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  2. AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES.

    Public dinners are not generally very lively. It is not likely they should be, for along, heavy meal is a bore in itself, and it adds to the bore to be seated between two strangers who show ...

    Article : 1,861 words
  3. LORD BROUGHAM AT EDINBURGH.

    Not the least striking portions of the remarkable address delivered the other day by Lord Brougham at his installation as Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, were the passages in ...

    Article : 1,809 words
  4. OUR VOLUNTEERS' UNIFORM.

    Sir,—I wish to secure your advocacy of a change in the style and material of our volunteers' uniform. Will you please go in for loose coats, peg-top sleeves and trousers? so that the ...

    Article : 256 words
  5. MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

    Sir,—With reference to the complaint made by a " Subscriber" in your issue of the 3rd inst., I am instructed by the committee of this society to request that " A Subscriber" will furnish me ...

    Article : 82 words
  6. THE POISONOUS PIPES.

    Sir,—I was very much surprised to read in your paper of the 22nd inst., a letter signed Oppenheimer and Co., 126 lines of which are employed in the silly correction of a portion of my ...

    Article : 1,725 words
  7. THE DARGO.

    Sir,—I venture to trouble you with some further observations on the Dargo, believing that the information I am about to give will prove beneficial to the public in two ways. First, miners ...

    Article : 2,997 words
  8. PUBLIC EDUCATION.

    Sir,—Your valuable articles in favour of a general system of education for the colony will be read with pleasure by those who take any interest in the question. ...

    Article : 633 words
  9. MINING COMPANIES.

    Sir,—Your correspondent, who signs himself "D. G. S.," while writing in your paper of August 27, in reply to my former communication in your issue of the 18th August, seems to make the ...

    Article : 397 words
  10. THE TRAGEDY AFTER THE FARCE.

    Sir,—Mr. Hood, in the House of Assembly last night, stated that he hoped that the last farce as regards the Yan Yean had now been played out. If by this remark he alludes to his own ...

    Article : 550 words
  11. THE REV. G. DIVORTY ON EDUCATION.

    Sir,—To prevent any misconception on that part of the public who, from their unacquaintance with the several systems of education in existence in continental states, may be guided in ...

    Article : 495 words
  12. WHERE WERE THE POLICE?

    Sir,—This question is frequently asked by one neighbour of the other, but never satisfactorily answered. Robberies are committed almost nightly in this district, but the perpetrators of ...

    Article : 252 words
  13. EDUCATION.

    Sir,—I have perused with much attention your report of Bishop Perry's lecture upon education, as well as your able article upon it, and regret to see that the right rev. prelate seems determined ...

    Article : 537 words
  14. SEEING FRIENDS OFF.

    Sir,—I beg to draw the attention of the public, through the medium of your valuable and widely circulated journal, to the following facts:- On Monday last I went on board the steam-tug ...

    Article : 448 words
  15. PROTECTION OF FISHERIES.

    Sir,—Aware of the interest which you take in the fisheries of this colony, I venture to draw your attention—and, through you, that of the authorities, whom it more immediately concerns ...

    Article : 456 words
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