RETROSPECT OF 1849
... I- these days of change and progress, every year is an aneus mirabilis, and it is as hazardous to aver that the one to which we have just bil adieu has been more rc- markable than its precursors, as it is to predict that the year upon whose threshold we step to-day will be signalised. bv events which will constitute the lanilmarks of ages. Still the year 1849 has ad(lded no small nor ...