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(gleanings.Mr. Leonard Horner is occupied in collecting at Florence the materials for the Life of Savonarola.An old lady died at a Methodist class-meeting, at Todmorden, yesterday evening week.The sum subscribed for the Suffolk Middle-Class College, in memory of the Prinoe Consort, amounts to 14,0002.The London beggars are trading on public sympathy by stating that they are distressed operatives from Lancashire.The American steam-frigate Tuscrora appears to be still hanging about our ooaste. On Saturday she was in the bay off Kingston.An official report just issued gives the expenses already incurred in connexion with the recent flooding of the Middle Level at from 23,0002. to 25,0002.Tn the last session of Parliament 318 Acts of Parliament were passed; 114 public, 201 local, and 3 private.The men and women married in the year 1861 were 340,312; the children bom, 684,048; the persons of all ages who died, 422,721; and together they formed a total of 1,447,081,“ Pray don’t attempt to dam your cobwebs,’’ was Swift’s advice to a gentleman of strong imagination and weak memory, who was laboriously explaining himself.Mr. Carlyle is said to have characterised the civil war beyond sea as 44 the dirtiest chimney that has been on fire for a long while, and one which wise men will look on quietly, and let burn itself oat.” The plant and soaffolding employed in the construction of the Great Exhibition, and which was the next largest in extent to that need in erecting the Houses of Parliament, has just been sold for 10,0002.Louis Blanc has just completed the twelfth and last volume of his 44 History of the French Revolution,” commenced seventeen years ago ia France, and now terminated in England and in exile.Amongst the incidents reoorded dnring the last passage home of the Great Eastern are the birth and baptism of a child. It ia said that the gross receipts for goods and passengers on the same voyage will amount to 18,0002.. leaving a net profit of 8,0002.
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Nonconformist
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Aug 13, 1862
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