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  2. VARIETIES.

    WRONGED BOTH WAYS.—"I declare, mother," said a petted little girl, in a pettish little way, " tis too bad! You always send me to bed when I am not sleepy; and you always make me get up when I am sleepy!" ...

    Article : 2,805 words
  3. GLEANINGS.

    It is stated that Miss Coutts has offered the sum of £15,000 towards the endowment of a bishopric in British Columbia. A despatch from Tetuan, Morocco, states that the ...

    Article : 4,172 words
  4. THE COMMERCIAL NAVIES OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

    If there is one thing which the history of the great conflicts between nations has proved more than another, it is, that large and extensive preparations for war during times of peace, are no ...

    Article : 1,197 words
  5. LAW AND CRIMINAL COURTS.

    DRUNKENNESS.—The number of persons charged with this Offence was unusually large, partly no doubt, on account of the Christmas festivities. There was no lack of excuses furnished by the occasion; some of the parties appearing to ...

    Article : 840 words
  6. NATIONAL EDUCATION.—PEOGRESS AND COST.

    Since 1839, as the public is aware, the Parliament has voted a sum, increased year by year, to promote national education. A Committee of the Privy Council, constituted for this purpose, with a permanent staff of officers, ...

    Article : 1,298 words
  7. LORD BROUGHAM.

    On the 19th of September Lord Brougham completed his eightieth year; on the 21st he delivered at Grantham, ou the occasion of inaugurating the Newton statue, a most ...

    Article : 477 words
  8. THE CASE OF MR. DAVID GOSTICK.

    The subjoined extract from the Melbourne Argus shows " what strange things may happen to a man in Victoria," and also affords rather a curious illustration of the manner in which justice ...

    Article : 1,245 words
  9. THE ROYAL CHILDREN.

    Among that class of spirited youth who are kept at hard work on board our ships and spoken of officially as " young gentlemen," but who are more generally addressed familiarly as " small ...

    Article : 1,082 words
  10. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN THE OLD WORLD.

    THE UNITED KINGDOM.—In a recent number of The Observer (Sept. 11), we gave the statistics and operation, so far as we were enabled to collect the data from various official sources, of ...

    Article : 801 words
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    BOXING DAY AT PORT ADELAIDE.—At an early hour in the forenoon of yesterday, Dec. 27, groups of youngsters, interspersed with knots of the curious, might be seen assembled on the North-parad[?], opposite ...

    Article : 316 words
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    OLD ENGLISH SPORTS.—An exhibition of the old English sports, so seldom and so imperfectly rendered in these antipodean climes, took place yesterday on the open space near the Kent Town Hotel, Kent ...

    Article : 196 words
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