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THE WAR

... T A 7=--s A H E L AR. a bE THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. of - se January 13.-Last night the wind changed round to the r- southward, and the thermometer roae to 34 degrees. A speedy 6i' MO thaw followed, and the roads and :camp will once more suffer n( from the ravages of our old enemy-the mud. About a-quarter fo le past one o'clock this morning the Russians inside the line of fo ie works gave a ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5417 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE FIRE THAT DEFIES THE COLD

... THE FIRE THAT fDEFIES THE COLD. - I- , . .,- r ' ------s frTHEY hoave had but onue comfortin the Crimea-apart from. oethe satisfaction of doing their daty.*.jou~_0br soldiers4. h good cheer,-norin pleasitnthearths; for the tattered mar- aquee and the single blanket, half-cooked. rations and' a' lebed on'the wet earth, are but cold comfortifor men who 11 return, frozen from the trenches, or ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2203 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE NEW GOVERNMENT AND ITS APPOINTMENTS

... TrE NEW GOVERNMENT AND ITS APPOINTMEENTS. reace it(Fromn the Vinese) unde~ CLOSELY following on the ill-advised and unpopular appoint- tors le. ment of Mr Peel to the Under-Secretarysbip of War, we have Sit to notice the elevation of Sir Francis Baring to the Chancellor- previ rd ship of the Dachy of Lancaster. If we turn from the appoint- tary rd ments of lr Peel and Sir Francis Baring to ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 885 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... To i/is EBIORo of thse ABnsanaNr JOURNALen Por f SnR,-It is a matter of regret anti wonder to sec how much mastors and servants neglect to avail themselves of a Servant's T Register, in the country parishes. Tho alternatives arc-the 5fesissg markeste, or a most unsatisfactory and tedious system of pi pr ivate enquiries-troubling neighbours and friends in every rquarter, and often exciting ill ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4084 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

... EN L A N 0. d By command of the Queen, thirty-two of the Grenadier Pe- [W e gimnent of Foot Guards, wounded at Alma, Inkerinan, and in Secret the trenches before Sebestopol, assembled at Buckioghm Pa- out rii 'e lace, within the grand ball, at hialf-past two o'clock onl Tuesday an exi afternoon, and were inspected by her Majesty, who was accoma- sonter panied by his Royal Highness Prince ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1816 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE LATE MR HUME, M.P

... It SINCE the last session of Parliament, many of th ose ale ii id who occupied its benches have gone the way of al h Mart *e- living. Some have died on the field of battle, some of le id painf'ul disease, but at least one of their number has S is- fallen in ripe and honoured age, after a long and noble` near1 ut career of active and unsullied patriotism. Mr Home is poiso ill no more. HeI has ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2754 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... L.LATEST . NEW S. | BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHR) Lonoiw, WEDNESDl EVsENING. THE 'WAR. No later foreign news, and nothing positive respecting the French Emperor's visit to the Crimea. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 501. No tidings of the Pacific, steamer, from New York, which 'was to sail on the 7th inst. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Afternoon. Arrived the Iberia, steamner, -with the peninsular mails. A Cabinet ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8255 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE

... (From the Times.) The accounts from Sebastopol contain unmistakeable evi- dence that in the midst of the sickness and sufferings of our troops the operations of the siege havegraduallyassumeda more decisive character, and that the attack upon the town is likely to be soon re-commenced. We have on more than one occasion explained for the comprehension of the general reader the various ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1531 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FREE PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW

... Vea )lD ~PAw P !A n R.- . . .. _ ., JIK,_ ULi1i! IOD 151.il IS V UI,A-,IIV. The Free Presbytery of Glasgow met cn Wednesday in the Free Tron Session Ilouse-the Rev. Alr. Cunining, Modera- r tor. Air. Douglas delivered his trial discouises,5 and was :o licensed to preachn the gospel. Air. Gibson introduced a tr deputation from the Free Church Students of Glasgow, *who r presented a memorial, ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1024 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. (From the Times' Correspondence.) Camp before Sebastopol, Jan, 27. The weather, thanks to Heaved, continues to be extremely favourable to us. Cold, clear nights, with a bright, unclouded moon, are followed by warm, sunny, 'genial days. The ther- mometer generally falls to 180 or 200 at 12 every night, and rises to 440 of Fahrenheit at noon the following day. At present ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6346 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE LATE MR. ARCHD. M'LELLAN'S PICTURES, &c

... I T11E LATE MR. ARCID. M4LELLAN'S PICTURES, &o. so TO gie Elitor of the Glasgow EMrald. it; Siit,-Residing as I'do towards the west onla of the city, Ir have been kindly allowed permission occasionally, enypasaant, er to look into thle splendid public balls, &e., erected in Sauchie- a- hall Street, by Mr. M'Lellan, whose decease bhas been so gene- rally regretted. Besides the general building ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1936 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

FROM TWO BROTHERS IN THE 71ST REGIMENT TO THEIR PARENTS IN GLASGOW

... FROM TWO BROTHERS IN THE 71BT REGIMENT TO THEIR PARENTS IN GLASGOW. I,_:1 .A BI 1., l~. QK - XV J~~.fllft f~~l~ IM - - -U -A JfU-.AJ.Y 3th Balaklava, Crimea, 18th January, 1855. nd Dear Father and Mother,' I am aware 'I ought to have of wrote you a few lines long before this time, but it is very hard to find an opportunity for writing here. We wrote you last eat in Gibraltar. I will now try to ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 711 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News