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DOWNING'S LANDSCAPE GARDENING.* Wrrnotie travelling with Bacon to Paradise for the origin of gardens, we find them at least coeval with history. The hanging gardens of Babylon,......

Tell Not The Tale!

WOULD that it were possible to write current history without wounding our sensitive contemporary the Examiner; for indeed it raises compunction to witness the emotion excited by......

A House Of Commons Return Shows That The Total Number

of military de- positors in savings banks on the 31st March 1848 amounted to 6,365; and the deposits received daring the year ended on that day, to the sum of 45,885/ The amount......