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... A few details of the latest operations in India have been received at the East India House. In the Benares division Capt. M'lIullen has cleared a village of the insurgents, killing and wounding twenty. In the district of Allahabad, Captain Dennehoy has overtaken the Rajab of Rewa, and killed about two hundred of his followers. In Central India the Gwalior rebels, after their de- feat on the ...

Published: Thursday 30 September 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4844 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

HAWICK AND CARLISLE RAILWAY BILLS

... The committee re-assembled on Thursday at noon -Mr Clive in the chair. I- Mr JoN0soy, counsel for the Border Counties DI, Company, stated that his clients had resolved to ask the committee to affirm the preamble of their bill in conjunction with the line of the North British from 3 Hawick to Riccarton. 4 Mr DLNisoN, on the part of the North British C Company, requested the committee to ...

Published: Monday 10 May 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 598 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... BY EL.ECTRIC TELEG RAPrH. * - ' - se! HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAtn . th The H1use met at~five o'clock. Al THE EX-ICING OF OUDE. The Earl of DERBY, in reply to a questiou from the Marquis of Clauricarde, stated that ?? St1 of Onde was now a State prisoner' in nalcutta, to awaiting the result of an investigation Jinto his con- hi! duct, with the view of ascertaining how fr he Was h S implicated in the ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4945 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

GENERAL POST-OFFICE, EDINBURGH

... GE?ERiL POST-O1?CE, EDINBIJ1tGIT. | Boxes Close.___ iere General jReeoiveg! P. 0. i150di.05 i P.0111cc., Hneuoes. Loeits. &1,sirls. i I beo I'Lvtsr. ?? - 1 - - to bednDesondee, P'ertlh,\ i 45.x.1 ?? So'!lO I dO ?? Stirlinlg, .4.1loa, a.kc. yt a 7 21Cr 7 Go' jP 7 ,p, 60305' PFeswiek and E. or Englanil, |. 1 30P 11 Or I O1 0£iS40. ' escDunbar, I1ad-Q I j i i' land. . } .5 ?? 4-O a l Carlisle, ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... MERCURY OFFICE, FRIDAY, ELEVEN o'CLOCK. COMMENTS OF THE LONDON PAPERS. The Times in a leader ?? Bright has de- livered himself of a splendid reverie on the future of India. Had the Camaen Sybil suddenly taken pos- session of the floor of the Holuse of Commons she could not have spoken more sublimely, or, we are sorry to add, less to the purpose. He requests the House to undo not only the work ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 517 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... FRAI?.TCE. PAtREe, Thnrsday.-Tbe Bank of 3Fi'aee hasM reduced the rate of' discounit to 8k per cent. The Paris corresponldent of the Times learns that an additional article to the convention be- tween Nicaragula and Costa Rica and M~itlanld & Company, declares that the convention will not be valid unless .Stepheis & Co., of New York, who have a previous coatract, allow June to pass over ...

Published: Friday 11 June 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1891 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PORTOBELLO AND LEITH

... BLAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWZEEN POtRTOBEJLLO AND LEITHI. TO-THE EDLTOR OF THE CALEDONIATL 31ERI UT. Sift,-A& your readers are mostlv aware, there was formerly run between Leith and Portobello,-on the ?? railway. a passenger coach three tinms a-day. Though the conveyance was almost of the worst pos- sible description, occupying abht twenty-fiza milute, in. the journey, and landing the. ...

Published: Thursday 15 July 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 673 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

TIME OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOR UNDERMENTIONED PLACES

... TIME OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOR U-NIDERMENTIONED PILACES. AUGUST 1858. *g The abbreviations within parentheois_((CsL), (S, C.), (E. ac G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.)-aignify Caledonian, Scottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British d Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways ?? and intimate that the trains start from the termini it these railways in Edinburgh at the hoars stated. ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1620 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE BOTHY SYSTEM AND HOUSES FOR THE WORKING CLASSES IN SCOTLAND

... The tolloaiog is the paper read by the Rev. Dr Begg before the Social Economy Section in the Na- tional Association for the promotion of Social Science on Friday last:- ;; In so far as the towns of Scotland are concerned, there are no features of very marked peculiarity. The same physical degradation which characterises districts of all the large cities of Britain, perhaps reaches its maximum ...

Published: Tuesday 19 October 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2101 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... S-ortiffit ;GERMANY AND THE BALTIC. - sp (Frnoxi OUR OWN COrIrnSPONDENT.) St HAM BURG, September 11, 185S.-With every in- be urination to say tolltiitig more of Denmark and the D)uchies, it is impossible altogether to discard the theme, as some new phase is continually presented that gti-os a transient interest to a question with the very mention of which everybody has long since become ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2895 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... .gy E.ELECT.IC.1 - TELEGRAPH -4-- FRANCE. The jjoniteetr of Friday. announces the cessa- tion for the interim of the Ministry of Public Works. The Emperor received at Biarritz the French treaty with Chinat. The amount of indemnity to France is not yet fixed. The Prince of Prussia has accepted a formal and pressing invitation from the Emperor Alex- ander to visit Warsaw. The King of PFussia ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2327 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... Tlhe decree of the French Government, per- chic m.itii.g thle importation of foreign corn, expires it t, on the 30th instant. Considerable anxiety is then now felt on the subject ; the fear being that, if fron the decree is not renewed, the obsolete sliding bod' scale will be again revived. thro sires Further news has reached us from Valentia as scru tci the unfortunate Atlantic cable. The ...

Published: Tuesday 28 September 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4455 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News