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MIDLAND INSTITUTE LECTURE

... prevalent, and few painful opera. tions were performed without advantage being taken of the kind of oblivion it conferred, In America the use of ether had not yet been altogether supplanted by time newer agent. Passing on to remark that the great boon which ...

NOVEL AND INTERESTING EXHIBITION

... e-i'eot. d i vered aln address, in Wll Cei lho ?? tile ' l nrl0aS:I able profusion wvith which exporters ii EDirope ?? America poar goods into the cbloniaL inarkel'. Tile 1 Ministry of tile province of V rictolria had in' t1i Le -i ture with a new RefErini ...

MUSIC

... obtain a popalerity without being gifted with the best C possible voice. Whether Signor Giughni accompanies Pic- colomissi to America, does not transpire. There is nothing locally to excite attention in musical matters just now. Hlaydnl's Creation is to ...

Poetry

... Inflexible. -His Excellency then pro- ceededto Hong-Kong by the Aden. - - Mr. Reed, United States Commissioner, returns to America. Canton was quiet. Affairs at Ningpo were bad. An alarming. fire occurred in a central part of Hong-Kong on the 5th December ...

OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION AT ASTON HALL

... filled with weapons, costume, implements of Industry, and other appurtenances of the aboriginal nativesf Australia and North America. In the Queen's dining room is the invaluable Vandyke collection, belonging to the Dake of 1Ue- clench, and the chief gemsaof ...

LECTURE BY LORD SANDON, AT STOKEUPON-TRENT

... would produce its fruits in the future, n- eieetcd by political changes. Our great colonies in Australia, ?? Zealaud, North America, and Africa, might go out of our hands, but our social habits and principles would retain their hold, and would have much ...

MUSIC BY STEAM

... The same poweor which propels the ship in its course provides the music for the passengers. On some of the locomotives of America email machines of a similar character are fixed, which play Wait for the Waggon, at the stations; ome, sweet Hom e, at ...

THE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY EXHIBITION

... exhibits a specimen of the AmOVIrCn Pasaenger Pigeon, No. 1,118. This is the bird which Is seae in flock f of thoosands In America, it being a practice in that countsl w wen shooting them to nse cannon loaded with shot. The effect GUMh they are brought ...

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

... from the Laho of the wroods to the Rocky Stl0tsi5,s give to this part of British America a more than Pak '1gilterest. Tlne idea of a route aaoaozs the Continent °h America hying wholly within British territory, is dail becoming more settled and defined ...

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

... years after. He served off the coast of Jersey during the French attermpt on the island in 1781 ; off the coast of North America, under his uncle, Admiral Gambier, and Lord Howe, successively, serving on shore with the naval brigade at the reduction of ...

NOTES OF NEW BOORS

... estab- lish peuitentiary houses. In the year 1778 Lord Auckland -then Mr. Eden-was selected as one of the Commissioners to America, for the purpose of restoring peace. Afser- wards Mr. Eden accepted the appointment of Chief Sec- rotary in Ireland during ...