... at the pier-bead.' The reception at the pier-head was of such a strictly private nature that even the guard of honour was dispensed with, and none but her Majesty, the Royal Princesses, Countess Persigny, and the lady in waiting were on the pier. We are ...

... post-prandial accident results from a bad habit prevalent on our river boats which leads passengers to take flying leaps from the pier to the boat, or vice versd, instead of passing along the gangway, thereby saving a few seconds of time at great risk to themselves ...

... in the truck or waggon r tendrrly as a mother would place her sleeping child in its cradle. The machinery by which all this pier is made so redly available consists of the water engin. a of Sir William Armrests', stunts some hundred yards distant from ...

... Itre-olltetes meetly reached to increase the rate, of insurance epee ageseitarel predate bent is ia. pr trot , iu of the serious haste instates,' by the deferent offices the Jeanielion of that species of property by Twenty thousand tons of into require to be ...

... perbaps, spoil my hair a little (admiring herself in the giags)—no, not math. lattsae see : I =et try on, eh? —ealy we must make haste, jou know. have my Werner at six, and my husband will avoid if I am late. bow annoying! and my lace that 1 hare forgotten again ...

... &gran gives the following aocount:—' Colonel M'Kerlie has invented a sea-escape from vessels which may have struck against the piers of harbours. It has been tried at Kingstown, &album' enzinentlyenereeenl. It consists of Irpok or 'LS feet long, with • sheave ...

... for them. P.C. Hensel!, one of the witnesses in the case of the bullion-robherv, states that many persons went down to the pier at Folkestone to see the boats go out and come in. There was, he added, nothing else to see at Folkestone, that he knew of ...

... dependent establishments, hu been lately brought to light by the plough and the spade. The plough struck against one of the iinder piers of one of the bypocansts. The ploughman, imagining it to be some kind of draining tile, or an old chimney pot, trot the opinion ...

... abject fright did not scent to think of them until he was himself safe on land. Not isms than fourteen persons were sated at the pier in front of the house of Artenans Carter, some of w ho m owe their lives to the daring ef Mr. Carter d 1111 of them are under ...

... the ground is a mixture peat, sand, d:e., where one would hardly expect to such a treasure. No attention was however paid—the pier wad built, and the ground restored to its I condition. tzince that time, a trial has been made to the spot, when within five ...

... baronetcy having when in Parliament been a frien•i of Charles James Fox, and one of the managers of the impeachment against Hastings. Sir Ralph is succeeded in the baron. tcy and estates (which are situated in Fife and Caithness) by his son, Colonel Robert ...

... terms Dear Sir,—Shoold you call the vessel The Blackness, I will present you with 51. Is. to boy your riotous, &c. Yours in haste. (Signed) David Hunter. Friday. After an elapse of upwards of twenty years, Mr. Milne brought an action in the Justice of ...