16 JANUARY 1847, page 13

The Two Italian Operas.

Br AN AMATEUR. RIVALRIES, when they arise out of the force of circumstances, are not to be regretted. It is to be hoped that the competition now organizing be- tween the old......

Railway Esthetics.

THAT we are undergoing a social transition, is manifested by no- thing more than by the state of the fine arts ; which having been divorced by the Puritanical movement from......