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Sub-Lieutenant in the 67th Regiment of the Line, October 1, 1844. Lieutenant, May 15, 1848. Captain, August 15, 1852. Transferred to the 9th Battalion of Foot Chasseurs, December 25, 1853. Major of the 100th Regiment of the Line, February 15, 1856. Transferred to the 16th Battalion of Chasseurs, March 17, 1856. Transferred to the 37th Regiment of the Line, January 23, 1863.

The reports of the engineers are very satisfactory, and show that no insurmountable obstacles have been met with. On November 12, 1884, a treaty was concluded with Mexico reaffirming the boundary between the two countries as described in the treaties of February 2, 1848, and December 30, 1853.

Ruskin's influence. Difficulty in finding a master in landscape-painting. Establishment of the militia. I accept a commission. Our first training. Our colonel and our adjutant. The Grand Llama. Paying off the men. On January 1, 1853, I began to keep a journal, and continued it, with some intermissions, till June, 1855.

Indeed, the latter had said to his son, "That hut of incantation will prove fatal to either you or me." When the Mambari, in 1850, took home a favorable report of this new market to the west, a number of half-caste Portuguese slave-traders were induced to come in 1853; and one, who resembled closely a real Portuguese, came to Linyanti while I was there.

He escaped this fate by undertaking a pilgrimage to Jerusalem only to be shipwrecked on the Island of Zante when he attempted to return, and there died in misery and destitution. In the year 1853, cholera, after having committed serious ravages in many parts of Europe, visited Scotland.

On the first of June 1853, Lord Hotham, Member for Kent, moved the third reading of a bill of which the chief object was to make the Master of the Rolls incapable of sitting in the House of Commons. Mr Henry Drummond, Member for Surrey, moved that the bill should be read a third time that day six months. In support of Mr Drummond's amendment the following Speech was made.

A check for seven million was given by Mr. Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury, on the sub-treasury in New York, to the agent of Santa Ana; but not a dollar of it ever reached the Mexican treasury, as Santa Ana fled with the spoil. The remaining three millions were retained to pay the "lobby" and confirm the treaty. The treaty was signed in Mexico on the 23d day of December, 1853.

Though there was similarity of scene, and in some degree of subject, the two books are in no way identical. "Villette" was published on January 24, 1853, and achieved an immediate success. It was felt to have more movement and force than "Shirley," and less of the crudeness that accompanied the strength of "Jane Eyre." I. Little Miss Caprice

Your CARLSRUHE, June 29th FRANKFORT, Tuesday, July 12th, 1853, 6 p.m. The Musical Festival at Carlsruhe will take place on September 20th, and I write you these few lines in haste to ask you to send me the altered passage in the score of "Lohengrin" at Weymar.

After his retirement he returned to the practice of law, and in 1853 he became chief justice of the court of appeal of Lower Canada on the death of Sir James Stuart. At the same time he received from the Crown the honour of a baronetcy, which was also conferred on the chief justice of Upper Canada, Sir John Beverley Robinson.