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  • SLAVERY ABOLITION AND COTTON SUPPY. (From the Leader, 1[?]th February.)

    AT the Manchester Chamber of Commerce Mr. Bazley the President, has avowed that the manufacturers of this country are at present short of raw material of every kind,—of silk, ... [Article] (1630 words)
  • MERCANTILE LAW CONFERENCE. CUSTOM OR LAW? (From the Economist, 31st January.)

    A BODY of gentlemen connected with trade, and generally deputed from the chambers of commerce and from societies for the protection of trade in the large towns of the kingdom, have ... [Article] (2142 words)
  • EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL IN PARIS.

    A GREAT sensation has been caused by a lady having brought an action against a lieutenant-colonel of the army to recover 100,000f. damages for his refusal to marry her according to the civil form, after being ... [Article] (1798 words)
  • PICKINGS FROM PUNCH.

    THE LIMBS OF THE LAW.—Everybody is aware that the law has limbs, but not everybody, perhaps knows what they are. The recent trial of Redpath has disclosed two of them. On the question of proceeding ... [Article] (3633 words)
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