... British subject the right to commute the said duties for a pav-.ment of per cent. on the value of his goods (or rather, to speak viaore correctly, for the payment of a specific duty calculated at that rate) I hope that I have provided for the latter as ...

... carried on at unauthorised ports was every way to be deprecated, • still the Tientsin treaty did us that wrong, commercially speaking. Our case is simply this: That whereas the Treaty of Tientsin was calculated and adapted to expand vastly British commerce ...

... the precision that could be attained with the gear in laying the gun quickly and with nice accuracy. The results, generally speaking, were that the gun was traversed from extreme right to extreme left by two men in 62 seconds. In ordinary laying of the gun ...

... drums were beaten in the market-place of Gondar, • end the Abyssinian people were ordered on pain of mutilation never again to speak of Dedjatz Kassai. By this time he had reduced all the Chiefs and, princes of Abyssinia, and it is said that he showed them ...

... ascendancy over Queen Isabella that she became the chief link of communication between the Pope's Nuncio and the Spanish throne. Speaking of her in 1865, Mr. Grant Duff calls her one of those personages, half enthusiast, half rogue, who are so common in Catholic ...

... all ajee When he heard how they shouted for Ben Disraeli. Come fill up, &c. His party demands of him which way he goes, He speaks with great caution, as you may suppose. He says In short space you'll hear tidings of me, Or that vain was the Banquet to ...

... the rate at which the identical quality is retailed to the public. This could be easily ascertained, and although we cannot speak professionally, we are much mistaken if th difference will not exceed 50 per cent. It appears to us that it would be far easier ...

... that the Indian force had the Europeans engaged from the sailors' boarding houses as officers, and as these could not even speak the language of their sable comrades, disorganisation may be said to be the constitution of the force. To the second question ...

... Irish soil. There will be an end to Fenianism, an end to all Ribbon and Orange excesses, and an end to all such seditious speaking as we have noticed above. ...

... cultivated fields in these high regions are not reckoned at more than from 10,000 to 15,000 hectares, which is hardly worth speaking of, although their produce is of a valuable quality. The small extent of the cultivated land is, of course, partly owing ...

... been taken of the memories of the past—some of them sad enough on. either side—by the recent meeting at Salzbourg. Socially speaking, Francis Joseph will be wonderfully received in Paris. Thanks to the Prince and Princess de Metternich, the very name of ...

... have not had dinned into their ears the grand position occupied by both these countries in the Champ de Mars in 1867. We are speaking of machinery—a subject upon which the ordinary public is extremely likely to be deceived, but in connection with which practical ...