... had to command, accepted the duty on which we were sent to Abyssinia by the people of England—a duty of no less importance than that of releasing from captivity a number of their countrymen. We have all discharged the duty which the English people desired ...

... a second time, so that a Parliamentary sanction might be given to what he explained to be its two leading principles—the abolition of tolls, and the extension of the area of taxation. To illustrate the inefficiency and waste of the present system, and ...

... clergymen to claim exemption from payment of toll when travelling in discharge of their clerical duties was decided by the judges on Saturday. The appellant was doing duty for a cleigyman in an aojoining parish in Cumberland, and when travelling one day to solemnise ...

... this, ahd he managed his duty well- he brought me near the herd, and I then stalked the largest tusker to within ten yards, when he perceived me. He looked at me in a most threatening way, with his enormous ears erect, and stamped his foot in anger, when ...

... mission take advantage of this new fashion to exchange the stamps for the children of the poor, who are sold as slaves or thrown into the rivers when their parents cannot support them. Two thousand stamps save the fife of a child. The Rev. Mr. Doddington, curate ...

... people. I dreaded offering the young mind of the nation as wax to the seal of the clergy, that they might put upou it the stamp which best suited them, and I opposed it for that and other reasons. I opposed it because I would not have the education of ...

... society at Rowley Regis. The letters tell their own story :— Sir,—We have met with a little difficulty ia tbe discharge of our duties as .rustees, and desiring to do right, we state our case to you. hoping rou will inform us which is the proper course to take ...

... inability would apply. Of all persons the county court judge should be free from the stigma of insolvency, his principal duty being to compel the payment of debts dve — a compulsion which he must exercise with a very bad grace when he himself is a more ...