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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2955, 5 August 1878, Page 2

It is announced from Constantinople that the Levant Herald has been sap* pressed on account of publishing aa anonoymous letter on the affair of the Tcheragan Palace. This letter was regarded as seditious. The editor has been ordered to leave the country within fortyeight hours. ; .

"Lore is an internal transport," exclaimed an enthusiastic poet. "So ijr a canal-boat," said an old forwarding merchant.

An expression frequently heard in the shop of Mr Wilkes, Watchmaker and Jeweller, -of Shorthand, is :. Sir, you have to great a selection of Earrings and Brooches that I do not know Which to choose. The same might truthfully be said of his fine stock of Watohel and Clocks. Therefore make aa inspection. All articles marked in plain figures. Watches, Clocks and Jewe lery repaired by Mr J. Wilkes, und Guaranteed.—[Advt.] Mit Wm. McCuilougui having been ap« pointed agent on the Thames for the Imperial Fire Insurance Company, is prepared to take risks at the lowest rates. The Imperial Com* pany was established in 1803, and has a capital of £1,600,000, with its head office at No. 1, Old Broad streot, London. The Mela bourne directory has upon it some of the most influential ineu in that city, and the name the Company has gained for itself by its prompt and liberal settlement of claims, while oharg« ing moderate rates, bus Bceurcd a large amount of business not orly in Australian Colonies, but in nil parts ot tiio world iv which agencies have been established.— Aavx,