23 MARCH 1844, page 13

The City Of Fires.

DESTRUCTIVE fires on a large scale are exceptional cases in all other European cities, but in Liverpool they are quite in the com- mon course of events. The reading public has......

Topics Of The Day.

LEGISLATIVE INTERFERENCE WITH THE HOURS OF LABOUR. IN the recent House of Commons debates on this subject, the ad- vocates of Laissez-faire have certainly had the best of the......

Mr. Senior's Golden Tooth.

MONTAIGNE, or somebody, tells a story of a boy with a golden tooth, and of the philosophical discussions to reconcile the phwno- menon with natural principles, interrupted by......