8 DECEMBER 1849

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QUEEN ADELAIDE had been so long ill, that as the

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announcement of her death crept abroad on Sunday, it was received without surprise; yet few public events of the kind have caused so genuine a feeling of regret. The subjects of...

Cabinet Councils have been held almost daily for these last

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two weeks, and conjecture is busy with the cause. Various guesses are ade. The Standard avers that Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Viscount Palmerston, are...

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be Gourt.

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THE demise of the Queen Dowager, which had been so long expected, took place at two o'clock on Sunday morning; and it became known to the public through various channels, long...

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IRELAND.

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The Orange "Grand Lodge of Ireland" has been sitting in Dublin, and deliberating on the state of its party and country. A long repeat was known to be in preparation; it has been...

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It will be recollected by most of our readers that

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Mr. Thomas Carlyle was travelling in Ireland, lately, with Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy: we find the subjoined suggestion in the last number of the Nation; whose editor prefaces the...

Mr. Dargan, an enterprising capitalist, has taken 2,000 annea of

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land at Kildinan, near Ratheormac, for the purpose of forwarding Elie cultivation of flax, and introducing the linen manufacture amongst the,farming and labouring population of...

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A correspondent, who wishes to be satisfied on an argument

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in favour of the recent change in the Sunday labour of the Post-office, asks whether there is any necessary connexion between the small increase of duty in London and the larger...

QUEEN ADELAIDE.

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DEATFI still left to Queen Adelaide the power to do good, not only by the example of that pions resignation which di.: tinguished her through life, but also by giving cause to...

THE NEEDLEWOMEN AND THEIR RESCUE.

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Mn. SIDNEY HERBERT goes to Shadwell, sees a thousand net diewomen suffering from all the misery and degradation incider to extreme poverty, and his kind heart is impelled to...

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CONVICTISM SENT HOME.

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WHAT to do with our convicts, is a question which cannot be postponed much longer; nay, it presses already. Most of our Colonies in any way suited to receive convicts have...

DRAINAGE, ITS EFFECT ON THE CLIMATE AND SOIL

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OF THE - UNITED KINGDOM. Mr. Hawirr Devul examined.-368. "You are of opinion that both the warmth of the climate and the health of England would be improved by a more general...

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MR. CAREW'S DEATH OF NELSON.

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The front of the Nelson column in Trafalgar Square is now adorned with a high relief, representing Nelson, at the point of time when he told Captain Hardy of his fatal wound,...

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WASHINGTON IRVING'S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH. * ONE would have thought a

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new Life of Goldsmith was needless. From the time when he first emerged into notoriety as an essayist and ready writer, whom Johnson (it was thought unaccountably) made a good...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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THE week has exhibited a rare influx of publications, both as regards &erecter and number; and with few exceptions they came pouring in too late to allow of anything to be done...

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BIRTHS.

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' On the 2311 November, at Shipley Hall, the Lady of Alfred Miller Muudy, Het, of a son and heir. On the 3d December, in Cavendish Road West, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel 11....