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It did not, he says, depend on the claims of the Pope, as centre of unity; "it turned on the Faith of the Church"; "there was a contrariety of claims between the Roman and Anglican religions"; and up to 1839, with the full weight of Roman arguments recognised, with the full consciousness of Anglican disadvantages, he yet spoke clearly for Anglicanism.

Dexter, F.B. Memoranda respecting Edward Whalley and William Goffe, in <i>Papers</i> of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, vol. 2. Stiles, Ezra. <i>A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles First</i>. Hartford, 1794 Reprinted in <i>Library of American History</i>, Samuel L. Knapp, editor. New York, 1839.

He studied law, and in 1827 he was admitted to the Bar. Ten years later he was made a Queen's Counsel. When the Rebellion of 1837 ended he was appointed Deputy Judge Advocate-General, and he consequently had an active part in the courts-martial appointed for the trial of accused insurgents. He was made Solicitor-General in 1839.

"January 21, 1839. I learn that the Telegraph is much talked of in all society, and I learn that the Théâtre des Variétés, which is a sort of mirror of the popular topics, has a piece in which persons are made to converse by means of this Telegraph some hundreds of miles off.

When Poulett Thomson came to Canada in the autumn of 1839 as governor-general, he recognized the necessity of bringing about an immediate settlement of this very vexatious question, and of preventing its being made a matter of agitation after the union of the two provinces.

In March, 1839, the family moved to Hardscrabble, a small village two miles further down the Battenkill. They went on a cold, blustering day, and one may imagine the feelings of Daniel and Lucy Anthony and their older children as they turned away from their big factory, their handsome home and the friends they had learned to love. Mrs.

Other poets may excel him in writing of quiet, peaceful scenes, but no one who has ever written could put more dash and vigor into a poem than could Browning. By EDWIN D. COE My father left his old home in Oneida County, New York, in June, 1839, a young man in his twenty-fourth year.

Writing in 1839, and looking back upon the struggles of his early manhood, he thus described the circumstances in which the Review originated: "One day we happened to meet in the eighth or ninth story or flat in Buccleugh Place, the elevated residence of the then Mr. Jeffrey. I proposed that we should set up a Review; this was acceded to with acclamation. The motto I proposed for the Review was

As I mentioned before, I kept aloof from all the theatre folk, in consequence of my increasing dislike of them, and therefore, when at the end of March, 1839, at the close of my second winter there, I was given my dismissal by the management, although this occurrence surprised me for other reasons, yet I felt fully reconciled to this compulsory change in my life.

On the other hand, I have heard of one remarkable case where a fever broke out among the crew of a man-of-war some hundred miles off the coast of Africa, and at the same time one of those fearful periods of death commenced at Sierra Leone. A similar interesting case is recorded in the "Madras Medical Quarterly Journal" 1839 page 340. Dr.