31 OCTOBER 1840, page 14

Parliamentary Abolition Of The Cathedral Service.

SOME time has now elapsed since we drew the public attention to the state of our Cathedral Choirs—the enrichment of Deans and Chapters at their expense, the miserable decay into......

3iontgomery's Cotton•manyeactur]l Of America And Great...

MR. MONTGOMERY was trained to the cotton-manufacture in Scot- land, and left that country in 1836 for the United States. Here he became superintendent of the York Factories at......

Exeter Hall : Samson.

ANOTHER at•cmpt has been- made by the Sacred Harmonic Society to revive lIstesnais Samson, but with as little success as a former one. The ori g inal endeavour was to produce......

Spectator's Library.

STATISTICS, A Practical Detail or the Cotton-Mantiracture of the United States or America, and the State or the Cotton Mane:tome c attrusted and compared with that of Great......

Musical Antiquarian Society.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Ilereford, 25th October 1840. Sir—In your article on the Musical Antiquarian Society, in last Spectator, you do not tell your country cousins in......