30 AUGUST 1828, page 8

Last Week, The Story Of The "melancholy Catastrophe" Of A

ruf- fian drowned by a cat he was endeavouring to destroy, was ex- tracted from the American Papers. For the honour of old Eng- land, which, we suppose, should not be behind......

With Reference To Our Observations On Sir Walter Scott's...

on the " Bell Rock Light," the New Times says- " The critic of Sir Walter's lines must excuse us if we deem him much less a seaman than the poet on whom he sits in judgment. It......

Topics Of The Day.

If suggestions like these do not tend to mitigate the criminal's doom in his own eyes, they at least contribute not a little to lighten it in the imagination of the audience. A......

Anatomy.

THE Report of the Committee for inquiring into the manner of obtaining subjects for dissection has been published. It has adopted the views of several enlightened advocates of......