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A former Director of the East India Company has, on this subject, issued a book of course, in defence of the Company. Here are two or three facts extracted from this book: From 1835 to 1851 sixteen years the entire net taxation of India has produced 340,756,000l.; the expenditure on the Government in the same period having been 341,676,000l. an amount somewhat in excess of the revenue.
Up to the year 1851 the mouth of the river was to the south of the Shantung promontory, about lat. 34 N.; then, with hardly any warning, it began to flow to the north-east, finding an outlet to the north of the Shantung promontory, about lat. 38 N.
14 The Duke of Argyll June 17th, 1851. 15 Lord Cranworth June 17th, 1851. 16 Sir Wm. Stirling Maxwell February 21st, 1854. 17 Mr. Gladstone March 10th, 1857. 18 Earl Russell April 21st, 1857. 19 Mr. George Grote March 9th, 1858. 20 Lord Stanley February 14th, 1860. 22 Mr. George Richmond February 14th, 1860. 23 The Bishop of London April 9th, 1861. 24 Mr. Henry Reeve April 9th, 1861.
In July, 1851, Montagu Butler left Harrow, and in the following October entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a Scholar. He won the Bell University Scholarship, the Battie University Scholarship, the Browne Medal for a Greek Ode twice, the Camden Medal, Porson Prize, and First Member's Prize for a Latin Essay, and graduated as Senior Classic in 1855.
From this small beginning on the 10th of June, 1851, have grown the wonderful mining operations of Australia; and in less than a month after the little incident related above twenty thousand diggers in a year increased to one hundred and fifty thousand were busy in the inexhaustible mines of that far-off land; and so came those rugged, barren lands, hitherto scarcely broken even by savages, to be peopled by men from every civilized land.
Laplace, like his predecessors, supposed these rings to be solid, and explained their stability as due to certain irregularities of contour which Herschel bad pointed out. But about 1851 Professor Peirce, of Harvard, showed the untenability of this conclusion, proving that were the rings such as Laplace thought them they must fall of their own weight.
She became furious, her cap slid down on her shoulder, and she continued: "There is nothing more to be done in that shop now. And what is the name of the new commissioner?" "Bonassot." "'Bonassot-Toulon. Born in 1851. Student Commissioner in 1871. Sub-Commissioner in 1875. Has he been to sea?" she continued. At that question Caravan's looks cleared up, and he laughed until his sides shook.
Charles Landseer travelled in Portugal and Brazil when a young man; he was made a member of the Royal Academy in 1845; from 1851 to 1871 he was keeper of the Academy, and has been an industrious and respected artist.
We may mention, as bearing on the question, that sand-showers are not unfrequent in China. Dr M'Gowan of Ningpo, in a communication to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, states, that at the beginning of 1851, three showers occurred within five weeks; the last, which commenced on the 26th March, and continued four days, being the heaviest.
But his mother soon intervened, and wanted him to go to Weimar to continue his musical training under Liszt. This was all I could desire; I felt greatly relieved and heartily recommended the young man, of whom I was very fond, to my distinguished friend. He left St. Gall at Easter, 1851, and during the long period of his stay in Weimar I was released from the responsibility of looking after him.
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