his door. He got up, and, approaching a window overlook- ing the entrance, asked, Who ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1314 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... llortson. THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—There is a report that Sir Charles Eastlake is about to proceed to Madrid for the purpose of inspecting the Madrazo collection of pictures, the proprietor of which is dead. It is also reported that Herr Miindler, the travelling agent, lately dismissed by a vote of the House of Commons, has been engaged to accompany the director of the National Gallery. If Sir ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1291 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

OUTLINES OF THE WEEK

... TOWN is still dull—streets are being taken up, gas-pipes put down, telegraphic wires removed. There is blocking up of cabs and omnibuses in all the leading thoroughfares. We might term London at this time the city of barricades. Happy those who can g3t away to the sad sea- wayes, or stubble-fields, or Irish lakes, or Scottish plOOrs 1 Some frightful cases of military flogging have recently ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 863 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, SEPT. 5. For old English WUEAT and best sorts of new last Monday's rates are obtained, but common Is to 2s lower: sales of white at 40s to 46s; and of red at 38s to 4:3s per quarter, a clearance not being made. In foreign not much passing, and several parcels on offer: rates rule at 44s to 5Gs; and for Russian at 40s to 44s. Demand for FLOUR moderate: rates for town-made 42s ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 713 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... gfetopt Jutal nttlligttttt. Mr. James Vaughan, a barrister of note, on the Oxford circuit, presented himself here on Saturday last offering to stand for the boroughs in the Liberal interest. A brother-in-law of John Bright, and of the same political creed, it was expected that he would be supported, but we learn that one member of the council, and the chief leader of the opposition, refused to ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1859
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2284 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... iSpttotnect Neto. Advices from Auckland, New Zealand, confirm the statements of the discovery of good coal in that province. The death of Mr. W. J. Champlain, so many years chairman of the London and South Western Rail- way Company, is announced. The Paris correspondent of the Globe says:— Emile de Girardin is coming out with a Letter to Benjamin Disraeli on Universal Suffrage, recommending ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1859
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1511 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

MONMOUTHSHIRE

... Trade on the hills, both in coal and iron, is in a atisfactory and progressive state, The works at Ihymney are now in full career, and it is confidently eported that three new olast furnaces are about ^to w: erected at Abertillery; while the extension of tne c ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1859
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL

... BRISTOL UNITED GAS LIGHT COMPANY.-The half- yearly meeting of this company took place at the offices, Canon's-marsh, on Thursday, when a divid- end at the rate of t9 per cent. free of income tax, was declared. The captain and crew of the ship Premier, of Bristol, had a narrow escape from death. On the voyage to Bombay heavy storms arose and,- the ship sprung a leak. The crew were exhausted ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1859
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1066 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

TO THE lEZLEOTOIFtS OF THE UNITED BOROUGHS OF MOMOUTH, NEWPORT, & USK

... GENTLEMEN, THE approaching Dissolution of Parliament affords me the opportunity of again thanking you for the confidence you have reposed in me for the last seven years. It is my intention to offer myself for Re-Election, and should I have the honor of Representing you in the next Parliament, you may rely on my continuous efforts to promote such measures of Reform as I believe would be best ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

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... THE EXHIBITION OF 1861.—The Society of Arts is beginning to move actively in the preliminary preparations for the International Exhibition of 1861. In an explanatory statement of their views, just issued, they state the proposition broadly thus: It is proposed that the works to be exhibited in 1861 shall be selected for their excellence; that they shall be arranged in classes, and not ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IFROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

... FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. r, ,n BANKRUPTS.—FRIDAY, JTOTE 24. f ^church-street, City, licensed victualler. J. LILI.U^AH. blough, Buckinghamshire, clothier. r; V £ AP.KE King's Lynn, Norfolk, victualler. G. WOOD, Rayleigh, Essex, builder. E. PETERS, Bilston, Staffordshire, wine merchant. J. HOLDSWORTH, Horsley Fields, Wolverhampton, timb n-ierchatit. G. SMEDLEY, New Sleaford, Lincolnshire, glass ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News