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Ittirto To Ts4t Attn.

NEGLECTED CLAIMS OF THE BENEFICED CLERGY. Weston-super-Mare, 6th December 1852. Sim—Allow me, as a subscriber of some twenty-five years past to your able paper, to trespass fora......

National Defence.

December 1852. We have made a step, it would seem, in worldly wisdom of late. The Peace Congress and its band are no longer listened to, and the country is really beginning to......

Fgnebrial And Memorial 2sticetics.

Ashton, Somerset, 1st December 1852. The Duke of Wellington is laid in his grave, and public opinion pro- nounces the obsequies " not unworthy of the occasion." An event occurs......

Art And Science At Kensington Gore.

IT is by degrees only that the scheme contemplated by the Com- missioners-of the Exhibition of 1861 has come before the public; and, without hastening to a premature judgment......