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THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS

... crowd of tows's- people, of every class, in their eftbrte to secure the person or persons who did the dreadful deeC. in a very short tite seven navies, supposed to be engaged in the fight, were in custody. The deceased was a married man, and leaves one child ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3764 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE

... shall then have expired. BENTLEY'S MISCeELLANY. Bentley opens with three long chapters, or steps, of The Ladder of Gold, a story by Mr Robert Bell, of which we have already had occasion to speak in favourable terms. In the present section of the tale the ...

Corrc _^ uontience

... latter _I admit to lie a host in himself—an epitome of all that _gives dignity to private and domestic life _and all that short , universaJIy respected , but still so _thoroughgoing a _Protectionist that _even his upright _JiniqmenC would be _^ _biassed ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5430 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Summary

... gratitude upon their readers. Like ladies' letters, a short paragraph has generally brought up the rear of those overflowing, of delighted ink; and this posSeript, which contains the pith of the whole story, when stripped of its circumlocution, is found to ...

PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE. (From our own Reporter.)

... 1d .. England ;50 that, Y. - ve t n milln-odlz‘hhln 'iuhda’ad and Scotland by means of the poor law. :Ihuhu! 1 told you u short time ako that you were | rebellion. M Cobden was intely sent down by the Anti-Corn Law Im.- party 1o wuh.r!‘mulh West Riding ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6201 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LATE REDUCTION OF INTEREST

... them ; and she therefore tore out as many pages as she could, and lit the fire with the obnoxious papers. Incredible as this story may appear in a civilised conntry and age, it is nevertheless true, The Ravbi has dismissed the servant.—Jewish Chronicle, ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6852 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BErnSH AGBICULTUBE _'AND _FOREIGN _COMPETITION . _nucDs * sn _BunroERg _or _BLACKWOOD . A great _noise _is made

... _subject to Import Duty _— _ Cotton _Manufactures , Cotton Ynm , _Linen Sranufacturcs , _Woollen Manufactures —in short , all our _great staples . Silk , or some kinds of it , _bears a _. duty , but _tlie duty is practically almost inoperative ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1850
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6348 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE WITNESS,

... The Edinburgh tratiic might be most advantageously increased by the formation of & short branch to meet the Ayrshire Railway at Galston, by which weans a direct and short railway commuvication would be formed between Kilmarnock, Ayr, snd the populous mineral ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1850
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2037 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CONDITION OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS,

... dLuNo. the present Duke is & poor man. Lord M'Donsld, the representative of snother great name, has also boen o sufferer. In short, hardly & proprietor has eseaped, while many have made complete shipwreck of their furtanes The fate of & poor population, ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1850
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1869 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... a neat little hook, %with amusing tales. descriptive pieces, and short poems, well fitted to beguile a leisure hour or two, or to rivet the attention of the youthful mind. The |s-tories are homcly and instructive. and the rambling sketches of screry, ...

COUNTY ROAD TRUSTS

... fire had originated in the upper flat of the workshop, situated in St Enoch’s Wynd, to the rear of tie front premises, four stories in height, with sunk flat. The workshop has been completely gutted, leavin: nothiog but the blackened walls, and the front ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 10559 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GLASGOW JUSTICIARY CIRCUIT COURT

... told her to give % Jean a spoonful our of tire bottle svhich was got on Monday. e The doctor did not come ; and thle whole story sahseqacntly i turned out to re untrue. After tire death of .Jean, her chest t was searched, hut no money found in it except ...