... his correspondents. We not insert letters which we discover have been sent to our contemporaries. INDEPENDENCE DAY. Sir, —The article on Independence Day jn last week's Courier was none the less interesting for the faint flavour of Little Englandism which ...

... the prevalence of lockjaw apparently as the direct result injuries from pistols, fireworks, and the like discharged on Independence Day. There have been no fewer than eightythree cases, twenty-three of which have occurred in the neighbourhood of New York ...

... ICAN AMITY. Intense enthusiasm prevailed at tLe annual banquet in the Hotel Cecil on Monday night, in celebration of Independence Day. The Marquis of Ripon, the American Ambassador, and the Marquis of Dufferin an i others all spoke in terms which indicated ...

... unhappily fulfilled. We learn by despatch from Washington, containing President Grant's formal proclamation, issued on Independence Day. of the Treaty between the United States and this country, that the ratifications were exchanged in London on the 17th ...

... Government papers assert that the confederation question is at end the shape in which the Home Government had presented it. Independence Day was celebrated throughout the Union in strict accordance with the programme. Patriotic services were held in Independence ...

... nations with whom England was at war in 1805. The United States of America are accustomed to celebrate tbe 4th of July as Independence Day, but no Englishman of sense construes that festival to mean either a menace or slight to his own country. Other nations ...

... July. The House of Representatives had rejected a resolution expressing gratification at the downfall of Maximilian. Independence day was enthu- | siastically celebrated throughout the North, but in the South it was honoured principally by the freedmen ...

... Persia arrived at Liverpool on Saturday, having léft New York on the Ist instant. ‘There is no political news of interest. Independence-day, the 4th instant, had been celebrated all over the country with much spirit. There were, as usual, many casualities from ...

... mysterious patches, as though it had been getting into an awful row over election —as they did occasionally in those free and independent days of Pottses and Eatanswills—and had gone in largely for sticking-plaster in order to hide its injuries and keep itself ...

... emergencies w-hich may arise.” BROTHEE JONATHAN SINGS “GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! A New York paper, recording the celebration of “Independence-day (the July that city, pays the following graceful tribute to the European influence of Queen Victoria:— Among the festivities ...