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A 'LADY HORSEBREAKER, AND HER LITTLE ACCOUNT

... An action was brought in the Nisi Prius Court, London, by a Miss Reynolds against the Earl of Dudley, for breaking a horse so as to render the animal safe to be used by a young lady of fifteen years of age. The defendant paid JB25 into court, and denied his liability to any greater amount. The plaintiff, Miss Elizabeth Reynolds-a most accom- plished equestrian-had two establishments, viz., at ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 571 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL GOSSIP

... THE COURT. SINCE the arrival of the Court at Windsor Castle, her Majesty and the Royal children have enjoyed their daily rambles in the slopes and Royal gardens in the Home-park and at Frogmore. ON Saturday a detachment of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment -non-commissioned officers and soldiers- were inspected by her Majesty the Queen, previous to their return to Ceylon. The party have been some ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

WELLS AND BEQUESTS

... The will of the Right Hon. Henry Beauchamp-Lygon, Earl Beauchamp, of Powyke, and Madresfield-court, 'Worcester, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Pro- bate by his son, the present earl, pawer being re- served to his younger son, the Hon. Frederick Lygon, .M.P., the execivfer. The .personalty was sworn under «fil80,0G0. The deceased nobleman was a general in the army, colonel of the 10th ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

T O W N TALK

... BY OUR LOIJDON CORRESPONDENT. Out readers will understand that we do not hold ourselves responsible for our able Correspoz-ident's opinions. THE Crawley Court-Martial is dragging its weary length along, and promises to interfere with the Christmas holidays of all engaged in it. The following description of Colonel Crawley, drawn by a graphic pen, I have taken from the columns of a professional ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1053 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT ALDERSHOT

... On Thursday night the inhabitants of the neighbour- hood of Union-street, Aldershot, were thrown into a state of excitement by the rumour that a woman had been murdered by her husband in a passage between High- street and Union-street. It appears that on the night named a man named William Bartlett, a plasterer, from Exeter, arrived at Aldershot for the purpose of finding out his wife, Frances ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE WAR, IN AMERICA. ----

... THE WAR, IN AMERICA. The Cunard steamer Canada, from Boston on iho, 11th and Halifax on the 13th Nov., has just arrived. The New York papers indulge in san- guine expectations of the future. We give the iafiOwing extracts:- General Meade's Advance. The Washington correspondent of the New York World, writing on the 10th, says:— It is rumoured that a considerable Union force started or is about ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2400 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

A BOY ACCIDENTALLY STABBED BY I HIS PLAYFELLOW

... ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERN- MENT OF WARSAW TO THE FRENCH NATION. The subjoined address to the French nation has just been issued by the National Government of Warsaw:— For a long time past Europe contemplated, with a feeling of melancholy regret, Poland fallen from her former power, and looked upon a body from which the soul appeared to have departed. To sadness succeeded forgetfulness, ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

EARL RUSSELL'S LETTER TO OUR RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR,

... The following dispatch, addressed to her Majesty's ambassador at St. Petersburg, is published in the London Gazette, dated from the Foreign-office My Lord,—Baron Brunnow has communicated to me a dispatch from Prince Gortschakoff, dated August 26 (September 7), in reply to my dispatch to your Excellency, No. 178, of the 11th ultimo, of which you were instructed to give a copy to his Excellency ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Hide Market

... LEADENHALL.—Hides.—Prices 56Ibs to 641bs, 2fd to 3d:- 64ibs to 721bs, 3d to 3 jd; 721bs to 80lbs, 3d to 4d SOlos tc ftSltml 3Jd to 4Jd; 881bs to SSlbs, 4^d to 5d; 9Glbs to 1041bs, 4 £ d to 5.}d; 1041bs to 1121bs, 5d to Gd. borse hiaes, 10s to 12s. Caif skins, light, 2s 6d to 4s; full, 7s. BERMONDSEY.—Sheep skins, polled, 9s to 123 half breds, 6s 9d to 7s 9d; downs, 6s to 7s. ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

: .SCENE AT A PRIZE FIGHT

... SCENE AT A PRIZE FIGHT. A New York paper has the following extraordinary account of a scene that occurred around a pugilistic ring. The writer says :—A prize fight lately came off between Tom Daly.and Billy M'Grath, at the Washoe race track, Virginia. After fourteen rounds had been fought, a blow was struck which was voted foul, which resulted in the following scene:— Harry Lazarus had been ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... For the benefit of those who do not study the Almanac, we would observe that there will be an annular eclipse of the sun on Wednesday, the 11th inst., invisible at Greenwich. On Wednesday, the 25th inst., there will be a partial eclipse of the moon, partly visible at Greenwich. It will begin at 8.50 a.m. A Woman Burnt to Death.-An inquest was held at Carlisle, on Saturday, before Mr. Carrick, ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE ABGHBIl'JIOF OF YERK ON MIBBLE-GLASS EDUCATION. J

... THE OF YERK MIBBLE-GLASS EDUCATION. In the course of an-address receatly. delivered at the distribution, of prizes to the students at the Oxford, Cambridge, and Durhasa Universities middle-class ex- animations, the Archbishop of York said: It is a ] characteristic of this.day that we are all pretty well informed about a great many subjects (hear hear). The morning paper somehow puts us all ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News