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Melville's Mardi And A Voyage Thither.* In This Work Mr.

Melville has tried his hand at wildly nautical romance ; but with very indifferent success. He has neither the mind nor the mental training requisite for fiction; and in aiming......

Publications Received.

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Commercial Gazette.

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Military Gazette.

ADMIRALTY, April 5.-Corps of Royal Matinee-Sec. Lieut. J. Y. Holland promoted to First Lieut. vice J. S. Bowman, cashiered by sentence of a court-martial. WAx-orrmr, April......