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LORD MAYOR'S DAY IN LONDON

... ilO hrich theM A ?? s NLaratOOl. LORD) MAYORt'S DAY IN LOX'DOT-T We learit from the journals, and througlh other cltannels, that Lord Mayor's Dlay, which was celebrated last week in London, paqsed offi vith mnore than usual ccebt-a circumstance which is nit doubt to be uinhe attributed to the high estimation in which the present Lord Mayor (thc ]f ight lion. Tholitas Sidney) is held as a anuil ...

Published: Friday 18 November 1853
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

Literature

... Viteruture or Untversar Iistory. For the Use of Schools. Edited by Heury White, M.A. Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd. Mr Wutre is well known to the British public as the author ofa volume of undoubted merit, “ The Elements of Universal History,” as the translator of D'Aubigne’s History of the Re- formation, and other literary labours. We have perused his * Ovtlines of Universal History” with very ...

Published: Monday 21 November 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 717 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TOWN-COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

... A meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday—the Lord Provost presiding. THE MAGISTRATES OF PORTSBURGH. The various committees having been arranged, and Messrs Disher, Wood, and Menelaws appointed resident Magistrates aud Treasurer of Canongate, Baron-Bailie Ritchie reported the cireamstances connected with the election of resident Ma- gistrates of Portsburgh. The Council have the right of ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 660 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SCOTLAND

... . - 'll-, ;.. N,a 5'tf'*Djnen 'arn,Ee Be, itheuai h~ew.hasyfa, 14sin j i Adamld Xori e s isdfaih . rWn DOn ., a t seEsq s-Clark Ies - '.i i , i eagfisi- . It is Flec s Eel l '.' titeai au'd 67gh Gu~icll tZ--ainres t B kderuiEeq.,, in fi ri AtlIONiL Vfit:inScj'h2O'e T icsel We belj -vthpr fis'7 a cwi o doubt thust Ltoid Fulrton ies resi-nsic ~pth~eJir , offibe ich ith so mucht t ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1853
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1950 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

A CONTRAST

... TIIE MOSQUE AND THE GREEK CHIURCH. (Fromi the Daily News.) The laborious alttehits made just now to obtain support for ]Russia on the ground of sympathy for the Christians in the. -Lsst are abunsisintly surprising to many people ;but to none ?? tiutli as to those who haive travelled far enough to see th ?? Church side by side. Some scholars who, have never travelled-men of deep and exltosivo ...

Published: Friday 18 November 1853
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2079 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

To the EDITOR of the ABERDEEN JOURNAL

... To the nDITOiiof thOe AD~rnDEBT JouIxAL. - 1 - I . . . - . - - - Slit,-I have been a subscriber to your Jotirnal for the last oe* twenty years or eo, and to your friend, the Herald, ever since. iet wassa leralZdsince the days-of Old:John, the Chronicler. I like yomboth; but for different reasone, but I do not conceive of aiam bound to telleither of you why; and Idon't-suppose either th of ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1853
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1254 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

WHOLESALE PLUNDERING

... WVHOLESALE PLUNDERING. On Saturday se'nnigit a carter, named George Gray, em- ployed in carrying goods to, and delivering goods from, the Cale- e doniais Railway Goods' Station, Buchanan Street, unloaded his cart there or sundry piackages and parcels, which lhe hadl colleted in town. The night was rather dark, and Gray, before starting home with his cart, threw three pareels which lay )near ...

Published: Monday 21 November 1853
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1468 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

NATIONAL EDUCATION

... . - .1 ? 1? . - -, - aDR. GUTHRIE the teiaa a eeting of th Free r f Church Presbytery of Edinb-urghi half-jooulailysnggested c 3the propriety of selectitigrthr o'f the wisest minist'ers in o :the Establishmeit,' threedibtt'b in' the Free Church, three ti )in 'the Scottish Episcopal Cbunrch; and three in the .United a Presbyterian Church, and shutting them up in aroom, b like a jury, without ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1853
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1254 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE DRUGGISTS AND THE MOUSTACHE. — TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sin,—May I be permitted to address 1

... few words to you on the above subject. Various s ctions of the population have already adopted the moustache, or are doing +o, and medical of the highest eminence axticipate very beneticial cifects as the sult of the change. there is no profession, the members of which would experience more good from a movcment ot this sort, than that of che- mi-ts and dragyists. I have myself spent a good ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 898 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FAIRS

... FAIRS DUNSE Fair was held on Thursday last ; there was a large show of cattle, numbering 750, the greater part of which were sold at pri a shade lower than Hallow Fair. Prices may be quoted as follows : Stirks from L.5 to L.9 — two-year-olds, to L.14—three-year- olds, L.14 to 1.,18—1milk cows, L.7 to L.12. 10s There were 846 sheep in the market. Fat sheep were selling from 888 to 43s— half ...

Published: Monday 21 November 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

The news from the seat of war in the East is still of a dubious and uncertain character; though the general

... MON DAY ATORNING, NOVEMBER 21. The news from the scat of war in the East is still of a dubions and uncertain character ; though tlie general purport and bearing of the ever-varying particulars that daily reach us.1 seem iumistakeably to show that thle Turks have been able to maintain the tactical aspect in which their first victories represented them. They gained victories. This is a grcat ...

Published: Monday 21 November 1853
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3039 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News