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The Question of the Day

... 9?,t Qjmftou of itt P i1g. TEIE CANKER AT TIE CORE. (Globe.) If a moralist needed, alas, al illustration of the canker that lies in the heart of man and his works, if he wanted proof that care and sorrow, guilt and dan. ger, are often concealed under the mask of prosperity. where could he find a better than in the condition of the United States? Abmitdantly gifted by nature, with an ...

Published: Friday 26 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5129 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Home Intelligence

... 15, allit ]lIttillpurt. IeC ENGLAND. e Timncr, is a rumour that Sir Benjamin Hall will r be raised to the Peerage. is TiiĀ¢ Princess Margaerite of Saxony has been be- - trothed to the Archduke Charles Louis, Governor of s' the Tyrol and the Voralberg, and second brother of Is the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. x- A LiNr of screw steamers is announced direct from - London to Montreal. The ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4712 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Provincial Intelligence

... ?? ?J, atelligeurf. DEAN or GUILD COURT, GLASGOW. -William Brown, Esq., was on Thursday inducted into office as Dean of Guild, and W. West Watson, Esq., was appointed Sub-Dean. DRuNKEN SPRKE.-OnThursday a drunken seaman and four carters forcibly entered a house in the Salt- market, Glasgow, and attacked the inmates in such a manner that, to escape, two of them. father and son, leapt out of the ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3456 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

... ADMAIINISTRATIVE REFORM. on Saturday, Mr Roebuck, M.P., the newly-Rp- 0 pointted chairman of the Administrative Reform As- s=ation, made his first public appearance in that a capseity, by presiding over a public meeting of the ,seamhers of the Association, held at the London Arnougst the gentlemen on the platform were ob- served. Mr Tite, Ml.P., Mr Michell, M.P., Mr Mur- . yougb, .M.P, and ...

Published: Tuesday 24 June 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2583 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ART MANUFACTURE ASSOCIATION

... ART MANUFACTURE ASSO-IATION. She exhibition of the Art Manufacture Associa- tion, in the National Galleries, was thrown open to subscribers and other privileged individuals on Saturday night for what is technically called a pri- vate view-; but, in point of fact, the company was as public as could well be, and the idea of getting a view of the articles exhibited was quite out of the ...

Published: Monday 15 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2709 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... -fj Dreip ziliffliplut. SARDINIA. A letter from Turin says-lach attention has been excited here by the precipitate journey to this city of the Marquis de Villamarina, Sardinian Minister to the court of Paris. It appears that his object was to have precise instructions, in case a coolness between the Western Powers should make any change in the rela. tions which bind the Sardinian Coart to ...

Published: Friday 05 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2056 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Naval and Military Intelligence

... ? 'Raval 40 Vilitarg ?Ttfflliyllm I (From the London Gazette of Friday.) WAn DEPAaTMENT, Aug. 29. ad Regiment of Dragoon Guards-George Romney Rawlinson to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Blenhinsop, promoted. 6th Dragoons Guards-The second Christian name of Cornet Glasson, is St Clair, and not St Cair, as stated in the Gazette of the 22d inst. 7th Light Dragoons-Charles Lee Wore to be Cor- net, ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 835 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

VISIT OF THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE TO PARIS

... (The foljowjing appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.) DnESDNX, 22d.-There is a talk of an approaching visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to Paris, on his return from Nice, from which place he is to conduct his wife on a visit to the Empress Mother. PRUSSIA. PLAISs, Tuesday.-Prussia has requested a passage for its troops on the 15th of February. PERSIA. MARssItLEs, 23d.-Rather ...

Published: Thursday 25 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH

... TnE CRIMEAN BANQUET.-The committee bave awarded to Mr James Sinclair a beautiful medal benring an appropriate inscription, in token of the very able manuer in which he discharged the duties of Master of Ceremonies on occasion of tbe recent banquet. AIIrIANOGEENTS FOR FORtWSARDING MAII. TO CAxADA.-Letters for Canada, unless specially ad- dressed to be sent by any particular route, or by any ...

Published: Thursday 04 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1228 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SEGOND EDITION

... MERCURY OJpIGaS MONDAY. EW= en CWE. THE EAST. CONSTANTINOPLE, 4th Sept.-Admiral Stewart had sailed for Malta. The squadron of Lord Lyons was shortly to take the same direction. The Sultan is to grant two hundred piastres a month to every soldier or officer maimed in the late war. OVERLAND MAIL. BOMBAY, 12th August.-Despatches have arrived. Trade still dull, but the coasting trade will soon re- ...

Published: Monday 15 September 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... 6?pxdf of Qt 'Orf9s. - ok MR BAXTER AT MONTROSE. (Times,) Mr Baxter's address to his constituents at Mon- trose is not so much that of a British legislator as of a citizen of the world. It is the outside view which an intelligent traveller, of fairly liberal opinions, would take of the state of things in this country and Europe at large. We sav the outside view, because from a man within the ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1926 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH

... ED TN 3U R G Lt. Fils Excellency Colonel -L. Sinythe O'Connor, C.B., Governor and Comcnander~iu-Chief of the Gambia, arrived in' Edlnbnrgh 3e'sterd'av. Trns Danish srewsh~tem frigate Niels~Tael, 52 gnus, Commodore Irninger, on a cruise, last frotm Leith, put into Plymouth Sound on Wednesday, and was re- ceived with the custoritary salutes. From ?? she proceeds 'to Cberbourg. Ar the: HIgh~atsd ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News