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How Public Meetings Do Their, Work.

IT would be a great economy of time for the public, if those whom it may concern were to consider the things which public meetings can do or cannot do, and the best way of......

The American Ambassador

THE absence of the American Minister from the opening of Par- liament is noticed with a very general regret ; and the regret is scarcely lessened when we understand the trifling......

, Pensioners In Commission.

OF all the defects which a long peace may have introduced into our military and naval system, none is more evident or more ne- cessary to get rid of than the superabundance of......