23 JANUARY 1841, page 14

To The Editor Of Vie Spectator.

London, 21st January 1841. Sr—Yon have performed a most useful and important service, by the pub- lication of a digest of the Evidence given before a Select Committee of the......

Centenary Meeting Of The Madrigal Society.

IN the year 1741, a few mechanics—chiefly Spitalfields weavers—were congregated together at the Twelve Bells in Bride Lane ; (music has generally received its best impulses from......

Spectator's Library.

TRAVELS. The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland, with Descriptive Sketches of other Parts of the Continent. By Mrs. v Author of" Letters from Normandy," "The Borders of the......

Mystifications In Finance.

THE Manchester Guardian contains a long article on our last week's observations, and promises another. Its present paper is confined to finance; the next is to deal with general......