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WEDDING OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL

... CE]JEMONIAL To be observed at the marriage of her Royal High- ness Victoria-Adelaide-MarY-LOuisa, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, eldest da'eghter of her Majesty Queen Victoria and of his Royal Highness Albert Prince-Consort, Dnke of Saxony 4sad Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, with his Royal Highness Prince FrederiC-William-Nijhol-Ch'arles, only son -of his Royal Highness ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7340 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... SUMMIARY. Two additional telegrams have arrived, con- firming the melancholy intelligence recently-re: ceived, and adding a few fresh and not very comforting items. The defeat of General Wind- ham is rendered more inexplicable by the reports now furnished. He had defeated the Gwalior mutineers on the 26th November-a fact not mentioned in the first despatch-and was himself obliged to retreat ...

AGENTS FOR THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY

... Aberdeen .A. & R. 3imlne, Glasgow --V. Love, St Athen eum. IEnoch Square Do. ..L. & J. Smith. Greenock ..Mrs Owen. Do. -W . Panton. tIaddington..J. M1illen. Do. -D. Wyllie and, Do. -G. Smileq. Son. ilawiek _R. Mack. Aberlady .)Ir F. Mitchell. ! Do. J. Dalgleish. Alloa --J. Lothian. jinveresk . Gordon. Arbroath ..James Smith. I InverkeithgMiss Campbell. Do. --G. Sutherland. 1Jedburgh ..A. & ...

Published: Thursday 28 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 416 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

GERMANY AND THE BALTIC

... GERMANIY AND THE BALTIC. [FRO31 OUR OWiN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMBURG, January 4, 1858.-The proceedings of the Diet at Frankfort may for a short time have the effect of directing attention to the 'question of the Dtchies ; but, under present circumstances, when matters of more importance form the topics of the day, both in Germany and other countries, it can scarcely be expected that the ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1001 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... (S.U rr t Sp z it ?t At f. I It THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHIURCM. TO THE EDITOR) OF THE CALEDOINIAN MERCURY. SIR-If .I understand the letter of Veritas, (which appears in your columns this morning) aright, the writer means to say, I will not belong to the Scottish Episcopal Church. I have got a tabernacle of my own, and I am lord of all I survey. I am very sure that no member of the ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3605 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

A KING-CONSORT IN ENGLAND

... A ;IKING-CONSORT IN ENGLANU. (FROM THE MANCHESTER EXAMINER.) There never seem to be wanting illustrations of that old proverb which calls upon us to put up a prayer to be saved from our friends. Of all people in the world, Kings, Queens, and great personages generally are those who seem to have most occasion to put up sueh a petition. The renewed circulation of the rumoured intention or wish ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1005 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES

... Yesterday afternoon Professor Blackie delivered a lecture on the above subject in the Greek class-room of the University. The learned lecturer said-When, on a recent oc- casion, I set before the students of this university a very mild, moderate, and discriminating eulogy (for so it was allowed to be by the English press) of the Oxford system under the favourable influences of re- cent reforms. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2075 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

WORDS TO LABOURERS

... * We copy from The Labourer's Friend-a small t publication issued by the Society for Improving the a Condition of the Working-classes-the followinget- . tracts from an address delivered to agricultural ser-s vants by the Rev. E. ?? Beynon, President of the East Surrey Agricultural Association:- Ibhave heard the remark made, that the life of a 1 labouring man is a dead level from the ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1465 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... Caurt aO fnL Otqlltn At Windsor Castle, off Thursday, tile Qucen confcrred then -lignity of Knight of the Garter upon Prince Fredericle' William of Prussia. A tllh knights wllp were present, together with-the dittingllted ifdi'idtials, were enter- tained to a sun~tuotlls-banquet in the evening. THE CA LEDONIAN M ERCURY, T'ilF LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN EDINPURGH,' PuBLIsHEn AT ON NE P EN N Y. The ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5071 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... ,ftifit uf test J-!-aM ThlE SCOTTISHI UNIVERSITIES. (FROM TilE DAIlY 2lriS). 1 VL Wt,' the thing, abhorred by Sydney Smith, is Aku not c1onfined to the North of the Twreed. Here, far to the South of that stream, as Byron said of les I 7loaq'esi s. s- we've not so good a name, but have the was thin-'-as every one wvill confess who has toiled the through the laboriously flippant article on ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1624 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... aurt aO 'fasilijan. - ?? AL- The Queen walked and drove in the Home Park on Mon- day morni ng,s and visited the Duchess of Kcnti'at Froginore. Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, and Princess Lousita accom- panied her Majesty. The Prince Consort wentout shooting. The public will be admitted to the Chnpel Royal, St James's, by tickets, on Wednesday the 27th fast., and the two following days, and to ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3835 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THREATENED EXTENSION OF BOTHIES

... TO IEsS GRACE TEE UTKE OF BlJCCtLEUCH. MY LORD Dusxs,-I make no apology for address- ing you in this public manner, especially because in the erection of better cottages for workmen I am told that your Grace is setting an example to the other landlords of Scotland. It is all the more neces- sary, however, on that account, that the influence of your powerful name should be dissociated from ar- ...

Published: Tuesday 19 January 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2188 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News