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UNPUBLISHED CHAPTER OF GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

... I UNPUBLISHED CHAPTER OF GULLIVER7S I TRAVELS. The same ingenious gentleman who discovered the t MS. of Moredun, has by good fortune laid his p hands upon an original MS. of the Travels of Cap- t tain Lemuel Gulliver, which contains several pas- i: sages omitted in the printed copy. We have been 2 favoured with his permission to publish the following I specimen of these discoveries: I ...

Published: Tuesday 27 February 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1488 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

CAMBRIDGE ASYLUM FOR SOLDIERS WIDOWS

... CAMBRIDGE ASYL UMI FOR SOLDIERS' TWIDO WS. I ?? On Saturday a general meeting of subscribers to b the Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers' Widows was held at a the London Tavern, for the election of candidates. The p ichair was taken by Colonel ROWLAND, Royal Artillery. ti . The CirAtRSmAN, in opening the meeting, slid that its .object was to elect three widows from the list of candidates j, ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 652 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... ROYAL POLYTECHNIc INsrTITUsioN*.-Lenten Lectures.-A very pleas- ing and instructive lecture on astronomy is being delivered by Dr Baclihoffiner, on the evenings of Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent. The interest of the subject on Wednesday evening is mate- rially heightened by its accompaniment of a selection of music from Haydn's oratorio of the 'Creation,' to give effect to which a band of ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1855
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News 

AN AMERICAN VIEW OF THE WAR

... AN iWWZO:W !Urf. WAR. -;M NO t 6rOI ,Iiio~ 7'1QS hsithe eht, &iblc'opinion in- B~iD.Is* t wist'craoy Ws at present, and mot without reason. The pictaret Stherme dofabe* of brvee n id g i.theirm eyes ecy f peu ?? to de- sti;iaa Mthiiter the ?? ?? gaze of tla yaulbridbs J hai-.&wakened 1ehin Sand Tffiectif Os f lte mass of tle British poople, which, wlhenionce rotsed, ar not eainye set to?$s.lfe ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE MINISTERIAL DILEMMA

... THE IINISTERIAL DILEMAMA. The Earl of Carlisle has been nominated Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster3.' ' ' : ?? .; On'Mouday. and Ttesddy it beeais generally known -that serious differenoes of opiniion exizited amongst main- bear of the cabinet as'to the 'wav in which Mr.' Ioebluck' motion,. nominating his committee of inquiry 'into the causes of the calamities of the war, should be met. On ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1855
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1454 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND THE MILITIA ACT

... FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND THE MIITIA ACT. ROBERT FELTON v. JAMES PRIORL FRIENDLY 0oc0sT15 -XMPNA M(N, MEaMBER, NaPION-0 PRIThRE 0O RIGHTS IN 5001E5V-DI)NOION OF JUSTICES SUPeasEDING 822L=BNrT O0 DISPUTES DX ARBITRATION ACCORhDING TO RUs.S OF SOcTY. The above cwe, a highly important one to friendly seoeities, came on for hearing on Tuesday, the 19th instant, at Hal. stead before G D. H. Valzey, C. ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1855
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1565 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

TO CORRESPONDENTS

... I - X0 TOBOESPORDII. , -_ I Carrespondonts who do not Seed their commu ntio-s no- tie, may infer that we cennot anewer them, or deoelll to do s8. We further canlot, .VN5RJB AiM 013 neroa0NoS CHAsA OUfBSEOLVss WITH A ]MTru OJ SS. M Ai. LSTrEe.-We have no personal objecio to the doggtei; but the space of this journal is, in fact -the due property of the resder. Rubbish Ss set to be alibit ers : ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1855
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 526 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY

... A meeting of proprietors interested in improving E the property and in increasing the number of the board of b directors, having been advertised anonymously to take place yesterday at the London Tavern, at the hour named e in the advertisement (one o'clocli) about a dozen gentlemen 0 assembled at that place, when they learned to their surprise a that an intimation had been made to the ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 867 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS

... IVAVAL AND MiLTARI NEWRS. APPOINTMENTS. Commander Alexander C. Gordon (1853), recently serving in the Majestic, 80, screw steam-ship, at Sheerness, to the Bulldog, paddle-wheel steam.sloop. Commander Thomas D. A. Fortescue ?? to command the Barracouta, paddle-wbeel steam-sloop, on the East Indies station, vice Commander George Parker, promoted to be captain. Commander H. C. Glyn to commission ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1073 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE HOSPITAL AT SCUTARI

... THE HOSPITAL AT SCUTA RI. We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from a medical gentleman who is actively engaged in the military hospitals in Turkey. We know that his account may be im- plioitly relied on, and we therefore publish the following ex- tracts, because they are calculated to encourage a hope that our brave fellows in the East have seen the worst part ef elneir suesraua ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

OUR DISGRACES AND DISASTERS IN THE CRIMEA

... OUR DISGACE ANID, DISASTERS IN THE - : ACRI E ' -E The astounding intelligen ihass reachedittis cowl- try that.the English army, so far as its efficieney in the, field be qoncerned, is no more.. Oar ?? up -to ?? for defence,.and tothe shattered reinnau of thc British force is confided theikomewhat- ignoble- taskof ?? in- the midst of active siege operations.. ,.To such condition-has ihe ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1855
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 844 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

VIRTUAL RECALL OF LORD RAGLAN

... VRl JEOALL or LORD RAGLAN Wecanl state, with the utmost confidence, that not only iB the sendilg. out. of- General Simps'on to ?? to inquire into $he state. of matters in the army there, and with,. power to make, and, enforce suggestions, expected to have the-effect of Inducing Lord ItaglaO retign his cone- mend, but that'that bsone Of the objecta.-perhaps we may say .he- chief object why ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1855
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 616 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: News