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MIRROR OF THE MARKETS

... THE MONET, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKETS has to a great extent, if not entirely, rec)vered its tone during the past seven days the easiness of the discount market and the plentiful supply of money occasioning this some- what unlooked-for buoyancy. It is rather surprising that the Bank directors did not reduce their minimum rate of discount at their meeting on the 30th ult., hut their failure to do ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 848 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC

... T be correspondent of a contemporary dating from Buenos Ayres, September 29th, details a splendid victory for the constitutional party f the republic. Urquiza has been defeated with great loss, the affair being regarded as a complete triumph. The revolution of May, 1810, is ended, and for the fust time in history the Liberal party among the Argentine people is triumphant. The hasty dispatch ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE INCREASE OF CHILD MURDER

... At an inquest held at the Middlesex Workhouse last week, relative to the death of a female child, found dead in a dust-bin, Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the Deputy Coroner, remarked on the mysterious and suspicious nature of the case, which he said no doubt was one of murder, but he was afraid that they would not be able to get any additional evidence. He then referred to the crime of infanticide, ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TUESDAY, NOV. 5

... J. M. Sperling, Wandsworth, and Wertemberg-street, The Grove, Clapham—J. Scraggs, Watford, Hereford, draper.—J. Bennett, Everton, near Liverpool, builder.—C. Smith, Liverpool, victualler. J. Ladd, Turner's-road, Limehouse, bui:der.- E. Metcalf, Drighton, teacher of singing. — H. Adeane and W. Baker, Robert-street, Hampstead, iron-bedstead makers.-W. Babington, Lower Walton, provision dealer.—J ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... Chilhara Castle, Kent, and estate, have been purchased by Mr. Hardy, brother of Mr. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., for £ 170,000. ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 20 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SHOCKING MURDER AT COSELEY, STAFFORDSHIRE

... Within a short distance of the scene of the late atro- cious murder at Bilston, another murder was perpetrated on Sunday morning last. A man named William Lewis, who is a widower lodging with his brother at Hall-green, near to Bilston, was found on that morning lying dead on the road, with such marks of ill-usage about him as to indicate that he had been fearfully maltreated. He was discovered ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 461 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN ITEMS. -0-

... FOREIGN ITEMS. BERLIN.—The Preussische Zeitung of Nov. 2 publishes news from Moscow (without date) announcing that the students in that city had created violent disturbances, which had been quelled by military force. A petition, re- questing the release of the students lately arrested, and that a constitution should be granted to Russia, had been signed by 17,000 persons. The University of ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

1 FARMING. --

... 1 FARMING. THE HARVESIIN FRANCE. — It is now ascertained that the panic cased by the deficiency in the late wheat crop is at least remature if not greatly exaggerated, and that the presnt high price is in some measure caused by the marjoeuves of interested parties. Taking the most unfavourate view of the question, there can be no want of wheat fe. until May next. The following is the position ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 912 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SPORTS AND PASTIMES. --

... SPORTS AND PASTIMES. SHOOTING IN NORFOLK.—Lately, at Guttton-park, the seat of Lord Suffield, the extraordinary number of 1,064 partridges were killed in five days by eight guns. The number of head killed in the five days was 1,600 in- cluding hares and rabbits, and in one day 185 brace of partridges were bagged. 370 partridges in one day seem to speak of a good season. Pheasants are very ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1205 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE WORKING OF THE FEE5TCH TREATY

... A Paris letter says:— If the newspapers of Paris and the manufacturing districts of France represent correctly the views of commercial men concerning the effects of the new treaty, much of the early alarm of Protectionists is passing away. There seems to be a general conviction that, both in textile and hardware goods France can still hold her place in the market. The cheap cotton goods, ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 666 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... Rumours of dissensions in the Cabinet are still rife, but they can be traced to no definite source Treatment of Englishmen at Warsaw.-Mr. Mitchel, the English gentleman who was severely beaten by the Cossacks, says that he cannot possib!y assign any reason for the brutal assault of which he was the victim in the streets of Warsaw on the 14th instant. Aware that martial law had been proclaimed, ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 511 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... The Lichfield Diocese Church Extension Society has granted X200 endowment, to Leaton Church, Wales A well-known merchant in Glasgow, who has been speculating largely in cotton of late, is said to have rnonths a sum not less than £ o0,(K)0. Cotton speculation is the order of the day. and is heard of in London in quarters where cotton was no man's talk a few months ago. The quantity of cotton ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News