Welsh Newspapers
Search 15 million Welsh newspaper articles
3 articles on this Page
[No title]
The letter of A Loyal Patriot" will be more p-rop to the Editor of the Carmarthen Journal, -who think it worth the postage-we do not. j r
Family Notices
r M'EIRIU^ MONMOUTH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1831. i MARRIED. On the 15th instant, at Blaenavon, by the Rev. Jar kins, Mr. John Morgan, of Newport, to Susan, eldest of Mr. John Saunders, of the former place. Same day, at Newland, Gloucestershire, Mr. Edwa. liams to Miss Winifred Hopkins, both of this town. At Swansea, on the 15th inst., Mr. Joseph Miers, jew Cheltenham, to Miss Letitia Michael, daughter of M Michael, of the former place. Monday se'nnight, at Newnham, the Rev. A. Rogers, Chaplain, R.N., to Anne, only daughter of Mr. Knowle merchant, of that place.-Saturday veek, Mr. Benjamin 1 of Tibberton, to Ann Maria, second daughter of Mr. Bullock, of Westbury-upon-Severn, Gloucestershire.—T week, at Cheltenham, Captain Waite, of the Hon. East Company's Service, to Mary Anne, youngest da.guhter of t John Izon, Esq., of Bournbrooke House, Worcestershire. DIED. On the 13th inst., at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, the Hon. C. Bathurst, aged 78. On Sunday last, aged 60, Hannah, the wife of Mr. John capenter, of this town. Same day, Mr. Watkins, of the Parlour Farm, in the pai Dingestow. On Sunday last, at St. Maughans, aged 70, Mr. E Grundy, for many years a respectable farmer at Treowen, i county. On Monday last, at Usk, aged 74, the Rev. John Saunfl Same day and place, aged 60, Mr. John Charles. On Sunday se'nnight, at Llangattock Ciickhowell, at vanced age of 87, Mr. John Griffiths, of Highmeadow, parish of Llangunnider. On Wednesday last, Ann, the infant daughter of Wm. wood, of Edgbaston, near Birmingham. Same day, aged 81, Mrs. Ferror, of the Court Farm, LI, near Brecon. At Bristol, a few days since, AnjM^ daughter of Mrs. F Swansea, shcpkeepsr. "4 SpDIJEN Dj atii.—At Swansea, on Friday week, at a p house, called the Lamb, whither she had gone to seek re poor woman named Martha Roe. On Wednesday se'nnight, at Cardiff, Mr. Philip Lewis, Griffin Inn, deeply regretted.—On Sunday last, at Wellii Herefordshire, after a short but severe illness, Miss Clark, of the late Francis Clarke, Esq., Winchester Park, Kings Jamaica.—Same day, at his house in Berkeley-square, Lor aged 75, Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart.
[No title]
Our antient and respectable borough of Monmouth bl of two public clocks, one on the Church, andanothe" the Shire Hall. Each of them, in the language of on our English satirists, like a tall bully, lifts its head lies"—and that daily, hourly, and minutely. Extraord, as it may seem, these pretended chroniclers of time" never right by any chance. Impatient of the soiar tyra which with the general approbation of mankind use serve as a regulator for all horological movements, ou volutionary dials have thrown off their allegiance to despot of the heavens, and claim to act upon principle perfect independence. Though meant to go quietly evenly together, like beasts in a team, they never keep same pace. When one trots, the other gallops; and v one ambles, the other refuses to move. The correct admeasurement of time by public clok of more importance than the generality may imagi In the administration of justice cases frequently occur which the question of a few minutes more or less may u' the life or property of a fellow-citizen. According to London clocks, most of which are exceedingly well r lated, our time is often twenty minutes or more in adva of what it ought to be. Let us suppose a criminal to executed, and a reprieve sent from London arriving 1 fifteen minutes after the execution has taken place, time of such execution having been fixed by one of clocks. How dreadful would be the idea, that by our gligence and inattention a fellow creature had lost his li This is, perhaps, an extreme case, but a thousand mi instances of loss, hardship, and inconvenience might cited to shew the necessity of noting correctly the progt of time. We may, perhaps, be told that the two Monmouth cloc before alluded to, are old and nearly worn out. If so, th ought either to have their old works replaced by new on, or to be altogether removed. It may be a reflection v our poverty not to have a public clock but far better v to be thought poor than pretend to the possession ar tltm, article which falsifies its name and misleads those who 1"1 lt ledg{ their faith in it. 37 ——————— is ver In our Parliamentary report of Wednesday se'nnight, af the sa abridged from one of the London papers, there was the fol- The lowing passage:—"The amendment which had been tre- °CCUly .viously proposed for adding Newport' to share with Mon- mouth and Usk, was withdrawn." Knowing that Newport t|, already shared the elective franchise with Monmouth and IT Usk, and not being able to make head or tail of the above passage, we wrote to our worthy Member Mr. Williams, of Llangibby, for an explanation. We find from his letter in reply that some honourable Member had made a proposition in the Committee to the following effect-"That Monmouth, Newport, and Usk do stand part of Schedule F the object of which was that the voters in each of those towns might be enabled to poll in J the place where they respectively reside. This proposition f Mr. Williams supported, and lie would have divided the House upon it, hut to his great surprise it was withdrawn. Subsequently, however, on that night (says Mr. Williams in his letter to us), as well as since, I have had personal and written communications with the Ministers and Law Officers on. the subject, and they have assured me that this privilege shall be granted to the Monmouthshire boroughs." The remainder of Mr. Williams's letter, adverting to ano- ther point of great interest to the county, we shall give in his own words:— Perhaps I shall not be taking too great a liberty with my noble colleague, in correcting another error with regard to the motion for a new district of boroughs in our county, of which his Lord- ship some time back gave notice, and which I have been waiting to support. It happened by mistake that the Clerk had inserted in the paper a notice that Lord Granville's motion was to come on under clause 13, the subject of last Friday night's debate. This I communicated to Lord Granville, who was not aware of it, and he informed me that he had not yet the whole of the re- quisite information, and should probably bring it on when the bill was reported. On the following morning it was stated in the Times that Lord Granville had withdrawn his motion altogether, which is an error, and has caused, as I know, much uneasiness in the country. WHY HAS NOT LORD ALTHORP MADE HIS PROMISED RE- DUCTIONS IN THE DUTIES ON NEWSPAPERS AND ADVER- TISEMENTS? So long ago as the month of February in the present year, he said that such reductions should take place on the 5th of July. The whole of July is past and gone but the duties remain unchanged and undiminished. It is too bad thus to trifle with the public. Lord Althorp is an enlightened man, and he professes liberal opinions. He calls himself the friend of the people, and an advocate for the diffusion of useful knowledge. Why, then, we repeat, does he not fulfil his engagement, by removing or diminish- ing those taxes, which were imposed by a Tory administra- tion for the purpose of keeping the people in ignorance? Let him answer this question explicitly and with candour. If his measure had been brought before the house for final adoption, it would have been carried without a dissenting voice. Not a word was said against it, when it was first proposed, either in the house or out of the house, and yet it has been coolly laid on the shelf and suffered to sink into oblivion. We fear there has been some hole-and-corner work in this business, and we strongly suspect that his Lordship has been prevailed upon by the proprietors of the established London papers to sacrifice the interests of the people to their selfish and interested views. Although the reduction of the duties was a measure avowedly calculated to promote the well-being of society, a few words of meagre praise was all anyone of the London editors thought proper to bestow upon it, when the budget was brought forward, and they have allowed its abandonment to pass entirely un- noticed. The truth is that an established newspaper has nothing to gain by the duties being taken off. It now requires a very large capital to commence a new journal, and this keeps down competition; but let the duties be removed, or even diminished to the extent proposed by Lord Althorp and newspapers will be seen springing up, like mushrooms, in every direction, which will of course tend to reduce the price-to excite a spirit of emulation amongst the proprie- tors for the improvement of their respective publications, and thus enable the people to obtain knowledge of the best kind at a cheap rate. Lord Althorp may perhaps excuse himself for not having reduced these duties on the ground that such reduction would occasion a logs to the revenue which could not be spared. Upon this point we shall give an extract from an article, entitled Taxes on Knowledge, in the last number of