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and is very durable, the same material being used all IX. London and Liverpool :W. S. Orr and Co.
the other forts. Between every two casemates are furnaces
for heating shot red hot ;we measured the calibre of the These, the August and Septeml3er numbers of
guns, and found it to be eight inches, capable of throwing this excellent scientific series, continue to support
--,ind solid shot. Whether all the the pretensions with which the work was started,
->f the same size, it is impossible and justify the encomiums bestowed on it by the
at most of the fortifications of press. It admirably suited to excite and gratify
-4. We entered Fort St.
-niched apartments of , the curiosity of the young,
s and to refresh the
I memory of the more mature tudent.
^nth-western end.

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guns in the fort!,

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the military command
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where any si

Tice Dublin Monthly Journal of Industrial Pro-
gress. Nos. IX. and X. Dublin: W. B. Kelly.
This serial is well entitled to the honourable
name it bears. It is conducted with assiduity and
judgment, and is admirably adapted to aid in the
ct might have subjected us development of the industrial resources of Ireland.
stop& is admirably adapted

to grave ina

nature f

facts by count

Our Friend.

A Monthly Miscellany. No. X.

London: John F. Shaw

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mated fortresses

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work was rank

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to win its way in general esteem by deserving it.
Its contents are varied, and all have a tendency to-
n under Russian I wards the elevation of the lower classes. It is
3 much money as cheap as well as useful.
ver, found to be de-

Lg all their defects

independent, of more

guns could be

The Lord's Day and the British People. An
Argument for Both. By A Believer. London :
H. Wooldridge.

P, in excell

Lg:places- ,

A betWeentbij,

An earnestly-written and well-considered pam-
,..11
,g open
phlet, directed to warn all classes against the open-
_ red-hot shot, ing of the Crystal Palace on any part of the Sunday.
,rce of armament The author brings the artillery of his arguments
tried, not only with to bear chiefly against those who see in the move-
'A of metal, but the
'-ell fired point ment an attempt to improve the mind and elevate
be-ing um. the intellectual status of the working masses, by
,e so easily taken affording them what are called elevating and
I forces, as some refining pleasures and recreations on Sundays, the
y satisfactory to
tcted that Ports- only days they are by these advocates believed to
eve
heavier than Aeration,
or eighty
arpossess leisure for such studies. Instead of vitu-
eration, the author addresses sound and conclusive
"—t it is reasoning to those parties, pointing out the fallacy
:uch an opinion, and clearly showing the
dangers and evils society would have to encounter
from the recognition of such principles. His argu-
ments are judiciously selected, and they are en-
forced in an earnest and unassuming style—in a
style indeed likely to disarm opposition and to
onnviction.

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13RIALS.—Punch, or the London Charivari,
of that sport
dthe
furnishedalmost i for a long time past enjoyed
,hAssussttsnratane,
exclu-
possession
)polteientpadreseir:tehseofgaluessk . by the
ddamong the
and Prussia,
negated hybrids of audacious
ny with cowardly hypocrisy and tim grasping
mess. The great Napoleon was e-servmg
) wont
under the ridicule cast upon his preposterousto
sions by British caricaturists, and heldt
published by the press to his disadvantagee
int to justify a national quarrel. If the
tigations he received acted with such
potency, what must be the effect, on the trio of
_r
noble brothers, of the flagellations bestowed with
. on
litary I such dexterity by Punch ?---. The Christian
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