Wesleyan Methodist Missions. –The twelfth anniversary of the Methodist Missionary Society for the Leeds District, commenced in Brunswick Chapel, on Monday forenoon. Mr James Musgrave was called to the chair. The Rev. Valentine Ward, on the Secretaries to the Society read the report, from which it appears that in Ireland, the Society has 21 missionaries …
Emigration.–Official Enquiries and applications having been addressed to the Colonial Department respecting emigration to His Majesty’s foreign possessions, it has been deemed convenient, with a view to the information and guidance of individuals interest in this subject, to state, that, 1 stly, Persons are not provided with passages, at the public expense to any of …
We have received letters this morning from New South Wales, which announce that the Skelton from Leith arrived at Hobart Town, Van Dieman’s Land, on the 27th of Nov. last, with her numerous settlers, all well, and in good spirits. Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 02 June 1821, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, …
On Monday 14 instant, the ship Andromeda of London, James Muddle, master, sailed from Leith Roads for New South Wales, with 67 passengers, all of whom are very respectable people. The vessel has on board a full cargo of merchandise, and a great number of agricultural implements. Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 19 October 1822, …
On Monday, 14th instant, the ship Andromeda of London, James Muddle, master, sailed from Leith Roads for New South Wales, with 67 passengers, all of whom are very respectable people. The vessel has on board a full cargo of merchandise, and a great number of agricultural implements. Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 19 October 1822, …
Portsmouth, June 5. –This day the ship William Shand, Captain Kerr, arrived direct from Port Jackson, New South Wales, which place she left on the 1st of February, not having touched any where, and made her voyage round Cape Horn in four months and five days. She has a full cargo of wool and sea …
Sailed from Leith Roads on Sunday, for Van Dieman’s Land and New South Wales, the Australian Company’s ship Triton. This vessel takes out fifty-eight settlers, and a full cargo, with a small supply of live stock, for the improvement of the breeds of cattle in those settlements. Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 10 September 1823, …
Necessity of Legislative Measures for Relieving the Distress of the Labouring Classes. Salus populi suprema lex. T here wasa time when it was held pure factiousness to doubt whether the prosperity we enjoyed during the first ten or twelve years of the late war, was perfectly sound and natural, and whether it would not ultimately …
Proceedings of the Court Lord Provost Manderston having been called to the Chair, the Clerk, Mr A. Boswell, read a very distinct report of the results and general features of the transactions at the Infirmary and Queensberry House Hospital for the last year. The Lord Provost then named a Committee to examine the Treasurer’s accounts, …
Mr Birkbeck’s Settlement A small pamphlet has lately been published, consisting of letters and extracts of letters from Mr Birkbeck, of which we have been procured a copy. The author’s object appears chiefly to have been to counteract the misrepresentations circulated on the subject of the settlement by Cobbett. We read Cobbett’s remarks when they …