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THE WAR

... IT I-I -M '7\V -A- 1Rj. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON. b, (From the Supplonzent to the London Gazette of Friday.) tl WAR DErPr.TMEST. July 23. O. Lord Panimuce has this day received a despatch and, its inclosures, of -which the following are copies, addressed to his Lordship by Lieutenant-General Simpson, Commanding Her Mnjesty's Forces in the I East:- p Before Sebastopol, July 10. v My Lord, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3685 | Page: Page 1, 2 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... gflt?oltlall LR EDINBURGH, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1855. SECOND and THIRD EDITIONS are Publislied containing all the Latest News of importance. WE have had numerous communications from parties interested in the movement relative to LORD 1)uNDONALD'S PLANS, about which we made some observations a few days ago. ec have much pleasure in stating that the preliminary arrangements are pretty nearly ...

Published: Thursday 26 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2750 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

REPORTED ATTACK ON SEBASTOPOL

... (The following appeared in our Second and Third Editions of yesterday.) The Times Paris correspondent mentions, that among the various tumours current, is one that a bold and desperate attempt will be made by 100 vessels of every kind, with 40,000 men, to force the passage of the port of Sebastopol, to land in the midst of tle place, while the simultaneous attack on land will be made. TILE ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Miscellaneous

... M St Itit0z a i. IDNLES S.-Never did school text contain a mare as- sured truth thain that which records that X Idleness is the pa ent of vice ; and of all idleness the worst is idleness of mind. Tain EYE-Our sight is tili most perfect and most de- lightfnl of all our cerases. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses wit, its objects at the greatest distance, and ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 514 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Provincial Intelligence

... ?? Dtovhtdid T. I;:, Mr Gmr nmc Locin will succeed his fiithir as com- missioncr on the fligh1laid est.tes of e n Duke of Son.i clulnd, (JUliNANCE CONTnIACT.-Ar Barclay, of tbe Calc- doian Iounryi, lWhiurmoelt, huas received offers to contract fbr the manufacture of 3-inCh mnrtars for the sea service, in the newv gun-hoats that are cx- pected to be of so much use in the present war. No ...

Published: Tuesday 24 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Imperial Parliament

... J4-? )IT 11 t -t i 11 I ?t-) 11 X.1 i it III t 11 t. 11OUSE Or LORDS. FRIDzY, JULY 20. (.Supplementary to t/le Telegraph in Our last.) ThV1e Lord Chancellor tookl his Seat upon the Wool- -'ck at five o'clocL-. petitiolls vere presented hy the Earl of Shaftes. -rill! ftbr tile repeal oT the Marnooth Act from Loch. winnoch, Stirling, Free Church, Deshford, county of Banff; St Ninianf, Stirling; ...

Published: Monday 23 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 898 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE SCOTSMAN AND ITS [ill]

... THE SCOTSATAN AN.D ITS CONI-- T ?? (From tha Glasgow ,SsttesoY Post.) out Amongst all thn. oppp9etts of the recent changeo W5 the iewspnper stamnp law nione was more engn-iassd t'.e virulent than our Thdiinburgli eflsteaioporary thoe SOts- si nan. The deterisrattion audtslegsdation to wbich it; san would subject the -.vhole newsqaper press of tha6coun-- pi try, end the trasbnand ...

Published: Thursday 26 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1221 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL DINNER

... * ENGLISHf AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S - ANNUAL DINNER. (By our: own Reporter.). th CAnLIsLE, TIIURSDAYEVENING.n The annual dinner of the Society was held to-day in leI a spacious pavilion specially erected for the purpose dt in a ?? adjoining the Show-yard-Williitii Miles, lit Esq., M.P. Presidenifof the Society; in the clilir, sup- at ported on the right by the Mayor of Carlisle, the fl' Very Rev ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3106 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Home Intelligence

... C- , . A?) ? III t ? It fd I i g tit m ENGLAND. Tisc QurttNX's VISIT TO PAfis.-The Emperor has given strict orders that duringt his nbsbnce at the Pyrenees the preparations shall be ?? con- tinued for tire recepti=ir ?? Victoria, who xvill arrive here on the 18th of August. A small railway is being constructed to unite the Strasburg and Northern Lyons, ns it has been resolved that the Royal ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2137 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... 2virit Df Qt V? rm- - MR GLADSTONE AND THE TIUSHIS LOAN. (Mor 2ning Post.) Mr Gladstone says-and Mr Gladstone is an ho- nourable Mfan-so are they all, all honourable men- that the unaccustomed combination of the rumps of various political parties, which was within an ace of driving the Government to a choice between the al- ternatives of resignation or dissolution, was a fortui- tous ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1970 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Imperial Parliament

... III p t ?Ji ? t 't r I c III t it t, ?i il -) , it HOUSE OF LORDS. ollODxuVY, JULY 23. (Snppllenteatary to the Tehcgralph in our last.) PARtOCHIiAL SCHIOOLMASTEIES IN SCOTLAND. Lord POLIVARTI-H asked whether it was the in- tention of Hler Majesty's Government to introducc a bill this session for continuing the parochial School- nmasters (Scotland) act, or whether any private mem ret ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3385 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... IC00D EDITI 0 MERCURY OFFICE, WEDNESDAY, ELEVEIN o'CLOO1;. T E: 8 WTA R. VHARNA, July 24.-Omer Pacha arrived at Con- stantinoIle. It was asserted that his object was to resign. The Russian general had abandoned the siege of Kars. His object was to attack Erzeroum, which he hoped to find unprepared, and to induce the Turks to accept battle in the field. Preparations were mak- ing for a ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News