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THE QUEEN IN DUBLIN

... (From the Times Reporter. Dublin, Wednesday Morning. The rain, which continued to fall without intermis ...

Published: Monday 13 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7863 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce 

Markets

... arkets. LONDON CORN EXCRANGE—Aug. 17. The weather is unsettled, and not favourable for harvest. Wheat—English quite as dear as on- Monday. Foreign—factors demanded and buyers had to pay fully late rates, but the mand not extensive. loating cargoes—good quality and small sized cargoes in good request. Indian Corn—Im- porters are unwi and reauire ls. per qr. advance, and even more for distant ...

Published: Monday 20 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3595 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

Epryscren axp Ustow Company.—A meeting of the shareholders, called to consider a report by the committee of ..

... affairs of the Canal Coffee- Company, was held ou Tuesday in the Royal house. Colonel Macdonald occupied the chair. A report by the committee appoiated to carry out the business of vesting the Canal in the Glasgow Company, in terms of the late statute, was read and approved of; and a deed of - ance in favour of said company was signed by the members of the committee of management present, and ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

MUSIC

... Sones or Scortanp. Nos. 29 Edinburgh: Wood & oO. This excellent collection of the minstrelsy of Scotland is now completed by the issue of double numbers for July and August. The appendix to the work furnishes a great deal of tnteresting information regarding the authorship or origin of many melodies, the history of which was little known, and the quaint original sets given of a number of the ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES

... Hamburgh letters of the 21st instant contain advices from which it appears that the remaining differences between the Government of and the Prossian and Danis Commissioners are on the eve of being settled by the energetic interference of the English Commissioner, Colonel Hodges. The of prisoners was to take place on the 19th, and on the principle laid down by General Prittwitz that the natives ...

Published: Monday 27 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Commerce 

THE QUEEN IN IRELAND

... THE IRELAND LANDING OF HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT AT QUEENS~ TOWN, LATE COVE. On Friday morning, from an early hour, the handsome river steamers and the smaller crafts were to be seen with flags of the gayest hues floating from their masts, plying in the di- rection to which all eyes were turned. Bands were stationed in almost every one of them, and such as had guus did not spare their ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6509 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE — (From eur Special Correspondent.) Loxpox, Tvespay Evenine. The hasty legislation of the last fortnight, of which we had heard much under-growling, led to a violent explo- sion in the Commons on Saturday, when Mr D'Israeli and others charged the Government with being in fault, an imputation which Lord John Russell, with much ear- nestness, denied. The discussion is not ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4252 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce 

Markets

... Stiark ets. LONDON CORN EXCRANGE—Aug. 6. tity of wheat on offer, but to effect a clearance factors had to At this morning’s market there was only a moderate quan- submit to a decline of 3s. to 4s. per qr. on the rates of Monday last. There was scarcely any country demand for foreign wheat, and the local inquiry was of a strictly retail Flour was easier to buy. Barley of home growth was scarce, ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2932 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

THE CORN TRADE FOR THE WEEK

... (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Aug. 17.) Nothing has occurred since our last of a character to warrant uneasiness in regard to the probable result of the harvest. A considerable quantity of rain has unquestionably fallen in dif- ferent parts of the kingdom, but the showers have been partial, and having been followed by brisk drying breezes no mischief has resulted. The wet has, ...

Published: Monday 20 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 992 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

WURTEMBERG AND BADEN

... ND BAD N Stuttgardt, July 31. The military preparations making by Switzerland are most extensive, and the enthusiasm of the people just what, on the of danger, it always has been. Not only is a force of 200,000 regular military to be held ready to take the field, but the landwehr also in the northern Cantons is to be called out. France is not altogether trusted, and suspicion is excit- ed by ...

Published: Monday 06 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce 

Escape rrom or a Party or Sports- MEN, ON THE 12Tu, In following particulars have reached us, and we rejoice

... to add, that no farther ill ef- fects have arisen, but it appears that Mr Grant of Monymusk, and party—consisting of his son, Captain Grant of the 4th dragoons, and two other gentlemen—after partaking at break- fast, of chicken pie, were suddenly siezed on the moors, three hours afterwards, with all the usual symptoms resulting from poison, and were, with difficulty, enabled to reach their ...

Published: Monday 20 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

Shipping Intelligence

... Shipping intelliaqence, Elsinore, Aug. 22.—The Parrshoro’, Sullivan, from Riga to Dundee, which was on shore near Hoganas, was got afloat 20th inst. after disch water, will arging part of her cargo, and not making any Wick, Aug. 24.—The Victoria (ship), of and from Liverpool to the Baltic, cotton laden, has struck on the Pentland Skerries, and is ex to become a wreck. A Welsh schooner, from ...

Published: Thursday 30 August 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2005 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce