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THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH

... (FR:OM THES DATLY E' WS.) When a ?? man armsed,' as the peculiar admirers of the Emperor of the French delight to call him, or as we should prefer to put it, when a mnan whom the timorous servility uf his fellow- creatures has invested with a powrer of life and death overthemost civilised portion of thehiimlan Pace, speaks in the name and with the authority oft a warlike, restless, and ...

Published: Thursday 15 January 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... The French Parliament was opened yesterday r by a speech from the Emperor, which may be a1 described to be a brief review of the leadinga political events of the past year. His Majesty d Las, of course, his own way of viewing matters; a but in this instance there is just a little too ii mnuch of the Imperial tendency to make it ap- I gear that questions of European importance t have resulted ...

Published: Tuesday 13 January 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2047 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LORD DUNDREARY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... ILO'D DUNDREARY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. ?? Mr Sotbern made a speech at the Liverpool Theatre on Friday night. He ?? * and gentlemen, Mr Henderson has just startled me by saying I should in all probability be I called on for a speech. Nowv, to make a speech is one of the most difficult things in the world, ladies and gentlemen, especially when the speaker is conscious, as in my case, that he is ...

Published: Tuesday 21 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 575 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Edinburgh Post-Office

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Published: Saturday 13 June 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1621 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... V 6,)Ptter fo f itIr. STULL WE HAVE CEHURCH REPORMATION I Ss,-r-Wil the Protestant people of Edinburgh and o! Scotland listen to horest truth ? Will they bear with the expostilsation of a faithful friend You will at least ?? your character as an independent jour- nalist, and enhance your claim to the gratitude of your ciantrymen, by giving them the opportunity of saying yea or noy. lst. All ...

Published: Thursday 30 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1854 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK

... RAILWAY TRAFFrIC ETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. The traffic receipts of railways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week ending the 11th of April, on 10,677 miles, to £548,326, and for the corresponding week of last year, on 10,237 rnles, to £494,057, showing an increase of 440 mn]es, and of £54,269 in th2 receip's. The gross rece ipts on the following fourteen railways anounted in the ...

Published: Monday 20 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... IBY ELECTRIC TELEGTRAPH. HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock. rASSENGERS' ACT ?? iDNIENT BILL. The Duke of NEWCASTLE, in moving the seconul reading of the Passengers' Act Amend- ment Bill, explained that the object of the Bill was to amend the Acts of 1855 and 1859 for regu- lating passenger ships. After a few words from the Earl of HAR- ROWBY, The Bill wvs read a second ...

Published: Tuesday 07 July 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2714 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

STRANGERS' GUIDE

... 5O OBJECTS AN9D PLACES OF IMTEREST IN A1D NEAR EDINBURGH. AXTIQUARIAN MUSEUM, Royal Institution, M30ound- Opcn free, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, from 10 to 4; and on Saturday evenings from 7 to 9. On ?? and Fridays, it-OIl, 10 to 4 ; admission, 6d. AGflRCULTUILAL MUsar. x, George IV. Bridge-01,4n daily fran 10 to 3, free. AssxrncLY tHALL OF TIM ISTAMLISUROD CnIunCu, Ca3tle Hill-A fine ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5580 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL RUMOURS

... POLITICAL RUMOURiS. The corresponldenit of a morning cotermprary, ?? fronli' Frnkfort, June 14, attempts to give a politia-ul n2lanllng to the approachiing visit of the Queen of l're; sia to our Court. ?? says The eollect of the journey is to consult Queen Victori. on the present difficulties here, and to concert, if poswiibio, a plari to protect the interests of their el'i!dren in the ...

Published: Monday 22 June 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 423 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... : -SUJMMARYs Further diplomatic action in the affairs of Poland proceeds slowly., The French papers -are guessing bard to know what is likely to he done; but they tell of nothing definite. The Cowuier du Dimanche says that the-negotiations between the Governments' of Fi-ance and Britain have not ripened yet; while Lo France complains that The British Cabinet .has taken 'O resolution tending ...

Published: Monday 05 October 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4345 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE GREAT GHOST QUESTION

... I-- BASINGSTOKE, Wednesday. - Yesterday after- t, noon the Lord Chancellor was visited in his n Lordship's library, at his mansion, Hackwood Park, near this town, by no less a personage I than the ubiquitous Ghost and a number of gentlemen, all claiming more or less legitimate relationship with him. Messrs Loibl and Son- hammer, the proprietors of the Pavilion Music a Hall, at the ton of the ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

SERIOUS SHIPPING CASUALTY

... SnIR.Ds, Saturday Night.-A very serious shipping casualty has occurred here to-day, involving the wreck, it is feared, of a large screw steamer, worth £15,000. This morn- ing, the George Dixon, one of the largest steamers trading from this port, was proceeding to sea, when, within a short distance of the bar, she came into collision with the Austrian brig El;, coming into the Tyne, from Leith, ...

Published: Tuesday 10 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News