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Agriculture

... e BIoi ingoI Atlorlt). thil Miarchi, 11u1:.-Thie Coim petitlion of the Vale of Alrtfrd Agricultural Association took place here thitis day. Owing to the telpth of sinow, few an imn Is were bron]git t irwoare. Thejudges, M'esre lI'ie, Milttil of Noth; Mi tie, e Earner, :tlld Williastet, itdoliidgh-greatly to the satisfactiaw of the Coipetittors, awarded the 1'relluios as filliys:- ItItLLS Or ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1838
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2391 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Domestic Intelligence

... B0 olnetic Inttelitgene. LON D ON. The Queeti held her first Drawing Room for the season, on Thursday, in St. James's l'alace. The Drawing Roam seas very fully attenledl by all the Foreign Ambassadors anid Ministers, and their Ladies, the Cabinet Ministeis and their Ladies, &c. &c. &c. No less than three hundred and eleven ladies were pre- seanted. Col. Sir Horace Seymour, ?? has been ...

Published: Wednesday 11 April 1838
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1079 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION HOUSE

... GRPAND ErNTEflTAINMPNT AT THE MAN- SION HOUSE. on Monday the Lord Mayor and Lady' MayoresE gave a magnificent entertainment at the Mansion House. The Egypiani HAll was fitted ip in the most splendid man- ner upon Ithe Ocesionfl the throne, which was erected for her Majesty an the 9th of November in the Guild-, hall, having ehen transferred to the grand room in which the Chief d agistrate and ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1689 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM NAVIGATION

... TMPROvBMMENT IN STEAM NAVI6ATION. I (rom the Couranst.) An improvement ha-4 lately been introduced in the method of Tcondensiig the steam in. marine en- gines, which Appears to be of great importance to the advancenient of steam navigationi, particularly in long voyagd, such as those ?? Proposed. across the Atlantic and to India. The.following account of the Wilberfobeo. is from a ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... (From our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. We are extremely dull here since the recess 1las set in-scarcely a word of news passing; and only for the mountebank antics of Sir FRANCIS BOl{ DETT and Company, and the local trials in Ireland, the leading morning papers would be in a sad vay for information. Of the movements of BUBIDET & Co. only one opinion prevails, and that i ...

Published: Monday 23 April 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1681 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON

... L 0 ?? 0 N. Iler blajesty took cxercise oil horseback ahlost every lay tiir. lig lest wetc. Sire appears to be inrt only a graceful but a fear. less rider. She usualI r loaves the palace e t aslmtit two o'cloeki a.ld wvith no other ?? two or three lhdies of huet house. hold, the equerries ho ordinsary, anid two or three grooms, pastes through the streets ieto l-lyde Park, which, on these oc. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1838
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1036 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... KMpDflXaZ 1PAULIA1ZNT. HOUSE OF LORDS-March 29. The Lord Clancellor took his seat on the woolsack at fire o'clock. - The Bishop of EXETER presented a number of pe- titions, praying for the total and immediate abolition of naroe slavery. Lord BROUGH AM presented about 200 petitions for a total abolition of slavery. The Noble Lord was up- wards of half an hour in presenting the petitions. The ...

Published: Monday 02 April 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5215 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... (From our Special Correspondent.), LONDON, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. Intelligence has reached town this morning from New York to 3d inst. of a satisfactory character as respects the tranquillity which prevails in our Ca- nadian possessions, where almost every vestige of the insurrection had disappeared; but there was an angry correspondence carrying on in the American papers on the conduct of Sir ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4390 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC PRESS

... SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC PRESS. THE CORONATION.-Foremnost among the Ulnt compromising and irreconcileable enemies of Lord Melbourne must be placed the whole class of Tory diners-out, young and old. Not only is his Lordship frequently found yielding obedience to the commands of a gracious Queen to dine at the royal table-not only does he ap- pear to sanction the doctrine that her Majesty is not ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1288 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

SPAIN

... Madrid, March 25. The Gazette of this morning gives the following notice of a despatch from the Captain-General of Old Castile relative to the progress of the Asturian expedition :_ te The Captain-General of old Castile writes, on the 23d inst. that he hail heen informed the day before by the Comrnandant of Palaecia that the faction corn- mnanded by the rebel Negri had evacuated the town of St ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

TATTERSALL'S—(Tuesday.)

... TATTERfSA LLiS-(T Tesda-.) Two THOUSAWD GUltEsAs5sTArES, ?? (TUESDAY NEST.) Several bets were made about Bamboo and Gray Me. 111Us1, s0me. at 5 to 2 agst. each, and others at 9 to 4; thie last quotation was 2 to 1 agat Bambop (taken in fifties), and 5 to 2 agst the Gray (taken); 3 to I offer. ed agst Mr Thorahill's Saintfoin, and others of 4 to 1. THE DE5RBY, A good many horses were backed, ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1594 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News