"This paper is of great interest, as the first penny newspaper in Aberdeen, being the outcome of the alteration in the Newspaper Stamp Laws. Mr. David Macallan, though not editor, took a great deal of interest in it.”

"There is a strong literary touch about it that would make it worthier of remembrance than many of its more pretentious successors. Its success was considerable...The failing health of Mr. Macallan was [probably] the cause of its discontinuance before it had got fully established" (Bulloch).