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  2. REBEL PRIVATEERING—ITS EFFECT ON OUR COMMERCE AND TONNAGE.

    Two years have now passed since Semmes commenced his piratical cruise in the Sumter, since which time about 150 of our vessels—valued with their cargoes, at tea millions of dollars—have been captured by vessels under the ...

    Article : 965 words
  3. THE QUAKERS AND THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.

    THE following is the memorial which was lately presented to the Qneen of Spain by the Society of Friends, on behalf of rertain Spanish Protestants, who had been condemned to long terms of imprisonment, with hard labour, on ...

    Article : 1,149 words
  4. THE MAGAZINES.

    WE have now our monthly treat of the home periodicals for August. Macmillan ia not the senior on the list, but we will accord it priority on this occasion, by virtue of an article from the pen of ...

    Article : 5,020 words
  5. THE ST. BRIAVEL'S RE-MARRIAGE CASE

    IN 1855, the Rev. A. Lush, curate of Greywell, Hants, prevailed upon a couple, who had been married at an Independent chapel fourteen months before, to be re-married by him; the part[?]es being ...

    Article : 874 words
  6. MEASURING THE SUN.

    LET me now try to convey some sort of palpable notion of the size of the sun itself. On a circle six feet in diameter, representing a section of it through the centre, a similar section of the earth would be about represented by a ...

    Article : 1,350 words
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    We understand that, at the last meeting of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society, Mr. J. H. Foley's work: of the "Boy at the Stream" was selected as the work to be purchased under the arrangement originally made public ...

    Article : 952 words
  8. HOW TO DISPOSE OF THE NEGRO.

    WASHINGTON, DC., August 16, 1862.— 'Well, old Honesty," says I, affably "what is our next scheme for the benefit of the human race?" He smiled paternally upon me and says he; "It is my purpose to settle the negro ...

    Article : 1,163 words
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    A movement is being made by some of the nobility and gentry of Somersetshire of which the Speke family are nativos, to mark their appreciation of the services of Captain Speke, the Nile traveller. It is at present intended ...

    Article : 295 words
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    NEWS FOR ENGLISH READERS.—The Paris Presse announces to the world that an establishment has been opened in England where repentant sinners may inflict punishment upon them elves for the purpose of ...

    Article : 221 words
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