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Boiler Explosions.

A StrDDMq flush of boiler explosions has its uses in drawing more marked attention to a danger which is constant amongst us, al- though its actual visitations are not, in......

Futility Of Political Toils.

THE perishable labours of man often form a chapter of lamentations, and those of modern public life seem more than any "to dumb for- getfulness a prey." In diplomacy, hardly any......

No Peace.

ACCORDING to the Turin correspondent of the Times, the great military cordon which Austria is drawing from Lego di Como to Lago Maggiore and along the banks of the two is formed......

Books.

DIXON'S LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN . . * Ma. HEPWORTH Drxox has shown the same judgment in choos- ing William Penn for the subject of a biography, as he displayed in his previous Life......