THE ATLAS,
A General Family Newspaper and Journal of Literature.
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This Periodical, which may be justly called a Weekly Cyclopædia of Politics, Literature, Arts, and Science, is published every Saturday afternoon, in time for the post, containing the News of Saturday.
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THE ATLAS
IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PRINCIPAL DEPARTMENTS,
NEWS AND LITERATURE,
And these are subdivided and classified with care and industry into heads of easy reference, so that each particular subject is preserved distinct and entire. The dimensions of the sheet, which folds into sixteen large quarto-sized pages, containing forty-eight columns, afford this classification facilities which few other publications possess.
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NEWS.
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES reported on a scale of magnitude far exceeding other weekly Journals.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, a digest of all Parliamentary documents of obvious reference and popular utility.
FOREIGN NEWS, the current events in foreign countries, arranged in the form of historical narrative, collated carefully from contemporary authorities, and distributed under the heads of the different countries and colonies to which they belong.
BRITISH NEWS, a clear epitome of all domestic occurrences, under the various heads of Public Meetings, Trade, Agriculture, Accidents and Offences, Police, Proceedings of the Courts of Law and Sessions, Court and Fashionable News, Church and University Intelligence, Military and Naval Affairs copiously given, the Money Market, and the miscellaneous news of the week up to midnight on Saturday. The Local News of Ireland and Scotland, under separate heads. In the conduct of this department of the ATLAS recourse is had to many exclusive sources of information, and correspondents have been established who furnish expressly the latest intelligence. The Gazettes and Tables of Markets, and all matters interesting to the Commercial World, are especially attended to. Preserving an independence in its editorial capacity, the ATLAS affords a faithful reflection of the opinions and proceedings of all political parties.
The attention that is observed in the purity of language and selection of subjects, down to the minutest paragraph in the ATLAS, recommends it especially to the use of families and the guardians of youth; and the copious details it affords of Military and Naval Affairs, invest it with valuable attractions for the members of these professions, and the residents in the Colonies.