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FORBES MACKENZIE'S ACT

... . n _ ?? ?? 1 (From the Sentlnel.es Our readers will, no doubt, recollect that, in our paper of 22d September last, we gave an account of the trial of Mr; James Caldwell, spirit-dealer, Dalmarnock Road, Glasgor, who was fined the previous day by Bailie John Thomson, in the Calton Police Bourt, for haying two friends in his house on the evening of the 10th of September-when the news of the fall ...

Published: Monday 19 November 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 759 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

AUSTRIA AND AMERICA

... lv-- thER nhwrA (From the Exanitler.) The recent appointment of Sir Hamilton Seymour affords a pledge that the war will be prosecuted wvith vigour, no less decided than that since given by the promotion of Sir William Codrington. We are glad to welcome such indications; for that a nervous dread of offending Austria must have possessed some mem- bers of the Cabinet not merely since it has been ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1121 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... TE3?E WAR. DESP'ATCI FROM GENERAL CODRINGTON. Lord Panmure has favoured the Electric Telegraph Company with the following telegraphic despatchb from Gcneral Sir William Codrington, dated l Geld November: A very heavy explosion of a store of powder, at the French siege-train, took place about three P.m. yesterday. It communicated fire to our siegc-train close to it, wherc there was no powder, ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 897 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

AN INDIAN EXECUTION IN MICHIGAN

... 'The Clintonz County Express publishes the followinuL, and. vouches for its authenticity. It is certainly a curious history:- If In different parts of Central Michigan there are two tribes of Indiens, the Ottawas and Chippewas. Tlhey are friendl) to each other, and during the hunt- ina season, frequently encamp near cach other. In thqe' Fell of 1853, a party of one tribe built their cabins ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 782 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE ORIGINAL DUKEDOM OF MONTROSE

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sin,-It may be in the remembrance of some of your d readers, that in February, 1850, my father, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, presented a Petition to H1er g Most Excellent Majesty the Queen, claiming the ori- e ginal Dukedom of Montrose, conferred upon David 3 fifth Earl of Crawford on the 18th May 14S8; and that n the House of Lords, to whom that ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2476 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... ELECTR1IC TELEGRAPH. RUSSIAL U.m Jncitssidc .Russe announoes'thtithe Czar lhasgds- miss Trince -Ienschikofftitsvihis 'ofi1ce as Chief (of tho Sesll and if the Impeiall oonvoys, and has named aeno:ealiC, aot Adverbcrgrtie-ecenotr s his successzr - rietter-fromrz Erzerosirat stmtes that General Mca- ?? insane in'ooasepunece of his defeat eas Ohe 2(tlr Soptember, and sitat iais.ewaff lisd seat to ...

Published: Monday 19 November 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE CRIMEA

... (The following appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.) THE ClIiME A. Crimea letters to November 3 inclusive, arrived. British troops returned from Kinburn. Only a snnall portion left to guard our flag which waves with the French from the ramparts. The fort had been rapidly repaired. Tbe batteries on the Spires are to be destroyed. Sir E. Lyons had presented one of thic captured rafts to ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 609 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS

... RAILWAY TRAFF'IC RETURNS. The following are the receipts of railways for the past week MIiles opeed. Traffic Returns. 0 NAIyr OF RIWY 1855. 1954. 1655. 1854. 115 107 Aberdeen and Scottish liidland ,lencllon ?? 1 3150 f2S88 37g 371 BeII'sot sad B3allymena .. 8u2 741 32 32 Btirkenhead, Lancash. &CjesHb. Jow 2022 1807 - - Bltaeckburn .. . . 13 13 BllYthPe nd Tyno .. .. 851 029 1 117 103k Brastl ...

Published: Monday 19 November 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY

... FROM THE LONDON UAZETTE OFFRIDAY. e WAR OVFICE, Novr.elnru 16. e 2d Regiment of Dragoons-J. 11. R. Stoddert, Gent., to be 6ornet, withoet piirchiase, vice Mlills, prenooted. t th Dragoons-Cornet B. Robinson has been permitted to retire from the Service, by the sale of his commission. - Greundier Geords-Ensign and lieutenant tbe Ilon. A. Poulett to t be Lieutenant and Captain, by parchase, vice ...

Published: Monday 19 November 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1197 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

FORMATION OF A GLASGOW DEBATING SOCIETY IN 1773

... FORMATION OF A GLASGOW DEDATING SOCIETY IN 1773. A. - , .. ,I. . . P . . I . In the Glaigtsic ?? or Tf'cekly 2'astructor for Ist Maty, 1773, pub~lislhed at Glasgow, wve have an accountc of ar, attempt to set agoiti1g on1e of those fraternal societies for which our city I has been celebrated. The present being a ?? society, canl _acarecly corme uinder the denomnination of it 1club ;` but as in ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2093 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... T W1n E I W A-R. series RERETURN OF THE KINBU1LN EXPE DITION. there the 'a d November 8! that of For the last four days it has been blowing a sirocco, whichi was b le. painfully affects one just returned from a month's trip at sea. It The air is bot, heavy, and impregnated with most offensive and In id irritating dust, which attacks nearly every sense at once. .The some Id thermometer has ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3444 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE DUMFRIES-SHIRE HOUNDS AT FAULT

... THE DUM FRIESSUIZE HOUNDS AT FAULT. (PI sin the Dllifrtles Courier.) One day last wleek the place of meet for the Dumfries-shire hounds was an ancient horder tower, at the base of which stands a long, low, rambling counltry house; around are extensive woods, and especially ontc, rich in stately tries anl open glades, spreads, out in natural bewity to the shores of the Solway. A ftr the field ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News