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REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE MICHAEL ROWAND

... RE MINISCENQ , OF THE LATE AflHA EL i I ROWAND. I s (Fromi the Refesniers' Gazette.) The story. t~old last~ Saturday anent the pepplermint iozeii- gebetween the ancient accountant (If' the Sghip Thank anld 1abi Carirck, reininds uis. of onie somewhat analogosti, Tht -which occurred with the 'late ?? elmark~ Hunter, of 'the Glaee9Ogqc Ecertc. jind One of 'hisalrs, i have' days' f'yore, when ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2339 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... L a_- _ r. _. r HERALD OFFICE, Mfanday Afornihg. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.. SPECIAL DESPATC'H. (From the Times of This Morning.) We have received the following telegram from our Malta. correspondent : Malta, Feb. 14, 2 P.M. The Valetta, from Marseilles, arrived here this morning with an outward mail and left for Alexandria, whence the Vectis has just arrived. She brings no tidings of the arrivaL ...

Published: Monday 15 February 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1162 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MONKLAND RAILWAYS COMPANY

... M lONKLAND RAILWAYS.COMPANY. i'f AiA&N 1) itAIL WAY V CI>UOMPANY. The ordinary general meeting of this company was held esterday in their office, 6;4 West Regent Street-John Baini, ~sq. of Moryjgton Chairman of the Company, in the chair. T she report, of which the following is an abstract, was held' as read:--' Compared with the previous-half-year, there is a decrease of £891, 9 Gd. in the ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

A GLASGOW SOLDIER'S NARRATIVE OF THE SIEGE OF DELHI

... * A ~GLASGOWrSOLDI-ERS NARRATIVE OF THE - * SIEGE ~OF DELHI I Te ?? .; . . SIEGE GOF )ELHI. Thefollowing is from aw soldier: in the East India: Com- ha' pany's service in India-t6 his parents residing in Glasgow' He left 110 High John: Street, -Glasgow, on the 17th June, pa 1854 ?? Delhi, 23d Nov., 1857. ai My' dear Pnts-It is ionly D oW that I have got time to £1 write you a few lines since ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1584 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

FAREWELL DINNER TO DR LIVINGSTIONE

... FAREWELL DINNER TO DR LIVI4ST4ONE, A grand banquet w.es given on Saturday night to Dr Livingstone, the celebrated African traveller and discoverer, by the members and friends of the Geo- graphical Society, previous to the departure of the missionary traveller to occupy his post of British Consul to the Portuguese settlements in Southern Africa, to which he has recently been appointed by her ...

Published: Tuesday 16 February 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3090 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CHINA

... THE BOMIBARDMENT OFi' CANTON. The following intelligence is from the Chiina Mail of Dec. 30 :-We have been looking most anxiously for news from Canton, and by the Opossum learn briefly that on the 28th at 6 ?? the bombardment commenced; and at noon, when the gutnboat left the Tung Pautoi, or Eastern Fort, was being assaulted by the allied forces. Between the Frencis and Datch Folly Forts ...

Published: Tuesday 16 February 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2482 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Imperial Parliament

... ('141aptrial i? [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. The Lord CHANCELLOR, in answer to Lord Wensleydale, stated that the Committee upon the Shrewsbury peerage case would be reappointed on the first week after Easter. INDIA. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII, referring to the news received from India, asked if Government at home had sent any instructions to India respecting the punishment ...

Published: Tuesday 16 February 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2888 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON, FEBRUARY 15

... LONDONrs FEBRUARY 1.5. The Board of Trade returns for the month of De- cember were issued on Monday morning, and exhibit a reduction of 22,897,185 in the declaredvalue of our exportations, the chief faalling off having1been in Man- chester goods. There has also been a 'heany diniinu- tion in linens, silks, and woollens. The. eturns now mearly due for the n oath of January -wall doubtless -show ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... Df AGRICULTURAL STATISTIS.-On Monday evening, in the' a', House of Commons, Mr Caird gave notice that on that day ; fortnigrht he would move for leave to introduce a Bill for 1, collecting agricultural statistics in England and Wales. Ir M. EUGENF TISSmRAND.-We observe from the Journal y c' Agriculturc Pratique, of the 5th inst., that A. Tisserand has been nominated Inspector of Agricaltural ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1858
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

LOSS OF THE SHIP DUKE OF PORTLAND OF GREENOCK

... I LOSS OF ThE SHIP ,DICE1 OF PORTtYAkDm | I0 IOF GIIEENTOOK. I I,; LI ?? ' ' . 2 - l2; I V&' A ((bvrenook Arfrerifse,') regrcnet to learn the los.of tb& M - slip Doke of 'ort~lam~l, belougiiig to llMessrs. Thonias Hamt- ct lin & 1'o , of this port. Full details are given in th'follow- ho I ing let~t-r fiml Capltain H'ardenl, dated Mauriti ,vwith : wh'xvich vwe have- beenl kindlly favonred hy ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 912 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

We are enabled to lay before our readers this morning lengthy despatones from India and Clina, which

... WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1 We are enabledaohaytbefre our readers this morn- ilng lengthy despafohes from .hndia and Clina, hhkh- he had have come to hand 'by the Overland Mail. The 'known 1Endian news amply-confirms. the telegraphic despaties l P go -which our readers gave perused in our two or three sailast impressions, and gives some futher and equally French -favourable news, teat wihich ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2908 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE NAVY AND ARMY ESTIMATES FOR 1858-9

... I~ ~ ~ ~ U_ +}.A I . - at - I1 (From the Globe of Friday.) At the opening of Parliament the -Queen told us that the estimates for the vear would be framed with a due regard to the exigencies of the service, and we do not think there were many who complained of the omission of the allusion to economy which is generally 'made to complete the sentence. It by no means follows that' economy will ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2252 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News