The Times AnnualG.E. Wright., 1893 |
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Page 2 - ... sympathy with us and appreciation of my dear grandson, whom I loved as a son, and whose devotion to me was as great as that of a son, will be a help and consolation to me and mine in our affliction. ' My bereavements during the last thirty years of my reign have indeed been heavy. Though the labours...
Page 2 - Empire on an occasion more sad and tragical than any but one which has befallen me and mine, as well as the Nation. The overwhelming misfortune of my dearly loved Grandson having been thus suddenly cut off in the flower of his age, full of promise for the future, amiable and gentle, and endearing himself to all, renders it hard for his sorely stricken Parents, his dear young Bride, and his fond Grandmother to bow in submission to the inscrutable decrees of Providence. The sympathy of millions, which...
Page 235 - McHugh, supra, it was held that an appeal lies from an order of the Queen's Bench Division directing the issue of a writ of habeas corpus to bring before the Court an infant in order to determine who is to have the custody of and control over such infant.
Page 101 - Excise . Stamps . Land Tax House Duty Property and Income Tax . Post Office Telegraph Service . Crown Lands . Interest on Advances...
Page 265 - ... ice-sheet. The existence of Salix polaris in Suffolk and Norfolk may also be considered as a strong argument for the same hypothesis. Thus the theory advanced by E. Forbes so far back as 1846 — that the Alpine flora of Europe, so far as it is identical with the flora of the Arctic and sub-Arctic zones of the Old World, is a fragment of a flora which was diffused from the north, and that the termination of the glacial epoch in Europe was marked by a recession of an Arctic fauna and flora northwards...
Page 103 - December, 1873 ; the ISSUES out of the same, and the Charges on the Consolidated Fund at that Date, and the Surplus or Deficiency of the Balance in the Exchequer on the 31«J of December, 1873, in respect of such Charges.