2 FEBRUARY 1839, page 9

Italian Opera.—the 16th Of February Is The Earliest...

for the opening of her Majesty's Theatre ; but we have reason to suspect that all the artistes for the commencement will not have arrived until after that date. The prima donna......

Considerable Alarm Was Felt In The Beginning Of The Week

by the corn-holders, who apprehended a fall in prices, and forced sales at a re- duction of from 4s. to 5s. a quarter ; but the panic has subsided, as the arrivals of wheat for......

Said Cotton To Corn, ('other Day,

As they met and exchanged a salute— (Squire Corn in his cabriolet, Poor Cotton, half famish'd, on foot)- " Great 'Squire, if it isn't uncivil To hint at starvation betbre you,......

The Reader Will Remember The Following Extract, In Our Last

week's Postscript, from a Manchester letter- The reader will remember the following extract, in our last week's Postscript, from a Manchester letter- " Opinion is rapidly......

A Correspondent Inquires Why The Frigate 'worcester Is...

rot in Deptford Dockyard? That vessel, he says, was ready for launching in January 1825; and she remains at the present day just where she was fourteen years ago—on the stocks.......

Postscript.

SATURDAY. " The Continental mails have not been received this morning ; but, in the absence of Thursday's Paris news, the Times gives the following letter, detailing the......

We Are Given To Understand That A Letter Has Been

received by a Member of Parliament, from Mr. R. Steuart, one of the Lords of the Treasury, intimating that the Corn-law question is to be taken up at the opening of Parliament.......

Money Market.

STOCK Exclisnlr, Fainsy ArrEasoox. The Market for English Securities, which was firm at the beginning of the week, has given way per cent., under ti me pressure of sales of......