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Duration Of The Industrial Day.

Fox upwards of two centuries there have been strenuous endea- yours to regulate the employment of labour. But the policy of an earlier period is remarkably distinguished from......

The Report Of Her Majesty's Commissioners Of Railways,...

supplies some points of interest. The increase of railway communica- tion in 1849 was 869 miles ; the distance open to the public at the end of 1848 being 5,127, and 5,996 miles......

Books.

RA.E'S EXPEDITION TO THE SHORES OF THE ARCTIC SEA. * Norwrissraisnrso the various expeditions for Arctic discovery undertaken of late years, a large portion of the Continent of......