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VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE

... C CoMPIAN, IST LRV. The sixth annual meeting of this Company was held in the Religious Institatlon Rooms, St. George's Place, on Monday evening. Captain H. Brown, i an. occupied the chair, and there was a good attendanc, of members, Before commencement of the business, Mr. J. 1D. Campbell, on behalf of the Company, presented Capt. Brown with a very elegant gil deseert service, not only as a ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 505 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

REFORM, AND ITS RELATION TO THE WORKING CLASSES

... REFORM, AD ITS RELATION TO THE I WORKING CLASSES. In the course of a lecture on Thoughts on Re- form, and its relation to the Working Classes, de. livered on Sunday evening by the Rev. George r Gilfillan, of Dundee, that gentleman said :-I am not D an ultra man, either in politics or religion. Ia the latter I desire to steer a medium course betwveri ex. a treme and purblind orthodoxy on the ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1660 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MR. PEABODY'S GIFT

... MR. PZABODY'S GIF1r We ?? the fdcling eorrespondef r thich has been forwarded to the DafV4 ROWS for publda. tion Londcn, Jan. 29. G ?? I made a donation of £15Q,Q000 fcr the benefit of the poor of London, in 'March, 1862, it was my intention, if my life- was spared until my retirement from business, and Pravidsrce continued me in prosperity to place in your h~nde, as trustees of the charity, a ...

Published: Tuesday 13 February 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 947 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH

... THE AtLANTIC TELErGRAPH-. ?? .. . : : , -. , I.. ;, 'On Fridayr a public mbeting of ;-gontlemen | A interested 'in thebimportant question ?? thb nw 'most efflcien c ;and ecooomical lines of telegeaphic m'm commanication between England eand America, rc and the a4vantages to be derived fromn the re1 adoption -of 'Mackintosh's systenn of' constructingl fo; deep-sea, cables, was held at the ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1009 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH TOWN COUNCIL

... . - EDINBURGH TOWN COIL l A meeting of the Edinburgh Town Council wa held _ *Z!estrday-the Lord Provost in the chair. Me The minutes were read and approved of. up * TrE RID CONCEstT. Le Mr RIDpAT1I said he wished to put a question to his re' lordship with regard to the Chair of Music. Since the eiE institution of that Chair it had been the practice of the & !Town Counoil to receive tickets for ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 12130 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE REIGN OF TERROR IN JAMAICA

... THE REIGN OF TERROR IN JAMUICA. The following is a continuation of the interest. ing letter by the Jamaica correspondent of the Star, the first part of which was given in our. impression of yesterday:- VInDENCB BY TORTURE. I have already told yod how Ramsay found, evidence against Mr Gordon among the prisoners by making open proclamation that if any one gave evidence against MrGordonhe ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2475 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION

... The annual report of the association has just been published. The Whitworth rifle will'be placed in the hands of the competitors for the second stage of the Queen's prize, subject to ,an ms objeebion that the Whitworth contravened the. Pr rules by using a copper scraper for pushing; re; down the fouling in the ammunition. . With. a view to encourage very long-range rifle, -ex shooting the ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SCOTCH BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

... SCOTCH BUSINESS IN TDE HOUSE OF COMMONS. TuInSDAY, Pr.% 13. Dundee; Water-Petitioni, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Sir John Ogilvy and Mr Carnegie. Ayr Harbour- 'etition, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Sir James Fergusson and Mr Ed*ard. Cranfurd. I Glasgow' (City) Improvements, &c.-Petiti6n, nd Bill ordered tobe brought in by Mr Dalglish and Mr Graham. Ross . and Cromarty Roads ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... ft a BY ELUCOT LC TELGLPXE. Tmro QCiiI \-Witilso' thist-le, Modiay. -Thle Qeettne aeom- p itilied by P'tlicesns Helena, drive ill the grsoutnds this Ill-lniog. Dunr.!x, IiTuelay.i-(t1 SattirdiY itiglit, the police arrersted a , mill ill ( .'lurtkcoli-Siii, rot' shioitillng till Illtliig oise of tieaititl- ableoxprressioiis. eIt tilead ;ilcofteipto resist tttet, tutu stoililed i olle oh tile ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 953 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE CATTLE PLAGUE

... THE CATTLE, PLAGUE. tori '1110r CENTRAT, COMMEPiTEM A ih'ttil. vet hit in1citinig of the Cenlt ia Coonlnittc VwaR ]tiLU tile Fci 'tytil itto' toletibo theillecitil ;-o cteit1tli~ tioy the oh' iwi it ill 1 iast ito. tiolit' tueir sliditt lit tlt 'itit. e [o.icit cmtlt ill d ti astrtyiiig- SI t o tlit pttesh o hlocitty-I I .lI , ut v l ie I'I;i u.IoIlt( I Ioi 'i. a Neti' IL teleI II L Q I,N fo ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7493 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE MASTER TAILORS AND THEIR WORKMEN

... 1HiB UASTER TAILORS AND THEIR I' all AEN. To t1'c Editor of the Glasoj ?? Nit;.-In your impretdion of to-doy I observe a Ui.f report of a mebting of the master tailors of Vlasgow and the principal towns in the West of Bcotland, also, a series of resolutions passed at said rieeUng. The meeting was convened to c =ider ?? propositions made to the master tsilors of Scotland by the Executive ...

Published: Monday 19 February 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 729 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

WIDOWERS

... (From the Pall Mall Gazette.I It is a curious fact that while a widow who mar- rise again quickly is supposed to do that which some; how savours of the notion of disrespect to the memory of her husband, a widower who seeks a wife within the year is thought by perhaps every one but his mother-in-law to pay an indirect compliment to his first wife. He cannot longer bear, as It would appear, the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1434 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News