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To the Edtto, Of The Tribune:
The Commercial AdpettSer of Sept 90 has one
OF It's usual sneers at the " better time which has
been SO long upon its journey hithsrws,d +" and
in the verv same column, in an article on The Pro
gresa Of Christianity in Turkey it halls fact y
which it reates as an omen OF the establishment
OF Christianity ct no very distant period among
ALL the nations Of the EARTH and their consequent
advancement in tbs scale of ciyiliz atom Who
can doubt, after this, that the better time ls
indeed coming
A BrllsTEs sErrsl eoAIss raAr WAY.
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The FALLING Is OF THE ALBION MINES
We have received from A! Norton American
Consul at Pictou, Nova Scotia the particulars Of
the disaster at the coal mines near that place. Ii
appears that for several days previous 10 the &C.