The Manchester record

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1868
 

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Page 78 - Our complete and rapid success is due, first, to the mercy of God, whose hand I feel assured has been over us in a just cause. Secondly, to the high spirit with which you have been inspired. ' Indian soldiers have forgotten the prejudices of race and creed, to keep pace with their European comrades.
Page 111 - Therefore any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officer of the United States which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Republic.
Page 80 - I was a hungred, and ye gave me meat; — thirsty, and ye gave me drink; — naked, and ye clothed me ; — I was sick, and ye visited me ; — in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 77 - I congratulate you with all my heart on the noble way in which you have fulfilled the commands of our Sovereign. You have traversed, often under a tropical sun, or...
Page 51 - found thirty scholarships of the annual value of £100 each, to be applied for the further instruction of young men, natives of the United Kingdom, selected by open competition for their intelligence and proficiency in the theory and practice of mechanics and its cognate sciences, with a view to the promotion of engineering and mechanical industry in this country...
Page 69 - That a humble address be presented to Her Majesty, humbly to pray that, with a view to the purposes aforesaid, Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to place at the disposal of Parliament her interest in the temporalities of the archbishoprics, bishoprics, and other ecclesiastical dignities and benefices in Ireland, and in the custody thereof.
Page 78 - You have unloosed the chains of more than ninety of the principal chiefs of Abyssinia. " Magdala, on which so many victims have been slaughtered, has been committed to the flames, and remains only a scorched rock.
Page 109 - I, the above-named , hereby declare that I have been during the twelve months immediately preceding the last day of July in this year the occupier as sole tenant of the above-mentioned lodgings, and that I have resided therein during the twelve months immediately preceding the said last day of July ; and that such lodgings are of a clear yearly value, if let unfurnished, of ten pounds or upwards. Dated the day of Signature of Claimant Witness to the signature of the said And I certify my belief in...
Page 107 - ... 5. That the reorganization of secondary instruction, and the introduction of a larger amount of scientific teaching into secondary schools are urgently required, and ought to receive the immediate consideration of Parliament and of the country.

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