The Lent Oratorios.
THESE performances have for some years been slipping out of the public favour; and M. LA.PORTE has commenced his season with a novel exhibition of Sacred Music,—no other than a......
A Passage From Lord John Russell's Commonplace-book.
IN the debate on Irish affairs on Monday night, Mr. HUME dealt • a blow at the Ministerial phalanx, Which hit hard. He said— He never witnessed a more humiliating spectacle than......
Kingly Spites.
ON the day of GEORGE the Fourth's funeral, many thousand per- sons went from London to Gravesend and other places for the pur- pose of amusement. All over England, in short,......
Lord Althorp's Plan For Improving The - Working Of The
HOUSE OF COMMONS: THE House of Commons on Wednesday adopted the arrangement proposed by Lord ALTHORP for facilitating, as it is hoped, the transaction of public and private......
The Vocal Concerts.
AMPLE as our room is, we have not had "verge enough" for all the contending claimants for admission into the Spectator; we have been compelled to make notes give way to figures,......
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