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  2. A QUESTION FOR ARBITRATION.

    A THOUGHTFUL reader of history will observe one great fallacy underlying many of the wars of past times. It was this—that small questions were great ones, because they happened to arise ...

    Article : 1,365 words
  3. PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

    MONDAY, June 23rd. Lord Lyndhurst moved the second reading of the Bill for admitting the Jew to Parliament. Lord Stanhope, better known as Lord Mahon, the historian, opposed it, seeing, he said, a great difference ...

    Article : 1,753 words
  4. TIME'S SPONGE.

    THERE are few curiosities of our existing criminal law that wait to be, as Sir Matthew Hale would say, laid flat. A good many have been laid flat since his time; for that famous judge and historian of the Pleas of the ...

    Article : 4,040 words
  5. A COURTEOUS ACT OF THE UNITED STATES.

    THE joint resolution offered by Mr. Mason, of Virgini, chairman of the Naval Committee (a son of the celebrated George Mason, who was the trusted friend and companion of Washington), authorizing an ...

    Article : 859 words
  6. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND SECRET EXECUTIONS.

    THE report of the committee appointed by the Lords to take into consideration the present mode of carrying into effect capital punishments, and to report thereon to the house, has been published. On reviewing the ...

    Article : 1,984 words
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