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  2. THE BALLOT BOX.

    The strong probability that the ballot will become law before many Sessions have elap[?]ed in stimulating the [?]nity of ballot-box constructors in various parts of the kingdom. We, says a contemporary, have ...

    Article : 248 words
  3. Epitome of News.

    THE CENTRE ARCH of the new Blackfriars-bridge has been blocked to admit of the removal of the temporary wooden bridge. MR. JAMES SANT is the new Royal ...

    Article : 2,987 words
  4. MR. REABODY'S WILL.

    Mr. Peabody's will has been proved in the Probate Court. The personal property in England is sworn is sworn under £100,000. Firstly, directing that his body shall be sent to his native town of Danvers,be ...

    Article : 372 words
  5. IN A TYPHOON.

    The United [?] frigate. Idaho, was caught in a typhoon in September last, while on her way from Hongkong, an [?] narrow escape from foundering. Her cap[?] Taylor, in his account of the affair, ...

    Article : 360 words
  6. LYING LIGURES.

    The truly British faith in [?]ties, however wrong they may be proverbial, and our American friends are making [?] at to their own figures. There are four [?] volumes which embody the results ...

    Article : 201 words
  7. THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.

    The Marquis of Westminster's will has been the subject of a vast amount of unnecessary gossip. Wild tales were told of a second son left all but literally destitute on a "pitt[?]" of only £3,000 ...

    Article : 269 words
  8. A SCOTCH DIVORCE CASE

    A divorce case -- in which a husband Books divorce from his wife, and she, by a counter-action, separation from her husband -- will shortly come before Lord Ormidale for proof and judgment. The case ...

    Article : 414 words
  9. A MISADVENTHRE

    A friend of mine got back the other day from Snez. In a fit of mental delusion he had taken a ticket for tho whole expedition from a "company "which had an office in Paris. They were to supply everything, ...

    Article : 349 words
  10. THE HOLBORN VIADUCT: THE ENGINEERS' REPORT.

    At the City of London Common Council, on the motion of Deputy Fry, chairman of the Improvement Committee, a letter has been read from Messrs. Bidder, Harrison, and Clark, civil engineers; they ...

    Article : 511 words
  11. THE CORN TRADE

    Ever since the old year left us we have had a temperature sufficiently high to start vegetation, while an amount of rain has fallen which has prevented the hooded lands from anything like an effectual recovery. ...

    Article : 424 words
  12. TRAIN ON A NEW LINE.

    The other day Mr. G. F. Train appeared at Taimmany-hall, Now York, as a preacher. The fact had been advertised in the following manner: -- "To-night Rev. George Francis Train preaches on 'Old Fogies ...

    Article : 314 words
  13. DEATH OF THE "FASTING GIRL."

    The girl Sarah Jacobs became delirious at three o'clock on Friday afternoon, and died in the evening, having, it is said, abstained from taking nourishment to the last. Her death on the eighth day of the real ...

    Article : 435 words
  14. LEGAL EVENTS IN 1869.

    In January the Overend and Gurney case was begun before the Lord Mayor. The first trials of election petitions (Windsor and Norwich) under the new law were heard and decided by Mr. Justice ...

    Article : 268 words
  15. MR. PEABODY'S SYMPATHIES.

    Mr. Thurlow Weed, in a letter to the Commercial Advertiser, defends Mr. Peabody from the charge of being a secessionist. Mr. Weed says that he enjoyed the personal friendship of Mr. Peabody from 1843 ...

    Article : 258 words
  16. DEATH of the BISHOP of MANCHESTER.

    The sudden death of Dr. James Prince Lee, first Bishop of Manchester, places another episcopal see at the disposal of the Premier. The deceased had been in a failing state of health for a considerable ...

    Article : 249 words
  17. MRS. STOWE'S DEFENCE.

    A special report of Mrs. Stowe's defence, telegraphed from New York through the Atlantic cable, appears in the Pall-mall Gazette. The report is as follows: -- "Mrs. Stowe's 'Lady Byron Vindicated' is ...

    Article : 505 words
  18. LAST YEAR'S BOOKS.

    The Publishers' Circular gives some statistics of the publishing trade during the past year which are worth a note. It appears that no less than 5,136 book titles have been registered in the lists of that ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. A BEGGARS NOTARY.

    That blind old beggar of Bethnal-green, who was father to "pretty Bessie," is by no means the only mendicant on record possessed of a considerable fortune. Another has been added to the list of these ...

    Article : 209 words
  20. EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN.

    It is rumoured that a new weekly paper is in contemplation at Manchester, to be entitled The Home, of which Miss Lydia Booker, the advocate of giving parliamentary suffrage to women, is to be ...

    Article : 290 words
  21. THE LAST OF THE COPPERS.

    No more coppers. "Please your honour, shy us a copper!" Of all such forms of supplication there is an end. On the 1st of January, 1870, the old copper coinage ceased to be a legal tender. One's first idea ...

    Article : 205 words
  22. THE FEAST OF THE FISTS.

    I was amused at reading in the Paris an article headed "Boxing Day," which begins thus: "Boxing Day -- that is to say, the feast of lists -- is the day after Christmas Day in London. It is the day when the ...

    Article : 185 words
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