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Spectator's Library.

HISTORY, The History of British India. From 1805 to 1835. By Horace Heyman Wilson. F.B.S., dce. dee. Vol. III Madden. Thaw's, The Italians at Horne. By Fanny Lewald, Author of......

Vancouver's Island.

A SUSPICION has been naturally excited, that Lord Grey is about to give away a very valuable piece of national property. Vancouver's Island, on the American Pacific coast, is to......

The Fatal "appetite For Steam."

"I WILL be drowned, and nobody shall save me"—erst the pro- verbial illustration of the Anglo-Celtic diction—is becoming true Cockney, from the perseverance of the Londoner in......