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Wrecks.

We might say, adopting the American style, We are a great nation; we do everything on a vast scale—including our disasters. Every year what an amount of shipping wrecked on our......

West India Fibres.

In August and September last year, we inserted a series of letters ad- vocating the employment of certain fibres produced in the West Indies for the manufacture of linen,......

Publications Received.

Bemis. Cambridge Essays, contributed by Members of the University. 1856. On Poisoning by Stryehnia ; with Comments on the Medical Evidence given at the Trial of William Palmer......