... Belfast, by the Liverpool steamer, for New York, rather novel consignment —namely, several hundred sparrows. Sparrows ln the United States are held high repute the farmers, as they eat the grubs and small snails which Infest the soli. g hundre ...

... first voyage to Havana. The murderer was secured and brought ashore along with the body of his victim. Civil List Pensions. — The ?? pensions on the civil Ust, which exhaust the amount available for the current year, have been recently granted : — £loo a ...

... and land. Then the work of the Church and Education Commissions is to result in some proposal for legislative action. The United Service Gazette, too, confidently asserts that the .Minister for War contemplates introducing into Parliament a comprehensive ...

... primary education out of the hands of the priests, and declared it free to all Spaniards ; proclaimed a crowd of amnesties for civil offenders various classes ; abolished the octroi duty, and replaced it by a poll tax on all persons above fourteen years of ...

... primary education out of the hands of the priests, and declared it free to all Spaniards; proclaimed crowd of amnesties for civil offenders of various classes ; abolished the octroi duty, and replaced it by poll tax on all persons above fourteen years of ...

... cent upon the gross estimated rental The total now amounts to 16,660,459*., or nearly double the cost of the civil administration of the United Kingdom. Of this enormous sum the poor-rate is 11,061,502*. The announcement by the Earl of Sandwich of his ...

... of Postage on Letters to the United States. —On the lst of January next and thenceforward the combined rate of British and United States postage on letters posted in the United Kingdom addressed to any part of the United States, and whether conveyed by ...