24 AUGUST 1844, page 14

New And Old Superstitions.

THE triangular summit of the portico of the Parthenon was .adorned with the effigies of the gods of Greece ; the triangular . summit of the portico of the New Exchange is......

The Opera Season, '1844.

Tara.season closed on Tuesday, with a measure - heaped up and running over of • pieces, " out - Lumleying Lumley," as one may say ; for the list of performances was even more......

Corrupt State Of The Customs Department. Nix Report Of The

Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry is calculated to strengthen some of the worst suspicions as to the general cor- ruption of the Customs department, and also to suggest the......

Professional Criticism.

iNorEsstorter. criticism is apt to be tainted by a lurking feeling of -4 ‘ I could do better than that." Hence, critiques of paintings by 'brother artists are seldom quite fair,......