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... ELGPEMBNT.—An elopement, under circumstances of a peculiarly painful character, occuried in Cheltenham last week, and-as may be supposed would be the calc-has ever since formed a principal topic of conversation throughout our fashionable circles, the family of the young lady having been many yea.s resident in the place, and participating a deal in its gay doings the gentleman, if such he must ...
... ABE&6AVSNN7. A PATRIARCHAL FAMILY.—There are now living at the Duke of York inn, in the parish of Llanover, two brothers, audthfwifcofoneofthou. whose united ages amount to 261. Edward Lewis is aged 85 John Lewis, 89; and Mary Lewis, 87,—all being hale and hearty, and as lively in their actions as young colts. Edward Lewis, like the other two, is full of intellectual vigour also and boasts ...
... GENERAL NEWS. Thb COUBT.—An official announcement states that the Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal family, will arri»e a s borne House, Isle of Wight, from Balmoral, on Prince Albert has presented a donation of £ 5 in ai the Association for the Establishment of Evening asses Young Men. We regret to announce the death of the Dowager ° Metaia, who expired on the 21st Sept. last, in eP ,a of ...
... MAGISTRATES' OFFICE, HIGH-ST. NEWPORT. SATURDAY. Before the Rev. Thomas Pope, Rev. Chancellor Williams, and Thomas Gratrex, Esq. GREAT TURN-OUT OF COLLIERS, AT RISCA. „il^H^Padfield, Wm, Hurn, Thomas Britton, Joseph Wallace, jun., John Sees, Mark Emery, Robert Hurn, Isaac Chivers, and Giles Britton, colliers, at the Risca Colliery works, were summoned for that, being under a contract with John ...
... Newport Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute. THE Committee have the pleasure to announce ± TWO LECTURES OX BUSLESftUE, BY C. CHARLES, ESQ., OF LONDON, On Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, March 15 th and 16th, 1854. FIRST LECTURE, On WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 15th, 1854. Programme The Sublime, the Burlesque, and the Ridiculous rela- tively considered—Shakespere's Quibbles defended—His Burlesque ...
... TOWN-HALL, NEWPORT.—MONDAY. Present-H. J. Davis, Esq, (Mayor,) and T. Hughes,Esq. JuliaCrawleywas charge i by the Dock police-officer, with being on the dock last Thursday, with a felonious intent. She was said to be the leader of a regular coat-sweating gang.—• Twenty-one days at Usk.—Coal stealing does not appear to be decreasing in Newport, notwithstanding the severity of sentences which ...
... WHICH APPEALED IX THE MERLIN* OF 31ST JAX. (By G. F. Holbrook, sign painter, 71, Commercial-street Newport.) Charade Ist,-Codlir.g. 2nd,—Horsemanship. Rebus 1st,— Prince Albert. 2nd,—Stall, Tall, All. Transposition 1st,— Rock. 2nd, Ruby. (By J. T. E. Vartcg.) Rebus 1st,—Stall, Tall, All. Transposition 1st,—A heavy mass of stone, Rock, transposed into Cork, a light wood. 2nd, —A precious stone ...
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... RHYMNEY RAILWAY COMPANY. Capital—• £ 200,000 in 20,000 Shares of L10 each. Lhyosit, £ 1 10s. per Share. DIRECTORS. Chairman—John Boyle, Esq., 4, Somer's-place, Hyde- park, Trustee of the Marquis of Bute's Estates. William Austin, Esq., 102, Great Russell-street, Blooms- bury-square. Henry Austin Bruce, Esq., M.P., Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire. Stephen Cave, Esq., 23, Wilton-place, London. ...
... BLAENAVON. BLAENAVON IRON AND COAL COMPANY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN.] SIR,—A writer in the Mining Journal of the 11th inst., who signs himself Delta, inquires under what law this company is constituted and conducted, as their deed of settlement is said to empower the directors to select their own shareholders. The company was formed in the year 1836, under a com- mon deed of settlement, ...
... LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Monday at the Euston station, for the transaction of the general business of the company, and to consider the propriety of consolidating into stock so many of the London and Birmingham B20 shares, and the Manchester and Birmingham C B10 shares as have been fully paid up, the Marquis of Chandos in the chair. The ...
... ISSUING A FORGKD CHEQUE FOR JE700 EXTRAORDINARY CASE. Edward Agar, a respectable middle-aged man, was brought up in custody by Daniel Forrester, on Thurs- day last, charged with uttering a forged cheque for £700, on Messrs. Stevens, Salt, and Bankers, 20, Lombard- street. Mr. Mullins, solicitor to the Bankers' Association, ap- peared for the prosecutor and Mr. Wontner for the prisoner. William ...