... were wheat A striking illustration is thus given of the penalties she will bring upon herself, if, by plunging Europe into war, she should cause her harbours to be blockaded, and these supplies to be sought elsewhere, her tallow, flax, hemp, &c., being ...

... imported Ustyear, being an increase of 46,210 cwts. The importations of Setdt for the different years were as follow: The recent war with Rossis, and its disturbing offsets on the agriculture of that country, will account for the decrease which we find last ...

... distinguished by deserts or that sterility which follows the absence of rain. Thus the Great Sahara under the northern Tropic in Africa, and the Little Desert under the southern Tropic, where the Island of Ichaboe was discovered. It was from the prevalence of ...

... weaving, dressing, cutting out; and making into the garment, all within the space of about eighteen hours! At the close of the war, in 1815, on proposal from the agricultural intereatin Parliament to impose heavy duty on foreign end colonial wool* ft select ...

... bought up with avidity ; and I do not in any degree exaggerate when I say, that prices fully equalled the best held during the war panic. The average prices were from £6 I Os. to £ll. Some lots of English calves were on sale, and brought topping figures, ...

... of Muscat, whose sovereignty extends from the mouth of the Persian Gulf all along the coast of Arabia, and down the coast Africa, faros Zanzibar. They were formerly offered to Britain a coal station by the Imaum, but at that time declined, and were i ...

... ed. —Mr. Whitfield discovered this species growing in the fissures of rocks upon the Sugar-loaf Mountain in Sierra Leone, Africa. The plant is shrubby, but does not rise more than six to eight inches above the surface of the ground, and is unbranched ...

... Christmas. However, let ns be merry and thankful for our lot; think of onr noble, self-denying, and selfsacrificing countrymen, warring with not only the enemy in the Crimea, bat with the cold, snow, winds, and rain of this dreary time of the year, and of the ...

... olive tree (Olea Europa-a. Diandria Munogynia—Nat. Ord Sei>iari ...

... known in aU quarter* through the Prett, Under the kind Patronage of our beloved Sovereign Queen Victoria, Lord Panmnie, of the War Department; with the Nobility, Clergymen, Gentlemen, the Agricultural, Mercantile Intereats, Constabulary, and Army of Ireland ...

... their pariismentary duties their country; while the bencTotent swallo# emigrates from Spaia, or. te may be, from the coast of Africa, to rUit our shprsa, and clear the atmosphere of many pernicious insecto. . Who will not pity the bad taste « the absentee ...

... ground, and ahould also be leaa dependant on our neighbour* for food in time of war. Mo doubt the colonies of Great Britain are great safeguard againit famine, even were we at war with the whole world ; but we should remember that import enormous quantities ...