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... SJforeigit Iutelligence. FRANCE. The marriage of the Princess Marie with the Prince Alexander of Wirtembergtook place at Trianon on Tuesday evening, at nine o'clock; the ceremony was performed in private, the royal family and the State witnesses alone being present. The cere- monies were performed by the Bishop of Versailles, and the Protestant Pastor Cuvier, the parties having been previously ...

Published: Monday 23 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1604 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

... CAPTTAL PUNISHMENT. (From the Glasgow Chronicle.) The subject of capital punishment, and the question as to whether it is a divine comanand that murderers should be punished with death, has been almost the only theme of public discussion in Paisley within the last two weeks. Many a keen appeal to the Bible has been made, and manv an attentive perusal of the passages that are generally ...

Published: Monday 23 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1436 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

... * JOW tWEE LONDhON GAZETTE. ST JAIErSs PALACE, SEPT. 22. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint James Bunce Curling, Esq.; one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of 'Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Harrison. ST JAMES'S PALACE, DCT. 20. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of lord Poley, to appoint Jamoes Mercer, Esq., one of her Majesty's Honoiurable Corps of ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FOUNDATION OF THE NEW BUILDINGS OF MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN

... According to previous arrangement, thegrand masonic prnces.ion and ceremonial at the laying of the foundation stone of Marischal College New Buildings, took place on Wednesday last. The weather proved exceedingly fa- vourable, and nothing occurred to interrupt the enjoys ment of the immense mnltitude who had turned out, in holiday attire, to witness the proceedings. Early in the morning the ...

Published: Monday 23 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1472 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... PRIVATE GORRESPON~E. I k~,^1 -O E?S¢ I (1rOm OUr Special Correspondent.) LONDON, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. The Foreign news engrosses attention for the last few days. The hopes entertained for some time past of the success of the Chartist cause in Portugal have been frustrated by the capitulation and surrender of the troops of SALDANHA, and the cause of absolutism, and DON MIGUEL is again in the ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1674 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... IPRIVATE CORRESPONENCE. (From our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The near approach to the meeting of Parliament opens a most extensive field for the display of the faculty for invention of the Tory press, and hence- forward we may expect all sorts of lying state- I ments put forward to enable your JACKSONS, SRAWS, VERNERS, and the rest of the mal- contents from Ireland, to ...

Published: Monday 09 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2016 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

London

... 9,011D.On. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. STOCKS THIS I)AY AT TWO O'CLOCK. `2,nkStock _- 2O0M S IndiaStock - -- 262 Three per Cent. Redl 9Itj India Bonds m_ 51 153 Threeper Cent.ConsoI- 92.210 Annuliles(Jan.1860) 14 I1-I1 Ditto for Account.- 9?i'Do. New (ditto). - Three and Hafpercentq - Dn.(Oct.185a) 14 o 16 Dn. Reduced-.. 9954iw Do. Jan. 38850) - Do. do. New- - - ioo10. Do. (Oct. t880).. Xour per ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 479 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

EAST LOTHIAN. (For t

... he CGadonpian AfMercirry.) During the .bst two or thlree days the weeather ias been very cold, and aerompinied by a good deal of high wind (especially on Thursday last, which was an exit tremely coarse and disagreeable day). Frost seems in- tent on setting in with all due vigilance, in eonsequencq of which the mornings at present, before the sun is fair- ly up, are for the most part very sharp ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1606 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... 1MrANCE. On Sunday evening the French Government re- ceived a telegraphic announcement of theideath of the Duchess of- St Len, who expired on the 5th Inst., at five o'lock in the morning, at Arenenberg in Switzerland. ' The-despateb, which appears in the Momiteer of Monday, is accompanied with the following biographical sketch of the deceased:- iortense Eugenic do Beauharnais was born at ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3594 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC PRESS

... I P RZT OF Tl PUBELI PMESS. ENGLAND UNDER LORD MliLoURE-E-Hear ven forbid we should discourage tlie alarms or activity of the true friends of the Protestant in- terest, but we cannot observe without dismay, that the exorbitant share of public attention en- grossed by the present horrible condition of Ire- land, has the effect of blinding the public to the true state of a country in which we ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1985 | Page: Page 1, 2 | Tags: News 

THE WONDERFUL SPYGLASS

... TIIE WONDERFUL SPYGLASS. (BY ROMY O'.AOORE.) TO DANIEL O'COINNELL. The greatastrologer Hardskull, that saw the men in the moon threw his tallwsecoop (last summer was a twelvenmonth) at the Cape of Good Hope, and discovered that they were alj Ml ing munkees, won't have his degrees taken out till he goes to school to the inventer of a wonderful spyglass that is set up in this towtt. It bates all ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1801 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BATTLE OF THE DIAMOND—COLONEL VERNER IN TRALEE

... BATTLE OF THE DA1sMOND-COLONEL VERNER IN TRALEE. The sense of duty which induced us as publiC journalists to give insertion to the article tinder tills head in the last publication of the Tralee MereVCY, induces us to give insertion likewise to the lit, from Mr Thompson on the subject. Neither in the public estimation nor ours are his opi11l5 any consequence, and probably nowhere have thby ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News