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CORRESPONDENCE

... well as the reduction of tolls must be looked to ralher more closely than has lately been the practice and with a direction united for the fair and legitimate interests of shareholders and traders, there are abundant means within their power at once to ...

THE STRIKE OF THE OPERATIVE ENGINEERS

... promised to bccome agreat manufacturing district. We are no fosterers of national prejudices; but we cannot help observing that Irishmen are the ringleaders and projectors of nearly all the combi- nations of workmen iu England and Scotland. Beginuing with their ...

THE ELECTIONS

... preserve own influence over their flocks: they canvass, agi'a rant, become demagogues, fanatics, firebrands —f°r too, are Irishmen—and the noisiest of them, d^guef typed in their most extravagant moods by the local Pre^ pass amongst the English public ...

GENERAL MISCELLANY

... poll were-For Mr. Mackinnon, 222; for Mr. Pomlret (Conservative), 188. From 1797to 1822 the total of legacy-duty paid in the United Kindom was JE:48,882,782 duty on probates, &c., £ 30,395,870. Last year, there was paid for legacy-duty in England and Wales ...