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their attention are embraced rather under the popular 
definition of “News” than conneéted with the progress 
of social improvement. 
It is known that there is within the Colony itself no 
lack of literary and scientific talent, which, at present, it 
may be said, if not lying absolutely dormant, is at least 
producing no adequate amount of beneficial influence. 
There never was a time when ample stores of know- 
ledge, in regard to the pra€tical aims and pursuits of 
human society, were more carefully gathered or more 
liberally diffused throughout the highly civilized states of 
both the old and new worlds than they now are. 
We are ourselves engaged in the prosecution of an 
attempt to rouse into aétive and healthy exercise the 
talent, intelligence and energies of our people; and 
nothing would seem to be more natural and appropriate 
than to convey to them, through the medium of a peri- 
odical publication, that counsel and encouragement which 
are to be derived from familiarity with the labours, both 
intelleétual and experimental, of others, but which, under 
existing circumstances, can reach them but imperfeétly 
if at all. 
It is proposed then, with the sanétion and under the 
auspices of the Executive Committee of the Exhibitions’ 
and Museum Fund, to publish, at intervals, a Journal or 
Repertory of instru€tive papers, whether original or 
obtained from other sources, which, without being stri@tly 
limited to any particular branch of literature or science, 
shall keep especially in view the purposes for which the 
Exhibition and Museum Fund has been organised. 
In these Colonies, meetings of agriculturists or of manu- 
fa€turers, such as are usual in the Mother Country, at 
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