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... „ ROME, FEB. 10. Cardinal Dellagenga is on the point of death. The Abbe Passaglia, formerly belonging to the Order of Jesuits, has left for Turin on a special mission from the Pope. The carnival has passed off without any disturbance. Few foreigners are in Rome. A popular movement has been suppressed at San Marino. A pontifical gendarme was killed on the occasion. Mgr. de Merode is still ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

I--citct!a,

... LONDON, MONDAY, FEE. 11. Any improvement m the value of Colonial Produce is prevented by heavy supplies, but the home trade demand increases, and pmchiises rather larger on continental account, but speculators will not do business, and which is to be attributed to the high rates of discount. The markets are not brisk for Eussian Products, at the same time holders of Tallow, Hemp, and Linseed ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE LAST OF THE BRITISH LECION

... The ill-fated members of Garibaldi's British Legion arrived on Friday evening last at the Victoria Dock from Gibraltar, per the steamer Mavrocordato. They had been maintained fifteen days at Gibraltar by public sub- scription, and sent home by the Government as British subjects in distress. It will be remembered that they were left on shore at Gibraltar by the captain of the Melazzo, most of ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 400 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ANOTHER BANKING FRAU&,

... The Times of Tuesday says:—The transfer of the business of the Commercial Bank to the London and Westminster Bank, announced this morning, is attribu- table to the discovery of a large embezzlement at the branch of the Commercial Bank in Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. The amount is £67,000, and, although this would not have been sufficient to affect the solvency, of the establishment, a ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 630 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE

... In the Court, of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, the case of Kapson p. Starke was tried—an action for breach of promise of marriage. Mr. Collier, for the plaintiff, said Mrs. Eapson was a widow, and had been married at the early age of sixteen, in the year 1841, and she was, therefore, now about thiriy-six years of age. Her hus- band had died in 1855, and since that time Mrs. Rapson had kept the ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 890 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... bUNDAiwNS IN THE NET ILETIX.AN Ds. —The journals of Cologne and of Holland are filled with details of fresh inundations. The unfortunate people have been driven from their dwellings, and many swept away with their houses by the floods. Various acts of courage and devotedne?s are mentioned. At Gretherbush, a man, CO years of age, named Kupper, resided with his numerous family in a small house ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE SIEGE OF GAETA. J

... THE SIEGE OF GAETA. NAPLES, FEB. 12. It is stated that the French ship of war Muette has received orders to keep herself in readiness to receive the royal family from Gaeta. TURIN, FEB. 12. The garrison of Gaeta has demanded an armistice of 15 days in order to negotiate for the surrender of the place. The demand has been rejected by General Cialdini, who has however declared himself ready to ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 384 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... GENERAL 8m HOPE GRANT. The. gaIIant commander whose recent achievements are destined to torm so conspicuous a page in every future history of 1111a, is, ve understand, now on his voysge home in company with Lord Elgin. The appointment to the coloneJcyof the 4th Dragoons, one of the most distin- guished of the Peninsular regiments, which has been conferred on Sir Hope Grant in his absence, will ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... NAVAJ, SHIPBUILDING.—A return was Issued on Saturday, showing the sums expended during the financial year of 1859-60 on building, repairing and con- verting the vessels of Her Majesty's navy. Ships and vessels building cost £ 1,018,061— £ 745,313 being spent on materials and £272,718 on workmanship ships com- menced as sailing ships and converted to screw while building, £193,727; ships ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

A SAVAQE WIFE

... At the London Court of Exchequer an action for assault was brought by Mr. Baldock, a chemist, residing at Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell, against a Mr. Welsh, a tobacconist, in the same neighbourhood. It appears On the 19th of last October the defendant's wife entered the plaintiff's shop and abused him about a char- woman, whom she said he had recommended her, and by whom she had been robbed. ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

DEATH OF TWO CHILDREN FROM EATaNa POISONOUS CONFECTIONERY

... DEATH OF TWO CHILDREN FROM EAT- aNa POISONOUS CONFECTIONERY. Last week Mr. Serjeant Payne, the coroner for London, held an inquest at the Angel, Webber-street, Blackfriars- road, on the bodies of Thomas Carroll, aged 4 years, and James Carroll, aged 3 years, brothers, whose deaths were occasioned, as alleged, by eating poisonous confec- tionery. John Carroll, father of the children, said the ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 530 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE UNITED STATES. !

... THE UNITED STATES. QUEÊNSTOWN, FEB. 10. The Royal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, from New York on the 30th ultimo, arrived here at 6 a.m., landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and pro- ceeded at 6.15 p.m. All well. She brings thirty-seven passengers. The steamships Etna and Arabia had arrived oat. The AYashington correspondent of the New Yo-Tk Herald- state, that, in consequence of ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News