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  2. NOTES AND QUERIES.

    How did Mr. Osborne find time to collect all those pleasantstories about conventual wine-cellars—putative "cells"? It was supposed that his voice was drowned in the Admiralty, buried under the responsibilities of ...

    Article : 1,309 words
  3. CLOSE OF THE PRESTON CONTEST.

    A MOMENT has arrived in the course of the Preston dispute which seems to afford one more opportunity for restoring industrial and social order; and the duty appears to us to be so plain, and so simple in its ...

    Article : 929 words
  4. TOO LATE.

    "HERE, take these knots and this letter for him," said Amalie in a broken voice to me, as I sat in the sledge already prepared for departure. "May your journey be fortunate and speedy!" Petro, lashing on his ...

    Article : 2,207 words
  5. NONCONFORMIST DISABILITIES—PAST AND PRESENT.

    THE following are the principal disqualifying statutes which have been gradually repealed or modified:— The Conventicle Act, 22 Car. II., c. 1 (repealed in 1689), which made it penal to attend a Nonconformist ...

    Article : 633 words
  6. TOWN AND TABLE TALK ON LITERATURE, ART. &c.

    THE Government scheme for the reformation of the Civil Service of the country, which Mr. Gladstone is about to bring before the House, has formed the subject of conversation in literary circles during the ...

    Article : 1,356 words
  7. THE SURGEONS OF WHALERS.

    GENTLEMEN—I began life as a 'pothecary; but I aint a 'pothecary now, any more than I am a rider. I am— but no matter what. Well, as I was saying, I was in a 'pothecary's shop; some say walk the hospitals for ...

    Article : 2,415 words
  8. THE BREACH OF PRIVILEGE INQUIRY AND ITS RESULTS.

    THE sittings of the "breach of privilege committee" have been sufficiently numerous to enable us to form a tolerably definite idea of the alleged trafficking in places and appointments which so roused the virtuous ...

    Article : 889 words
  9. HEALTHY EMIGRATION.

    IT is quite possible to convey emigrants, and of course any other persons, in large numbers, by sea, with less mortality than in other kinds of travelling, and in fact, with positively a very low rate of mortaiity. ...

    Article : 946 words
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