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... rid THE, FIIXANCIAL STATEMtNT. but in- ~~~(From the Times.) age !t Had it been possible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer va ,. to surprise the House of Commons, he woold certainly have con !sh done so by a financial statement which Peel himself would cur lot only have vert.ured ion under the mnost encouragin~g cicum M& it stancee, and in one-of his teoet exuberant moods. Without ?? li ...
... DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH.-THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Om Monday evening, a large and. influential meeting was held in the Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature against the contemplated opening of the new Crystal Palace on the Lord's Day. The audience was composed of per- sons from all the denominations of evangelical Chris- tians in town, and the ...
... I TI ES ON KNOWLEDGE.-DEPUT | TO THE PAIRES lMSTER. Yesterday, a deputation *aited on the Earl of Derbyt at the Treasury, for the purpose of presenting to his lordship an address front the Association for promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge. The deputation cbn- aised f alare nmbr o getleen ntrested in the sub- ject, iandincluded Mr. Hlume, Mf.P., Mr. Mimner G'ibsone ?? Sir John V. ...
... I THE FRENUAl EXPIRE, , PARTS, SUNDAY EVENIG.-Some sensation has been excited here to-day by an article in the Constitutionnel in o favour of monarchical institutions. The writer, in the course a of this article, enumerates the claims of past monarchies to public gratitude, and mentions among them the fact of all the French kings, whether intelligent or of limited intellect, having aimed at ...
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... PUBLIC MEETING ON THE SUBJECT OF THE RAILWAY EMBANKMENT. The readers of the MERLIX will best understand the object cf this meeting, if we make a few preliminary observations, in explanation. In the year 1817, when the South Wales Railway Company commenced their still-unfinished branch from Monmouth to Newport, they began the work of a tunnel-among other works fur constructing the line-at a ...
... 4I100fX. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1852. I.I . . a, -- - . V. On Wednesday last, A. E. Knox, Esq., Author of r5 Ornithological Rambles in Susse x, dolivered the first 2A of two lectures on British Birds, before a very numerous be audience or the Chichester Literary Society and Me- SI chanics' Institute. After describing the principles of st classification by which Ornithologists havo arranged ...
... ItatE tECERT RAILWAY ACCtDNT AT HtFORt. i ADJOURNED INQUEST. The Inquest on the body of George Thompson (adjourned on & is int.)~asfesmedon atudaylast. Mr. Tyrell and i~& Goth ttededdo he attof he reat Western Railway dinpby.M~.W. ingMr.tetertndMr. Potts, one of The Coroner euquired iL1 thdre Nwas any further ebvidence to be brought forward, as he was very de~iorons td bring the investiga- ...
... THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR PRO- TBCTIONIST SUPPORTERS. Sir Montagu Oholmeley, the former member for North Lincolnshire, who unsuccessfully contested the division at the late general election, has issued the following address to the electors:- TO THE ELECTORS OF LINDSEY. Gentlemen-The revelations of the recent debate will, I trust, be a sufficient excuse for a few words from an old ac- quaintance ...
... ENCUMBeRED EsONTE5 (Joa!s1oi.-Only five 3 petitions, all of them of small amount, were filed last Y week. The payments' to claimants daring the week amounted'to £23,102i., making tbe entire disbursements' 'al from.thfe4comnmencement, £3,577,960. The tdtal proceeds ;I of sales under the Commission, up to the 19th inst., was I £7,824,552. Exclusive 'olftbe sales effected by private o contract, ...
... The following singular facts may be deduced from the statemrent of the Chanceller oftlheEcebequer. ie said that if he reduced the income tax payable by the working clergy, who received only 1001. a year, from 7d in the pound to 51d there would be a loss to the revenue of Do lees than 3050001 per annum. This shows that the working clergy would, at 7d. in the pound, pay 16S,0001. per annum, and ...
... GENERAL INTF:LLIGENCE. The fine old mansion of Bankton, near Tranent, fa- mous as the residence of the celebrated Colonel Gardi- ner, wits, a few days ago, totally destroyed by fire. Cornelius Loughlij, a smart young man, is in cus- tody for robbing his employers, Messrs. Hunt and l-oskell, the well-known jewellers. When arrested he had fifty-three ounces of stolen silver in his possession. He ...