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... DINNER TO ARCHD. HASTIE, ESQ., M.P., FOR PAISLEY. On Thursday evening, the friends and supporters of M r Archibald Hastie, M.LP. for Paisley, entertained that gentleman to dinner in one of the flats of a large building recently erected in connection with the Saucel Distillery. The hour of meeting was five o'clock, and by that time the apartment was filled by upwards of 400 gentlemen, chiefly ...
... et rcu r. ztlc ou all EDINBURGH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1857. t The MERacURY is Published DAILY, PRICE TaRER-SALPPENCE or 9s 9d ' Quarter, if paid in advance. 11s credit. Stamped a Penny extra per Copy. Stamped Copies of the Caledonian Afercuryare forwarded bypost for a subscription of 32s 6d Half-yearly, or i6s ad Quarterly, pay- able in advance from any date. Three Papers can be forwarded ...
... I f ,I -al ., grxtll?t'llr 1?11t? I'li, - I REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE FOR THE PAST WEEK. (FROM THE ifARK LAINE E XPRERS.) During the past week, although the temperature at its commencement was lowered, with some quantity of rain, vegetation has scareely been checked 'in its progress, and the corn fields continue as promising as can be desired. The pastuies also are well cov'erer and artificial ...
... LE- O -N - LATE.ST LIVERPOOL NEWS. (From our own Correspondelt.) ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA-ANOTHEL 'HORRID MURDER IN CHESHIRE-TERRIFIC FIRE IN LIVERPOOL-BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRIES._ Liverpool, Monday Evening. The British and North Ameriean Royal mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Leitch, which sailed from Boston on the 8th, and Halifax, N.S., on the 0oth, arrived here to-day aboutnoon, ! bringing the ...
... ABIERIOA. Liverpool, April 25. The Cimnard serew steam-ship Alps has arrived, with advices from New York to the 11th instant.. She brings no specie. The screw- steamship Glasgow. was going into New York as tile Alps left. On thc417th instant the Alps passed a large steamer, supposed to be the America, hence for Boston; on the '19th exchanged signals with a large American steamer. The screw ...
... ?? rovilidal ?',-R'Atffl!qfvrt. INTRODUCTION oF Gn.RAYLING.-Tbe West of Scot- I land Angling Club have recently deposited 20,000 ova, brought from EnglAnd, in a properly constructed hatching pond at Abington on the Clyde. pi SUNDAY TRADING IN GLASGOW.-The Magistrates 01 of Glasgow,' in consequence of remonstrances ad- w dressed to them in regard to the opening of milk, a confectionary, and ...
... (FROM THE SIECLE.) In both countries an equal number of sheep, is bred; this number is about 35,pO0,000 head. The- 35,000,000 in the United- Kingdom live on thirty- one million hectares'(2i acres), while the 35;000,000 in France live on 53,000,000 hectares. It theefbore results that on an equal extent-of territory the Eng- lish breed two sheep where we only breed one. This is not the sole ...
... 5.plril ,I t ly tJT rtss. INDE.INITIES NOT SUI'SIDIES. (rROMl THE SUN.) Shall England secure peace for her Oriental do- minions by binding herself'over to the enormous folly of paying henceforth a subsidy of ten thousand pounds a month to Dost Mahommed? It may sound, it must necessarily sound, absolutely ridiculous to put such an inquiry as this seriously to Englishmen-hut it is nevertheless ...
... DFPARTURE OF THE RAILWAY TRAINS STEAMERS, &c., FROM EDINBUlRGH O APRIL. - 0 O WAVERLEY BRIDGE TER~MIUS OF NORTH BRITIH IALW O EDINBRGHOI, PERTIH, AND DuNDEE. RAILjN-y L,A LV~ LEITH, AND GRtANToN IIAILWAY-ED5NEUISOORGRc RAILIYAY-SCOnTISII CENTRAL. RAILWAY Rl 5; Aberdeen (S. C.)am 6.30 7dO-~ . 4Zsa a~m. 6.30, 7.30-1p.. of. 12, &4o.- - - - - ~ * l Aberdeen ?? D).) am. 6.30,10 2 16*'ii Arbroath ...
... MERCURY OFFICF, SATURDAY, ErEvE OCwcxr. INDIA, CHINA, AND PERSIA. Tatvstrs' April 24-The steamer America arrived here to-day at 11.45 A.S. in 118 hours, having left Alexandria on the 19th of April. The India mails left Alexandria on that day, with dates from Bong Kong 15th March, Calcutta 21st MLarch, and Bomrbay 2d April. The Europeans on board the steamer Queen, Bri- tishi property, under ...
... cif-artign ?20tilipuIf t. ?A I ?. -I- . FRANCE.. A 'The Capucine nioiss'of Grasse, in' fair Provence, hake afforded another absurd proof 6f the spreading tr intolerance' of a fraction of the clerical- party in France. These individuals, after haviniijdenounced from the pulpits as-criminal the modern literature of C the country (including the works of Thiers and Lariarttntt),called uponethe ...
... CONVENTION OF ROYAL B3URuIiS. U(;OIVLAaNLLV1 g e . On Wednesday, the second meeting of the Convention of Royal Burghs took place in the Justioiary Court-the Lord Provost of Edinburghl presiding. CAPITAL JItlNiSI15tMNTS IN aUI3sce. a Mr. GLEN (Assessor for Lhilithgow), in the absence of the r Commissioner for that burgh, made the following motion a 'ltot ptl)liciatioii bo made il the plrol)er ...