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December 1861
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THE NATION'S PRAYER

... Now, therefore, let us cry unto heaven. 1 Mac. lv., 10. A BOLT hath fallen on the land Speechless, ailiast, the people stan ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGINGS.—A fine cake of amalgamated gold is now on view at the Exhibition here, affording the best of proofs that there is no falling off in the yield from the reefs. This weighs 1,015 oz., and is the produce of only three tons of atone, out of a claim on the Johnson Reef, in the Bendigo district,—a reef long famous for its large yields. The general returns from the ieefs ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BLAINA. !

... BLAINA. PETTY SESSIONS. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18. [Before the Rev. EDMD. LEIGH and Capt. MARSH.] The recent arrangement of the sessions, by which they were appointed to be held on Wednesdays, instead of Wednesdays and Fridays alternately, as j before, does not seem to have given satisfaction and it is certainly the most inconvenient day of the week for the press, which finds itself compelled prepare ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

nu(lnn nrrt$1Jnmlcnf Xettcr.

... Xettcr.. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING These have been sombre, not Christmas days. Wt have made an effort to fling off the sadness and forget for a time the national bereavement, but it stares us in 1 the face in so many material signs, it is still so recently. and 80 vividly impressed on the mind, that it is beyond J ttie power even of the light-thinking to remember only | jolly, fat, comfortable ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1517 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

PONTYPOOL

... PKIZE FOR DRAWING. We have pleasure an- nouncing that the successful competitor for the Royal. Academy's second prize, a silver medal, for drawing,3 from the antique, is Mr. Thomas Henry Thomas, son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas, president of Pontypool College. DEATH OF Mas. DAVIES, OFJTBEVETHIN.—It is our|| melancholy duty to record the death of this excellent^ and amiable lady, which sad event took ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1239 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... IRRIYAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. QUKENSTOWN, DEC. 24.—The Now York and Philadel- phia Company's screw steam ship City of Baltimore has wrived from New York. She left on the 14th December. She brings fifty cabin and 115 steerage passengers. she landed eight cabin arid forty-four steerage, and the Irish mails. Off Sandy Hood she passed the Hanoverian ihip Electric and the British barque ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

-------GLAMORGANSHIRE WINTER ASSIZKS.3a

... GLAMORGANSHIRE WINTER ASSIZKS.3a On Thursday, the 19th, Mr. Justice Willes arrived ai|| Cardiff and opened the Commission. His Lordship camefe into the town quite privately, about one o'clock, andp proceeded to the Judge's lodgings, in Ch-.irles- street. tHis Lordship attended divine service at the church of Sl J ohn the Baptist, where the Sheriff's chaplain preached a sermon. FRIDAY. 3 The ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2900 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

NANTYGLO. I

... NANTYGLO. These works were last week retarded for a few days, in consequence of an overflow of water in the coal pits, which is now about three feet deep. The pumping- engine was accidentally broken, and a great number of ki colliers are thereby thrown out of employ, until the w water can be cleared out, gj ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THURBDA Y'S MARKETS

... favourable character in most instances. On the Great I The Railway returns for the past week are -of an un- Western there is a decrease of LI,670 on the North Western of £ 2,308; on the Midland of £ 3,289; on the South Eastern of 21,822 on the Great Northern of L3,041 on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £ 3,771. The Brighton shows an increase of £ 169'; the South Western of zCl62 and the Great ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

-Hf j -- - • '--.;fffl FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. \

... -Hf j • FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. DEMONSTRATION AT NEWPORT. The profound sorrow with which the hearts of the British people were smitten on the intelligence of the death of the late Prince Consort, and the deep and un- feigned sympathy felt with the Queen in her bereave- ment, have been clearly evinced. Throughout the country the day of the funeral of the lamented Prince was ob-r- ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3816 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

CAERLEON. I

... CAERLEON. DEATH FROM FIRE.—Ou Sunday afternoon last' at the Union School, Caerleon, the clothes of a littlei girl, named Eliza Parry, aged six years, caught Are! in one of the rooms of the hospital, adjoining the school. The child 4ad just recovered from a severe attack of the measles. She was left in charge of a girl named Mary Ann Bevan, aged 15, who having left her for a few minutes, heard ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... The statue of the late Lord Herbert will be erected in 'ront of the Council House, Salisbury. | We have to record the death of John Bagshaw, formerly I H.P., for Norwich. He was 77 years of age. | The African mail steamer Armenian sailed on Wednes- A lay from Liverpool for the West Coast of Africa, with | ,he mails, and a number of passengers. The Duke of Cambridge's absence from the ceremony ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News