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... BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. MARSETLLES, Monday Evening.-The Euphrates has arrived. She left the Crimea Oct. 27, Constantinople 29. Despatches leave at 8, P.r. An English steamer had advanced up the Bug to re- connoitre Nicolaieff. She states that there were nume- rous vessels in port. The place was strongly fortified. Odessa was still blockaded by the Allied steamers. The weather in the Crimea was ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 875 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

SCOTLAND

... 0 T. CONVICT PnILrW.-We understand that a menatrial t has been got up in Leith to her Majesty, praying for the coin- s mutation of the sentence passed on Mr Philip, late Provost t, of Leitb, by the High Court of Juaticiary. The memoridl hsv a already received a large number of respectable signatures. The p o principal grounds of which commutation is petitioned for are b N the undue severity of ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1048 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

... ENDLANDof ____ thi PUTv-k Couxscit.-Tho Qneeni held a Court and Priv th Council,, at two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, nt Windsor Castle. At the Council, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere ct was sworn in as Secretary of the State (Colonial Department), fro rreceived the seals of office from thle Queen, and kissed hands on his appointment. Sir Hamilton Seymour, G.C.B3., was swrnth of the Privy ...

Published: Wednesday 28 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5234 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?

... WFE do not propose to answer this question, for it is needless, inasmuch as we answered it before it was Is^ asked; by pointing out what we must fight for if we at went to war at all, and what must inevitably be the ultimate meaning of a war with Russia, whatever be Pi its immediate occasion. We did so while we defended th the peace policy of Lord Aberdeen; and it was because nc it appeared so ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3981 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

... *e ENGLAND. TherlI Is The Queen ihee appbiatea ViscoutifesS Chewton, to te one Of the divii lb the bedeiamnber women Id ordinary t e aeti h omedn of the Hon. Mrs Boothby, regigned. It will be recollected that report:- Viscount Cliewton was killed it -1ie Alma. Durit a, Oh Thursdny morninig her Majesty, with Ps-ince Albert, at- eer a- tended by the Dubbess of Atholl, Major.deiljrlil the Eon. C. ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2387 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

... - -Bg .l.Js 4: f iJV.ffL J} : ,Jf.t~f.L A. I War Office, Nov. 2. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Captain W H Seymouir, from the 68th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Conyeis, who exchanges. 16th Light Dragoons -.Brevet-Colonel Bon. John St Vincent Siamarez, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet Coloaelt Srnytb, C.B., who exchanges: Major Thomaa Pattle, to be ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1435 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

SCOTLAND

... SCOTLAND, 'g Tlse'Adrningq Post says that the preliminaiesii are arrangedpewa *e- for'a matrimonial alliance 'between the Lady Augusta Hay, Iiper wa ie eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Xinnoull, and the Andrem in Mon. John Twisloton Fiennes, eldest Sort of Lord Saye and PAIS: nsSele. candida Fna Cwfrl Aa5surecLY.-Dr M'Crie will be nominated .dee inas the Moderator of the ensuing ...

Published: Wednesday 28 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3933 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

ROBERT GORDON'S HOSPITAL

... gM nday, Novs. 190 The quarterly meeting of the Governors was held to-day-t sthe Lord Provost in the chair. After the reading of minutes of Committees, which ehewed that the internal condition of the House was in a satisfactory condition, a Baillie M'I{AnsDv brought forward the motion of which het had given notice, to thle effect that it should be remitted to the y Education Committee to ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2460 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

EDUCATION OF THE RURAL POPULATION

... as Within the last few days, Lord Stanley has addressed a let- DA l, ter to Sir Willoughby Jones, of Cranmer Hall, Norfolk, in which lie propounds an eminently practical scheme for facilitating ra- tional recreation and self-culture among the humbler classes in the rural districts of the country, by means of public libraries, established at central or salient parts of the county, and radia- 3n ...

Published: Wednesday 28 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2415 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... WEDNESDAY, November 7, 1855. WE are told that the campaign of 1855 is at §tn end, and that we need look for no more tidings of active th operations till tho month of March. The capture of as Kinburn, and the destruction of Oczakoff, have finished Pi the proceedings. The Borysthenes and the sancred Bug (the name of which signifies God, in the Russian lan- th guage) aresealed up till the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1704 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... WEDNESDAY, November 28, 1855. I E an THE army has relapsed into the weary dreary silence no of the last winter. We hope the silence will continue f, unbroken by the sorrowful complaints and lamenta- on tions, to which every letter gave utterance, from Novem- tri her to February. The troops have been engaged in the the double operations of hutting and roadmaking, both of which appear to be ...

Published: Wednesday 28 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1330 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

RESIGNATION OF SIR COLIN CAMPBELL

... Os HIGwLANvDERS' CAMP, KAacAaRA, ni TUesday, Nov. 6. D No news by the present mail will be regarded with so much or 3interest at home as the very unexpected departure hence for fa LEngland of Sir Colin Campbell, the Hero of the Alma. He so sailed from Balaklava in the steamer Calcutta, on Saturday th evening, some hours after the post, and his sudden 'resignation,' be for so all here regard ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2796 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News