... Wm. Maxwell. The state of the right hon. gentleman's health is such that he stands in need of total relaxation from public speaking during the Easter recess. Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded to the Ventnor Hospital for Consumption a donation of 100 guineas ...

... points that are actually serviceable, and the course is no more distressing than the everyday trot upon the road. And when we speak of trotting it must not be understood to mean that placid amble which the generality of English horses affect, but some- 4 ...

... the late war, and had exceptional opportunities of judging the character of the President, and as the impressions of one who speaks from his own observation, we believe they will be found of much interest. By way of preface we may give the following details ...

... their excited manner of speaking, their trembling and quaking in their religious emotion, they were nick named by the worldly, Shakers- a name which, oddly enough, they have adopted in good earnest, and by which they freely speak of themselves. It is a ...

... for various offices hitherto monopolised by men, it may be observed that Mr. Howe, Chief Justice of Wyoming Territory, U.S., speaks in the highest terms of female jurors. Never, during his twenty-five years' experience of the courts, had he met with a more ...

... the bat does in the animal world, partaking as it does of the nature both of a vegetable and a fruit. We know that strictly speaking it is no more a fruit than is a stick of celery, yet we accord it the honours appertaining to fruit proper by interring it ...

... ness at the present time, when tales which treat of brigand exploits are listened to with unusual eagerness. The engraving speaks for itself, and might be entitled, Travellers riding into the Lions' Den. On the right we observe Paterfamilias, an Englishman ...

... great lightness and beauty of ornamentation. As we have chosen the latter room for our representative illustration, we will speak of it first. Its situation is very pleasant, commanding a fine view of the bridge and the river. The surfaces of the ceiling ...

... even with the Sovereign Pontiff himself, during their residence in the Eternal City. The Duke is an accomplished linguist, speak ing Italian, Spanish, German, and English, in the most fluent and natural ma'nner. He is decorated with the grand Crosses of ...

... Conservative, but he has little or nothing within him of the obstructiveness of Conser vatism proper and at present, strictly speaking, he can scarcely be said to belong to any political party whatsoever. ...

... time is wasted in a year in this kingdom alone by such meaningless words as I am, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully, not to speak of the official, I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most humble and obedient servant, and so forth? If any ...

... pleasure of his countrymen. His moral reputation has been much endangered by this false impression. In this latter lecture he speaks of great men (great prophets)_as parts of the same divine economy and though Christ, the prince of prophets, effected greater ...