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FRIDAY, MARCH 15

... DISTURBANCES AT WARSAW.—Lord STRATFORD DE RKDCLIFFE drew attention to recent events at Warsaw, which were of great importance and interest in this country, and asked whether the Government had any information on the subject which they could communi- cate to the House. Lord WODEIIOUSE said a dispatch had been received from the Consul-General at Warsaw detailing the circumstances which had ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ATTEMPTED MURDER .OF A LADY BY HER DAUGHTER

... A shocking attempt at murder has taken place at the usually quiet village of Paignton. A lady named Hooper, of the advanced age of 81 years, has for some time resided in this beautiful district with her daughter Miss Emma Hooper, whose age is understood to be about 38 years. Their income places them in an independent position. A little after six o'clock on the evening mentioned the neigh- ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FRIDAY, JULY 19. I

... FRIDAY, JULY 19. THE INLAND REVENUE BILL.-A molion by Mr. HENNESSY that the House resolve into committee that day three months was lost by 82 to 49.—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that he acceded to the propo- sition which had been made to divide the bill so as to deal with the subjects to which it related, the regula- tion of wine and spirit licenses and the succession duties ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 521 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

I KLEPTOMANIA —WHAT IS , IT ?

... KLEPTOMANIA —WHAT IS IT ? There is now a very fashionable word in our police and criminal courts, termed kleptomania, which is made to bear a variety of constructions. Formerly, when it was first introduced by a learned counsel, it was intended to apply to ladies and gentlemen who had not a due sense of the principle of meum and tumn. It was urged that some persons were imbued by nature ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 894 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ANOTHER STORM ON THE NORTH-EAST COAST

... ANOTHER STORM ON THE NORTH- EAST COAST. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.—ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN VESSELS OS SHORE. The violent storm which swept over the north-east coast with such fearful results,, on Saturday week, has been followed by .another, within. eight days, no less violent, and scarcely less disastrous in its effects. Along the line of coast running from the Humber to Fiam- bro' Head ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1241 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

... THE EAST INDIA LOAN BILL.—On going into committee on this bill, Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY indulged in some strictures on Indian finance, expressing disapproba- tion of further loans, and doubts as to Mr. Laing's statements of the estimated revenue and expendi- ture. Colonel SYKES, while admitting that the re- quired loan was necessary to enable the Secretary for India to meet his engagements, ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

|TUESDAY, JUNE 18

... TUESDAY, JUNE 18. T. Bacon, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, hotel keeper. T. Symons, Princes-terrace, Caledonian-road, and St. John-street, Clerkenwell, leather seller. —C. Kerman, Millbrook, near South- ampton, engineer. J. Tree, Worcesier, scrivener, and West Malvern, Worcestershire, lodging-house keeper. — W. Howls, Little Stretton, Shropshire, licensed victualler.—J. B. Brown, Coventry, ribbon ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... A return of the working of each railway company shows the total expenditure last year in England and Wales wa,s £ 11,258,104. The net receipts were £ 12,196,706. Daring the year £162,921 was paid as compensation for accidents and losse s. Congregational Union of iiiiigland and yv ales.- The proceedings of the great, autumnal gather- ing of the Congregational Union commenced on Tuesday m irning ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

.OTHER INDORSEMENTS AND OPINIONS

... OTHER INDORSEMENTS AND OPINIONS. That there is some foundation for this rumour is more than probable. The Mrtnckestrw Examiner, thus quoting the city article of Daily News, says: Some of the accounts from trustworthy quarters in Paris express a confident belief that the Emperor of the French contem- plates jecognising the Confederate States of the SOUl h. His object, it is affirme l, will be ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE WAS IN AMERICA. --

... THE WAS IN AMERICA. Two mails from Arherica have arrived since our last issue The defeat at Bull's Run is of course still the prominent topic in the newspapers. The New York Herald says that the panic commenced amongst the three months men, whose time was out. They were about to return to their homes and their loves, and their thoughts were absorbed by other subjects more important to them ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2118 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... AMERICAN INVENTIONS. — At the Societv of Arts, a paper read was Some Account of Aiiiericanfi-n- plements and Economic Contrivances, by C. W. Eddy, M.A., M.B., formerly Travelling Fellow-of the University of Oxford. The author said that he would first touch upon agricultural implements. The first he noticed was the American felling axe, so well known in timber regions. Large quantities of ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 486 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Mr. Edwin James

... Mr. Edwin James has published a letter in the New York papers respecting the Trent affair. He says the whole question in regard to Mason andSlidelI would rest on the answers.of the captain of the Trent to the following questions:—1st. Were you acquainted with the terms of her Majesty's proclamation commanding strict neutrality on the part of all her subjects during the term of hos- tilities ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News