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GENERAL POST-OFFICE, EDINBURGH

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Published: Friday 08 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... By ELECTr; ThLLEGRAPH. I I . . . ?? 'V T L E' L O sAI ยข ,, i. ?? , P.&ss, ?? Russian ambas- , ador 'Coun0t1 Kisseef; has declared to Count 'Walkisii thatithe' pimpblet The Pope and the 'Cogresdtddoliains, withont considering the re- igious ,que.t in, with which Russia does not : intedto iuterfere, prineiplos, in opposition to t.the reslect of aethoritynoa which the Russian Government is ...

Published: Friday 30 December 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2312 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

IDYLLS OF THE KING

... BY ALVRED TENNYSON. (FROM THE ATHENEUM.) Mr Tennyson has enriched the world with his best and most artistic work. Since Spenser first sang us away into Elf-land, and the two Chapmans freshen- ed our literature with Homer and Theocrirus, no recent poet has made possible for Englishmen the indulgence of such a Midsummer dream as any gentle or simple person may enjoy who goes seaward orlakeward ...

Published: Tuesday 19 July 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3497 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... The details of the battle of Solferiao trans- ferred to our Columns this moruing are the most interesting yet received, and give a vivid picture of that stupendous twelve hours' struggle. The official reports of the number of killed and wounded are as follows :-A bulletin 'in the Mo- niteur states that the French lost 12,000 killed and wounded, besides 720 officers, 150 of whom were killed. ...

Published: Monday 04 July 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2820 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... 30ilutflTii. A rtocsc of parrots have taken up their abode in, the Killarney mountains. TnE Poictiers troop ship has put back to Ports- mouth, making 18 inches waier per hour. She was r struck by a heavy'sea. i HlurLLELETIOR-*We believe the ?? candidate inthe-field is Mr-Harvey Lewis, who. was defeated by.3fr Hoare at the general election -by slight ma- jority, and under circnmstances held by ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1517 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... ene.ral z1ntlignme. MAJOR-GENERAL HAVELOCK, the younger and only surviving brother of the renowned ilavelock, the deliverer of Lucknow, and we may almost say of 'r India, is a candidate for the Governorship of the Leeds Borough Jail. THEo Spanish Senate has voted a statue to Murillo, h the last of the great painters of the Middle Acges- a somne say the last of the great race. In Seville they h ...

Published: Tuesday 26 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1573 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... SOUTHAMrPTON, Friday Morning.-The New York steamer has arrived with American advices to, the 11th inst. News anticipated. It brings 328,000 dollars for England, 73,000 for Havre, and 26,000 for Bremen. EAST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Evening-The Behar steamer arrived with East India mails. COURT OF CHANCERY. Lord Campbell was to-day sworn in as Lord Chan- cellor. The new Lord Chief ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1292 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... a xr t' e n t. MONUMENT TO THIE ETTRICK SHEPHERD. TO THE EDITOR O TaE CALEDONIAN LIERCURY. Sin,-Through the medium of a paragraph in the columns of a paper entitled the Southern Reporter, I perceive that the monument, to the memory of the Ettrick Shepherd is about to be erected within a few yards of the ruins of a small farmhouse named Mounthenger, which was occupied for some years by the poet ...

Published: Monday 11 July 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1438 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

AGENTS

... & Aberdeen ..A. & R. MilnelHaddington..J. Miller. Do. ?? J 3. Smith. Do. -G. Smiles. Do. _D,.DWylie&Son. iffawick -.R. Black. Aberlady .-Ar F. Mitchell. i Do. --J. Dalgleiasi Alloa . Lothian. ,Inveregk J. Gordon. Do. -S. N. Morison. inverkeithgMiss Campbel' Do. -J. Wingate. JedburghA. & W. Eaater~' Arbroath .TJames Smith. Do. ._T. SmaUl. Do. -G. Sutherland. Kelso..James Larlni ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 401 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE HANDEL FESTIVAL AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE

... The last notes of the Handel Festival have died away, and as the 3000 voices combined on Friday in singing the loyal anthem of England, the sound that rolled through the huge building as well as the grandest that musicians had ever produced, was pro- bably the grandest that will be produced in the life- time of the youngest present. The demonstration has been entirely successful, and some of ...

Published: Monday 27 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... BY E.LECTRIC TELEGRAPH. zmptdat varliallmit. HOUSE OF LORiDS-FIaDAY. The House met at five o'clock. 3IIliSTERIAL EXPLANATIONS. The Earl of DERBY said it was hardly necessary to state that a fier the division which took place on Friday last in the House of Commons, he and his colleagues could only tender to her Majesty their re- signations, as they could no longer hold office with a.]vantage to ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 978 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION OF WEDNESDAY

... TUSCANY AND PIEDMONT. PARIS, Tuesday.-The Post ?? seems to have been this day decided that Tuscany shalldnot be annexed to Piedmont. Moreover, it is affirmed that the Government of France and Sardinia: have come to an understanding, to the effect that all ques. tions of rearrangement of territory shall be reserved for discussioni and settlement till the peace. COMMERCIAL. The *aocounts from ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News