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But Arago, one of the scientific staff, tells us in his Memoirs, published in 1837, that as we can well believe Freycinet knew perfectly who the "young and pretty" boy was, and had connived at her joining the ship as a lad, because she wanted to accompany her husband, and the authorities would have prevented her had they known.

During the past year there have been received into the church, 52; and the Lord has been pleased to give me, as it regards my temporal supplies, £232 11s. 9d. January 2, 1837. This evening the two churches had again an especial prayer meeting. January 5.

In 1837, The Economist was started by John Wilson, and attracted great attention by its statistical and politico-economical articles, Wilson afterward became secretary of the treasury, and, having been sent to India, died there, to add one more to the many illustrious victims that our Indian empire has exacted.

In connection with the above quotation from the monthly reports, we present an extract of a letter from the superintendent of the police, addressed to us. St. John's, 9th February, 1837.

Signs and wonders preceded and accompanied my voyage to America, and I reached this continent first in Boston of the State of Massachusetts on my birth-day, November 29, 1837.

Directing that a copy of the document should be sent to another friend, then working in Pennsylvania, the letter concluded "Hoping the bearer and this copy will land safe and that you will treat him right, we remain your brothers in the true bond of friendship this 4th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1837" "PATRICK M'GUIRE, County Fermanagh. "JOHN REILLY, County Cavan.

Prose Works, vol. xxiii. p. 72. See Tales of the Genii. The Talisman of Oromanes. Eldest daughter of William Fraser of Balnain. See Burgon's Life of P.F. Tytler, 8vo, Lond. 1859. Mrs. Tytler died in London, aged eighty-four, in 1837. Alexr. Fraser Tytler, 1747-1813. Besides his acknowledged works, Lord Woodhouselee published anonymously a translation of Schiller's Robbers as early as 1792.

One is in the "Planter's Intelligencer," Alexandria, La., March 22, 1837, containing one hundred and thirty slaves; and the other in the New Orleans Bee, a few days later, April 8, 1837, containing fifty-one slaves. The former is a "Probate sale" of the slaves belonging to the estate of Mr. Charles S. Lee, deceased, and is advertised by G.W. Keeton, Judge of the Parish of Concordia, La.

On an occasion well remembered, though the "chiel takin' notes" was but a simple child, I myself was present when the grim, moody reticence of the great orator converted fully twoscore ardent admirers into personal foes. During the summer of 1837, Mr.

Obtaining his father's consent, he went to Lowell, and found employment as a learner in one of the large cotton-mills of the city. He remained there two years, when the great financial disaster of 1837 threw him out of employment and compelled him to look for work elsewhere.