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The Cotton Trade In Bengal.

Sin—Before the mutiny broke out, several letters' appeared in your paper on this subject ; since then the trade has in a great measure been in abeyance, as the cotton-producing......

Machinery And Shuster= Lam= House.

Belfast, 18th October, 1859. Bra—Your correspondent William Stevens is certainly right in saying that machinery ought to shorten the hours of labour : and your reply to him in......

Efira.m. - Plotighing And Drainarb In R West, Mrirmzi..

North Miami, 12th October, 18691 your last - paper Iestimated the saving of manual- labour by-the use of steam-power in preparing cane land-for planting at 51 per nova; am&......

Books.

TRNifferefil CDTDOR. * ' [roar NuncE.] THESE is no island in the. world to whose varied charms thalite- rature- of. all nations, ancient and. modern, has- borne such en-......