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... TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1849. i PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY. Bank Siock. rere 198 India Bonds under 1000 Ditto for Account —'South Sea Stock Three per Cent. Red. An. 923} Do. Old Annuities. — Three per Cent Con. Do. New A-nuities.. for 937 New 5 per Cent. Ann New 3] per Cont 932 India Stock for Ac bs. New 5 per . . 124 Canada truaranteed De’ Lonz Annuities to expire Bills ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1959 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce 

CHINA

... Hong Kong, Sept. 29. The Peninsular and Oriental Company’s steamer Achilles, with the 24th July mail, arrived here on the morning of the 11th inst. and will leave again at daylight to-morrow, being detained 12 hours by the admiral. The most important intelligence which we have to commu- nicate is the discovery of a powerful fleet of Chinese pirates, under the command of one man, who carries ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 894 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Commerce 

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... GH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. This court met on Tuesday—present the Lord Justice- Clerk, and Lords Cockburn and Ivory. A éonsiderable number ot cases of theft were disposed of, the parties being sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and transportation. Thomas Jardine, a young lad, pleaded guilty to the theft, in September last, of forty yards of cotton cloth trom the shop, in Lawnmarket of ...

Published: Thursday 08 November 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

THE LIVERPOOL MURDERS

... HE L POOL MURDERS. The trial of John ‘Gleeson Wilson (shortly noticed in our last) for the murder of Mrs Henrichson and her family, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, took place on Wednesday at Liverpool, before Mr Justice Patteson. There were four indictments against the prisoner. The first indictment charged him with having, at Liverpool, wilfully murdered Ann Hen- richson ; the ...

Published: Monday 27 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1754 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

EDINBURGH GAZETTE

... INBURGH GAZETTE. SEQUESTRATIONS. Rag, dealer in shares in Edinburgh, and residing there —Creditors meet in the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse there, 7th October, three o'clock. September and 5th in the of Forfar, now staymaker, lately residing in Broughty Ferry in the Royal Hotel, Dundee, 7th September and Ist October, twelve o'clock. S. Micute, engraver, St David Street, Edi Creditors meet in ...

Published: Monday 03 September 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

MR GRAINGER ON CHOLERA

... MR GRAINGER CHOLERA. At conversation held on \yednesday evening at St Thomas's Hospital, Mr Granger delivered a very interesting lecture on this subject. Having given it as his opinion that the mission tho medical prufossiou was prevention rather than cure, ptweeded inquire if cholera was contagious, arriving the conclusion that was not, and that, as in the case of plague or fever, it was be ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1723 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

LATEST NEWS

... BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. General Oudinot's aide-de-camp arrived in Paris from Rome this forenoon. He brought despatches from the General containing detailed accounts of the entrance into Rome and its occupation by the French army. The troops were, according to these despatches, received by the majority of the populace with acclamation, and what is still more remarkable, ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4633 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

ROYAL ARTILLERY

... Woolwich, July 7. Captain company. 6th battalion, recently returned from 8« John, New Brunswick, anil Captain Crofton's company, 7th battalion, and Captain Monday°a company, 3d battalion, from Canada, assembled at half-past ten a.m. yesterday, on the barrack field, for the commandant's inspection. Lieutenant- General Sir Thomas Downman, C.B. and K.C.H., accompanied by Colonel Cruttenden. ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 296 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

THEATRE ROYAL—FAREWELL ADDRESS

... THEATRE ROYAL—FAREWELL ADDRESS On Monday evening our enterprising manager, Mr Murray, took his benefit, it being the last night of the season. The house was, as it invariably is when Mr Murray makes his appeal, crowded in every part. The performances commenced with the first part of King Henry IV. in which Mr Murray gave his admirable and striking representation ot Sir John Falstaff, and Mr ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 987 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

LEITH

... LEITH CuloLera.—We are glad to state, that this mysterious dis- ease, bafiling all the skill of professional men, is much on the decline. Several deaths in bad localities took place last week ; one melancholy case occurred in a more healthy situation of the town—a fine young man, second mate of one of the Lon- don home on Monday with the premonitary symptoms upon him. On Tuesday, with some ...

Published: Monday 08 October 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

London

... SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1849. P OF STOCKS THIS DAY. Bank Stock, 1924 India Bonds under 1000 71 Ditto for Account 893 South Sea Stock Three per An. 90}! Do. Old Annuities Three perCent Con.An. — Do. New Anuuities oe New 5 per Cent. Ann —|Consols for Ac. 903 New 3) per Cent 90j India Stock for Ac New 5 per Cents. — Canado Guaranteed Debs. Long Annuities to expire | Rxchequer Bil ...

Published: Monday 14 May 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1783 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce 

Shipping Intelligence

... hippinag tntelitarnee. The brig Janet, of Kincardine, bound to Jamaica, was spoken with 29th uls. in lat, 40. long. 15. by the Raven, Scott, arrived at Falmouth. The Euxine. of Glasgow, was spoken with 31st May, by the Queen of the West, Hallet, arrived at Liverpooi. Hobart Town, Februai 23.—The Hero, Donald, of Aber- deen, has been destroyed by fire at Geelong. Glasgow, June 21.—The Agnes ...

Published: Monday 25 June 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3227 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce