15 MAY 1847, page 13

Topics Of The Day.

THE SCARCITY. WHILE the country is labouring under a compulsory fit of short Commons, divers distinguished persons are toiling at discussions on banking and currency ; as though......

Ebb-tide.

"THERE is a tide in the affairs of men," says the poet, " which taken at the flood leads on to fortune" : and there is another tide which flows back to disaster. The prosperity......