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London, England, 1849-12-17 00:00:00

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DETENTION OF MAIL CONTRACT PACKETS
ABROAD.—In consequence of the numerous detentions
of the mail contract packets abroad, the Lords of the
Admiralty have just issued instructions to the naval
officers having charge of her Majesty's mails on board
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A LONDON MERCHANT.—We slept at Soverein's
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and found it kept by a late London merchant. "I was
not always in this way," he said: " I frequented the
Stock Exchange for twenty-five years, and drank my
bottle of wino every day after dinner." I thought if he
had omitted the latter "custom of an afternoon." h
might not now be in the pine-Mode of Lake Erie.—Sir
J. Alexander's "Acadie."