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LETTER FROM A RAILWAY WITNESS IN LONDON

... IETTE' PROMI A RA, W.AY WITESS t LO15D1 (roMn B~lackwood's Magazine.) j i Mv ?? ,.g the w'ords of the venerable Joe Grim- j 04 aldi_- Here I am againU' swearing away before the committees Idi at no allowance. The trade is not quite so good a, one as it -was to of traffic commanded his own, price, andtberefore invariably stood trn at anexorbitant premiumr. 'Still it would be very wrongi10me to ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1847
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4861 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON GAZETTE

... FOREIGN o0rric; JULY 1. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr Noble Towner as Consul at Barbadoes for the United States of Ame- rima The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr Natha- niel Solomon as Vice-Consul at St Helena for the Free Han- seatic cities of Hamburgb and Lubeck. WAR OFFICE-July 2. loth Light Dragoons-Regimental Serjeant-Major J. Tren- nery. from 7th light dragoons, ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1667 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

RAGGED SCHOOLS—PUBLIC MEETING

... RAGGED SCHOOLS-PUBLIC MEETIG. In conrsequicne of the differences that have arisen with espect to the principles on which the Ragged Industrial 5cbo3l5, recently established should be conducted, a public SmeetflJ weas held on Friday in the Music Hall, conven- ea by the Lord Provost, in compliance with two requisitions .estively signed by fourteen and fifteen individuals, and E embracing the ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 12981 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE GREAT BRITAIN

... . ; L _ fi ?? . . ae tech with n6 little interest the operationsnow going on for the emancipation of the Great Britain, in regard to which the public anxiety is still so strongly manifested. Since our last notice wee learn that eight of the huge boxes have been got in I place, with their pairs of spars to each, while 12 others are near ly flnishnd. On the strand these contrivances appear ...

Published: Friday 02 July 1847
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY

... FRON THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. FORIazN OwzicE, JuLY 1. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Noble Towner, as Consul at Barbadoes for the United States of America. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Nathaniel Solomon, as Vice Consul at St. Helena for the Free Hanseatic cities of Hamburgh and Lubeck. WAR OrFICE, JULY 2. t 10th Light Dragoons.-Regimental Serjeant Major ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1847
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1300 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH GAZETTE

... EDINBURGB GAZETTE. SEQUESTRATIONS. June 25. 'WILLIAM WILSON, merchant, shipowner, and agent in Glasgow-Creditors meet in the Black Bull Hotel there, 7th and 2Sth Julv, one o'clock. June 26. JoIN FYFF, boat builder in Ardrossan, in the county of Ayr-Creditors meet in the Railway Hotel there, 6th and 27th July, one o'clock. June 26. THoM&As HENDERSON, accountant, factor, and trader in Paisley ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 739 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

STATE OF THE FUNDS—SATURDAY

... STATE OF THE FUNDSSATUDAY W - -Tr7 n I BRITISH. I P~r Bank S~o~k. 197IBrazilian Five Per Cent..- 3 per Cent led. Anus. ..88i Danish Three per Cent _ 3 per Cent. Con. Annu- Mexican Five.- 3 per Cent. 1726.. - Iperavian Newv 3i per Cgent..90ji Portuguese s per Cen~j:*,: New 5 per Cent. Anns. - Converted ..1 Long Aniistepre Portuguese 4 per.Cn ..3 Jnuary , 109 ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1847
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 967 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JULY 1

... HOUSE OF LORDS, THUrnSDAY, JULY 1. I_ _ __ 7 - - Several bills were brought up from the Meuse of Commons. The Duke of BUCCLEUCR presented petitions from Glas- gow and other places, in favour of a Health of Towns Bill. 3 QIJ.qALoPICATIOS OP PEERS (SCOTLASn) BILLe On bringing up the report of the above bill, The Duke of BUCCLElUCH approved of that portion of the bill which provided that peers of ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1847
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2432 | Page: Page 1, 2 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, JUNE 23

... 130-sT. ?? COMM3ONS, M ONDArx Juesr 29. The Speak~er tonic the chair ant tcour o'clock. Oicc thle motion rf Mr. .lOUVlttfIF, thle third reading of thle Paisley, 11arrhcafd, and lun~t iiauxw a; Bil was postponced uintil next session. The Lords' ameu~icments on the, followina hilts were read and agreed to ?? e I liundee and Perthj liailwcnv (Alteration and E~xtension.cirnc- Incvictre, liolgacie ...

Published: Friday 02 July 1847
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5470 | Page: Page 1, 2 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... I |ro-onm our Specal Correspondent.; LoNDov. TUESDAY MORN-ING. The second reading of the bill to enable the Government to snake advances for the promotion of Irish railways, expe- rienced a sharp bppbsition, principally from the ultras of the Liberal party, in the t(cinmoes last nightj i*ho took nearly the same views of the subject as that so earnestly and per- severingly, some are disposed to ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1200 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH GAZETTE

... EDINBURGDl GAZETTE. SEXUSTfLATlO:VS. June 29. WILLIAM ADDISON, ilesher in Dunfermiine-Credi- tors meet in the writing-chambers of Adam Johnstone there, 8th and 29th July, one o'clock. July 1. DuNcAN MIFARLLAr, late auctioneer in Dumbarton, ?? meet in the writing-chambers of John Pa- terson there, 9th and 30th July, one o'clock. July 2. GEORGE MARSHALL STEELE, merchant and draper in Dundee ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

APPROACHING GENERAL ELECTION

... I APP40ACHING GENERA.L ELECTION, I The.followinDg is a list of candidates for Scottish consti- tuencies, named and declared. The names marked with ane are Conservatives; those marked with a T are Liberals. COUNTIES. Aberdeen .Hon. Admiral Gordon.* Argyll . - . The Dean of Faculty.*. Ayr .. . - Mr A. Oswald.o; Banff . --. Mr James Dufff Berwick . ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1847
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News