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THE OXFORD ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

... One of the most important documents in connection with this subject has been received by the Rev. W. Fremantle. In a letter, the Archbishop of Canterbury says:— I have taken the opportunity of meeting many of my episcopal brethren in London, to lay your address before them. They unanimously agree with me in expressing the pain it has given them that any clergymen of our Church should have ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 327 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... COMPLETION OF NEW KING-STREET, Co- VENT-GAitDEX.—During the last week the short street leading from the bottom of Long-acre to King-street, has been .opened for general traffic. By means of this new thoroughfare tho narrow and inconvenient New-street will be avoided by passengers and traffic between the Strand, Coventry-street, Leicesteprsquare, Piccadilly, or Holborn and Oxford-street. The ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MURDER AT HUDDERSFIELD

... On Saturday night a shocking murder was perpetrated at Huddersfield. A few minutes before twelve o'clock a man named Joseph Smith, 31 years of age, was proceed- ing towards his home in Upperhead-row. On his way he entered the Black Lion passage, when three men, named John KilJarney (a private in the 81th regiment of foot), — Norton (a dye-house labourer), and — Iredale (a cloth-dresser, of ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... THE young women of \Vaynesboro Georgia, in fierce convention assembled, resolved—That we, tha young ladies of Burke, reject with haughty scorn and proud disdain all civilities from any gentleman who re- fuses or neglects to join the ranks of any Southern State that shall in her sovereign capacity withdraw her alle- giance from this unconstitutional confederacy; holding it to be self-evident ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 719 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

COMMISSION FOR ESTABLISHING UNIFORMITY OF MEASURE AND WEIGHT IN GERMANY

... COMMISSION FOR ESTABLISHING UNI- FORMITY OF MEASURE AND WEIGHT IN GERMANY. This commission has recently made & great advance towards the attainment of its object, all its more essential determinations having been adopted with perfect una- nimity. The metre is to be taken as the unit of linear measure under that well- known name, in preference to the German monosyllable stab, which had been ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF ENGLISH GARIBALDIANS

... A letter from the five Englishmen who were sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a Neapolitan gaol, ha3 beer forwarded to this country, and appeared in the Western Baity Press. Their names are Messrs. Pictcn, Morrell, Walters, Vallance, and Coleman, and it will be rem-mbered that, having been dispatched with some of Garibaldis troops, for the purpose of intercepting the enemy, then supposed ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 735 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE BERWICK • ON - TWEED ELECTION INQUIRY. -

... THE BERWICK • ON TWEED ELECTION INQUIRY. The Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the existence of bribery at the L ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

flppm'ntments for tbe SSteeft

... TUESDAY. S.—Herefozd Fair.-Usk County Court, Ten o'clock. THURSDAY, 7.—Abergavenny County Court, Ten o'clock. FRIDAY, 8.—Chepstow County Court, Ten o'clock. SATURDAY, 9.—Pontypool Petty Sessions, for purposes of Highway Act. ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 32 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

LOSS OF THE S.S. EMPRESS EUGENIE

... The screw-steamer Empress Eugenie, Captain Higgins, from Liverpool for London, foundered 30 miles north- east of Point Lynas at ten minutes to six last Friday evening. The Empress Eugenie sailed from Liverpool on Thursday night. At 3 a.m. the following day it was reported the ship was making a deal of water in the en- gine room, and that the pumps were not able to keep her free. At 6 a.m. the ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

HENRY W. BEECHER ON SCRIPTURE AND SLAVERY

... I rorget my profession and stand as a man among men to lift up my voice, and wich all my heart and soul, against any man that is ordained to preach out of Christ's doctrine the doctrine of human bondage. I say that when the Bible is opened that all the friends of hell may, as in a covered passage, walk through it to do their works of mischief upon this earth, blessed be infidels. Where men ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 776 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

COUNT PERSTQNY AND THE FRENCH PRESS

... Count Persigny has addressed the following letter to a friend in this country in explanation of his extraordinary conduct to the Courrier dn Dimanche ;— PARIS, Feb. 6. My dtrar Sir,—-I have received the letter which you addressed to me on the subject of the measure which i have taken against the Courrier du Dimanche. If, as you inform me, public opinion in England has blamed this act, I ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF lORDS,

... THURSDAY, FIW. 7. THE ADDRESS. Their lordships met at 2 o'clock, and the peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl fi- Germans, Viscount Eversley, the Earl of Sefton. ^MrJ1SC0'Pit ;SmCrf'. tlie mover and seconder of the p TTl leir accompanied by Sir Augusua rw^Yf i> rtl,e Bkck Eod' alld Sir J- S. Lefevre, Clark oi the Parliament, at once proceeded to Buckins> ham t'ajace lor the ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News