... honorary members of the Asiatic Society. The chief King is a proficient in the Pali and Sznscrit languages. The second King can speak and write English. Both are astronomers, and one a chemist and mechanician. From the Ist of May up to the 15th of November ...

... establishment. [The eminent banker might have been better employed. ] The Burmese Ruby.—A correspondent of the Calcutta Qitizen, speaking of the reception of the English Embassy by the Burmese King, says :—The only Jling remarkable at the interview was an inanimate ...

... confederates in racing matters, and poor Cook placed the most implicit confidence in Palmer’s judgment. Of Palmer, he would always speak familiarly, as “‘The ' Doctor.” Once, in the month of October, Palmer was driving Cook to Rugeley in a gig, when the vehicle ...

... prove an alibi. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1856, —After saying our army must be increased, as war must be waged on a larger scale, it speaks favourably of the present condition of the militia, and thinks that if there be any obstacles to its reinforcement, they should ...

... cheap papers,” lie was asked, ‘‘as soon as any other !—* Because,” was his ready answer, *“I don't think they can aford to speak the truth for the money.” And the monopolists of the press, pretended to entertain a similar belief ; though it was easy to ...

... sanguine to expect such a result from Count Esterhazy's mission to the Czar. Notwithstanding the pacific prophecies of those who speak as they wish, 1 cannot, after poring over opinions and statements from ail quarters, see even the possibility of it. If the ...

... more to ask.” ‘“Bat I have something more to answer, sir,” replied Finn. ‘ The Mrs. Finn, of whom you have been pleased to speak with so much levity, is 1y mother ; and I have known but one man base enough to Lreathe aught against her. You, sir, can guess ...

... scorn, and leaves the table to the regular gamblers, Despotism is the creator of this inveterate duplicity, Where no man can speak his mind without hazard, duplicity becomes self-d®fence, evasion an instinct, and dupery a profession. Under the perpetual ...

... of the calmer times when he had known M. Seebach. In speaking of his father, tears ran down his cheeks. il L “ But recovering himself with a dignity truly imperial, Le observed, * But we have to speak of more serious matters. Ah, you are not come hoping ...

... other crimes that of forging his mother’s name. Evidence having been given in support of this, Mr. Serzeant Wilkins, after speaking about the malignity of the press against Palmer, said he should call Mrs. Palmer herself and the different members of her ...

... these much-vaunted Austrian propositions. They are, doubtless, the beginning of the end, but the end is not yet. Humanly speaking, all would now seem to depend on the urgency with which the Allies push their own interpretation of these German proposals ...

... not alter our warlike attitude till Russia is firmly bound down to our terms. The report of the French Minister of Finance speaks well for the resources of France, but shows how much war has cost her. She has borrowed £45,000,000, nearly half of this being ...