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... Naval altb R,?Hlitarg ?.Ilttlligmzt, WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Feb. iB. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Captain Ar- tbur Cooper, from the 6th Foot, to be Captain, pay- ing the difference between infantry and cavalry, vice Stillman, who exchanges, receiving the same. 2d Dragoon Guards-Cornet John Grieve to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Moodie, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 4th Light Dragoons- ...

Published: Monday 21 February 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 973 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

class than did Burns. The lofty tone of self-respect maintained by him, and in which he invariably spoke of his

... brother man, sustained that elevation of ' thought and of action amongst his class, of which he l was the true exponent. He furnishes in himself a I noble specimen of the spirit of self-reliance, which isI 30 strongly inculcated in his writings -(chedrs). He I enjoyed the inestimable blessing of the education t which, in bygcne times, was furnished to the people i of Scotland by their parish ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7353 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... LIVERPOOL, Thursday.-The screw steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Leitch, which left New York on the 12th inst., has arrived, bring- ing 155 passengers, 184,202 dollars in specie, and the Udnited States mail. On the 14th she passed the City of Washington for New Yorik. The steamer Arabia arrived at Boston on the 11th, and the North Briton reached Portland the same day, both for Liverpool. The ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 579 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

GENERAL POST-OFFICE, EDINBURGH

... GENERA-L POST-OFFICE, EDEIBURG1I. Boxes Close. I4\ii MAILS. 'General Recelv'g p. O 1at P. Office. Houses. Leith. I Edin. *Aberdeen. . ?? Do. (On Sundays at7Or.)1 7 20r 7 Or 7 Or 10 I .r ?? .. . 7 20? 10 OP 170 OP Do. gee 6 1SOr 0 A 10 Or 11 P tt Inolud'g Do: I I i0P I OA Or 10 2sr Do I .72P..70 0° 00 Do. vision of Egl'd. Sr O 85 Dlikoint, Peebles, O.. 15iSA 10 Op 10 OP 9 OA Dublin & S. of ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 660 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... ,ft ug litti . PRANCE. The Paris correspondent of the Times says the new system of artillery which has been under examina- 'tion for more than two years past is, I em'assured, completed, and the last-experiments have decided its adoption. The various calibres that before ex- isted are, according to this plan, reduced to two- 112-pounders or siege guns, and 4-pounders, field- guns. The pieces ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2716 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

TIME OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOR UNDERMENTIONED PLACES

... TlIE F TRANS LEAVING ADT.U i> OR 1INDEB2nENTIO2NED PLAODS. MAY 1859. m*w The abbreviations within parenthesis-(Cax.), (S. C;, (B.%054 G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.)-3ignify Caiedonisn, Scoteib Central, Edinburgh and Glsgow, North British, sna Edinburgh, Perth;, and Dunce Railways respectively, and intimate that the trains start from the termtnj ay ,these railways in Edinburgh at the hours stated ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1344 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

NIGHT ASYLUM FOR THE HOUSELESS

... The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of this Charity v as held yesterday in the ball of the Institution-the Lord Provost presiding, Mr CLARK read the eighteenth annual report of the Directors. It stated that the number of applications for admission during the year was 9648. *Of these 120 were rejected on account of being in a state of drunkenness, making false ...

Published: Tuesday 15 February 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 811 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... jorfigly SARDINIA. .1 We have now a full report of the speech of the King of Sardinia, and an account from the Ptednian- lese Gazette of the ceremony of opening the Chambers. *1- Long before the hour fixed upon, the gates of the . Palazzo- Madame were besieged with persons pro- vided with tickets. The ga lery ot the first floorwas soon filled with ladies, and the upper gallery with o_ ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9411 | Page: Page 1, 2 | Tags: News 

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON GEOLOGY

... The Duke of Argyll delivered an able and in- j teresting lecture on geology in the City Hall, I Glasgow, under the auspices of the Athenurom, on E Thursday ?? Buchanan, Esq., ?? in the chair. About twenty minutes past 8 o'clock, Sir Archi- i bald Allison entered the hall, and said-4 regret I much to be obliged to state that the Duke of Argyll c has just met with a slight accident. As the noble ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1379 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

TIME OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOR UNDERMENTIONED PLACES

... TIME OF TRAIMS LAVING ED =B a P UNDERMENTIONED P'LACE FEBRUARYX 186%9 % The abbreviationa within Parentliesla-.(Cal.), SC, G.), (N. B.). (E. P. and D.)-uignify Caledonebe,S(.tms Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, NorthB~te Edinburgh, Perth, and. Dandee Railway s h rpety~lo and intimate that the tralrns start from t these railways in Edinbarith at the hours aeermlimS Aberdeen, (S. C.), 6 30, 9 A~m ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1675 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... A Paris correspondent, writes on Saturday that the officers of a division of the army of Paris were summoned on Friday to the quarters of their re- spective colonels, and informed that they were to hold themselves in readiness to march, as the division was to for^t part of the army abont to enter on a campaign. The Governmeni have in- quired as to how many men could be trbasporte| lper day by ...

Published: Tuesday 05 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THIRD EDITION

... THIRD EDITI ?? ON. IMERCURY P - - e Tmm~u' -- zx. c_ i. . ...

Published: Friday 20 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 15 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News