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Bad Habits Of The House Of Commons. Fos A "

serious character," Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR has a strange propensity to indulge in jokes. One of his impromptus faits a laisir was vented on the occasion of the House going into......

A Premier.

LORD MELBOURNE is an odd compound. He says good things ; but in such a way that they seem to drop from him unconsciously— as if, like Touchstone, he were " not aware of his own......

Export Of Machinery.

THE Committee on this subject has at last made its report to the House of Commons, recommending that the prohibitory laws be repealed, and that machinery be placed on the same......

Spectator's Library.

Poraricaz ECONOMY, Lecture's on Colonization and Colonies. Delivered before the University of Oxford iu 1839, 1840, and 1841. By Herman Merivale, A.M., Professor of Political......