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Income-tax Evasions.

TH.E evidence before the Select Committee on the Income-tax shows that the returns made by the higher merchant class are honourable and trustworthy ; but the same evidence shows......

Increase Of Revolting Crimes.

No reader of the newspapers can have failed to observe a lament- able increase of crime of a particular order—violences or dishonesty, of the basest and most revolting kinds,......

The Pons Asinorum.

&mime men," Says a contemporary, " are of opinion that the lightening of Blackfriars Bridge, and the removal of the por- tion of the side-walls over the defective piers, will......

Railway Anarciii.

BETWEEN two and three hundred millions sterling. has been ex- pended on the construction of railways in this country ; the total extent of lines is 6464 miles; the average......