1 JULY 1854, page 31

Fire-arms And Projectiles: Recorded Patents. In...

intelligent, wars diminish in brutality. The art of slaying is reduced to a kind of chess game, in which those pos- sessing the best weapons and the best powers of calculation......

Post -office Progress.

A return estimates the number of chargeable letters delivered in the United Kingdom in the year 1853 at 410,817,489; being 30,000,000 more than the deliveries of 1852, and......

Health Of London During The Week Ending June 24.

[From the Official Return.] Ten Weeks 0(1814 'as. Week 0(1614. Eymotic Diseases 2,070 .... 301 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat, 404 .... 53......