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.EuoIish Common Lac Reports.

So rouncs Nth complete bder 70 The first At Volumes
Since volume 80 Of this SERIES The English Common Law
Reports have been reprinted In full With volume "A,
commenced binding each English volume separately,
stead Of formerly two English in American volume
Prce--For the first As vols. 81 SO per vol.
For the succeeding, 2 SO
The reputation which these Reports maintain In Eng
land and In the United States s known to all the Profess
sion. The low price at which they offered compared
with the rates Of some Of the principal American Reports
of inferior merit, recommends them particularly to
the attention of those purchasing Libraries.
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British CrouR Cases Reversed.

Three pOtunsS-S9
From 1896 10 1S40-To he continued
The Decisions upon the Crown Cases reversed for the
consideration of the Twelve Judges Of England of the
first Importance TO the due administration of the criminal
justice of the country and in committing to the press
those which have occurred during recent period of
than forty years. the publishers believe that they max
ing acceptable communication to the Profession and
the public.
The three volumes already published contain all the
Reversed Cases since Leach
7. & ]. w. JOHNSON,
Law Booksellers, Publishers and Importers.
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Messrs. 4. & j. w. johnson.
Lam Librarn.

Fourth SyieS-Fbrty Politnes.
Twelve Dollars year, bound-Ten Dollars in Numbers.
The cheapest Law Periodical in the United States.
1t is determination TO make the Law Library the
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this country The Editorial Department will, trust,
be found fully to realize the expectations of those who
have enjoyed Smiths Mercantile Law, Teuchstone Brooms
Legal Maxms Archbolds Ns Prius, Archbods Landlord
and Tenant Crabb Real Property Smith on Contracts
The high reputation which the Law Library" has
qucd throughout the United States by the character of
its Volumes and by the cheap rate ut which its valuable
contents have been to the Profession is the best
evidence offer of its merits and its claims for
support We hope and will aim, to retain this high cha
ractpr.
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Philadelphia Type and stereotype Foundry.

Determined TO spare expense in making their esab
shment perfect possible they have recently got up
complete set of the justly celebrated ScoTccUT LETTER.
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Having lately made additions to their stock
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VALUABLE LAW BOOKS.

yNTE invite the attention Of the Profession and others
w desiring Law Books, 10 very extensive stock
which, believe, contains the best assortment OF Amer
Publications In the United states. Particular atten
ton given to furnishing completing Libraries for the
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The English Ecclesiastical Reports.

Screen VolimeS-SA so.
Furnish series of Decisions in the Ecclesiastical Courts
England and Scotland from 1890 to 1885, and contain
seventeen English volumes condensed in seven.
I'VE respectfully commend this series TO the notice of
the Profession 1t contains the only reports of the many
important of Wills Settlements Divorces, &C., and
the whole of that important branch of the law
braeed in this country by the Orphans Court Practice.
:" 1t would be difficult to point to any English Reports
of more general value in the United States than this elec
ton Of ns."-Marvn's Legal photography.
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IMPORTERS Of Brandies, Wines, and Segsrs, No. Tx
change Place, Baltimore, offer for sale extensive
assortment Of
BRANDIES-,J. Hennessy J. j. Durand, superior old
Jean Louis 1911 and 1898; Maglory Omrd Dupuy Co;
pinet Castillon Co. Martcl; J, Durand Coz A. Seig
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wINES-Champsgne, Claret, and Hook, Of various
grades Aso Port, Sherry, Madeira, Sicily Lisbon, Bur
Quniy Malaga and other Wines, in great variety.
SEGARS-IIayana and Principe Segars, OF approved
brands constantly receiving from the manufacturers
HOLLAND GIN-Grape and Gray Mare brands of fine
flavor: also London Brown Stout and Porter Bordeaux
and Marseilles Sweet Oil sarines, Maccaroni yernice
Olives Capcrs, CASTLE Soap, Bay Rum, Roll Birthstone,
Canary Seed &C. mar 24--
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WIN. NOEL & GEO. x. BOYD, Jr.,

Venetian Blind Makers and Upholsterers, Penn.
aUenue, south side, betveen 9h & 10h sts.,
HAVING formed copartnership to carry the above
business In all its various branches, prepared
to execute with promptness, satisfactorily, every order
entrusted TO their charge, viz:
Venetian Inside Blinds, in every style aud finish
Transparent Window Shades neatly put up, and fancy
Split Blinds Of every variety.
Also we make to order best Hair and other kinds of
Mattresses; Pew Cushions, Lounges, Easy and other
Chairs We make every kind Of carpet neatly cut and
warranted TO it. All of which will be done the most
reasonable terms.
Old Blinds repaired to look as well as new.
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PATTIsoN q CO., NEW YORK


W take leave to inform their friends and the public
that they have taken up the Importing business their
own account. For the future they will confne them
selves strictly TO the Commission business, for the pur
chase of dry goods, in Glasgow, Scotland
From their long experience in the trade they feel
fdent that they promote the interest of those engaged
in the importation OF dry goods and they respectfully
lict ORDERS which shall have their best attention.
The of the firm In Glasgow Is changed TO GODFREY
PATTIsoS Co.
The New York firm being dissolved they will be pleased
receive orders through their agent James Paon No
81 Pine street. New York.
GODFREY PATTIsoN & Co., Commission Merchants,
Glasgow, Scotland.
REFERENCEs:
Messrs. Dennison, Wood a Co., New York.
Messrs. w. c. Pickersgill & Co., do
Messrs. Merritt Ely Co., do
Joseph Walker esq, do
The subscribers being alone entrusted with samples OF
cloth and patterns Of these goods for the United States
market invite the attention Of the trade
GODFREY PATTIs0N Co, Glasgow
Once, 81 Pine street, New York. mar a.
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T 4 r NJ 8:

For any one Of the four Reviews, 50 90 per annum.
For any two, do 90 .
For any three, do 90 /"
For all four of the Reviews, 800
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For Blackwood and three Reviews, 90
For Blackwood and four Reviews, 10 90 ["
Payments 10 DC made IN all cases in ddUdrce.
Rf-Remittances and communications should be always
addressed, post paid or ranked To the Publishers,
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10 Fulton street, New York.
mar 2i-- Entrance 81 Gold st.
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New English Erchequer Reports-Pleas ana
EQuitY.

New English Erchequer Reports-Pleas and
Equity.
To be reprinted in full, in best style, with American
Notes, by j. CLARK HARE and ii. b. WALLACE Esqrs at
81 so per VOL, bound
Including McCleland and Younge, Younge and Jervis
Crompton and Jervis, Crompton and Meeson Crompton
Meeson and Roscoe, Meeson and Younge and Coyer-in
Equity.
Gordon, vol. !, published and ready for delivery
ne We take pleasure in referring to the accompanying
letters explanatory of the character of these Reports and
their value to the Profession In this country:
CAMBRIDGE January 20, 1845
Messrs. T.. & J. W. johnson:
Gentlemcn-1n reply to your letter, with great
sincerity say that entertain very high opinion of the
recent Exchequer Reports In my Judgment they not
exceled by any cotcmporaneous Reports in learning
ability general utility and interest The decided
discussed with great and expounded with uncom
force. scarcely know of any volumes which deem
of more Importance value for
JOSEPH STORY.
CAMBRIDGE, January rs, 1S45
Gentlemen: Your letter of the oath has been received
in which you ask my opinion to the value of the Eng
lish Exchequer Reports from Price downwards to this
tme to American Lawyer and to the expedency Of
reprnng them in this country. OF the high value Of
these Reports both the Pleas and Equity sides of the
Court have not the least doubt-the decisions of this
Court for the last fifteen twenty years. both at Equity
and in Common Law, being entitled to equal respect with
Lawyers Library essentially incomplete without them.
l am, gentlemen, very respectfully yours,
SIMON GREENLEAF.
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COPP'S PAVILION HOTEL.
Louisiana avenue, near 9th street.

rTNHIS ESTABLISHMENT has been recently put in per-
feet order for the reception Of permanent or tran
Sent Boarders.
From his long experience in several of the first hotels
in New England the proprietor feels bold to that for
neaness, comfort good order, and wcsuppled table,
his establishment will compare favoraby with any of the
frst-class hotels in Washington
The lodgngrooms being separate and distinct from the
main building remarkably quiet and free frou the
noise and hustle often complained of in the larger hotels
TERMs-For Board and Lodging, 81 per day; for meals
alone, SO per week.
RS- Transient Boarders reasonable terms.
mar 24-2t* MOSES COPP. F..
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UtHtTut ITt1tL 20 INC .7Hot II F0lS. q Ut9 THy
hsh Common LoW Reports.
by Hon. GEORGE SHARswooD and GEORGE w. BIDDLE,
Esqrs. / vol. Syo.-$5 90.
With this Key TO their contents, the English Common
Law Reports present TO the Profession of legal
learning in the shape of Opinions Data elaborate Argu-
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The Index win be found Of great value TO all possessing
the Reports and of great convenience to those having
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DRINK a. DURBIN, Iron g. steel Mer-

ID chants, Importers and dealers in American,
Swcde, Norwegian, Refined, Cable, and common English
ron manufacturers of Boiler Rivets and Spikes Hoop,
Band, Scroll Flue, Boiler, Sheet Small Iron, Axle Iron
ll3 North Water street. and 81 North Delaware
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BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
AND THE
BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEWS.

Owing to the late revolutions and counterreyolutionS
~ among the nations of Europe which have followed
each other in such quick succeson and of which III,
end Is not ye the leading periodicals of Great Britain
have become invested with degree of interest hitherto
unknown. They occupy a middle ground between the
hasty dioned and necessarily imperfect records OF the
newspapers and the elaborate and ponderous treaties 10
be furnished by the historian at future day Whoever
reads these periodicals obtains correct and connected ac
count of all the important political events of the Old
World they occur and learns the various conclusions
drawn from them by the leading spirits of the The
American publishers therefore deem IL proper to call re
newed attention 10 the works they publish and the very
low prices at which they offered to suscribers me
following is their list, viz
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
The WESTMINSTER REVIEW, and
BLAcKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE
In these periodicals contained the views moderately
though clearly and firmly expressed of the three greatest
parties In Engand-Tory, Wing, and Radical Black
wood and the London Quarterly Tory, the Edin-
buruh Review Wing and the westminster Review
Liberal The North British Review its establish
the last great ecclesiastical movement In Scotland,
Is ultra In its views any Of the grand de
Of human knowledge. IL originally edited
by Dr. Chalmers and since his DEATH Is conducted
by his sonnaw, DR.. Hanna, associated with Sir David
Brewster Its literary character Is of the very highest
order The Westminster though reprinted under that
title only published in England under the title of the
Foreign Quarterly and Westminster" 1t being In fact
union of the Reviews formerly published and reprinted
under separate titles II has therefore the advantage by
this combination of uniting in work the best features
Of both, as heretofore issued
The above Periodicals reprinted in New York. imme-
datey their arrival by the British steamers in beau
tiful clear type fine white paper and faithful
pies Of the originals-Backwood's Magazine being
act fac simile Of the Edinburgh edition.
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Gregory's California Package Express.

- THE SUBSCRIBERS will despatch
Ssa~,1N SPECIAL MESSENGERS, two or more
n n .klN\ times per month, by Steamships via
$500 CHAGRES and PANAMA, in charge
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A New Route to Pittsburg.
(& WI g;;;;;:;.ssss v 3

VIA THE BALTIMORE, SUSoUEHANNA, AND !
SYLVANIA RAILROADS.
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FOR RENT,

.t And possession given before the LIST of April
:.;Z a BRICK TENEMENT 18th street, between
H street Pennsylvania avenues occupied for many
months by Alfred Jones as a depository for meal and
horse feed Rent S75 per annum. Apply to
s.. A. ELLIOT,
mar 24-3t* 9th street, bet III & streets.
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- "a Chestnut street. above Tenth, Philadelphia, have
received per steamer splendid Table and Piano Covers
Damask Table Cloths, Napkins, Moreens, and Worsted
Damaske. "A
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NEW AND SECONDHAND PIANOS always on hand,
for sale and to rent moderate TERMS at the Piano
Store, on 18th street, above street.
mar Off f. c. REICHENBACH.
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General Banking and Exchange Business.

COPAhINEh0HlG.
INHE undersigned respectfully announce to the public
that they have entered into copartnership for the
transaction OF general Exchange and Banking business
IN the city of Washington, under the firm Of
SELDEN, WRITER'S 4 co.
All business entrusted to them viii be attended to with
promptness and fidelity.
WILLIAM SELDEN,
Late Treasurer of the United States
JOHN WRITER'S,
OF Alexandria, Virginia.
R. w. LATHAM,
OF the city Of Washington.
L. p. BAYNE,
mar 2i-u OF Baltimore, Maryland.
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Temperance Meetings in Washington.

R9y- Public Temperance Meetings are held by the Free
mems yigant Total Abstinence Society every Sunday
night at Temperance Hall, and Friday nights at the
Schoolhouse English HILL commencing at o'clock
GEORGE SAVAGE,
mar "a President f. V. Il. A. S.
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Bible Society Depository.

Bible Society Depository.
THE DEPOSITORY OF THE WASH
HHfEk2AINGTON CITY BIBLE SOCIETY is
E---zHw kept at the of Il and 10th streets,
SknaRW fold Medical Cbiege,) where is also kept
santly for sale variety of standard Evangelical Works.
published by the American Tract Society," the American
s. s. Union Presbyterian Board of Publication Carriers
Bro &c &c. Also choice Religious books and Others
for Children and Youth.
Cheap secondhand books; Paper PENS Ink, Envelopes
WATERS &c &C. Also, Fac simile of Gen. Washngton's
accounts during the Revolutionary War.
BY JAMES NOURSE,
mar 24-lawlOtA Cor. II and 10th streets.
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OUT OF PRINT
PIANOS.

A FEW copies of "DYERS ANTHEM BOOK" nov
~ out of print for sale by A. GRAY,
mar 24-tf Seventh street, opp. Odd-Fellows' Hall
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KNABE & GEHLE, Manufacturer,
Nos. 4, 6, :, 0, and IL Eutaw street, BAL
tmore. New tributes 10 the excellence
Of Raltimore nlade Piano Fortes. The
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FRENCH UMBRELLAS.

FnENCu UmDhELLhD
NJ Just received per ship Germania, one case of
* FRENCH UMBRELLAS, beautifully adapted to
the present season. TAYLOR,
mar A4t Opposite Barnum's, Baltimore
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WAREHOUSE, % South
LAURENCE THOMSON & CO.,

NI-NI III NM E1k4NNI 0ithI tO-NTsINI =
of the best quality, at the lowest rates. mar
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-08
miscellaneous.

The city treasurer of San Francisco report
shows the receipts Of the city on the quarter END
ing Nov. 30 were si26 O76, snd It's exp % dIures
s63s. 500. The total Indebtedness OF tn ~ was
$3.50 1913. ,-,,.-,,,.
The citizens Of San Jose had been holding meet
ircs i'm favor Of constructing railroad rom that
city 10 San Francisco Stock 10 the amount OIL
sli0CCO had been subscribed for.
TIE Indian Comm ssiouers were 70 proceed
from San Francisco on their mission on Tue y'l
Of February They were 10 be accom- snleu oy
reliable. well disciplined escort Of eighty men.
Gen Smith had ordered from oregon anu run
down the coast al the dispossble L. ) troops %
rendezvous in the vicinity OF san FRANCISCO 80
be In readiness 10 act promptly In case the OoH
nissioners fail in their efforts 70 conchiate ald
I'm treaties with the Indians.
TIE NEW JAII.-The new jail on Broadway
will be beautiful building and a credit to the
CITY when finished. 1t is to be of brick and white
freestone and already has n beautiful arched door
vav. and portion Of the lower story finished
We notice, however that the workmen were not
at work Yesterday. We sincerely hope that the
iail NAV not meet the same fate as the Artesian
well. 1t il highly necessary that we should have
in San Francisco strong lock up, in which 70
keep the maraunders " no infest our city
10y Ara Californian.
The WilsonG Hunt. which arrived at San Z ran
cisco on the 23d January, experienced nothing
but strong northwest winds all the passage from
Panama. and during the last three days heavy
gale She had to stop twelve hours to repair
Tbeels and clean hues Saturday, an ls a. U
AN passed the steamer New Orleans, in Lar! 81
Y lon lis w.
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LATER FROM OREGON.

We have received news from Oregon to Janu-
ary II. The Spectator felicitates itself upon the
fine weather which they are enjoying 1t says:
The weather has not been at any time during
the Winner cold enough to make ice two inches
thick, even in the most stagnant pools. The Their
mometer has sunken but once since Winter set in
as low rs Il or - degrees below the freezing
point, and it stood at that Dat for a single day
The weather for the pss' week has been sho VERY,
though the quantity Of rain that fell has not been
large. The thermometer ranged at about 40 de-
grees during the month Of December"
The brig Anne E. Maine, Captain Baker, arrived
at the mouthoi the river on the 9Th inst only ak
day from San Francisco two of which she Law be.
Gained che entered the river and anchored at
Fort George. Her cargo i mostly merebandize.
consigned 10 Mr. I. b. Smith Of this place. Tnis
is one of the quickest trips on record Oregoniau.
The papers are almost entirely destitute Of in
terest
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We have received the Alta California to Feb.
/. There is little news Of interest. Business
seems to be reviving; the gold diggings continue
% yield very well for theseason. There had been
no new arrival from Gold Bluff, but the Chesa-
Peake was expected in a few days with freight
OF the black sand,
We take the following from our exchanges;
The Senatorial Question.
The election was postponed 10 the 4th Of Feb
uary, four days after tho steamer sailed. The
following account Of difference between the two
branches Of the Legislature, is extracted from the
correspondence ofthe >Aita California:
SAN-J0sE, Thursday. Jan 80, 1851
Ine House today almost unanimously adopted
= Joint resolution making the election OF q United
states Senator a special order of the day for
Iuesosy next, the zth proximo A resolution
almost unanimously adopted by the House. afsw
days since, making this business a special order
for Monday the I'd proximo, was Yesterday oost.
PoDed by the Senate. The House has exnresss5
its disappr0bati0n OF the action of tho Sers,, -
resnaotiDg the resolution with one davis oysoS
The resolution viii come to the Senate and vii
be Indefinitely postponed or laid upon th, t,b,e
as before bat upon what grounds IS 2oab.fa,
point.
The reason assigned by prominent ss.a.o-