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3. The Queer Subject. 10. My Young Wife and my Old
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5. The Modern Orpheus, 1 11. The Middle Temple.
8. A Peculiar Position. 12. Itiquet with the TuR.
7. Walter Tyrrell

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16 Court Favour.
17. The Spitare.
16. ltory O'Store.
19. Advice Gratis.

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N. Fun In Banta.
21. The Itingdore.
29. The Black Domino.
29. Our Mary Anne.
30. Shocking Events.
31. The Culprit.
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41. The coact tie Sham.
42. Groves of Blarney, Is.
43. Hasty (;occlusion.
41. The Mello:liana.

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51. White Tforse of the Peppers.
52. GeminL
53. The Artist's Wife.
A Leeson foe Ladies.
55. The Devirs Opera.
56. Torn Noddy's Secret.
SI. Forty sad Fifty.
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38. The Ride Brigade.
37. Angeline.
38. Truth.
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48... Naval F.ngagetnenta.
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48. The Irish Lion.
149. Lying in Ordinary,
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64. Oliver Twist.
63. Chaos is Come Again.
66. Mr. Greenfinch.
67. My Little Adopted.
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69. Grace Darling.
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Mi. Sons And Systems.
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60. Ask no (locations.
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63. Married Life.

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77. Rasing, and Doings.
78. Dr. Dilworth.
79. The Happy Man.
I 80. School for Scandal, to.
81. Single Life, 18.

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72. .' Queen's Horse.,'
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74. His Fula Champagne.
75. !mak Walton.
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88. ILB.
89. Vietorine, lc
.90. Marlette the Forsaken, Is.
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95. 'Hobbs, Dobbs, and Stubbs.
96. The Irish Attorney.
97. how to Puy the Bent.
98. The Mee Hunter.
99. The Greek Buy.
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105. Alma Mater. Is.
101. Grandfather 'Whitehead.
107. Curio4ties of Literature.
109. The Last Day.
100. Who's Your Friend!

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE

NEW EDITION of LINDLEY'S SCHOOL BOTANY.
In dewy Svcs price rms. fal.,
SCHOOL BOTANY
Or, the RUDIMENTS of BOTANICAL SCIENCE.
Ile JOHN LINDLEY, PILO., PALS.,
Professor of Botany in Univensity College, London.
A New Edition : with Numerous Alterations and nearly
Four Hundred Illustrations.
Tha work wa originally prepared, ha haste, to meet a regulation
of the Universits y of London, by which it wan required of all snide:its,
that, two years previously to proceeding to their fiat ekoree, they
ehauld be examined, among other patinae., rxThe shuns+ stirs and
differences) of the mMeipal natural
the
and orders of plants be.
inging to the Flora of Europe, In the botanical clawification of De
Candolle."
The obvious purpose of this rewalation was to make young men
acquainted with the names oral properties beral
a the vegeta:on that
serrowels them; so that, after receiving what is called a li
education, they might not be thrown upon the world, ignorant of
the name.), at lew,t, of the commonest plante of their own country.
In the opinion of the author, the usessure woo ealculated lo effect a
the °common routine a •
real good, and to supply a wide gap in
achool, where it is mat dairable that mere natural history ehould be
Introduced, if it be only to relieve the tedium of the lose attractive
etudiea to which young pemone are noweearily majated.
But it was also important for the sake of he suatanaal utility.
There may be a difference of opinfou as to the advantage of
oft spending
much time upon the study of y ; but there as one nion only
as to the importanee of knowing the inmate! the *ante of which man
hag to make use, or which he a continually meetag.with. There is
not at the preaent day a poison of any intelligence, ignorant of such
thinge, who sloes not regret that some portion of hie youth should not
hove been devoted to
this kind of inquiry*.
The Dorsetnhire gentleman who put him.self to considerable trouble
and ne small expense to carry a sack of Hornbeamesed from Florence
Go London wolki hate been saved the exertion had he known that
Ile Ilsenbeenn fire iv in abundance on hie own estate; and it may be
eshily swierted tied ea ery one of that hi
e celebrated court party w
sileetwered a prodigy ilk the hessitiial wee in Windsor Park, wmild h
base been glad if thelr.early alumaion had spored than the mortifies-
tiou of learning front lord M. that the tree in quostlen was only the
Spaniels Madam.
Whatever the future Intentions of a student of botany may be, it is
Indispensable that the thet seep to be taken should be that of gaining
an acquaintance with theeninmon plant» of own coustry. In the
absence of that, he cannot make a single mom in advance- Ile must
first master the rodimenwet the science, wad muster them correctly.
This little hook has been propired kw the purpose of enabling bim to
do so. It contains all that it in necemary to know in order ta make •
r fair beginning. and it includesno more • ea that :They one stweld have
the patience to master the whole oedema of the aulurne, he would
this be in • potitkin to carry time inquiries onwards' with ease. But it
Asset really necessary to become acquainted with all the plant. here
The retie• = why so many potties are introduced, which are of stall
importance, is to enable the teathor to obtain at least some pat o(
them to 11l
his teachh.g. Loa el circumstance* and evasion,
our uncertain wanes, will always raider it difficult to procure Pug
thing tW
here mentemed; but no coriceivatOe circumetancoi can, in
country, offer impedimenta to the ethreivation of u barge part.
In selecting the subjects with which tha etudertarc within
be agile
acquainted, those have been generally
.chosen which within say I
man's reach ; and to render the acquisition of them more easy, as
vulgar names are added. A very small aunt of money will
re they
nada
every schoolmaster to culthuto the whole in a muden, whe
may be constantly at hand.
In framing the technical characters of genera •and species, all the
more minute distinction+, the detection of which requires the aid of a
mien:room lune been intentionally disregarded; and attention is more
especially called to these which are obvious enough to be observal by
any one having a pocket lens.
Which of the European natural orders I regard as the prin.
cipal," will be apparent, from the prominence given here to certain
natural order's' beyond other.. The teacher is not, however, recom-
mended altogether to omit those which are stated to be comparatively
unimportant. The wisest course will be to make the students
thoroughly acquainted, 111 the first instance, with the natural orders
which are marked from I. to LXatlt., and thin to explain more
briefly the differences of those to which no numbers are prefixed.
In conclusion, the teacher is particularly recommended to take care
that, in addition to a small penknife, each student is provided with a
pocket lens of about a '.inch focus, and a few quires of paper ;
the former to assist him in examining, and the latter in drying, the
fresh specimens of plants daily brought before him. Thereto eri is no
method an certain as the latter, to accustom young persons
mate correctly correctly the differences between one plant and another; andmat,
it is presumed, no one will think of teaching Botany,th en
ample supply of fresh specimens, which he may distribute among
his class, for the purpose of being examined and studied at leisure.
Indeed, it is useless to study botany, tunas this provision is made
for the acquisition of those habits of observation which render
natural history so peculiarly useful as a branch of mental training.
When students do not enjoy the advantages of a competent
teacher, their best plan will be to put this book into thew hands of an
intelligent gardener, and to induce him to furnish them eekly with
the plants that are named in it. At home they can compare the
deflnitiona which they may find with the plants themselves, and this
kind of practice is, of all others, the most certain to lead to advan-
tageous results.
None of the woodcuts employed in the first edition have been
introduced on this occasion. Experience shows that, for purposes
of teaching, it is indispensable that as much accuracy es is attainable
should be observed in preparing the illustrations. To the untrained
diminished, are too much alike in realityexecuted, or much
woodcuts increase this resemblance, and consequently
x more than instruct. The cuts now employed will, it is
render it impomible that any mistake should be made by
even the most inexperienced as to the plants to which they belong.
The facilities, indeed, offered to artists by Mr. Palmer's Gl
yph°.
graphic process, or analogous. mode* of engraving, which have- been
chiefly employed on this occasion, leave little to desks on the score

THIS DAY, Four o'Clock.
Papers from Cape Town to the 20th, and from
Graham's Town to the 13th of September, have been
to
precis in the city. They contain o precise details
of the'operations of the war against the Kaffirs. The
Grahm's own Journalhas die followingulars
abouta T the movements of the corps of Si Andes
Stockenstrom
The march to the point contemplated was raccesefully per.
and when, on arriving at Kreli's kraal, satisfaction
war demanded by Sir Andreas, who conducted the whole of
the diplomacy upon four points, viz.:

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