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... PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE (From eur Special Correspondent.) Loxspox, Eveninc Anything that I could offer of the Queen’s movements would be stale news to the readers of the Mercury, as while I write her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the junior branches of the royal family, are enjoying the en- livening scene consequent upon their the loyal and devoted Scottish subjects of the Monarch in the ...
... intfelltacnce. Portsmouth, Aug. i3. Sir T, Capel, Port Admiral, returned yesterday in Fire Queen from his official visit to the Channel Islands, and has resumed command of the port. Letters from Reynard steam vessel, on the coast of Africa, have been received, and speak in the highest terms of Mr Grant's apparatus for converting salt water into fresh. Reynard daily provides 169 gallons more ...
... Hipptna tntelltaence We are sorry to have to record the loss of the beautiful new screw steamer Kestrel, lately built by Messrs R. Steele & Co. of Greenock. The steamer Caledonia, soon after leaving Halifax en the homeward passage, spoke the brig Argo, which simply an- nounced the occurrence. We are not in possession of the par- ticulars, whether the accident happened in her passage to or from ...
... Yesterday afternoon, shortly after one the neigh- bourhood of New Weston Street, Bermondsey, was thrown into considerable excitement in consequence of the matilated remains of a man being discovered in one of the houses in Minerva Place, near the new leather market. The house in question is at present unoccupied, but to Mr Coleman, a builder, residing at No. 1. About six months ago he let it ...
... EDINBURGH GAZETT SEQUESTRATION. Wx. Brown, corn facter and in merchant in Glasgow— Creditors meet in Carrick’s Royal Hotel, George Square there, 29th August and 19th September, one o'clock. EXAMINATIONS, James & Crans, grocers in Montrose—to be examin- ed in the Office, Forfar, 29th August, twelve o'clock. Avam S. Wares, grocer in Eyemouth—to be examined in the Town Hall, Dunse, 30th August, ...
... tntelltarnece. Warren Point, Aug. 10.—The Gipsy, Cumber, from Chepstow to Greenock, ran on shore in Duncrum Bay in a dense fog yes- terday morning, but was got off this morning without damage after being lightened, and brought into Newcastle. Peterhead, Aug. 10.—The Friends sloop, of Dundee, coal laden, was stranded on Rattray Head during a fog yesterday evening, abandoned by the crew, who ...
... RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS ENDING AUG. Miles opened. Number of passengers, 21,075—receipts for 2 5 Goods, minerals, and 2848 12 10 Total . L.6691 15 3 Weerx Avo. 11. anp @iaseow Number of passengers, 22,246—receipts for gers, horses and carriages, L.3909 18 § cattle, &c. 4046 13 1 Corresponding week in 184 8 . — asp Ratiway. Number of passengers, passenzers, horses, and carriages L.1782 12 1 ...
... LONDON CORN EXCHANGE—Aug. 13. At this morning’s market there was only a limited quantity of wheat brought forward, yet the demand was not » and fine parcels only were taken off at last Monday’s currency. Fo- reign wheat was taken in limited quantities ; the best at nearly the quotations of this day week; but secondary sorts were about ls. cheaper. The supply of new English barley was li- mited ...
... 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 ...
... (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, ...
... 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 ...