Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries

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Página 470 - Melbourne, and bounded on the north and northeast by a straight line drawn from Cape How to the nearest source of the river Murray, and thence by the course of that river to the eastern boundary of the colony of South Australia...
Página 56 - Educational and school matters, from the elementary school upward to the technical school and the university; (c) The entire system of instruction and culture, so far as it can be brought into view by products of literature, of the public press, societies, public libraries, graphic, and statistical records. III. There will be competitive trials of machinery, apparatus, processes, and methods of work of different dates, showing their successive improvements; for example: Sewing-machines, weaving machines,...
Página 733 - ... uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass ; so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the ship, viz. from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side...
Página 1 - ... verbal order of questioned legality given to Mr. Burrowes — that they should report to you as soldiers; and it would become my duty to solemnly protest in the name of Her Majesty's Government against the alternative stated by you, the enforcement of which would infringe the rights of British subjects residing in the United States. I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant. George Cop pell, Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul.
Página 471 - Victoria, with 2,325 teachers, and an attendance of 65,245 scholars. Of these schools the Roman Catholic denomination had about one-half and over half the scholars. Government. The Government of Victoria consists of a Governor appointed by the Crown, who is the official head of the Legislature, and assents in the name of the Crown to Acts passed by the Parliament. There is a Legislative Council, or Upper House of Parliament, consisting of 34 members elected for 17 Provinces, and an Assembly, or Lower...
Página 737 - A concession has been granted for the construction of a railway from Colonia, opposite Buenos Ayres, to San Luis, on the Brazilian frontier.
Página 162 - ... that the total declared real value of British and Irish produce exported from the United Kingdom was, in 1846, about 58 millions sterling. In. 1866 it amounted to 189 millions, or more than three times as much. In the mean time the bank-note circulation had remained almost unchanged, and such alteration as there was, consisted in a decrease. The total circulation of bank-notes, English, Scotch...
Página 737 - That his lectures convinced many, can hardly be doubted ; that they did not convert many more, is in a great measure to be attributed to the fact that the...

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