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... FRANCE. T he Paris papers of Sunday do not contain any definite in- man gence with respect to the new ministry. Jt is reported thro M. Emile Girardin and M. de Lamartine will be mem- the of the cabinet. t. Brunei, an aeronaut, made an ascension on Sunday last nex il the Park of Rambouiller, in a balloon of 180 cubic metres, for filled with pure hydrogen gas. From some difficulties stan ndant ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1854 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

HOW COMMISSIONER YEH WAS CAPTURED.'I

... HOW COMMISSIONER YEH WAS CAPTURED. We must now go back to the general starting point, and accompany the chase after Yeb. Mr. Consul Parkes, who was attached as interpreter to Colonel Hol- loway's party, arrived too late, and was wituout an escort. While he was deploring his ill luck he met with Commodore Elliot, who fired by Mr. Parkes telling him that he had some information as to Yeh's ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

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... ffiouct, m, MRS. THORNYCROFT'S marble bust of the Princess Royal has been lately on view at Messrs. Colnagh; s. The Qlleenexpressed her approval of it, and kept it for some time at the Palace after the departure of the royal bride for the City, of Lindens. n THE NEW MINISTRY.—The members of Lord Derby's cabinet took formal possession of their respective offices on Saturday. The Right Hon. ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

- SUFFERINGS OF THE UTAH EXPEDITION

... SUFFERINGS OF THE UTAH EXPEDITION. On the 6th of November we found the ground once more white, and the snow falling, but then very mode- rately. I marched as usual. On a feur mile hill the north wind and drifting snow became severe; the air seemed turned to frozen fog; nothing could be seen; we were struggling in a freezing cloud. The lofty wall at Three Crossings was a happy relief, but the ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... BXSCA. SPORTING.-We understand that a fine woodcock, the first tha has rewarded the vigilant search of the sportsmen of our neighbour- hood, was flushed by Mr. John Phillips, of Gellygaer, at Blaenbargoed, Rhymney, on Tuesday last. ACCIDENT.—On Monday last, an inquest was held at the Bridge Inn, Risca, before W. H. Brewer, Esq., and a respectable jury, upon the body of John Thomas, breaksman ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 931 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LYNCH LAW tN CALIFORNIA.'

... ADVERTISEMENT —Of all discoveries, none has conferred greater benefit upon mankind than that made by Du Barry some years back. We allude to a plant grown upon that gentleman's estates in Africa, called Do Barry's Revalenta Arabica. Its superiority over pills and other medicines, in removing diseases, which had resisted a:l other modes of treatment for years, and been considered incurable, is ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1851
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

INDIAN ITEMS. :

... INDIAN ITEMS. THE CAWNPORE MASSA ORE.-SPURIOUs RELIOS. —In another room for Wheeler's intrenchment] the fol- lowing inscription was written on the wall; it is on the larger building in the corridor, between the fourth and fifth doors, facing to the south, on the side opposite the doors Countrymen and women, remember the 15th of July, 18571 Your wives and families are here, misery! and at the ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1858
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

RISCA

... MAGOR. GREEN MOOR INCLOSURE.—On Tuesday last, the va'ner, Mr. Williar»3, of Bristol, let the several moors in this inclo- sure by public auction; and such was the anxiety evinced to occupy them, (the valuer having stated that this was the last opportunity, aa the allotments woul,1 be made during the ensuing winter) that a very spirited competition took place, and which must have surprised even ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1855
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... To the Editor of the Usk Observer. SIR.-I suspected the Trostrey Weir Association to be a Myth, or a Great Pelican. Now I am told, it is five Gentlemen, some of whom have an un-appeasable voracity for nsh but I can hardly believe it. For sixty or seventy years, and no doubt from ah earlier period, the inhabitants of Usk and its neighbourhood have enjoyed the right of angling for small fry ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

Latest Intelligence

... THE BALTIC. Triumphant Success. THE DESTRUCTION OF SWEABORG. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) DANTSIC, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 11 A.M. The bombardment of Sweaborg commenced at 6 o'clock last Thursday morning, and continued until daylight on Saturday. The town itself is burnt to the ground,—not one house left. The dockyards are completely destroyed. All the earthworks and batteries are knocked to pieces. Six ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE PUBLIC STREETS. )

... OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE PUBLIC STREETS. The Surveyor of the borough has issued a report of the following bj'e-laws, which, we understand, will be strictly enforced: — 9. Every person who shall. place any blind, shade, covering, or awning over any footway, less than seven feet from the ground, or shall place, and leave, any furni- ture, goods, wares, or merchandise, or any cask, crate, tub, basket ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News