13 JUNE 1829, page 8

Bait For Sharks.

NOTHING can be more surprising than the success of swindlers, if we only leave out of the account the voracious appetite for gain of traders, or the happy credulity of abject......

The French Comedy—jenny Vertpri'.

ASSUREDLY the French comic stage is the school for acting. Trick, ex- travagance, and the vulgar appetite for vulgar applause, have there no place ; all is natural, easy, and......

Sir Humphry Davy.

THIS celebrated philosopher closed his mortal career at Geneva, on the 29th of May, the day after that on which he had arrived from Rome. His death must be considered as one of......

The Swan River " Job "—a Better Defence Of It

THAN MR. PEEL'S. TOPICS OF THE DAY. WE shall be very much obliged to any of the writers who amuse their leisure in vituperating the Home Secretary for all he does, says, or......