... persons ap- pointed to learn it. As a proof of the practical way in which they proceeded, he mentioned the fact that the American ship which afterwards Japan, and sailed up to the vicinity of the capital, found interpreters there who had learned English of Macdonald ...

... ers flood tide. The channel from the entrance to Fort Chalmers, a distance of seven miles, is deep and marked with buojs. Ships anchor about a quarter of a mile from the Port in eight fathoms of water. Tho shores are remarkably beautiful, and though from ...

... numerons, and could not be said to represent fairly the sense of the rate-payers, and the opportunity was too good a one to be lost by certain discontented and agitating gaining credit to themselves for extreme hu- manity, at the same time that they relieved ...

... other refreshments ; after which, the evening was spent in dancing, &c. Brovucuroy.—The inhabitants of the quiet little town- ship of Broughton-in-Furness, were terribly alarmed by a report that several petty thefts had ‘been committed at an assembly, held ...

... an intent; be it ours to discover his sagacious object, and as his juggler amuses our bowmen by his sleight of-hand while on ship- board, I will not quarrel with the plaything till we reach the land.” “Nor I,” added Michael, “although the plaything be a ...

... consumed in introducing this strange province into the community of commercial states. Reckoning the costs of outfits, living, shipping, time, and labour, it has been* computed that capital to the amount of 20,000,001 i/» sterliug has been exported during the ...

... than the candidates so proposed by the council. The teachers may also be chosen for schools not belonging to the Catholic wor- ship, from presented by the Protestant of Israelite Consistories. Art. 3. In the cases provided for by Art. 23 of the law of June ...

... effort for the recovery of the missing ship as shall hereafter satisfy the heart and the conscience England. Each vessel carries much larger quantity of gun - powder than has heretofore been supplied to arctic ships i it being supposed that it may be employed ...

... be able to make studies of this kind—to Co; France wherever thought, more conquer- 0 eree and more rapid than the wings of ships, Ony but We want the taste for that; is it not suffi- 2 that others know the admirable country ® number of books destined to ...

... one of his fingers, sought worms for it, which it eat from his hand with an apparent consciousness of its safety. Recovery or Lost Monry.— Las week a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Haddington visited that town for the annual collection of his accounts ...

... authentically denied, that in a mere civil broil between two of the interior provinces of China upwards of 100,000 lives were lost on each side, though the quarrel, even after these results, was considered so common-place and insignificant as to provoke ...

... mile, to a place called Whitbeck Banks, where he succeeded in 'giving his pursuers the slip ; at tin's place all trace was lost. We cannot imagine what became him, unless he took shelter in one of Douglas's, the Smuggler's, Caves. It was a large bitch ...